The Wedding Present discography

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The Wedding Present discography
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The Wedding Present performing at Cultura Quente in Caldas de Reis, Spain, July 2009.
Studio albums9
Live albums24
Compilation albums21
Video albums3
EPs17
Singles54
Box sets3
Other albums5

The Wedding Present's discography consists of 54 singles, 17 extended plays, 9 studio albums, 24 live albums and 21 compilation albums. The band were formed in 1985 in Leeds, England by David Gedge, Peter Solowka and Keith Gregory. At the height of their popularity the band had a run of twelve top-30 singles in twelve months, equalling a record set by Elvis Presley. [1]

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[2] [3]
UK Indie
[4]
SCO
George Best
  • Released: 12 October 1987
  • Label: Reception
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
471
Bizarro
  • Released: 23 October 1989
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
22
Seamonsters
  • Released: 27 May 1991
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
13
Watusi
  • Released: 12 September 1994
  • Label: Island
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
4782 [5]
Saturnalia
  • Released: 9 September 1996
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
3667 [6]
Take Fountain
  • Released: 14 February 2005
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD
687 [7] 70 [8]
El Rey
  • Released: 20 May 2008
  • Label: Vibrant
  • Formats: CD, LP
10212 [9]
Valentina 779 [10] 88 [11]
Going, Going...
  • Released: 2 September 2016
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, digital download
359 [12] 19 [13]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

TitleAlbum details
Leicester Poly 5th May 1987
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Munchen Alabama-Halle 22/11/87
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Rotterdam 30 March 1988
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Valencia 18 November 1988
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Middleton 30 April 1989
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Frankfurt 3 November 1989
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Hoboken 10th June 1990
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Kilburn 20th November 1990
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Wakefield 28 August 1991
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Uppsala 13 November 1991
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Den Haag 30 October 1992
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Windsor 28 October 1993
  • Released: July 1994
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Strasbourg 16 December 1994
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
L'exo Rouen France 17 March 1995
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Portsmouth 22 November 1995
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Detroit 21 March 1996
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Munich 21 December 1996
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: MC
Shepherd's Bush Welcomes the Wedding Present
  • Released: November 2007
  • Label: Secret
  • Formats: CD
Live in Leeds
  • Released: 10 January 2010
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: digital download
Bizarro : Live in Tokyo, 2010
  • Released: 16 February 2011
  • Label: Youth Inc., &
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
Live 2007
  • Released: 14 July 2017
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download
Live 2007 [Part 2]
  • Released: 22 March 2019
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download
Live 2010
  • Released: 6 September 2019
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download
Live 2012
  • Released: 23 July 2021
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[2]
UK Indie
[4]
Tommy
  • Released: 11 July 1988
  • Label: Reception
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
421
The BBC Sessions
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Dutch East India Trading/Strange Fruit
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • US-only release
Ukrainian John Peel Sessions
  • Released: February 1989
  • Label: Reception
  • Formats: CD, 10", MC
22
Hit Parade 1
  • Released: 8 June 1992
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
22
Hit Parade 2
  • Released: 4 January 1993
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
19
John Peel Sessions 1987–1990
  • Released: 8 November 1993
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: CD, LP
Evening Sessions 1986–1994
  • Released: 9 June 1997
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: CD
John Peel Sessions 1992–1995
  • Released: 27 April 1998
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD
Singles 1989–1991
  • Released: 9 March 1999
  • Label: Manifesto
  • Formats: 2xCD
  • US-only release
Singles 1995–97
  • Released: September 1999
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl, Manifesto
  • Formats: CD
Search for Paradise: Singles 2004–5
  • Released: 16 May 2006
  • Label: Scopitones, Manifesto
  • Formats: CD+DVD
Live 1987
  • Released: 22 October 2007
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Compiles the first two self-released tapes
Yé Yé – The Best of the RCA Years
  • Released: 10 December 2007
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • Formats: CD
Live 1988
  • Released: 29 March 2010
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Compiles the third and fourth self-released tapes
Live 1989
  • Released: 18 October 2010
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Compiles the fifth and sixth self-released tapes
Live 1990
  • Released: 9 January 2012
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Compiles the seventh and eighth self-released tapes
Live 1991
  • Released: 22 October 2012
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Compiles the ninth and tenth self-released tapes
Marc Riley Sessions Volume 1
  • Released: 9 December 2016
  • Label: Hatch
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2
  • Released: 6 October 2017
  • Label: Hatch
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Marc Riley Sessions Volume 3
  • Released: 15 February 2019
  • Label: Hatch
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Marc Riley Sessions Volume 4
  • Released: 21 February 2020
  • Label: Hatch
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Box sets

TitleAlbum details
Registry
  • Released: 1 November 1999
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: 4xCD
The Complete Peel Sessions
How the West Was Won
  • Released: 27 October 2008
  • Label: Vibrant
  • Formats: 4xCD
  • Limited release

