Black Lips

Title: AIN'T COMIN' BACK
Format: 7"
Cat#: DSH 001
Label: Die Slaughterhaus Records
Year: 2002

1. Ain't Comin' Back
2. Stone Cold

3. B-52 Bomber Boy
4. Can't Bring Me Down

Debut single released on their own label Die Slaughterhaus Records, recorded in March 2002.

Pressing was limited to 300 copies on black vinyl. The cover is a photocopied sleeve on card stock paper, hand cut and then folded. Included an insert listing personnel.

A 2nd pressing of 500 was done, although the catalogue number refers to the BNR repressing accidentally. This is the only way to distinguish between the pressings.

Title: FREAKOUT
Format: 7"
Cat#: EHP 009
Label: The Electric Human Project
Year: 2002

1. Freakout
2. Sweet Kin
3. Steps
4. Fad
5. I've Got A Knife

Recorded at Radium Recordings in Atlanta, GA. Produced by Chris Bishop & Black Lips.

This came in two sleeves. One sleeve was yellow-tinted and the other had a purple-tint; this was dependant on the type of card used for the sleeves.

Limited to 500, the 1st 100 were pressed on purple/blue vinyl. All come with an insert listing personnel & thanks.

Title: AIN'T COMIN' BACK
Format: 7"
Cat#: DSH 001/BNR 001
Label: Die Slaughterhaus Records/Brand Name Records
Year: 2002

1. Ain't Comin' Back
2. Stone Cold

3. B-52 Bomber Boy
4. Can't Bring Me Down

Re-released jointly by Die Slaughterhaus Records & Brand Name Records.

Limited release of 500, the cover of this one was inverted.

Title: AIN'T COMIN' BACK
Format: 7"
Cat#: MR 7177
Label: Munster Records
Year: 2003

1. Ain't Comin' Back
2. Juvenile
3. B-52 Bomber Boy
4. Stone Cold

Title: Live At The Jam Club
Format: 7"
Cat#: SYA 009
Label: Shake Your Ass Records
Year: 2004

1. Wild Man (The Tamrons - 1967)
2. Jack The Ripper (Screamin' Lord Sutch - 1963)
3. Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry - 1956)
4. Working

Captured live on a two-track recorder by The Mojomatics in Mestre, Italy - 29th May 2004. Three 50's/60's covers and an original song ('Working').

Limited edition of 310 hand-numbered (in silver-ink) on black vinyl. Limited edition of 82 hand-numbered copies on yellow vinyl (Pee Edition).

Title: Does She Want
Format: 7"
Cat#: 702-48
Label: Slovenly Records
Year: 2005

1. Does She Want
2. Stoned

Two early demo's featuring Ben Eberbaugh on guitar dating back to the first single. Supposedly a limited edition of 1000 although easily found in most indie record stores.

Title: In & Out
Format: 7"
Cat#: 702-49
Label: Slovenly Records
Year: 2005

1. In & Out
2. Stuck In My Mind

Simultaneously released with the above as a limited edition of 1000. From the same demo set featuring Ben Eberbaugh.

Title: Born To Be A Man
Format: 7"
Cat#: VR 004
Label: Varmint Records
Year: 2005

1. Born To Be A Man
2. Hippys

Recorded in July 2005 at King Khan's Moon Studio in Berlin, Germany. Khan also plays guitar on the lead track. Jared designed the front cover whilst in Valencia, Spain.

The record was mastered from an audio tape given to Varmint Records.

This is the first release and has a red flower on the sleeve. Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies.

Title: Party At Rob's House
Format: 7"
Cat#: RHR 010
Label: Rob's House Records
Year: 2006

1. Oh Katrina - St. Pe's Tears Mix
2. Five & Ten (Link Wray - 1966)
3. Sea Of Blasphemy

This set was recorded live at Rob's House (1318 Ormewood Ave, Atlanta, GA) in January '06. Recorded by Matt Glagola and Jason Beebe. Includes a cover of Link Wray's 'Five and Ten'.

Limited edition of 1000 pressings, 900 on black vinyl and 100 on white vinyl. The cover was designed by Bradford Cox and pictures Cole tuning his guitar during the set.

