Spinal Tap discography

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This page is a work in progress that sets out to be the most comprehensive compilation of information concerning the discography of the faux rock band Spinal Tap, covering both their fictitious back-catalogue, and their legitimate releases.

Contents

[edit] Fake Albums

[edit] The Sixties

[edit] Milage 1

Released in 1967.

Album Notes

  • A little known album by Milage, a pre-Tap band featuring Derek Smalls.


[edit] Spinal Tap Sings "(Listen To The) Flower People" And Other Favorites

Released on Megaphone in 1967.

Side 1

  • (Listen To The) Flower People
  • Break Like The Wind
  • Green Leaves / Our Hideaway
  • Red Robin
  • A Good Different Thing
  • Rainy Day Sun [original UK pressing only]
  • (Again With The) Flower People

Side 2

  • Have A Nice Death
  • Gimme Some Money [US pressing only]
  • Cups And Cakes [US pressing only]

Album Notes

  • This album was released in the UK under the simpler title SPINAL TAP.
  • The single "(Listen To The) Flower People" was a number one hit.
  • "Break Like The Wind" appears in its original version with Ronnie Pudding, while the 1992 version was a complete re-recording with no elements of the original track.
  • "Green Leaves" is a very short parody of "Greensleeves," with Tap good-humouredly crooning about marijuana. The song serves as a silly intro which leads directly into the fun sing-a-long, "Our Hideaway." (Incidentally, the original UK pressing listed the entire track as "Green Leaves.")
  • The track "Rainy Day Sun" appears on the original UK pressing and on the accompanying single in its purest form, while the version released in 1992 is heavily remixed. To avoid buyers confusing the tune with songs such as the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus", Tap reissued the album without the song, and pulled the single from the market.
  • "Have A Nice Death" is an epic track in the vein of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." A highlight is Eric Childs' only drum solo to be committed to record.
  • The two Thamesmen tracks at the end of side two were, in a style more commonly attributed to Capitol Records, hastily tacked on for 'added value.'
  • Though the bass on the record is played by Ronnie Pudding, his playing was mimed to by Derek Smalls when the band appeared on the television show Jamboreebop. By this time, Pudding was much the Syd Barrett of the group, and was in fact replaced on the cover of the "(Listen To The) Flower People" single by Derek, who was at the time just a mere session musician for the group. Also, contrary to popular belief, John "Stumpy" Pepys did not play on this record.
  • This is the only known album in Tap's back catalogue to have been released on CD - the UK version of the album was released as a very poor mono pirate on the Japan-based Teichiku Records label. (It should be noted, however, that this was pirated from a later UK pressing, meaning that "Rainy Day Sun" does not appear.)


[edit] I Am More Music

Released on Megaphone in 1967.

Album Notes

  • An album by ex-Tap bassist Ronnie Pudding and his band, the Pudding People. This was the followup release to his successful single, "I Am The Music."


[edit] We Are All Flower People

Released on Megaphone in 1968.

Includes

  • We Are All Flower People
  • To Fly
  • I Am Flight
  • Get Me Away From The Ground
  • The Incredible Flight Of Icarus P. Anybody

Album Notes

  • Re-released in 1969 without the title track as THE INCREDIBLE FLIGHT OF ICARUS P. ANYBODY.
  • The cover shows the group semi-nude on a pile of pink flowers.
  • This album marked the start of the full-time membership of Derek Smalls.
  • Aside from the title track, this album tells the story of a man who dreams of flying... moreover, who dreams of being a jet airliner. To pay for the project, he sells seats on himself.


[edit] Top Hit For Nows

Released on PUIT (catalog #PU702) in 1968.

Side 1

  • Hi-Ho Silver Lining
  • I Saw Her Again Last Night
  • It's A Parking Lot Most Saturdays
  • Red Robin
  • Turn-Down Day

Side 2

  • Rainy Day Sun
  • Silence Is Golden
  • Happy Together
  • Children Of The Sun
  • Lady Madonna

