3.1. Flying Saucer Attack discography
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This article is from the Flying Saucer Attack FAQ, by Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org with numerous contributions by others.
3.1. Flying Saucer Attack discography
The following differs from a discography in the traditional sense of
the word in that it includes live radio broadcasts, known recording
sessions, and Dave Pearce's non-FSA releases. This extraneous material
is listed in hope that it will be of use to the serious FSA collector.
o HaHaHa, HaHaHa EP, early 1985. Self-released, with picture sleeve.
Main track: "Up & Down"; some tunes co-written by Dave FSA.
o Jon/Dave, ``Land Beyond The Sun'' / ``Instrumental For Silence''
7", Earworm 1998. Two-track recording from Oct 1987 and four-track
from April 1989.
o Gareth Mitchell 7" EP, Secret Heart, 1992. Picture sleeve.
o ``Soaring High'' / ``Standing Stone'' 7", FSA (FSA-6), 1/93. 500
copies, numbered, with hand painted labels & fold-over sleeves;
1-15 hard outer cover, sleeve with poster, 16-100 hard outer cover,
book sleeve, 280 copies in soft outer cover, book sleeve, 100
copies in non-copyright infringing sleeve for USA and 20 copies in
pencil sleeve design (``Talkin to J'')-fake US import.
o ``Wish'' / ``Oceans'' 7", FSA (FSA-61), 6/93. 700 copies, numbered,
with hand painted labels & fold-over sleeves + band photo insert;
1-15 with poster, 501-700 surplus copies with no surface noise.
o ``Soaring High'' / ``Standing Stone'' 7", VHF (VHF-9), 8/93.
700-copy US reissue of FSA-6, on either dark or light purple
marbleized vinyl, most with sticker on front of bag + VHF insert;
sleeve duplicates ``non-copyright infringing sleeve.''
o Flying Saucer Attack LP, FSA (FSA-62) 11/93. 1000 copies, numbered,
with hand painted labels & fold-over sleeves + booklet insert; 1-15
spray painted, rubber stamped and signed inner bag, numbered on
front sleeve, 16-100 spray painted and rubber stamped inner bag,
900 copies with rubber stamped inner bag. Keep vinyl alive fsa 62
o Flying Saucer Attack LP, FSA (FSA-62) second issue 2/94. 923
copies, in different design full color sleeve, with printed labels
+ insert. keep vinyl alive
(Also reported 1000 copies on blue vinyl in plain white sleeve,
numbered in blue ink, sticker with faux-stamped FSA logo in blue in
the upper-right corner, and photocopy insert of a picture of blue
clouds which reads ``FSA 62 The Farewell Edition'')
Scratched into the runout groove is: ``fsa62A / rural psychedelia /
keep vinyl alive / kev / at the townhouse'' with a ``little drawing
of a star, flying saucer, a moon, star'' and ``DFI- 95-11- FSA A
62''; on side B, along with the matrix number as on side A is ``The
best new band on mars''.
o Flying Saucer Attack LP, VHF (VHF#11) 2/94. 3000 copies, US release
of FSA-62 with the full color design sleeve + part of ``pencil
sleeve design'' from FSA-6 used on CD face. Rural Psychedelia
1. my dreaming hill
2. a silent tide
3. moonset
4. make me dream
5. wish
6. popol vuh 2
7. the drowners
8. still
9. popol vuh 1
10. the season is ours
o ``Crystal Shade'' / ``Distance'' 7", FSA (FSA-63), 4/94. 1,000
numbered copies with printed labels in big fold-over printed
sleeve; 1-15 potato printed inner bag + poster; 16-100 potato
printed inner bag; 900 copies with plain inner bag.
o ``All About Dreams'' on The Polite Cream Tea Corps 7" EP, POT (POT
16). Free with Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine, vol. 4 no. 4; all
copies in black inner bag, with no labels, 3,000 copies with
magazine, with inserts of 60's newspaper clippings, 1,500 copies
with magazine, without insert, 25 copies of these had picture
sleeve made by FSA for family & friends.
o ``Soaring High'' / ``Standing Stone'' 7", VHF (VHF#9), 5/94. 100
copies, US second issue of FSA-6 on blue marbleized vinyl, but no
sticker on outer sleeve, VHF mailorder only.