Title: Born To Be A Man
Format: 7"
Cat#: BR 02
Label: Bachelor Records
Year: 2006

1. Born To Be A Man
2. Hippys

Re-release with a yellow flower on the sleeve as opposed to red.

Limited pressing of 1000 copies.

Title: Freakout
Format: 7"
Cat#: DSH 017
Label: Die Slaughterhaus Records
Year: 2006

1. Does She Want
2. Stoned

Limited edition of 500 re-release on black vinyl and non-tinted card sleeve (see previous release for info).

Title: Party At Rob's House
Format: 7"
Cat#: DSH 020
Label: Die Slaughterhaus Records
Year: 2006

1. Oh Katrina - St. Pe's Tears Mix
2. Five & Ten (Link Wray - 1966)
3. Sea Of Blasphemy

Re-release, limited to 500 copies. Some came in the original RHR sleeve due to surplus covers (these had a DSH sticker covering the RHR logo).

A 2nd reprint of 500 copies was done with a blue cover with red graphics.

Title: Its A Problem, No Its Not A Problem To Me!
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 001
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. Its A Problem, No Its Not A Problem To Me!
2. Hands, Do You Really Wanna Hold My Dirty Hands

Limited Edition 7" of 1000 copies.

Title: Cold Hands
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 002
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. Cold Hands
2. My Struggle

Limited Edition 7" of 800 copies.

Title: Its A Problem, No Its Not A Problem To Me!
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 001
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. Cold Hands
2. Hippie Hippie Hoorah (live)

Limited Edition 7" of 800 copies. Hippie Hippie Hoorah is taken from the gig in Tijuana, Mexico.

itle: O KATRINA!
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 003
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. O Katrina!
2. Italian Sexual Frustration

Title: O KATRINA!
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICEX 003
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. Katrina
2. Boomerang

Title: O KATRINA!
Format: 7"
Cat#: JUVI 002
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. Katrina
2. Italian Sexual Frustration
3. Slime And Oxygen

When Black Lips toured Australia in 2007 they released this as a limited edition of 400 hand-numbered copies. It came in a silk-screened sleeve with a hand stamped label.

Title: Veni Vidi Vici
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 005
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. Veni Vidi Vici
2. Buried Alive

1. Veni Vidi Vici
2. Veni Vidi Vici (diplo mix)

Title: Bad Kids
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 007
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2008

1. Bad Kids
2. Leroy Faster

Limited Edition 7" of 1000 copies.

Title: Short Fuse
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 012
Label: Vice Records
Year: 6th March 2009

1. Short Fuse
2. Born To Be A Man

The first 50 pressings were signed by the band.

Title: I'll Be With You
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 013
Label: Vice Records
Year: 18th May 2009

1. I'll Be With You
2. You Know

Title: Black Lips!
Format: LP/CD
Cat#: BLP 4084-1/BCD 4084-2
Label: Bomp! Records
Year: 2003

1. Throw It Away
2. Freakout
3. Ain't No Deal
4. Stone Cold
5. I've Got A Knife
6. Down And Out
7. Steps
8. Fad
9. Sweet Kin
10. Crazy Girl (Mark Naumann & Cole)
11. Everybody Loves A Cocksucker
12. Can't Bring Me Down
13. You're Dumb
14. Say Hello To The Postman (LP-only)

Stone Cold & Everybody Love A Cocksucker were recorded in November 2000 (Mobile Studio, Atlanta)

Freakout, I've Got A Knife, Steps, Fad & Sweet Kin were recorded in March 2002 (Radium Recordings, Athens, GA)

All remaining tracks were laid down during September/October 2002 at Zero Return studios in Atlanta.

The cover was designed by Bradford Cox of Deerhunter.

Title: We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made The Flowers Grow
Format: LP/CD
Cat#: BLP 4087-1/BCD 4087-2
Label: Bomp! Records
Year: 2004

1. M.I.A.
2. Time Of The Scab
3. Dawn Of The Age Of Tomorrow
4. Nothing At All / 100 New Fears
5. Stranger
6. Juvenile
7. Notown Blues
8. Ghetto Cross
9. Jumpin Around
10. Super X-13
11. Hope Jazz (Hidden Track)

Released on coloured vinyl as a limited edition of 500 copies. This is the only release to feature Jack Hines on guitar.

