Messages in the Matrices of Records

Many bands or record labels write little messages that get pressed into the matrix (or run off groove) close to the center label of their vinyl records. This phenomena, which can sometimes be very hard to see without a bright light, is specific to records and sometimes only certain pressings of a title. Many bands use this as a playful creative space - sometimes for little inside jokes - and a lot of listeners have no idea that these messages are hiding on records they may listen to hundreds of times. I started this collection by asking people on two internet music discussion forums to go through their records and look for these messages (only some records have them). I also noted messages from some records in my own collection. There is a marked emphasis on underground and independent music including punk and metal, but some more mainstream artists appear as well. Only the sides of records with messages are listed.



Thanks to PJM, Maisie James, Paul, Sebastian, Rocky Mullin, Morten Steiniche, Justin Schwier, David Nankervis, Dylan Cariello, Jim Nardea, Tom Rafferty, Andy Towell, and many posters on various internet forums for all of their contributions. Here are the results of our collective efforts. If you have found some on your own, please email them for inclusion: marc [at] publiccollectors [dot] org. Artist / Album Title / Label A CERTAIN RATIO – All Night Party LP FAC 5

Side A: FAC 5 Lenny-1

Side B: FAC 5 Anthony-2 Accüsed – "More Fun Than An Open Casket" Funeral (Combat)

Side A: FULL SCALE OR NO SCALE

Side B: FUCKIN SATANDUDEDIE Acrid – “Sea Of Shit”

Side A: I Wish Neil's Vocals Were Good

Side B: Jeff Is Far Too Fat And Ugly AGAINST ME! – "Reinventing Axl Rose" (No Idea Records)

Side A: "you can make The Border smaller, But you cannot Take my NIPPLE."

Side B: "IF you CAN READ THIS, TAKE A BATH." Akimbo – "Elephantine" (Seventh Rule)

Side A: Kick Out The Jams Or Get Off The Mother Fucking Stage Aldebaran – "Dwellers in Twilight" (Blind Date)

Side A: It's better to laugh at man outside the universe than to cry for him within

Side B: doom 'til death Ancestors – “Of Sound Mind” (TeePee)

Side 1: Star

Side 2: Hot

Side 3: Wars

Side 4: Wheels Annihilation Time – “Cosmic Unconsciousness”

Side A: Whipcream...

Side B: Put it all over your bod-ay Artimus Pyle –The Absence of Life 7" (Prank)

Side B: "DEATH BEACON" The Bags – “S/T”

Side A: One if by land.....

Side B: Two if by Rock! Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" 12" (Phonogram)

Side A: MERRY CHRISTMAS, TOWNHOUSE The Bastard Noise – "A Culture of Monsters" (Deep Six)

Side A: A SPACE CULTURE...

Side B:... OF MONSTERS... Beat Happening / Screaming Trees – EP (Homestead)

Side A: “from russia, with love” The Beat Poets – "Glasgow, Howard, Missouri" (53rd & 3rd, AGARR 9)

Side A: "The Only Band In Glasgow..."

Side B: ".. With Nothing To Say!" The Beat Poets – "Rebel Surf" (53rd & 3rd, AGARR 19)

Side A: "No Nurse..."

Side B: "...I Said Slip Off His Spectacles!" Beck - "Western Harvest Field by Moonlight" 10"

'Bic' side: Sexydeathsoda

'Beek' side: Cherrycupcake Beck - "Steve Threw Up" 7"

'Side 2': Time to Rock

'Side 3': Smash the Clock Behind Enemy Lines – "Know Your Enemy" (Profane Existence)

Side A: "Who Controls The Past Controls The Future"

Side B: "Who Controls The Present Controls The Past" Big Boys - "Fun, Fun, Fun..." 12" EP, (Moment)

Side A: America, empty your swimming pools or else!