Album Notes

  • A bootleg album released in the Philippines. The packaging was typical Sixties bootleg fare, with the broken English title stamped on the front of an all-white cover, and a photocopied song sheet (with grainy black-and-white photo of 1967 Tap) on the back. (Of course, "Rainy Day Sun" and "Lady Madonna", both commercial releases, are the only tracks in fairly decent quality.)
  • In a situation mirroring what would become of Nigel's "Calm Caravan" years later, the title of "Red Robin" (which appears here in an earlier form than on SPINAL TAP SINGS...) as given on the label is the incorrect "Red Robert".
  • "Children Of The Sun" is performed as an acoustic demo by David, and was later given away to Folktown Records artists the Folksmen.
  • "It's A Parking Lot Most Saturdays" is an early prototype version of "Our Hideaway."
  • Many tracks are covers of recent hits, recorded as jams during the SPINAL TAP SINGS sessions. The original artists are as follows: "Hi-Ho Silver Lining", Jeff Beck; "I Saw Her Again Last Night", the Mamas and the Papas; "Turn-Down Day", the Cyrkle; "Silence Is Golden", the Tremeloes; and "Happy Together", the Turtles. The odd one out is "Lady Madonna", which ended up on the flipside of one of the singles culled from WE ARE ALL FLOWER PEOPLE.


[edit] The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody

Released on Megaphone in 1969.

Includes

  • To Fly
  • I Am Flight
  • Get Me Away From The Ground
  • The Incredible Flight Of Icarus P. Anybody

Album Notes

  • A budget re-release of WE ARE ALL FLOWER PEOPLE, sans title track.
  • Megaphone's only purpose in releasing this LP was to try and gain back money lost from the commercial failure of WE ARE ALL FLOWER PEOPLE.


[edit] Silent But Deadly

Released on Megaphone in 1969.

Side One

  • Short 'N' Sweet

Side Two

  • Breakfast Of Evil
  • Silent But Deadly

Album Notes

  • Recorded live at the Electric Zoo, Wimpton.
  • "Short 'N' Sweet" is edited down from two hours (as on the AUDIBLE DEATH bootleg) to 18:37.
  • "Short 'N' Sweet" is more commonly documented in discographies as "Short 'N' Easy," though the lyrics, according to the 2001 tour version, always say "short and sweet."
  • "Breakfast Of Evil" features a spoken Nigel intro over the sound of popping Rice Krispies.


[edit] Audible Death

Released on Gaswind in 1969.

Side One

  • Short 'N' Sweet (part one)

Side Two

  • Short 'N' Sweet (part two)

Side Three

  • Short 'N' Sweet (part three)

Side Four

  • Short 'N' Sweet (part four)

Album Notes

  • This is a bootleg of the full, two-hour version of "Short 'N' Sweet," which appeared in an edited form on SILENT BUT DEADLY.
  • In keeping with the title, someone can be heard choking (presumably on bad pot) throughout the entire album. Fortunately, this was mixed out of the version heard on SILENT BUT DEADLY.


[edit] 1960's singles

  • "Gimme Some Money" / "Cups And Cakes" (Abbey, 1965 - by the Thamesmen)
  • "(Listen To The) Flower People" / "Rainy Day Sun" (Megaphone, 1967)
  • "I Am The Music" / "Rubber Biscuit [live]" (Megaphone, 1967 - by Ronnie Pudding)
  • "(Again With The) Flower People" / "Break Like The Wind" (Megaphone, 1967)
  • "We Are All Flower People" / "The Incredible Flight Of Icarus P. Anybody" (Megaphone, 1968)
  • unknown a-side / "Lady Madonna" (Megaphone, 1968)
  • "Silent But Deadly [edit]" / "Breakfast Of Evil [edit]" (Megaphone, 1969)


[edit] The Seventies

[edit] Brainhammer

Released on Megaphone (catalog #NLA184) in 1970.

Includes

  • Big Bottom
  • Springtime
  • Lie Back And Take It
  • Swallow My Love
  • Brainhammer
  • Stonehenge

Album Notes

  • This was Spinal Tap's first true heavy metal album.
  • "Big Bottom" appears here in its original form. The hit version was a remixed, synthesized version released as a single in 1973. The original version has never appeared on a compilation.
  • "Springtime" was later re-recorded for BREAK LIKE THE WIND.
  • "Stonehenge" appears here in its very first incarnation, and in a very different (and far less mystical) version than would be heard on THE SUN NEVER SWEATS.
  • The cover was a gatefold, and also included ads for non-Tap albums on Megaphone.


[edit] Nerve Damage

Released on Megaphone in 1971.