(An issue numbered as part of 200 copies has also been reported.)
o ONE FM John Peel Session (BBC radio broadcast), 5/94. Five tracks
recorded exclusively for the session, released in DC87.
o Live recordings from a few Bristol shows, 1994.
o Flying Saucer Attack LP, FSA (FSA-62), 10/94. 500-only vinyl LP 3rd
issue, same as second issue except labels reversed.
o ``Land Beyond The Sun''/``Everywhere Was Everything'' 7", Domino
(Rug 23), 10/94. 2,000 copies in card picture sleeves + printed
labels; 490 copies (Rug 23x) have back sleeve potato print by FSA &
numbered 10-500, 20 copies potato printed, signed & dedicated
(numbered out of 15) for family and friends, 40 copies painted on
back sleeve for Revolver Shop (Bristol).
o ``Land Beyond The Sun'' / ``Everywhere Was Everything'' 7", Drag
City (DC59), 10/94. 2,000-copy US issue of Rug 23; 1,000 copies in
color photograph sleeve, 1,000 copies in silver minimalist sleeve.
o Distance LP/CD, Domino (WIG12), 10/94. Compilation of FSA-6, FSA-61
(omitting ``Wish''), FSA-63, and extra tracks previously
unreleased; all vinyl copies have textured sleeve, printed labels +
insert.
1.Oceans
2.Standing Stone
3.Crystal Shade
4.Instrumental Wish
5.Distance
6.November Mist
7.Soaring High
8.Oceans 2
o Distance LP/CD, VHF (VHF#14), 10/94. US issue of WIG12.
o ``Beach Red Lullaby'' / ``Second Hour'' 7", Planet (PUNK008), 4/95.
1,300 numbered copies.
o Further LP/CD, Domino (WIG20), 4/95. home taping is reinventing
music
1. rainstorm blues
2. in the light of time
3. come and close my eyes
4. for silence
5. still point
6. here am i
7. to the shore
8. she is the daylight
o Further LP/CD, Drag City (DC69), 4/95. US issue of WIG20.
o ``February 8th'' 10" EP, Speed Kills (SCP007), 9/95. Free with
Speed Kills magazine no. 7; 6000 copies, includes offset-printed
foldover jacket, 3000 copies with black ink, 3000 copies with brick
red ink, 1-1000 numbered with stamped inner sleeve.
o ``Outdoor Miner'' / ``Psychic Driving'' 7"/CD EP, Domino (Rug 41).
Includes Rug 23. Text in runout groove, side A: ``LINE UP THE
CONNECTIONS, DAYDREAMERS''
1. Outdoor Miner
2. Psychic Driving
3. Land Beyond The Sun
4. Everywhere Was Everything
o Light, ``Turning''/``Presence'' 7", Wurlitzer Jukebox (WJ12), 7/96.
1000 copies on black vinyl (first pressing), 470 copies on
transparent vinyl. Dave appears on the B-side.
o Teenagers in Trouble vs. Fat Paul CD. Dave is rumored to be on this
CD.
o Chorus CD, Domino (TK?), 1995. Promo copies exist with custom
sleeves?
o Chorus CD, Drag City (DC87), 1995. Includes John Peel Session,
PUNK008, SCP007 and extra tracks previously unreleased.
Always
Beach Red Lullaby
February 8th
Feedback Song Demo
Feedback Song
Light in the Evening
Popol Vuh III
Second Hour
There but not there
There Dub
o ``Instrumental Wish'' on Excursions in Ambience: The 4th Frontier
CD comp, Astralwerks, 27 October 1995.
o ``Bare Trees'' on Succuor <http://www.terrascope.org/succtxt.html>
2-CD, Flydaddy (FLY020), 1996. Benefit disc for the Ptolemaic
Terrascope <http://www.terrascope.org/>.
o ``At Night'' split 7", Enraptured (RAPT4505), 1996. 2,500 copies,
500 on clear vinyl; split 7" with Jessamine.
o In Search of Spaces CD, Corpus Hermeticum (Hermes017/018), 1996.
Live tapes from early '94; see ``The live CD isn't indexed. What's
a DJ to do?''.
o ``These Things'' on free EP included with Hayfever
<http://www.hayfever.de/> issue 2, 4/96. 1,000 copies.
o ONE FM John Peel Session (BBC radio broadcast), 5 April 96. Five
unreleased tracks recorded exclusively for the session as well as
three songs from the 1995 Reading Festival.
Jeff Mills Blues
Heartbeat
Guitar Blues
I can take you to the sun
Resolution Island
Soaring high
Wish
Standing stone
o Distant Station CD/12", Drag City (DC 117). Two long ambient tracks
composed by Tele:funken (Tom Fenn) using FSA samples.
o Sally, Free and Easy CD EP, Drag City (DC109), 1996. Originally not
issued in vinyl because of mastering problems with a piano that had
lots of phase/reverb.
o Sally Free and Easy 12" EP, Drag City (DC109), late 1996.