Side B: Gimme the heep deep fish where the jets come down in jazz (or ditch) The Bitter Tears - Jam Tarts in the Jakehouse

Side A. You said it was a bad idea

Side B. But I wondered Black Flag – “Damaged” (SST)

Side A: COMIN' AT YA - THE NEOLITHIC GELATINOUS THINK

Side B: SIZZLED THAT NEO-ORTHODOXY RIGHT INTO MY UH, AAAH... WHAT THE HELL! Black Flag – “My War” (SST)

Side A: Exploring the inside of empty guns

Side B: Lookin for the markings of rifled thoughts. Is that it then? Black Flag – “Family Man” (SST)

Side A: LOOKING OUT FROM A TIGHT CORNER

Side B: MIRRORS ONLY CREATE THE ILLUSION OF LESS SPACE Bl’ast – “Power of Expression” (SST)

Side A: I DIE LAUGHING AT YOU WHEN YOU LAUGH AT ME

Side B: SCREAM FOR TOMORROW Blue Sabbath Black Cheer / Wicked King Wicker – split (Noiseville)

Side A: "DEDICATED TO THE LIFE OF SLEAZY" Bolt Thrower – “For Victory”

Side A: No Guts No Glory

Side B: Battleships go down with their guns still firing. Boogie Down Productions – “Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)”

A: WE ALL HAVE THE SAME ENEMY

B: HUMANITY UNITE Born Against – “9 Patriotic Hymns for Children” Vermiform

Side A: THE FLAG AND THE CROSS

Side B: 2 GREAT TASTES IN ONE Burmese – "Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds..." (Enterruption)

Side B: "THANK YOU JOHN DWYER" Butthole Surfers - "Live PCPEP" (Alternative Tentacles)

Side A: "LADY KILLER"

Side B: "I LOVE BRIAN PICOLLO" Butthole Surfers – “Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac”

Side A: 69 with your mama in a boat

Side B: Not to worry Camper Van Beethoven - "III"

Side A: Soviet spies swim upstream

Side B: disguised as trout! Captain Planet - "Wasser kommt Wasser geht"

Side A: ...und die Platte läuft noch... [and the record still runs]

Side B: ...und du kommst wieder unterm durchschnitt... [and you are substandard again] Carcass – “Necroticism”

Side A: Guv'nors of gore

Side B: Jeddish Dialect Career Suicide – "Attempted Suicide" (Deranged)

Side A: IT'S GOOD, BUT IT'S NOT HARDCORE!

Side B: ONE RULE: NO THINKING Cast Iron Hike – “Salmon Drive” 7"

Side A: if you want to know who your friends are...

Side B: get yourself a jail sentence Cathedral – “Forest of Equilibrium”

Side A: Mike Smail's Rollercoaster The Clash – "London Calling" LP

Side A: Tear

Side B: Down

Side C: The

Side D: Walls The Clash – “Sandinista!” 3LP

Side A: In space

Side B: no one

Side C: can

Side D: hear

Side E: you

Side F: clash! Circle Jerks – “Group Sex”

Side A: Bong Lude Circle Jerks – “Wild in the Streets”

Side A: Why are you reading this? Cold Sweat – "Severed Ties" (Rock And Roleplay)

Side A: Morrisey must pay...

Side B: for the state of hardcore today. Dead Kennedys – “Fresh Fruits For Rotting Vegetables (Cherry Red)

Side A: IS LIFE AS BORING AS YOU ARE?

Side B: WELL??? WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE? Dead Kennedys – “Frankenchrist” (Alternative Tentacles)

Side A: The Full Rich Flavor of Stark Reality

Side B: To Cope is to Cop Out Dead Kennedys – “Bedtime For Democracy” (Alternative Tentacles)

Side A: JOHN SOOPES DIED FOR YOUR SINS

Side B: “POWER IS THE ULTIMATE APHRODISIAC” – HENRY KISSINGER Dead Kennedys – “Give Me Convenience…”

Side A: The skull is "the smiling face" of the 80's

Side B: Dolphins make better anarchists than people do Dead Language – S/T (Iron Lung)

Side A: Blue Shirt

Side B: Hair Down Dead Moon - Dead Ahead

Side B : "THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS ! FRED COLE" Despise You – "West Side Horizons" (Fuck Yoga)

A: north of imperial

B: south of the jungles Doomsday 1999 – "Maniac On The Floor" (Nukes!)

Side A: WEREWOLF GOES INTO A CAVE...

Side B: ...COULD BE SEX! Don Caballero – “What Burns Never Returns”

Side A: Cd's make you look

Side B: like a rainbow

Side C: but you look

Side D: like this Don Caballero – “World Class Listening Problem” (Relapse)

Side A: Fuckin Try Me!!

Side B: See If The Dog Hunts Dropdead – 1st LP (Armageddon)

Side A: YOU HAVE A VOICE...