Includes

  • Nerve Damage


[edit] Blood To Let

Released on Megaphone in 1972.

Includes

  • Blood To Let
  • Brain Drain

Album Notes

  • Rare as it is, this album is the subject of a grisly urban legend. Rumor has it that a teenager was once found dead next to a turntable on which was the BLOOD TO LET record. Coroners reported the cause of death as "boredom."


[edit] Intravenus De Milo

Released on Megaphone (catalog #DST2891) in 1974.

Includes

  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • Saliva Of The Fittest
  • Nice 'N' Stinky
  • Rock 'N' Roll Nightmare
  • Intravenus De Milo

Album Notes

  • The version of "Nice 'N' Stinky" that appears here was not the version that became a hit; that was the live version from JAP HABIT.
  • This album was originally issued in Triphonic sound, which was Megaphone's answer to the Quadraphonic craze of the 70s. The 'T' in the catalog number denoted Triphonic, as found on some of Megaphone's easy listening LP's of the time.
  • "Rock 'N' Roll Nightmare" made its worldwide debut on a famed 1974 segment of the NBC-TV series Midnight Special.
  • The title track raised controversy because of its blatant drug-related lyrics. It was banned by the BBC, though they later admitted that they never intended to play it in the first place.


[edit] The Sun Never Sweats

Released on Megaphone (catalog #DS201) in 1975.

Includes

  • Daze Of Knights Of Old
  • The Princess And The Unicorn
  • The Obelisk
  • The Sun Never Sweats
  • Stonehenge
  • Devil Take The Hindmost
  • Nocturnal Mission

Album Notes

  • The title was taken from Derek's mishearing of the phrase "the sun never sets on the British empire."
  • This is another Tap concept album, this time relating stories from Old English mythology.
  • "The Sun Never Sweats" was re-recorded for BREAK LIKE THE WIND, while "Devil Take The Hindmost" and "Nocturnal Mission" appeared in live form on JAP HABIT.
  • This album's very different version of "Stonehenge" was the version that became a massive hit, and a long-standing fan favorite.


[edit] Jap Habit

Released on Megaphone in 1975.

Includes

  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • Nice 'N' Stinky
  • Devil Take The Hindmost
  • Nocturnal Mission

Album Notes

  • This live album was recorded along Tap's 1975 tour of the Far East to promote "The Sun Never Sweats."
  • The British version of this album contains the most elaborate Tap packaging ever. The two pound box included three LP's, samples of sushi, and a paper kimono. The American version was pared down to two LP's with no extras.
  • This version of "Nice 'N' Stinky" became a surprise hit in 1977.


[edit] Live At Budokkan

Released on Japtap in 1975.

Includes

  • Nice 'N' Stinky
  • Devil Take The Hindmost
  • Nocturnal Mission

Album Notes

  • A complete recording of Tap's show at the Nippon Budokkan Hall, which was only highlighted on the 1975 tour compilation JAP HABIT.
  • An interesting detail picked up by the bootlegger is a nearby rowdy fan, who shouts "BONZAI!" during each of Nigel's solos.


[edit] Bent For The Rent

Released on Megaphone in 1976.

Includes

  • When A Man Looks Like A Woman
  • High Heels, Hot Wheels
  • Heavy Duty
  • Bent For The Rent
  • Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors

Album Notes

  • Tap's first and only glam-rock album.
  • This album signalled the beginning of the end of Tap's relationship with Megaphone Records, being the first to be released after the 1975 lawsuit to remove Tap from the label.
  • "Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors" was later re-recorded for BREAK LIKE THE WIND.


[edit] Tap Dancing

Released on Megaphone in 1976.

Side One

  • Tap Dancing
  • Big Bottom
  • Heavy Duty
  • High Heels, Hot Wheels
  • Stonehenge

Side Two

  • Tap Dancing [reprise]
  • Break Like The Wind
  • (Listen To The) Flower People
  • Short 'N' Sweet

Album Notes

  • This album was a cheaply-produced album of new "disco" remakes of old Tap numbers, plus a newly-written title track. As one would suspect, the new versions are nauseatingly terrible, with the lengthy "Short 'N' Sweet" being the biggest offender.
  • The disco version of "Stonehenge" is unique in that it combines elements from both the familiar 1975 remake, as well as the rarely heard and very different 1970 version.
  • Collectors have noted this album's possible influence on the popular "Stars On 45" albums that appeared in the Eighties. Like those albums, "Tap Dancing" has a recurring title track that weaves in and out of the other songs, and the songs on each side are strung together in a continuous medley.
  • Fearing an extreme sales slump, Megaphone released every copy with a corner already cut from the cover. (Needless to say, their predictions were correct, and this album failed to sell - in fact, many Tap fans aren't even aware of its existence.)