``Previously issued in late 1996 only on CD, Sally Free and Easy
has now been brought to vinyl in the mono format, the only way
possible to keep the needle in the grooves. The stereo mix found on
the CD version is out of phase and could not be pressed into vinyl
without causing havoc on the turntable.'' Side one is ``Sally, Free
and Easy,'' rectified for vinyl by Jim O'Rourke, while side two's
``Three Seas'' is in stereo. Limited pressing.
o ``Since When'' on Harmony of the Spheres 3-LP boxed set, Drunken
Fish (DFR-25), 12/96.
o "Gone" on Waiting to be Old CD compilation (Opprobrium 01 CD)
included with Oppprobrium <http://www.info.net.nz/opprobrium> zine.
Recorded early 1997.
o ``Goodbye''/``And Goodbye''/``The Whole Day'' 12"/CD, VHF (vhf
#26), 1997. With Roy Montgomery. Red vinyl.
o "Space (The Man who Fell to Earth)", on For the Dead in Space CD
compilation (Magic Eye Singles MES012), 1997. Compilation is a
tribute to the music of Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine. 1,000
copies.
o New Lands CD/LP, Domino (TKTK?), October 1997 (?).
o New Lands CD, Drag City (DC137), October 1997. Vinyl with gatefold
sleeve.
LP Side 1 LP Side 2
--------- ---------
Past Whole Day Song
Present The Sea
Up in Her Eyes Forever
Respect
Night Falls
o ``Coming Home/Hope'' 7", Domino (RUG57), October 1997. ``Coming
Home'' a cover of an early-80s Prisoners tune, credited to Graham
Day; ``Hope'' is an FSA original. 1,000 copies.
o ``September the 25th, 1997 part one'', in 7" comp with Dutch zine
Rebound, number 5.
o ``Last Dream Song'' on Ptolemaic Terrascope Benefit EP 7", Flydaddy
(RAPT-4513).
o ``Land Beyond The Sun''/``Instrumental For Silence'' 7", Earworm.
Limited-to-500, green colored vinyl; these are early recordings
from when the band was Jon and Dave; ``Land Beyond The Sun'' was
recorded on two track in Oct 1987, while ``Instrumental For
Silence'' was done on four track, Apr 1989.
o ``Grey / Afro'', on More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album
CD, Birdman Records. Skip Spence was a founding member of both
Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape and passed away around the time
of this release. July, 1999.
o Mirror CD/LP, Heartbeat Productions (FSA-64), 01/2000. UK self-
release. 1,000 copies on clear vinyl, with blue line drawings on
brown card sleeve. 2,000 CD copies.
Side 1 Side 2
------ ------
Space (1999) Winter Song
Suncatcher River
Islands Dust
Tides Rise
Chemicals Star City
Darkwind
o Mirror CD/LP, Drag City (DC177), 01/2000. US release of FSA-64 with
completely different colour sleeve by Savage Pencil; vinyl with
gatefold sleeve.
o Mirror CD, Japanese import (?). Same artwork as DC177 but with
lyrics inside.
o Mort Aux Vaches CD, Staalplaat, (?), 04/2000. Live VPRO radio
tracks on guitar comp (also features Main and White Winged Moth).
o ``Land's End'' on comp cd with next issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope
(number tktk?), autumn 2000. Says Dave: ``A very old messaround
done with Rocker as a kind of Neil Young/Crazy Horse pastiche. Not
related to possible new LP idea of the same name.'' tk
o ``Cruisin' for Love'' on Yr Agog CD, Oggum, 10/2000. Charity comp
CD to benefit the homeless in Wales; song is ``the first outing of
my alterego Kursaal Flyers coverversion band'' (wasn't really
supposed to've been credited as by ``FSA'').
o Land's End unreleased acoustic recordings, 2000.
A Sven Skjer maintains a rather detailed discography
<http://www.mtek.chalmers.se/~m96sven/disco.htm> that is organized by
format.
Drag City also have a discography
<http://www.dragcity.com/bands/fsa.html>, listing the official
releases, and Domino Records maintain a nice page of releases made on
their <http://www.dominorecordco.com/art/flyi/disc.html> label as
well.
Soundchaser has a discography of FSA singles
<http://www.soundchaser.co.uk/Flying_Saucer_Attacks.html>, with
illustrations.
Finally, also see the discography at Heartbeat Productions
<http://www.heartbeat-productions.co.uk/flying/default.htm>, Simon
Edwards' label for the earliest (and now, the latest!) FSA releases.
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