Juvenile was recorded at Die Slaughterhaus and features Ben Eberbaugh. Bradford Cox plays drums on Notorn Blues, as well as designed the artwork.

Hope Jazz featured Ben Crumb (Tabitha)

The CD comes with the "Fad" video in Quicktime format.

Title: Live @ WFMU
Format: LP
Cat#: BBR 01
Label: Dusty Medical Records
Year: 2005

1. Me 'N Dad
2. Buddy And The Goodtime Gang
3. Mayors Of Romance
4. When The Going Gets Tough
5. We Da' Ones!!
6. Cold Nigga Shit
7. We Bad ... We Good
8. Bong Rippin!! (Maybe Wrong) ??
9. Goodtime Boys
10. Stoned Father + The Ass Factor
11. Rockin That Shit 2005ive
12. Dude Tyme
13. Real Live Jive
14. So Fresh, So Real
15. Powerballin'
16. Mushroom Power
17. (Bonus Track + Lord Of Pain)

Live album recorded on the Dave Spazz Show at WFMU radio in February 2003. WFMU are an independent freeform station (91.1 fm in NY/90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley).

Limited Edition of 500 copies
(first 50 covers spray painted by Black Lips - rollover the image to see!)

One of the rarest Black Lips records you can hear the show here on the WFMU website.

Title: Let It Bloom
Format: LP/CD
Cat#: ITR 129
Label: In The Red Records
Year: 2005

1. Sea Of Blasphemy
2. Can't Dance
3. Boomerang
4. Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
5. Not A Problem
6. Gung Ho
7. Everybody's Doin' It
8. Feeling Gay
9. Take Me Home (Back To Boone)
10. Gentle Violence
11. She's Gone
12. Fairy Stories
13. Dirty Hands
14. Workin'
15. Punk Slime
16. Empassant

All tracks were recorded at The Distillery sutdios in Costa Mesa, CA apart from Sea Of Blasphemy, Everybody's Doin' It and Dirty Hands which were recorded at Moon Studios in Berlin, Germany.

Title: Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo
Format: LP/CD
Cat#: DSH-022/7567-94662-2
Label: Vice Records/Die Slaughterhaus Records
Year: 2007

1. M.I.A.
2. Boomerang
3. Sea Of Blasphemy
4. Stranger
5. Not A Problem
6. Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
7. Boone
8. Everybody's Doin' It
9. Fairy Stories
10. Dirty Hands
11. Buried Alive
12. Juvenile
13. + hidden track

Live album recorded in Tijuana, Mexico (Summer, 2006).

Black Lips debut record for new label Vice Records.

Title: Good Bad Not Evil
Format: LP/CD
Cat#: VICE 004
Label: Vice Records
Year: 2007

1. I Saw A Ghost (Lean)
2. O Katrina!
3. Veni Vidi Vici
4. It Feels Alright
5. Navajo
6. Lock And Key
7. How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died
8. Bad Kids
9. Step Right Up
10. Cold Hands
11. Off The Block
12. Slime And Oxygen
13. Transcedental Light

BBC Sessions (mp3):
Cold Hands
Bad Kids

Title: 200 Million Thousand
Format: LP/CD
Cat#: VICE 013CD
Label: Vice Records
Year: February 24th 2009
Producer: The Black Lips

1. Take My Heart
2. Drugs
3. Starting Over (mp3)
4. Let It Grow
5. Trapped In A Basement
6. Short Fuse
7. I'll Be With You
8. Big Black Baby Jesus of Today
9. Again & Again*
10. Old Man
11. The Drop I Hold
12. Body Combat
14. I Saw God
15. Meltdown (Hidden Track)

The cover art is a picture taken from the early 1900s of a Southeast Asian girl where it was a tribal rite to shave down her teeth.

*Again & Again is the first original song recorded by Iggy Pop in 1964 with his band The Iguanas.

Black Lips.co.uk review here!

Title: Black Stereo - Dirt Mono
Format: 7"
Cat#: MAMA-026
Label: Cass Records
Year: 2006

1. The Black Lips: "Make It"
2. The Dirtbombs: "Missionary Man"

The only release of live favourite 'Make It' was this limited 7" sold exclusively on the The Dirtbombs/The Black Lips tour in 2006.