[edit] Rock And Roll Creation

Released on Megaphone (catalog #NLA1249) in 1977.

Includes

  • The Rock And Roll Creation Suite
    • a. When There Was God
    • b. Rock And Roll Creation
    • c. The Answer Is Clear
  • Young, Smug And Famous

Album Notes

  • This was Tap's final album for Megaphone. This was literally the closest that Tap has ever had to a "contractual obligation album."
  • Except for the title track, the album is a collection of unused (and exceptionally shoddy) material that didn't make it to any of Tap's previous few albums.
  • The working title, and the title under which the album was referred in This Is Spinal Tap, was THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SPINAL TAP.
  • The version of "Rock And Roll Creation" that became a hit, and later appeared on two compilations, is a series of three snippets from the suite. The sound-effects intro is from part a; the verses up to the middle-eight (from "When there was darkness..." to "...the forces that created me") are from part b; and the rest of the song, starting at the beginning of the middle-eight, is a condensed version of part c.
  • In 1997, this album finally went gold. According to Tap's website, "A splinter faction of the Egyptian Coptic church recently ordered 495,000 copies of [the] record, laboring under the mistaken impression that "Gospel" was a new, audible, book of the bible. Coptic Bishop "Mikey" Husein, who had argued against the purchase, said recently, 'This cacophonous blasphemy has set back the course of Eastern Christendom at least a thousand years.'"


[edit] It's A Smalls World

Recorded sometime around 1978, but never released.

Album Notes

  • This unreleased album was a Derek Smalls side-project during Tap's three-year hiatus. The project never got farther than an eight-track demo of bass improvisations, but was released illegally in 1979 as IT'S A DUB WORLD.


[edit] It's A Dub World

Released on Skaface in 1979.

Album Notes

  • Derek Smalls' first and apparently only solo bootleg is an LP of the eight-track demo made during the IT'S A SMALLS WORLD project, copied from the studio tape.


[edit] Nigel Tufnel's Clam Caravan

Released on Plutarch in 1979.

Includes

  • Clam Caravan
  • Lick My Love Pump
  • The Little Mule Died

Album Notes

  • A solo release from Nigel, recorded during Tap's hiatus.
  • The album and song titles were meant to be "Calm Caravan," but were misspelt when the album was printed.
  • "Clam Caravan" was later re-recorded for BREAK LIKE THE WIND.
  • "Lick My Love Pump" appears here in an embryonic form, and still hasn't become the three-part, oboe-based piece that Nigel intended it to be.
  • "The Little Mule Died" is an awful child-like ditty that is briefly heard in a This Is Spinal Tap outtake as Nigel plays a snatch of it to Marty on one of his many guitars.
  • According to BMI by way of a Nigel interview, this album failed to sell a single copy, sending Nigel into a deep bout of depression.


[edit] 1970's singles

  • "Big Bottom [remix]" / unknown B-side (Megaphone, 1973)
  • "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" / "Saliva Of The Fittest" (Megaphone, 1974)
  • "Nice 'N' Stinky [live]" / "Nocturnal Mission [live]" (Megaphone, 1975)
  • "High Heels, Hot Wheels" / "Heavy Duty" (Megaphone, 1976)
  • "Nice 'N' Stinky [live]" / "Devil Take The Hindmost [live]" (Megaphone, 1977)



[edit] The Eighties

[edit] Shark Sandwich

Released on Polymer (catalog #D18892) in 1980.

Includes

  • No Place Like Nowhere
  • Throb Detector
  • Sex Farm

Album Notes

  • The first Tap release on Polymer.
  • The working title of "Sex Farm" was "Bone Farm."
  • Sometime after the album's recording sessions, Derek went into the studio and secretly remixed his bass parts.
  • Newspapers gave it nasty reviews such as the "two word review, 'Shit Sandwich'".

[edit] Openfaced Mako

Released on Hammerhead in 1980.

