Albums

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Desperate Character LP and cassette

  1. Clock Goes Round (MacColl)
  2. See That Girl (MacColl)
  3. There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (MacColl, Rambow)
  4. Teenager In Love (MacColl)
  5. Mexican Sofa (MacColl, Edmonds)
  6. Until The Night (MacColl, Johnstone)
  7. Falling For Faces (MacColl, Edmonds)
  8. Just One Look (Payne, Carroll)
  9. The Real Ripper (MacColl, Edmonds)
  10. Hard To Believe (MacColl)
  11. He Thinks I Still Care (Lipscombe, Duffy)
  12. There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (country version) (MacColl, Rambow)

Polydor POLS1035 (LP)
POLSC1035 (cassette).
June 1981

Reissued on CD in 2012.

Kite LP and cassette versions

  1. Innocence (MacColl, Glenister)
  2. Free World (MacColl)
  3. Mother’s Ruin (MacColl, Glenister)
  4. Days (Davies)
  5. No Victims (MacColl)
  6. Fifteen Minutes (MacColl)
  7. Don’t Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (MacColl)
  8. Tread Lightly (MacColl, Glenister)
  9. What do Pretty Girls Do? (MacColl, Glenister)
  10. Dancing in Limbo (MacColl)
  11. The End of a Perfect Day (MacColl, Marr)
  12. You and Me Baby (MacColl, Marr)

Virgin KMLP1 (LP)
Virgin TCKM1 (cassette)
April 1989

Kite CD

  1. Innocence (MacColl, Glenister)
  2. Free World (MacColl)
  3. Mother’s Ruin (MacColl, Glenister)
  4. Days (Davies)
  5. No Victims (MacColl)
  6. Fifteen Minutes (MacColl)
  7. Don’t Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (MacColl)
  8. Tread Lightly (MacColl, Glenister)
  9. What do Pretty Girls Do? (MacColl, Glenister)
  10. Dancing in Limbo (MacColl)
  11. The End of a Perfect Day (MacColl, Marr)
  12. You and Me Baby (MacColl, Marr)
  13. You Just Haven’t Earned it yet, Baby (Morrissey, Marr)
  14. La Forêt de Mimosas (MacColl)
  15. Complainte Pour Ste Catherine (A. McGarrigle, Tatartcheff)

Virgin CDKM1
US releases on Charisma 2-91323 and IRS 27895.
April 1989

Reissued with additional bonus material in 2005 and 2012.

Electric Landlady LP, cassette and CD

  1. Walking down Madison (MacColl, Marr)
  2. All I Ever Wanted (MacColl, Crenshaw)
  3. Children of the Revolution (MacColl, Marr)
  4. Halloween (MacColl, Nevin)
  5. My Affair (MacColl, Nevin)
  6. Lying Down (MacColl, Glenister)
  7. He Never Mentioned Love (MacColl, Finer)
  8. We’ll Never Pass This Way Again (MacColl)
  9. The Hardest Word (H. MacColl, K. MacColl)
  10. Maybe it’s Imaginary (MacColl)
  11. My Way Home (MacColl)
  12. The One and Only (MacColl, Nevin)

Virgin V2663 (LP)
Virgin TCV2663 (cassette)
Virgin CDV2663 (CD)
May 1991

This was also released as CDVIP209, which was mereley a cut price version of the original with only the basic cover instead of the full booklet. Also reissued in 2001 on Disky, and in the US on IRS 27896 (CD).
Reissued with bonus material in 2005 and 2012.

Titanic Days LP and CD

  1. You Know It’s You (MacColl, Nevin)
  2. Soho Square (MacColl, Nevin)
  3. Angel (MacColl)
  4. Last Day of Summer (MacColl, Nevin)
  5. Bad (MacColl)
  6. Can’t Stop Killing You (MacColl, Marr)
  7. Titanic Days (MacColl, Nevin)
  8. Don’t Go Home (MacColl, Nevin)
  9. Big Boy on a Saturday Night (MacColl, Nevin)
  10. Just Woke Up (MacColl, Ruffy)
  11. Tomorrow Never Comes (MacColl, Nevin)

ZTT 450 994711-1 (LP, has anyone ever seen this?), 450 994711-2 (CD), first released on IRS 27214 in US Oct/Nov 1993.
February 1994

Reissued with bonus material in 2005 and 2012.