Side B: SO USE IT! Dropdead – 2nd LP (Armageddon)

A: TAKE CHANCES

B: EMBRACE LIVING Dropdead – 2nd LP (Armageddon)

A: TAKE CHANCES

B: EMBRACE LIVING



Dropdead – compilation LP (Armageddon)

A: A PORKY PRIME CUT

B: (indecipherable) Eagles – "One of These Nights"

Side A: don't worry - - -

Side B: - - - nothing will be ok! Eagles – "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 "

Side A: "HAPPY NEW YEAR, GLYN - - -

Side B: - - - WITH LOVE FROM BILL" Earth – “The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull” (Southern Lord)

Side A: Slow Music

Side B: Slow People

Side C: Here Is What I'm Willing To Do

Side D: ............ ..... ..... Econochrist – “Trained To Serve” (ebullition)

Side A: 'smash it, break it...'

Side B: ...take it home and keep it! Electric Eye / Lords of Light – Split LP (Little Deputy)

Side A: Live for Power

Side B: I Have Seen The Light The Evaporators – United Empire Loyalists (Nardwuar)

Side A: IF YOU SEND US A LETTER...

Side B: WE'LL SEND YOU A CANADIAN PENNY! Faith / Void – Split (Dischord)

Void side: IN MEMORY OF BRIAN SEAN FINNIGAN

Faith Side: THERE'S NO CHOICE LIKE A PIG Fistula – “For A Better Tomorrow” (Land O' Smiles)

Side A: Step Up And Get Beat Down Floor – "Dove" (No Idea)

A: "GOOD DAYS"

B: "EVEN BETTER DAYS" Foreigner – “4”

Side A: "Welcome Christopher"

Side B: "'Up to the Sky' Roman" 4 – “The Past and the Present” 7” (Goldenrod Records)

Side A: Grossy Palp! Hey, it’s the manly thing!

Side B: Two down, one to go Fluf – “Wasting Seed” 10” Headhunter Records

Side A: Whats up Buttercup

Side B: Recycle your life Fluf – “24-7 Years” 7”

Side A: univox was kurt's favorite!

Side B: too many cooks spoil the stew! Fluf – "Sheena Na Gig" 7"--Goldenrod Records (2nd pressing)

side a-All the people who own the first pressing got rooked!

side b-Daddy D, don't be so pissed. She's still your girl! Fluf – "One Trick Pony" 7" Goldenrod Records

Side A: Rookery by Scott Bartaloni

Side B: Peavy VTM 120, Carvin X 100 B, 3 Marshall cabs. Bitch! Foreigner – "4" LP

Side A: "welcome christopher"

Side B: "up to the sky" roman The Fucking Champs – "VI" LP

Side A - GOLDEN

Side B - "NO, LEAVE IT" Fu Manchu - "Pick-up Summer" 7"

Side A: "If you ain't a vanner..."

Side B: "...you ain't shit" Fuck – “Pardon My French” (Matador)

Side A: Nothing, Really

Side B: No, Really, Nothing Fugazi – "Margin Walker" (Dischord)

Side A: DODD

Side B: ELROD Fugazi – “Red Medicine” (Dischord)

Side A: Another Vote for Dukakis

Side B: Fuck you, you get the radio Fugazi – The Argument (Dischord)

Side A: LAST MASTER

Side B: BOO METRO NEW HANGOUT Gang Of Four – Entertainment (Warner)

Side B: OF THE PLAN Gillain - "Future Shock"

Side A: Is this your Pontefract Cake

Side B: Joel (Dork) Miciels Genesis – “Genesis” (Atlantic)

Side A: Renee, I love ya.

Side B: blank Geraldine Fibbers – “Fancy” 7” (Big Jesus Enterprises)

Side A: I don’t like music

Side B: The gloomy cowboy gives advice to the fallen woman Godflesh – “Merciless” 12"

Side A: Mercilessly Maximized

Side B: Never Bloom Godflesh – “Selfless”

Side A: Cant stop shining

Side B: But no one sees Godflesh – “Songs of Love and Hate”

Side A: A Life of Love and Hate

Side B: DA ORIGINAL MOTHERFUCKERS GodheadSilo – “The Friendship Village” EP

Side A: Before it washed up my cousin

Side B: No I said my cousin Godspeed You Black Emperor – f# a# Infinity (Constellation)

Side A: Nervous, sad, poor…

Side B: Bleak, uncertain, beautiful… GORT – “Unravel” 7” (Flotation Records)

Side A: Q: Are we not robots?