Video albums

TitleAlbum details
*Punk
  • Released: 24 September 1990
  • Label: BMG Video
  • Formats: VHS
Dick York's Wardrobe – The Hit Parade Videos
  • Released: December 1992
  • Label: BMG Video/RCA
  • Formats: VHS
Drive
  • Released: 10 October 2011
  • Label: MVD Visual
  • Formats: DVD
  • US-only release

Other albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
Indie
George Best 30
  • Released: 22 September 2017
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Re-recording of album
27 [14]
Tommy 30
  • Released: 9 August 2019
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • Re-recording of album
17 [15]
Not from Where I'm Standing
  • Released: 4 December 2020
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
  • As the Wedding Present & Friends
Locked Down and Stripped Back
  • Released: 26 February 2021
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC, digital download
24 [16]
Locked Down and Stripped Back – Volume Two
  • Released: 1 July 2022
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
9 [17]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

EPs

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[2]
UK
Indie

[4]
'Don't Try and Stop Me, Mother'
  • Released: January 1986
  • Label: Reception
  • Formats: 12"
The Peel Sessions
  • Released: October 1986
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: 12"
123 [18] 7
Radio 1 Session The Evening Show
  • Released: December 1988
  • Label: Strange Fruit/Nighttracks
  • Formats: CD, 12"
6
3 Songs EP
  • Released: 17 September 1990
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: 7", 10", 12", CD, MC
25
Hit Parade 3
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • France-only mini-album
Mini
  • Released: 22 January 1996
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, 10"
92
The Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend
  • Released: 5 May 2008
  • Label: Vibrant
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Holly Jolly Hollywood
  • Released: 27 October 2008
  • Label: Vibrant
  • Formats: CD, digital download
4 Chansons EP
  • Released: 21 April 2012
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 10"
4 Songs EP
  • Released: 25 October 2012
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: digital download
4 Lieder EP
  • Released: 20 April 2013
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 10"
EP 4 Cân
  • Released: 19 April 2014
  • Label: Scopitones
  • Formats: 10"
Hove Sessions EP 1
  • Released: 27 October 2014
  • Label: Demon
  • Formats: 7"
Hove Sessions EP 2
  • Released: 27 October 2014
  • Label: Demon
  • Formats: 7"
The Home Internationals E.P.
  • Released: 22 April 2017
  • Label: El Segell del Primavera
  • Formats: CD, 12", digital download
Huw Stephens Session
  • Released: 9 November 2018
  • Label: Hatch
  • Formats: CD, 10", digital download
Shaun Keaveny Session
  • Released: 2 October 2020
  • Label: Hatch
  • Formats: 7", digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
[2] [3]
UK
Indie

[4]
IRE
[19]
SCO
"Go Out and Get 'Em Boy"198514Non-album singles
"Once More"1986161 [18] 4
"You Should Always Keep in Touch with Your Friends"/"This Boy Can Wait"172 [20] 3
"My Favourite Dress"1987954George Best
"Anyone Can Make a Mistake"3
"Nobody's Twisting Your Arm"1988462Non-album singles
"Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?"421
"Davni Chasȳ" (withdrawn)Ukrainian John Peel Sessions
"Kennedy"198933Bizarro
"Brassneck"199024
"Dalliance"199129Seamonsters
"Lovenest"58
"Blue Eyes"19922620Non-album singles
"Go-Go Dancer"2014
"Three"1417
"Silver Shorts"1413
"Come Play with Me"1017
"California"1620
"Flying Saucer"2226
"Boing!"1925
"Loveslave"1724
"Sticky"1729
"The Queen of Outer Space"2323
"No Christmas"2530
"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"19945154 [21] Watusi
"It's a Gas"7188 [22]
"Sucker"1995Non-album single
"2, 3, Go"19966776 [23] Saturnalia
"Montreal"19974047 [24]
"Interstate 5"20046276 [25] Take Fountain
"I'm from Further North Than You"2005346 [26] 42 [27]
"Ringway to SeaTac"15718 [28]
"You Jane"2012Valentina
"Metal Men" (limited release)Non-album singles
"Two Bridges" (limited release)2013
"Metal Men" (French version; limited release)4 Chansons EP
"Meet Cute" (Welsh version; limited release)2015EP 4 Cân
"Bear"2016Going, Going...
"White Riot" (limited release)2018Non-album singles
"Jump In, the Water's Fine"
"Crawl"2020Locked Down and Stripped Back
"We Should Be Together"
"My Favourite Dress"2021
"We Should Be Together" (featuring Louise Wener)2022Non-album singles
"I Am Not Going to Fall in Love with You"
"Go Go Go"
"Monochrome"
"X Marks the Spot"
"Once Bitten"
"We Interrupt Our Programme"
"Each Time You Open Your Eyes"
"We All Came from the Sea"
"Astronomic"
"Science Fiction"
"The Loneliest Time of Year"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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