Includes

  • Sex Farm

Album Notes

  • A bootleg of "Shark Sandwich" outtakes.
  • The version of "Sex Farm" that appears here is the infamous 'XXX version', featuring a completely different set of lyrics as David laughingly spews out the filthiest lines that come to his mind. Naturally, the take ends with all members breaking down in fits of laughter.


[edit] Smell The Glove

Released on Polymer in 1982.

Includes

  • Hell Hole
  • Smell The Glove

Album Notes

  • The last original Spinal Tap album for ten years.
  • Although advertised in Billboard using the naked woman cover, it is unknown whether or not early pressings exist that carry that cover, or if the change was made before any covers were printed. Incidentally, the original cover art was an attempt by Tap to one-up Whitesnake's infamously lurid cover art for their album Lovehunter.
  • A music video was created for "Hell Hole."
  • In early 2006, a pristine vinyl copy of this album was actually put up for auction on eBay. Whoever won this prized treasure, however, is unknown.


[edit] Heavy Metal Memories

Released on Metalhouse (catalog #D404) in 1983.

Side One

  • Hell Hole
  • Sex Farm
  • Stonehenge (1973 version)
  • The Incredible Flight Of Icarus P. Anybody
  • Blood To Let

Side Two

  • Big Bottom (1973 version)
  • Brainhammer
  • Silent But Deadly (single version)
  • Bent For The Rent
  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

Side Three

  • Break Like The Wind (1967 version)
  • Cups And Cakes
  • Rainy Day Sun
  • (Listen To The) Flower People
  • Heavy Duty

Side Four

  • The Sun Never Sweats
  • (Again With The) Flower People
  • Nice 'N' Stinky (live version)
  • Rock And Roll Creation (single version)
  • Gimme Some Money

Album Notes

  • A third-party compilation advertised on television before the release of 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
  • A CD exists with the same title, but contains no Tap content.


[edit] 1980's singles

  • "Hell Hole" / "Sex Farm" (Polymer, 1982)
  • "Whole Lotta Lord" / unknown b-side (c. 1988 - by Lambsblood)


[edit] Unplaceable

[edit] Can't Stop Sitting

Album Notes

  • A bootleg of a concert by Skaface, an all-white Jamaican band featuring Derek Smalls. The existence of this bootleg was first discussed in an interview included in 'Inside Spinal Tap.'


[edit] Got Thamesmen On Tap

Released on Merseybleat.

Includes

  • Gimme Some Money
  • Cups And Cakes
  • Route 66
  • Shakin' All Over
  • Rockin' Robin

Album Notes

  • An amateur recording of an early Thamesmen gig, recorded at a club in Rotterdam.
  • The version of "Cups And Cakes" heard here is very different due to the lack of an orchestra, with the music being primarily played on acoustic guitars, with light percussion. (This is comparable to some of the Beatles' live performances of "Yesterday," in which they used guitars and drums instead of the usual pre-recorded orchestral backing.)


[edit] Maximum Tap

Released on Mango.

Includes

  • Rainy Day Sun

Album Notes

  • An extremely obscure Japanese boot. The title is merely a rough translation.


[edit] Flak Packet, Here's More Tap, Lusty Lorry

Album Notes

  • A trio of infamous unreleased Spinal Tap albums. These were most likely recorded for Megaphone in the 1970's, as the time spent with Polymer between the 1980 release of SHARK SANDWICH and the 1982 release of SMELL THE GLOVE was mainly concerned with planning for the 1982 tour.


[edit] Doesn't Anybody Here Speak English?

Date unknown, but most likely sometime after 1975.

Album Notes

  • An album by ex-Tap keyboardist Ross MacLochness, recorded during his time as a missionary in Namibia.


[edit] SEXX! (soundtrack)

Date unknown, but most likely sometime between 1977 and 1979.

Album Notes

  • A movie soundtrack project that fell through. The most logical placement would be in the hiatus between the Megaphone lawsuits and Polymer signing.
  • The proposed album cover, first seen on the CD-ROM version of 'This Is Spinal Tap', is a spoof on the cover of the US version of the Beatles' HELP!.


[edit] Pyramid Blue

Date unknown, but probably early '90s.

Includes

  • Pyramid Blue

Album Notes

  • A lost follow-up to "Nigel Tufnel's Clam Caravan."
  • Chronologically, this may be after, or possibly part of, the 1990 demos rejected by Windham Hill Records.
  • The title track would have been a more finished and refined version of "Lick My Love Pump."