Side B: A: We are Gort Green River ¬– “Dry As A Bone” EP

Side A: I wanted to love life...

Side B: But it wanted to be just friends H.C. Minds - The Beginning of the End (Blind Date)

Side A: - "Silence is a minimalist sort of anger"

Side B: - "Death to metal posers!!" Hard-Ons – “Love Is A Battlefield Of Wounded Hearts” LP

Side A: "What the fuck are you looking at? There's no secret message here you stupid prick!"

Side B: "And there's no message here either cunt!!" Hatred Surge – Deconstruct (Rescued From Life)

Side A: I'm A Motorcycle Badass

Side B: I'm A True Motherfucker Head of David – "Dustbowl" LP (Blast First)

Side A: "TORTOISE ENTHUSIASTS ALL"

Side B: "MANY FINE BUDGIE RIFFS" Hellacopters – “Killing Allan” 7”

Side A: SLÄPP EN HUND

Side B: PÅ CEDERLUND High on Fire – “Blessed Black Wings” (Relapse)

Side A: trutone nyc-pa

Side B: Pleasures treasures leave me hypnotised

Side C: Quench your thirst and drink this bottle

Side D: Drive the fist into your face His Hero Is Gone – "Fifteen Accounts of Arson" (Prank)

Side A:RAIN FROM THE SKIES...

Side B:...NOT BROKEN SPRINKLER PIPES House of Large Sizes – “One Big Cake” (Toxic Shock)

Side A: the hot outrageously long sticks

Side B: she's barb we're daves Hüsker Dü –Land Speed Record (SST)

Side A:"BABY WARBUCKS"

Side B: "GIDGET RABBIT" Hüsker Dü – “Zen Arcade” (SST Records)

Side A: "Falling, Shirley -- Every Time I Square Off Against Someone's God"

Side B: "I Spend The Rest Of The Night (Or Day) Hallucinating"

Side C: "And Now It's The Visions Of A Joyous Hell"

Side D: "Within The Circuits That Make Pac-Men Die And Vessels Disintigrate" Hüsker Dü – “New Day Rising” (SST)

Side A: here in the midst of graveyards that push up light

Side B: i'll trade you two good shirleys for 10,000 dead midwestern indians Ian Dury & the Blockheads – "New Boots and Panties" (Stiff)

Side A: STEVE Iron Lung / Hatred Surge – "Broken: A Collaboration" (Iron Lung)

Side A: NAH

Side B: ALIENATION Iron Lung / Walls / Pig Heart Transplant – Public Humiliation

Side A: "Strenght is built...

Side B: ...not found" Iron Maiden – “Piece of Mind” (Capital)

Side A: bollocks

Side B: blank Iron Maiden – "The Number of the Beast" LP

Side A: nickz

Side B: give it some headbutts Iron Maiden – “Powerslave” (Capital)

Side A: Theres only one um.

Side B: blank Iron Maiden - "Somewhere In Time” (Capitol)

Side A: It Were So Loud

Side B: Even The Quiet Bits Were Loud Iron Maiden – “7th Son” (Capital)

Side A: blank

Side B: “If you don’t like it bollocks.” James Gang – “Yer Album”

Side A: turn me over

Side B: play me again The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Get With It” 7” (In The Red)

Side A: Money Mark as Bubba

Side B: I'm sharp as a tack Joy Division – "Unknown Pleasures" LP FACT 10

Side A: This is the way

Side B: Step inside Joy Division – “Still”

Side A: the chicken won't stop

Side B: (chicken feet marks)

Side C: (chicken feet marks)

Side D: the chicken stops here June of 44 - “into the Fishtank #6” (Konkurrent)

Side A: 48 hours earlier; Milan: in a tunnel, under train-tracks

Side B: 48 hours later; Amsterdam: write, comprehend, document June of 44 - “Anatomy of Sharks” EP (Quarterstick)

Side A: Don’t panic or thrash after sighting a shark

Side B: Swim away smoothly to a boat or beach Killdozer - "Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite" (Touch & Go)

Side A: BUY AMERICAN BEEF... SUPPORT AMERICAN CATTLEMEN

Side B: BEWARE! POWER TOOLS FROM HELL Killdozer - "12 Point Buck" (Touch & Go)

Side A: DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JESUS MENDOZA 1954-1988

Side B: DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JESUS MENDOZA 1954-1988 King Biscuit Time - “Nelly Foggits Blues” (Regal)

Side A: fatheriver

Side B: blank King Diamond - "Fatal Portrait" (RoadRacer Records)

Side A: Mercyful Fate is dead...

