Submarine discography
# Submarine discography

A discography for the bands Submarine and Jetboy DC.

Sessionographies are also included.

## Submarine

### Singles

**chemical tester**

format: 7-inch single

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 014

released: October 1992

details: mail-order editions on clear vinyl, plain black sleeve, rubber-stamped record label.

promo pressings on black vinyl with sticker, badge, postcard & promo sheet

tracks:

a.salty killer whales

b.chemical tester

**dinosaurs**

format: 12-inch single/cd single

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 11t/topp 11 cd

released: 25 January 1993

details: "smile" not listed on sleeve; promo copies with gold contact sticker for "jo bartlett" at the "ultimate promotions office"

tracks:

a.

* dinosaurs

b.

* learning to live with ghosts
* smile

**jodie foster**

format: 7-inch single

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 018

released: July 1993

details: fold-out poster sleeve, bloody red vinyl, mail order only, tugboat is a Galaxie 500 cover. tugboat features Claire Lemmon of Sidi Bou Said on additional guitar and vocals.

tracks:

a.Jodie Foster (live Sussex University 11/2/93)

b.tugboat

**lips and fingers**

format: 7-inch single/CD single

record label: Ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 021/topp 021 cd

released: 21 February 1994

details: foldout poster sleeve, yellow vinyl, CD has "lips and fingers" (radio edit);

promo copy with sticker:

it's the sound of disturbed tranquility. catch this n. London trio:

* 18/2 London powerhaus,
* 19/2 Southampton joiners arms,
* 21/2 derby wherehouse,
* 32/2 Glasgow nice n sleazy,
* 24/2 Bristol the mauretania

& "out there promotions release date 21 feb 1994"

the CD (UK only) also has tugboat (same version as on "Jodie Foster" single).

* a promo video for "lips & fingers" was filmed.

directed by: spencer ferszt

released: 12 January 1994

tracks:

a:

* lips and fingers

b:

* lynn marie
* consolation prize
* tugboat (CD single only bonus track:)

**jnr elvis**

format: 7-inch single

record label: Ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp 025

released: 1994

details: 'alaphabet st.' is not listed on record sleeve or label

tracks:

a.

* junior elvis

b.

* when you wear my ring
* alphabet st.

**promo flexi**

format: 7" flexi disc

record label: Ultimate Recording Company

catalogue no.: topp fl-1

released: ???

details:flexi included free with some copies of "Crack-Uzis-'N-Safe Sex In The Streets Volume One".

tracks:

* the werefrogs - nixie cocussion (topp 12)
* submarine - dinosaurs (topp 11)
* Sidi Bou Said -twilight eyes (topp14)

### Albums

**submarine s/t**

format: cd | lp | cassette

record label: ultimate recording company

catalogue no.: topp CD 007 | topplp 007 | topp mc007

released: 21 March 1994

details: UK release only

tracks:

* I can't be satisfied
* electric bathing
* jnr. elvis
* empty
* lips and fingers
* never be alright again
* fading
* jodie foster
* alright sunshine song

**she don't like the bee-gees**

format: cd CD-R (2 editions)

record label: taky recordings

catalogue no.:

* taky 001 (she don't like the bee-gees)

released: 2006

details: this is the legendary "lost" album submarine recorded in Chicago with Keith Cleversley, released in two editions, 100 in CD tin, 400 in gatefold cardboard sleeve. tracks:

she don't like the bee-gees (taky001) track listing:

* devil gets things done
* nycg
* big barry white
* move into mars
* cool haired girl
* junk frequency
* look like shit
* slow Tuesday
* queen bee
* when i loved her *

**kiss me till your ears burn Off**

format: cd

record label: fantastik!

catalogue no.: fan-102-2

released: 1994

details: compilation of most early A side single tracks, excluding: 'smile' (topp 11t/topp 11 cd);'lips and fingers (radio edit)', 'lynn marie', 'consolation prize' (topp 021/topp 021 cd); 'when You wear my ring', 'alphabet St.' (topp 025) (us release only)

tracks:

* chemical tester
* salty killer whales
* dinosaurs
* learning to live with ghosts
* smile
* jodie foster (live)
* tugboat
* pollen

### Compilation appearances

**Volume Eight**

format: CD+booklet

record label: volume

catalogue no.: 8vcd8

released: 1994

details: excellent interview w/ band in the book...

### warsaw: un homenaje a Joy Division

format: CD

record label: el colectivo karma (now green ufo's)

catalogue no.: Karma 011

released: 1998

details: tribute to Joy Division, performed by Spanish artists (and Submarine). Submarine play "transmission". this song was the only 'officially' released recording made with new drummer, Rob Havis

tracks:

* Automatics "Atmosphere"
* Pribata Idaho "love will tear us apart"
* señor chinarro "passover"
* explosivos acme "the only mistake"
* submarine "transmission"
* sweetwater "the eternal"
* honey langstrumpf "dead souls"
* yellowfin "twenty four hours"
* los planetas "disorder"
* supernova "the drawback"
* el niño gusano "she's lost control"
* lord sickness "something must break"
* long spiral dreamin' "wilderness"
* mercromina "ceremony"
* the flow "no love lost"
* alias galor "failures"
* strange fruit "new dawn fades"

### Radio sessions

**Submarine's 1st Peel session**

format: BBC radio broadcast

record label: n/a

catalogue no.: n/a

released:

* first broadcast 23 April 1993
* second broadcast 25 September 1993

details:tugboat recorded with Claire Lemmon of Sidi Bou Said on backing vocals and additional guitar

tracks:

* fading
* junior elvis
* tugboat

**Submarine's 2nd Peel session**

format: radio broadcast

record label: n/a

catalogue no.: n/a

released: first broadcast 12 March 1994

details: the "hate California song" previously unreleased

tracks:

* the hate California song
* empty
* learning to live with ghosts

### Demos

title: camp freddie

format: CD-r

record label: taky recordings

catalogue no.: taky001a

released: 2006

details: released with the first 100 CD-tin copies of 'she don't like the bee-gees'

tracks:

* freaked out & high
* space probe blues
* the hate California song
* junk frequency
* jazzzz odyssey
* screwin a boy
* slow Tuesday
* move into mars
* space probe blues
* goof off
* I wanna fuck yer so much
* devil gets things done
* movin into mars
* take it off
* cruisin on the thermals

### Live recordings

title: the slow motion world of submarine

format: cdr in cardboard gatefold billfold

record label: taky recordings

catalogue no.: taky sub01

released: 4/10/2003

details: 1st pressing, limited edition of five! only known recording of "jesus, I want you". the "hate California song" recorded in 12/03/94 peel session. recorded at: water rats, Kings Cross, London, UK, 8 June 1994. (only known recording of 'jesus, I want you')

tracks:

* liquid intro
* empty
* jnr. elvis
* hate California songs
* lips and fingers
* fading
* jesus, i want you
* i can't be satisfied
* jodie foster

**Sussex University**

format: ?

record label: n/a

catalogue no.: n/a

released: n/a

details: "jodie foster" from topp 018 & fan-102-2 culled from this show recorded 11/2/93 sussex university

tracks:

* empty
* dinosaurs
* jodie foster
* electric bathing
* jnr. elvis
* can't be satisfied

### Sessionography

**1992**

singles recording

studio: elephant, Wapping, London

dates: 29 August to 1 September; 5 September & 6 September

produced: Keith Cleversley

tracks recorded:

chemical tester

* salty killer whales
* dinosaurs
* learning to live with ghosts
* smile

released:

October 1992

* chemtester
* salty killer whales

January 1993

* dinosaurs
* learning to live with ghosts
* smile

**1993**

first session for John Peel show

studio: BBC, Maida Vale, London

date: 23 March

produced: ?

tracks:

* jr elvis
* fading
* tugboat – (Claire Lemmon of Sidi Bou Said backup vocals and played guitar on Galaxie 500 cover of 'tugboat')

**Self titled album (recording session)**

studio: elephant, Wapping, London

dates: 11 April to 5 May

produced: Keith Cleversley

tracks :

* i can't be satisfied
* electric bathing
* jnr. elvis
* empty
* lips and fingers
* never be alright again
* fading
* jodie foster
* alright sunshine song

released: March 1994

self-titled (topp CD 007 | topplp 007 |topp mc007)

**b side recording**

studio: Chiswick Reach, Chiswick, London, UK

date: 20 May

produced: Anjali Dutt

released: July 1993 – b side to jodie foster (live)– [also included on cd release of lips & fingers February 1994]

tracks:

* tugboat (Claire Lemmon sang backing vocals and played guitar)

**track for volume magazine**

studio: battery, Willesden, London

date: 12 July

produced: Anjali Dutt

released: November 1993

volume 8 & kiss me till your ears fall off

track:

* pollen

**b side recording**

studio: elephant studio, Wapping, London

date: 12 & 13 November

produced: Teo Miller/Submarine

released: February 1994 – b side to lips & fingers

tracks:

* consolation prize
* lynn marie

**1994**

2nd session for John Peel show

studio: BBC, Maida Vale, London

date: 1 March

produced: Mike Robinson

tracks:

* the hate California song
* learning to live with ghosts
* empty

**b side recording**

studio: elephant, Wapping, London/September sound, Twickenham

date: 1 & 2 April

produced: Lincoln Fong/Matthew Kettle

released: May 1994 – b side to jnr. elvis.

tracks:

* when you wear my ring
* alphabet st.

## Jetboy DC

### Singles

**she's so fine**

format: CD

record label: monkeyland records

catalogue no.: nuts 001

released: 1997

details: still named "Jetboy" (no DC) at this point, "ssf karaoke" is a semi-vocal instrumental version of "she's so fine"

tracks:

She's so fine/ex-porn queen/ssf karaoke

### (working title) relax your hair

format: n/a

record label: unreleased

catalogue no.: n/a

released: ?

details: this album has not yet been released!

tracks:

* sweetest thing
* then you smile
* radio song
* ted (I think i'm going to be sad)
* nycg
* if you see her out tonight
* bug in a rug
* you make the sun shine
* cool haired girl

### Compilations

**best kept secrets (vol 1)**

format: 7"

record label: dedicated

catalogue no.: secret 001

released: 1995/1996?

details: four track seven inch compilation

tracks:

side a:

* jetboy: move it on up
* aurora: question & answer

side b:

* hardbody: blow the man down
* toaster: biscuits

**dark side of the raccoon**

format: double 7" in gatefold cover

record label: fierce panda

catalogue no.: ning 44

released: 1998 (Jetboy DC track recorded 1997)

details:

tracks:

record one:

* high fidelity -"sick of it all"
* jam pandas -"shine"
* roo "your son's a write off"

record two:

* spraydog - "sweet thing"
* firebunnies - "where's your memory?"
* Jetboy DC -"now i'm gone"

### Demos

**title: ?**

format:

record label:

catalogue no.:

released:

details:

tracks:

* move it on up
* John Lennon
* baby baby
* jetboy man
* (waking up to the) radio station