[edit] Bjork, Bjork

Album Notes

  • A David St. Hubbins project, mentioned in the same interview as BREAK LIKE THE WIND MARK II. This was to be an album of Icelandic broadway tunes.


[edit] Hernia

Album Notes

  • A twenty-four disc set of every non-CD Tap album and single. The latest mention of this project was in 2000, when Derek stated that its release would depend on the success of the soundtrack and BREAK LIKE THE WIND reissues. (Six years later, one can only guess that the reissues did not do as well as was hoped.)
  • According to a contradictory e-mail sent from Derek Smalls to Tap fan Steve Worek sometime in 2005, no such project ever existed.


[edit] Vinyl Hell

These albums were described in an article from Vinyl Hell written by Scott Sookman. However, his information seems to be completely dubious, so fans are advised to take the following data with a grain of salt. (All information is quoted directly from the article.)

[edit] Flesh Tuxedo

Released in 1975.

Album Notes

  • "Bootleg LP. Recorded at two concerts in Ooverhoort, the Netherlands, and Liege, Belgium, during Tap's mid-Seventies heyday. These are audience recordings, but of fair quality. The only distraction is a fan near the recording device yelling "louder!" in French throughout the entirety of Side Two. Issued around 1975 in an edition of 2000, and later reissued in several extremely limited runs on flesh-colored vinyl."


[edit] Paid In Japan

Released on Kobayashi in 1985.

Includes

  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • Sex Farm
  • Big Bottom
  • Heavy Duty
  • Hell Hole

Album Notes

  • "A souvenir of Tap's aborted Japanese tour which ended This is Spinal Tap on such a triumphant note. Contains the complete Kobe Hall concert as seen in the film. This was put out in the aftermath of the release of TIST in Japan (whose title in Japanese was, roughly, Maximum Heavy Rocker Warrior Tour). Shortly after its release in Japan, the master tapes vanished. Some fingered as the culprit Joe "Mama" Besser. Accordingly, it is one of the rarest of Tap collectibles and changes hands for prices in the low two figures."


[edit] Hark, Beowulf: A Fusion Opera

Released on Warren Brothers (catalog #XCJ-12-3557-02) in 1986.

Album Notes

  • Supposedly an album by the obscure band Derek Smalls' Jazz Avengers.
  • "This obscure 1986 release is very odd. Although allegedly produced by Derek, he was probably not a member of the group. He is not credited with any playing or songwriting on this LP, a strange jazz/funk reworking of the myth of Beowulf. Although Derek, upon being shown the LP during a 1994 interview, stated that he couldn't remember anything about it, he did not deny having any involvement either. "It was a bad time," Derek recalled. "That period is very hazy." What period? asked the interviewer. "The Eighties.""

[edit] It's A Smalls World

Released on Potato (catalog #CD-12) in 1992.

Album Notes

  • "A bootleg CD issue of Derek's never-issued solo LP from the late Seventies. Released to coincide with the release of Break Like the Wind. Contains bonus tracks in the form of several outtakes of the same period which were not intended to be on the LP. Less irritating than the bootleg LP, "It's a Dubs World [sic!]," but not much. Also includes a couple of Skaface outtakes. For serious Derek-heads only."



[edit] The Real Albums

[edit] Commercial Releases

[edit] This Is Spinal Tap

Released on Polydor (catalog #POL-817846) in 1984.

Side One

  • Hell Hole
  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • Heavy Duty
  • Rock And Roll Creation (single version)
  • America
  • Cups And Cakes

Side Two

  • Big Bottom (1973 version)
  • Sex Farm
  • Stonehenge (1975 version)
  • Gimme Some Money
  • (Listen To The) Flower People

2000 CD bonus tracks

  • Christmas With The Devil
  • Christmas With The Devil (Scratch Mix)

Album Notes

  • The soundtrack to the film 'This Is Spinal Tap'.
  • Though the cover is almost identical to SMELL THE GLOVE, "Hell Hole" is the only song that the two albums have in common.
  • The song "America", written under the title "If I Were King of America" during the 1982 American tour, has not been released elsewhere.
  • A remastered CD version was released in 2000, with two bonus tracks - the sides of the rare "Christmas With The Devil" single from 1984. "Christmas With The Devil" was re-recorded for BREAK LIKE THE WIND.