Side B: Long live the King! King Snake Roost - "From Barbarism To Christian Manhood" (Ampthetamine Reptile)

Side A: [Drawing of a sperm]

Side B: "No Message" Kyuss/Wool split 7” (Bongload)

Side A: R.I.P.

Side B: 69 in 96 Led Zeppelin – III (Atlantic)

Side A: So Mote Be It.

Side B: Do what thou wilt. Lords of Light – S/T LP (Rock And Roleplay)

Side A: PLAN? THERE IS NO PLAN

Side B: WE GO TO THE SHOW... WE GRIND Lords of Light – "Electric Sun" (Studio Geordie)

Side A: SHINE ON ME FOREVER

Side B: I CAN FEEL ITS RAYS Manowar – “Into Glory Ride” (Megaforce)

Side A: Death to false metal

Side B: Into glory ride Marginal Man – "Identity" (Dischord)

Side A: I REMEMBER WHAT I FOGOT [crossed out] FORGOT

Side B: - I SEE CHOCOLATE PUDDING Meat Puppets – “S/T”

Side A: Beware of Clevo

Side B: The looking glass was on strike but i saw thru it all Meat Puppets – “Up On The Sun”

Side A: Avenging an Angel

Side B: Steps through, while my waking, waking, still waking Minor Threat – “Out of Step” (Dischord)

Side A: Why did the punk cross the road?

Side B: Because Ian told him to. The Minutemen – “What Makes A Man Start Fires?” (SST)

Side A: BONES - THE LIST... THE LIST IN THE DREAM? (OF ECHOS)

Side B: ...AND THE GUESTS CAME IN THROUGH LITTLE FUNNELS – DRIPPING The Minutemen – “Double Nickles On The Dime” (SST Records)

Side A: "Arena Rock Is The New Wave"

Side B: "Punk Rock Is The New Nostalgia"

Side C: "Dance Rock Is The New Pasture"

Side D: "Chump Rock Is The New Cool" Misery Index - "Discordia" (Relapse)

Side A: Paid For By Bush 08

Side B: Approved By The GOP Mogwai – “My Father My King” one sided 12” (Rock Action)

Side A: celtic t.c. treble winners 2000/2001 The Mono Men – “I Don't Care” 7" (Estrus Records)

both sides say "Where's Josie?" Motörhead – "Dirty Love" (Reciever)

Side A and B: ADRENALIN Munk “1” 7" (Salutary Records)

Side A: Motherfucker

Side B: ...Sticker Collector Munk – “2” 7" (Salutary Records)

Side A: It's after the end of the world

Side B: …didn't you know that yet? The National Acrobat – “It's Nothing Personal” (Hex)

Side A: Shave Your Moustache!

Side B: Where's Our Fucking Money?! Nirvana – “John Peel Sessions 1989” 7” (label is blank but # NIR001 is visable)

Side A: I wish we had a drummer

Side B: blank Olehole – "Holemole" LP (Underground Communique Records

Side A: If you want the ultimate you gotta

Side B: ...be willing to pay the ultimate price. O.M.D – "Electricity" LP FAC 6

Side A: FAC6 BEFORE

Side B: FAC6 AFTER Outlaw Order - 5 song 7” (Deepsix Records)

Side A: (Buy products of a wrecked society)

Side B: D.B.S.E. Phantom - "Dead or Alive" LP (New Renaissance)

Side A: "Closet Man"

Side B: "Wake Up Niel" Pig Destroyer – “Prowler in the Yard”

Side A: Trauma is sexy

Side B: This is beautiful. This is art. Pig Heart Transplant – "Hope You Enjoy Heaven" (What We Do Is Secret)

Side A: LIVE YOUR LIFE...

Side B: ...AS IF YOU ARE BEING TESTED. Pink Floyd – "Tonite let's all make love in London... Plus" LP

Side A: dark side of the balloon?