The remaining copies were sold through Cass Records, for these they wrote the buyer's name on the label.

Title: What To Do/Factory Girl
Format: 7"
Cat#: 9656
Label: Norton Records
Year: 2007

1. The Black Lips: "What To Do "
2. Demon's Claws: "Factory Girl"

Black Lips cover The Rolling Stones with the track 'What To Do' (which was the last track on their 1966 album 'Aftermath')

Demon's Claws cover is taken from The Rolling Stones 1968 album Beggers Banquet.

Title: Black Lips/Yacht
Format: 7"
Cat#: n/a
Label: Southern Comfort/Fader Magazine
Year: 2007

1. The Black Lips: "Wild Man"
2. Yacht: "No Favors Policy"

Cover of The Tamrons' 1967 garage rock tune. Only 500 were pressed and remains unreleased.

Title: Merry Christmas From The Black Lips and The King Khan & BBQ Show
Format: 7"
Cat#: 45-138
Label: Norton Records
Year: 2007

1. The Black Lips: "Christmas In Baghdad"
2. The King Khan & BBQ Show: "Plump Righteous"

Title: Live at the Clermont Lounge
Format: 7"
Cat#: RHR BLSS
Label: Rob's House Records
Year: 2008

1. Black Lips: "Bad Kids"
2. Black Lips: "Lean"
3. Subsonics: "Hello Beauty"
4. Subsonics: "Pistol"

Live at the Clermont lounge, Atlanta's seediest strip club!

Limited pressing of 2,000 copies.

Title: Whirlyball Atlanta
Format: 7"
Cat#: ???
Label: Chunklet Magazine
Year: 2008

1. Black Lips: "Hasabe"
2. Baby Shakes: "What Can You Do "
3. Gentleman Jesse & His Men: "Connection"
4. Coffin Bound Split: "Is John Really Dead?"

Initial pressings were used as tickets for a show. You can download the actual live show (mp3) here.

400 additional copies were pressed, 100 on clear/red/gold splatter vinyl. Black Lips do an Ethiopiques cover.

Title: The Final Show
Format: 7" (+ DVD)
Cat#: RHR 045
Label: Rob's House Records
Year: 2008

1. Black Lips: "M.I.A."
2. Carbonas: "Day Turns To Night"
3. Gentleman Jesse: "The Rest Of My Days"
4. Predator: "Little Prince"

The final Rob's House Saturday Show ever recorded on 26th July 2008 spawned this celebratory release. DryInk magazine have a cool video.

Limited edition gatefold sleeve of 1318, 200 of which were on white vinyl. Also included was a professionally shot DVD of the whole show. Rob's House Records have some DVD's still available for $2 a pop.

Title: Fairy Stories
Format: 7"
Cat#: ALPHA-004
Label: Alphaville Records
Year: 17th March 2009

1. Fairy Stories
2. Can't Dance

Limited 7", only 500 pressed. Their first Japanese release.

Artwork by Will Sweeney
Photography by James Pearson-Howes

Title: Disconnection
Format: 7"
Cat#: SB822
Label: Sub Pop Records
Year: April 2009

1. Disconnection
2. 99 Victs

As part of the Sub Pop Singles Club, this release was limited to 1500 and came pressed on red/blue vinyl.

Title: Drugs/I'll Be With You
Format: 7"
Cat#: VICE 014?
Label: Vice Records
Year: 24th August 2009

1.The Black Lips: 'Drugs'
2. Lumina: 'I'll Be With You'

The B-side is a cover of the bands previous single 'I'll Be With You' by The Horrors' Faris Rotter under the pseudonym Lumina.

The Almighty Defenders

Title: The Almighty Defenders
Format: CD/LP
Cat#:
Label: Vice Records
Year: 22th September 2009

1. All My Loving
2. The Ghost With the Most
3. Bow Down and Die
4. Cone of Light
5. Jihad Blues
6. 30 Second Air Blast
7. Death Cult Soup n' Salad
8. I'm Coming Home
9. Over the Horizon
10. She Came Before Me
11. The Great Defender