Big Black discography

"Lungs" EP

Ruthless Records (recently reissued on vinyl by Touch & Go) (1982) RRBB02 or TG89

• Steelworker
• Live In a Hole
• Dead Billy
• I Can Be Killed
• Crack
• Rip

"In the original edition of 'Lungs', there were also supplementary inserts, some of which included: dollar bills, rubber animals, locks of Will Tizzard's hair, tiny fish hooks, cray ola sketches, Trini Lopez albums, bloody gauze, blasting caps, firecrackers, razor blades, squirt pistols (loaded), antique shop cutlery, Bazooka comics, Bruce Lee trading cards, scary photographs, old condoms, and a bunch of other shit."
-- from The Hammer Party liner notes

"Bulldozer" EP

Ruthless Records (recently reissued on vinyl by Touch & Go) (1983) RRBB07 or TG90

• Cables
• Pigeon Kill
• I'm a Mess
• Texas
• Seth
• Jump The Climb

"'Bulldozer' was much simpler. It came with an insert and a poster of some scary old people in a nursing home. There were 200 of them made in acid-etched galvanized steel jackets though. Weighed a friggin ton, too."
-- from The Hammer Party liner notes.

The Hammer Party

LP/MC/CD Homestead Records HMS044 (1985) Touch & Go TG92

• LP/MC is Lungs + Bulldozer
• CD is Lungs + Bulldozer + Racer X

"Il Duce/Big Money"

7" Homestead Records HMS042 (1986)
(Has been reissued by Touch&Go) TG96

"Rema Rema"

1-sided 7" (FE002) insert with an issue of FORCED EXPOSURE, a Waltham MA zine around 1984 (GOOD FUCKING LUCK!!!!) (reportedly HAS been booted tho)

"Heartbeat"

7" Touch & Go Records T&G#21

• Heartbeat
• Things To Do Today
• I Can't Believe

Rich Man's Eight-Track Tape

CD Touch & Go Records TG94
(Blast First! UK BFFP23)

Includes Atomizer, "Heartbeat" and "Headache" (sans "Strange Things" from Atomizer. Don't ask me why.)

"He's A Whore/The Model" 7"

7" Touch & Go Records T&G#23
(Blast First! UK BFFP24)

One Cheap Trick song, one Kraftwerk song, covers are parodies/tributes to the album covers that the songs were originally on.

The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album

LP Touch & Go Records T&GINT.#1 (1987)
aka Talk About Fucking (Blast First! UK)

• Interview album
• T&G edition promo-only
• Blast First! editions come with a script with which one can ask the band questions, even though the answers don't match up. Also the band is in the left channel and the "German Interviewer" is in the right, so with a little tweaking it sounds like the band is interviewing itself.

Songs About Fucking

LP/MC/CD Touch & Go Records T&GLP#24 (1987)
(UK: Blast First! Records BFFP19)
(Australia: AuGoGo Records ANDA24)

• The Power of Independent Trucking
• The Model
• Bad Penny
• L Dopa
• Precious Thing
• Colombian Necktie
• Kitty Empire
• Ergot
• Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
• Fish Fry
• Pavement Saw
• Tiny, King of the Jews
• Bombastic Intro
• He's A Whore (not listed on MC, but it's there!)

Pigpile

MC/CD/VHS Touch & Go Records TG81 (1992)

• Fists Of Love
• L Dopa
• Passing Complexion
• Dead Billy
• Cables
• Bad Penny
• Pavement Saw
• Kerosene
• Steelworker
• Pigeon Kill
• Fish Fry
• Jordan, Minnesota
• Heartbeat (Video only)

• Released posthumously in 1992, from their last tour
• Video AND album were recorded in the UK
• There was a limited edition of this that included the LP, the video, a poster, a T-Shirt, AND a clear unlabeled 5" record of the boys covering the Mary Jane Girls' "In My House."

Compilation Appearances

The Wailing Ultimate

(Homestead Records) (1987) HMS079

Fast 'N Loud Radio Presents: The Middle Of America Compilation

(H.I.D./Hits of Middle America, 1984)

• "The Big Payback"
• "Hunter Safety (Tommy Bartlett Dies In Pain)"