Side B: wish you werked here? Pink Noise Test – “Cant Stand It” 10” (Interscope)

Side A: Just turn me into tin

Side B: And beat me gently Pissed Jeans – "Shallow" LP (Parts Unknown)

Side A: SELF PRESERVATION SOCIETY...

Side B: MEMBER SINCE 10/04/77 Qui – “Love's Miracle”

Side A: "The price of lettuce is skyrocketting!" Rancid Hell Spawn – “Gas Mask Love”

Side A: It's All In The Middle Eight!

Side B: Stunch Bunch Strikes Again. Rites of Spring – S/T (Dischord)

Side A: THERE IS NO A OR B SIDE..

Side B: I LOVE IT WHEN YOU TRY NOT TO LAUGH Run DMC – “Tougher Than Leather” (Profile)

Side A: LIVE POSITIVE FOREVER AND EVER

Side B: RUN DMC ARE TOUGHER THAN LEATHER!! Saint Vitus - "S/T" SST

Side A: Silent Aerials, This Quieting

Side B: Worshipping Volcanoes On Virgin Knees Scorn – “Vae Solis” 2x10"

Side A: Rudy Ray Moore The Disco Godfather of Groin

Side B: Dolemite The Human Tornado

Side C: In the black darkness of my minds eye

Side D: At the graveyard there is no hope Scorn – “Colossus”

Side A: Ducky Wong and The Tornado Strike Again Scorn – “Lick Forever Dog” 12"

Side A: On the threshold of oblivion Scorn – “Evanescence” 2x10"

Side A: Le Sange Est Sur La Lit

Side C: ITS A ITS A Scratch Acid – “Just Keep Eating”

Side A: Tim Bradford

Side B: Rob LaPointe Shellac - "1,000 Hurts" (Touch & Go)

Side A: What's Orange And Looks Good On Hippies?

Side B: Fire Shellac – “Excellent Italian Greyhound” (Touch & Go)

Side A: PRONTO PROVA

Side B: A ISAMU 'STA LAPA! Silkworm – “...his absence is a blessing”

Side A: Is Patti Smith a Riot Grrl?

Side B: Kill pimps, indeed Silkworm – “Firewater”

Side A: If die I must...

Side B: ...let me die...

Side C: ...drinking...

Side D: ...in an inn... Silkworm – "Slipstream / Inside Out" 7"

Side A: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Side B: Gimpin' Like A Slug Skin Yard – “Hallowed Ground”

Side A (Side 2): Skin Yard is two fucking words

Side B (Side B): Do the dog - God crawl Skin Yard - "Stranger" / "This Lonely Place" 7”

Side "THIS": "7 inches of throbbing pink Jesus"

Side "THAT": "Chase Your Membrane" The Smiths - "Hand In Glove" 7"

Side A: KISS MY SHADES

Side B: KISS MY SHADES TOO The Smiths - "This Charming Man" 7"

Side B: SLAP ME ON THE PATIO The Smiths - "This Charming Man 12"

Side A: WILL NATURE MAKE A MAN OF ME YET The Smiths - "Hand In Glove" (featuring Sandie Shaw) 7"

"KISS MY SHADES" / "J.M." The Smiths - "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" 7"

Side A: SMITHS INDEED

Side B: ILL FOREVER The Smiths - "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" 12"

Side A: SMITHS PRESUMABLY

Side B: FOREVER ILL The Smiths - "William, It Was Really Nothing" 7" and 12" with green cover

Side A: THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST

Side B: ROMANTIC AND SQUARE IS HIP AND AWARE The Smiths - "William, It Was Really Nothing" 7" lilac cover

Side A: THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST

Side B: WE HATES BAD GRAMMER The Smiths - 12" lilac cover

Side A: THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST

Side B: ROMANTIC AND [ ] IS HIP N'AWARE The Smiths - "Hatful Of Hollow" (only on original Rough Trade release, not on the WEA reissue)

Side A: THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST The Smiths - "Barbarism Begins At Home" (DJ 12" promos)

Side A: THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now?" 7" and 12"

Side A: THE TATTY TRUTH The Smiths - "Meat Is Murder" (only on original Rough Trade release)

Side A: ILLNESS AS ART

Side B: DOING THE WYTHENSHAWE WALTZ The Smiths - "Shakespeare's Sister" (UK release)

Side A: HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS The Smiths - "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" 7"