What do Pretty Girls Do CD

  1. Don’t Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim! (MacColl)
  2. What do Pretty Girls Do?
  3. Don’t Run Away from me Now (MacColl, Rambow)
  4. Still life (MacColl)
  5. There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (MacColl, Rambow)
  6. Walk Right Back (Curtis)
  7. Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby (Berk)
  8. A New England (Bragg)
  9. My Affair (MacColl, Nevin)
  10. Bad (MacColl)
  11. Can’t Stop Killing You (MacColl, Marr)
  12. Caroline (MacColl)
  13. Free World (MacColl)
  14. He’s on the Beach (MacColl)
  15. A New England (Bragg)

HUX001.
23 February 1998

This is a collection of four BBC Radio sessions. US Releases: 30 July 1998 Cleopatra CLP0282 (CD), also Griffin GRF2747CD

Tropical Brainstorm CD

  1. Mambo de la Luna (MacColl, Glenister, Ruffy)
  2. In These Shoes? (Edit) (MacColl, Glenister)
  3. Treachery (MacColl, Gouldman)
  4. Here Comes that Man Again (MacColl, Glenister)
  5. Autumngirlsoup (MacColl)
  6. Celestine (MacColl)
  7. England 2 Colombia 0 (MacColl)
  8. Não Esperando (MacColl, Glenister)
  9. Alegría (MacColl, Ruffy)
  10. Us Amazonians (MacColl, Glenister)
  11. Wrong Again (MacColl)
  12. Designer Life (MacColl, Crouch)
  13. Head (MacColl)

V2 VVR1009872, also VVR1009874 (cassette).
27 March 2000

Tropical Brainstorm US CD

  1. Mambo de la Luna (MacColl, Glenister, Ruffy)
  2. In These Shoes? (Edit) (MacColl, Glenister)
  3. Treachery (MacColl, Gouldman)
  4. Here Comes that Man Again (MacColl, Glenister)
  5. Autumngirlsoup (MacColl)
  6. Celestine (MacColl)
  7. England 2 Colombia 0 (MacColl)
  8. Não Esperando (MacColl, Glenister)
  9. Alegría (MacColl, Ruffy)
  10. Us Amazonians (MacColl, Glenister)
  11. Wrong Again (MacColl)
  12. Designer Life (MacColl, Crouch)
  13. Head (MacColl)
  14. Golden Heart (MacColl, N. MacColl)
  15. Things happen (MacColl, Gouldman)
  16. Good for Me (Knight, MacColl)
  17. Mambo de la Luna (video) (MacColl, Glenister, Ruffy)

Instinct Records INS557-2 in US & Canada, with different cover artwork
24 April 2001

Real [stream only]

  1. Bad Dreams (MacColl)
  2. Time (MacColl)
  3. Sticked And Stoned (MacColl)
  4. Annie (MacColl)
  5. Camel Crossing (MacColl)
  6. Berlin (MacColl)
  7. Man With No Name (MacColl)
  8. Lullaby For Ezra (MacColl, Edmonds)
  9. Up The Grey Stairs (MacColl)
  10. Roman Gardens (H. MacColl, Povey)
  11. Berlin (full length version) (MacColl) *
  12. Rhythm of the real thing (MacColl) *

USM, via major streaming outlets only
27 October 2023
* bonus tracks, not included on the ‘See That Girl’ compilation
originally recorded in 1983

Live At The Jazz Café, London, 12 October 1999 [stream only]

  1. Here Comes that Man Again* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl, Glenister)
  2. Head* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl)
  3. Celestine* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl)
  4. England 2 Colombia 0* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl)
  5. Designer Life* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl, Crouch)
  6. Days* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (Davies)
  7. Walking down Madison* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl, Marr)
  8. How Insensitive* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)
  9. My Affair* (Live at the Jazz Café, London)  (MacColl, Nevin)

USM
27 October 2023