[edit] Break Like The Wind

Released on MCA (catalog #MCAP10514) in 1992.

Side One

  • Bitch School
  • The Majesty Of Rock
  • Diva Fever
  • Just Begin Again
  • Cash On Delivery
  • The Sun Never Sweats (remake)
  • Rainy Day Sun (remixed)

Side Two

  • Break Like The Wind (remake)
  • Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors (remake)
  • Springtime (remake)
  • Clam Caravan (remake)
  • Christmas With The Devil (remake)
  • Now Leaving On Track 13 (hidden track)
  • All The Way Home (remastered demo)

Album Notes

  • Tap's first new album in nearly ten years.
  • The working title of this album was "Back In The Harness Again".
  • Spinal Tap intended this to be a series of three albums, released hours apart, as Guns 'n' Roses did with the two-album "Use Your Illusion." However, the master tapes for discs two and three were lost before release.
  • Two unreleased songs from this period are "Back In Harness" and "Just Spell My Name." (According to Derek, "Back In Harness" was intended as a possible concert opener.)
  • All old Tap songs, except "Rainy Day Sun" and "All The Way Home", are complete re-recordings. "Rainy Day Sun" is a heavily remixed version of the 1967 single, and "All The Way Home" is a remastered version of the 1961 demo. (Incidentally, listen for a young Derek Smalls at the start of "All The Way Home" - whether he actually appears on the song itself is the subject of a debate.)
  • A non-functioning eight-track tape of the album was released as a promotional item.
  • "Now Leaving On Track 13" is not listed on the cover. In the recent StudioCanal book about This Is Spinal Tap, this song is erroneously titled "Let Him Go."


[edit] Break Like The Wind Mark II

Slated for release sometime around 1996.

Album Notes

  • Mentioned as forthcoming in a 1996 online chat by Derek, but never surfaced. This album would have been identical to BREAK LIKE THE WIND except for the addition of a new song, "Goat Boy."
  • The as-yet-unreleased "Goat Boy" was written for a 1996 IBM commercial.


[edit] Bootlegs

[edit] Ultra Rare Tap, Volume 11

Independent release, most likely from the Nineties.

Includes

  • Bitch School (Letterman 3/27/92)
  • Big Bottom (SNL 5/5/84)
  • Gimme Some Money (Rockline 3/23/92)
  • The Majesty of Rock (Freddie Mercury Tribute 4/20/92)
  • Radio Promos 1 (from The Simpsons)
  • Christmas with the Devil (1984 single version)
  • Break Like the Wind (Rip Magazine Party 10/06/91)
  • All the Way Home (Rockline 3/23/92)
  • Sweet Georgia Brown (Les Paul and Nigel Tufnel, Dennis Miller Show 5/12/92)
  • Radio Promos 2 (This Is Spinal Tap outtake)
  • Hell Hole (with Ricky on guitar)
  • Heavy Duty (Rip Magazine Party 10/06/91)
  • (Listen to the) Flower People (Calypso Version, Music Machine LA 4/05/84)
  • We Three Kings (Christmas benefit album 1993)
  • Christmas With the Devil (Arsenio Hall Show 12/17/92)

Album Notes

  • A well-circulated bootleg that was very popular before being upstaged by the massive NONE MORE BLACK (see below).


[edit] Two-In-One

Independent release, probably made after 2000.

INCLUDES

  • Hell Hole
  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • Heavy Duty
  • Rock And Roll Creation
  • America
  • Big Bottom
  • Sex Farm
  • Stonehenge
  • Gimme Some Money
  • (Listen To The) Flower People
  • Bitch School
  • The Majesty Of Rock
  • Diva Fever
  • Just Begin Again
  • Cash On Delivery
  • The Sun Never Sweats
  • Rainy Day Sun
  • Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
  • Springtime
  • Clam Caravan
  • Christmas With The Devil
  • Now Leaving On Track 13
  • All The Way Home

Album Notes

  • Listed in the CDDB/Gracenote database.
  • A pirate combining both Spinal Tap CD's in one CD. "Cups And Cakes", the 1984 "Christmas" mixes, and "Break Like The Wind" are missing.


[edit] Turn The Dial To 11

Independent release from sometime after 2000.