Side A: OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS

Side B: OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS The Smiths - "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" 12"

Side A: OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS The Smiths - "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" 7" and 12"

Side A: ARTY BLOODY FARTY

Side B: "IS THAT CLEVER"...JM The Smiths - 12"

Side A: BEWARE THE WRATH TO COME

Side B: TALENT BORROWS, GENIUS STEALS The Smiths - "The Queen Is Dead"

FEAR OF MANCHESTER / THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS

(only on original Rough Trade release, not on the WEA reissue) The Smiths - "Panic" 7" and 12"

Side A: I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT The Smiths - "Panic"12" (Germany)

Side A: 'HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA'

Side B: HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA The Smiths - "Ask" 7" and 12":

Side A: ARE YOU LOATHESOME TONIGHT?

Side B: TOMB IT MAY CONCERN The Smiths - "Ask" 12" (Germany)

Side A: "NATUR FEEDS THE ZENSOR GROUP" The Smiths - "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" 12"

Side A: ---NOH GIRL LIKE JAGUAR ROSE---

Side B: BUSY TRAIN TO THE LOCOMOTION The Smiths - "Sheila Take A Bow" 7" and 12"

Side A: COOK BERNARD MATTHEWS The Smiths - "Girlfriend In A Coma" 7"

Side A: AND NEVER MORE SHALL BE SO / SO FAR, SO BAD The Smiths - "Girlfriend In A Coma" 12"

Side A: EVERYBODY IS A FLASHER AT HEART

Side B: AND NEVER MORE SHALL BE SO The Smiths - "Strangeways Here We Come" (only on original Rough Trade release)

Side A: GUY FAWKES WAS A GENIUS The Smiths - "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" 7" and 12"

Side A: "MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE

Side B: YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP The Smiths - "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" 7" and 12"

Side A: "THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE /

Side B: "THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE Solace – “Hammerhead” Land O' Smiles

Side A: Die Drunk, Low Life Son Gun – “Wicked” 7” (Bite the Kitty Records)

Side A: If you are looking for advice

Side B: Stay away from fools. pro 14:7 Son Gun/Lutefisk split 7” (Bite the Kitty Records)

Side A: Bite the Kitty Emily Shouts

Side B: Algamac Bites Sonic Youth – "Daydream Nation" 2LP (Enigma/Blast First)

Side A: Rock and Roll For President

Side B: Star Strangled Bangles

Side C: Destroy All Record Labels, Part 2 - High, End

Side D: No Sleep Til Rhino Soundgarden – “Screaming Life” EP

Side A: Buy Green River

Side B: Buy Malfunkshun Soundgarden – “Ultramega OK”

Side A (This Side): A religious man might think we're evil...

Side B (Other Side): A rational man might think we're religious... Soundgarden – "Gun" / "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" bootleg 7"

Side 1: "Touch sky, EAT LEAD"

Side 2: "Thank you, DROP DEAD" Thee Speaking Canaries – “Songs for the Terrestrially Challenged” Mind Cure

Side A: Sometimes Yummy would come up to you and ask for 50¢

Side B: and when you'd give it to him

Side C: if he could tell you were scared

Side D: he'd ask you for another 50¢ Stardust - "Music Sounds Better With You" (Roule Records)

Side B: LOVE MIGHT BRING US BACK TOGETHER Sunno))) – "Domkirke" LP

Side D: Fantoft, Fantoft, Don't you wanna......... Swans – “Young God”

Side A: Burn

Side B: Flowers Sweet Cobra – "Praise" (Seventh Rule)

Side A: "It's Too Late To Run"

Side B: "You Left This World For Me To Find”

Tad - "Salt Lick" (Sub Pop)

Side A: Hot Knifin'

Side B: Beer Bongin' Tad – "God's Balls" (Sub Pop)

Side A: (Judas) - Judass Kicks Ass

Side B: (Jesus) - Free Dick Johnson Tarantula Hawk – S/T (Life IS Abuse)

Side A: "WIPE OUT 73 MILLION" -PJW Tit Wrench - “Temporarily Committed For Life” 7"

Side A: just say no! to harpo

Side B: pedro denies all authority Titan - “Raining Sun of Light…” (Tee Pee)

Side A: “Fruit of the salad”

Side B: “Johnny Tony was here” Turbonegro – “Don’t Say Motherfucker” 7” (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

Side A: All the young apocalypse dudes

Side B: Love it to death punk! Vampyros Lesbros – “Sexadelic Dance Party” (Motel Records)

Side A: If your parents don’t like the music you listen to…

Side B: Turn up the volume Various Artists – "Asides & Besides: The First Five Years" 2LP Red Eye Records (1990)

Side A: HOW DO YOU KEEP A MOSSY FAN BUSY?.....(OVER)

Side B: HOW DO YOU KEEP A MOSSY FAN BUSY?.....(OVER)

Side C: LIVE STOCK!

Side D: BYE BYE B SIDES..... Various Artists – "A Factory Sampler" (double 7") Fac 2

Side A: Everything

Side B: IS REPAIRABLE

Side C: EVERYTHING

Side D: IS BROKEN Various Artists – "Empty Skulls II: The Wound Deepens compilation" (Fart Blossom)

Side A: It's Runk Pock So...

Side B: Plug in the Ampeg and Fuckin' Contort! Various Artists –"P.E.A.C.E." (RRadical)

Side A: "WHAT WE WANT IS FREE" "DO IT NOW"

Side B: "THIS MOMENT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE IN YOUR LIFE TIME"

Side C: NO POISON WEAPONS OR WAR ITS LIFE OR DEATH

Side D:THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE Various Artists – "The Thing That Ate Floyd" (Lookout)

Side A: SANTA IS MY MASTER

Side B: WHEN WILL D.C. PHOTOGRAPHERS LEARN TO FOCUS?

Side C: SPONSORED BY THE SEWER BRAÜ ROCK NETWORK

Side D: ÜBER ALLES? CALIFORNIA? Various Artists – "Welcome to 1984" (MAXIMUMROCKNROLL) (reissue)

Side A: WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE, WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE PAST

Side B: FUCK YOU "APOLITICAL" WIMPS Velcro Lewis – “Ruin Everything”

Side A: 'to leslie west - from woodstock to no headstock'

Side B: 'tougher than tits on a viper' Venetians – "Amazing World" 7" (1987) Parole K-465 (Australia)

Side B: "Hi Bren" Vicious Circle / Perdition – Split (Flipside)

Side A: "SHRIMP FROM THE BARBIE" Victims Family – White Bread Blues (Mordam)

Side A: "WHOLE WHEATER THAN THOU"

Side B: "IF I EAT SHIT, WILL IT COME OUT FOOD?" Waldchengarten – "Leech" 7"

Side A: silence tells me you're dead Joe Walsh – “Barnstorm” (ABC Records)

Side A: blank

Side B: “If they only knew how hard we work” – J. W. ’72 Joe Walsh – “But Seriously, Folks” (Elektra)

Side A: Luncheon counter of the deli kind

Side B: “…call it in the air.” Walls – S/T (Iron Lung)

A: "THE GLASSES" The Wat Tyler – “Ghastly Pink” 7"

Side A: wat tyler - more fun than a good old nodging White Lung – “Local Trash”

Side A: "Dont Go..."

Side B: "To the Clinic Without Me" Whitesnake – "Still of the Night" 12" single

Side A: FOR JDK Mike IX Williams – "Thats What the Obituary Said" 7" (Chrome Peeler Rec.)

Side A: New Orleans Is Burning

Side B: Alcoholix Electrix Weird “Al” Yankovic – “S/T”

Side A: AN ACCORDION IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

Side B: EAT YOUR BROCCOLI! Weird “Al” Yankovic – “In 3-D”

Side A: POLKA DOWN WITH YOUR BAD SELF

Side B: NOW HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY? Weird “Al” Yankovic – “Dare To Be Stupid”

Side A: MORE SONGS ABOUT TELEVISION AND FOOD

Side B: (blank) Weird “Al” Yankovic – “Polka Party”

Side A: POLKA 'TIL YOU PUKE

Side B: WHERE'S MY LIQUID PAPER? Weird “Al” Yankovic - Even Worse:

Side A: THE MAGIC RETURNS

Side B: 100,000,000 Yeast – “Crisco Wristwatch” 7"

Side A: "If it's yellow, let it mellow"

Side B: "If it's brown, flush it down Yes - Relayer (Atlantic)

Side A: PORKY

Side B: PECKO Neil Young – "Tonight's the Night"

Side A: Hello, Waterface

Side B: Goodbye, Waterface