Includes

  • "Sustain"
  • Back From The Dead
  • Big Bottom
  • We Three Kings
  • Rainy Day Sun
  • "Don't Understand"
  • Cups And Cakes
  • Sex Farm
  • Gimme Some Money
  • "Don't Point"
  • The Sun Never Sweats
  • All The Way Home
  • The Majesty Of Rock
  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • "Armadillos"
  • Bitch School
  • Heavy Duty
  • Break Like The Wind
  • Cash On Delivery
  • "Clever"
  • Rock And Roll Creation
  • Stonehenge
  • "Green Globule"
  • Hell Hole
  • Diva Fever
  • (Listen To The) Flower People
  • "Goes To 11"

Album Notes

  • A pirated greatest-hits album spotted in the CDDB/Gracenote database.
  • Contains dialogue interludes from This Is Spinal Tap.
  • Strangely, the titles of "Sex Farm" and "Bitch School" are censored as "Farm" and "School".


[edit] None More Black

Independent release from sometime after 2000.

Disc One

  • Back From The Dead (internet release, 2000)
  • Rock And Roll Nightmare (The TV Show, 1978)
  • Christmas With The Devil (SNL, 5-5-84)
  • Big Bottom (SNL, 5-5-84)
  • Break Like The Wind (Rip Party, 10-6-91)
  • Heavy Duty (Rip Party, 10-6-91)
  • All The Way Home (Rockline, 3-23-92)
  • Gimme Some Money (Rockline, 3-23-92)
  • Bitch School (Letterman, 3-27-92)
  • The Majesty Of Rock (Freddie Mercury Tribute, 4-20-92)
  • Bitch School (MTV Spring Break)
  • Heavy Duty (MTV Spring Break -- partial)
  • Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors (Much Music, 07-01-92)
  • The Majesty Of Rock (Arsenio Hall, 05-18-92)
  • Christmas With The Devil (Arsenio Hall, 12-17-92)
  • Stonehenge (Leno, 10-4-2000)
  • Back From The Dead (Letterman, 2000)
  • (Listen To The) Flower People / Hell Hole (from VH1's The List, 6-22-01)
  • Big Bottom (from VH1's The List, 6-22-01)
  • We Three Kings
  • Sweet Georgia Brown (Nigel Tufnel & Les Paul, Dennis Miller Show, 5-12-92)
  • Children Of The Sun (The Folksmen)
  • Corn Wine (The Folksmen)

Disc Two

  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight (from 'The Final Tour')
  • Big Bottom (from 'The Final Tour')
  • Heavy Duty (from 'The Final Tour')
  • Stonehenge (from 'The Final Tour')
  • Sex Farm (from 'The Final Tour')
  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight (from TIST director's cut)
  • Rock And Roll Creation (from TIST director's cut)
  • Hell Hole (from TIST director's cut)
  • Big Bottom (from TIST director's cut)
  • Heavy Duty (from TIST director's cut)
  • Nigel Guitar Solo (from TIST director's cut)
  • Stonehenge (from TIST director's cut)
  • America (studio session pt. 1) (from TIST director's cut)
  • America (studio session pt. 2) (from TIST director's cut)
  • Sex Farm (from TIST director's cut)
  • Hell Hole (with Ricky on lead guitar/vocals) (from TIST director's cut)
  • Jazz Odyssey (from TIST director's cut)
  • Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight (Nigel's Return) (from TIST director's cut)
  • (Listen To The) Flower People (alternate mix)
  • All The Way Home (David & Nigel)
  • Gimme Some Money (soundcheck)
  • Talk With Tap I
  • Talk With Tap II
  • Talk With Tap III
  • The Folksmen - Rehearsal (from SNL '84)
  • The Folksmen - Old Joe's Place (from SNL '84)
  • The Folksmen - Never Did No Wanderin' (from The View, 2003)
  • The Folksmen - Old Joe's Place (from Letterman, 2003)

Disc Three

  • Christmas With The Devil (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Hell Hole (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Sex Farm (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Big Bottom (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • (Listen To The) Flower People (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Gimme Some Money (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Heavy Duty (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Rock And Roll Creation (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • Rock And Roll Nightmare (live at the Music Machine, 4-5-84)
  • David St. Hubbins - This Is Sportscenter (ESPN TV Spot)

Album Notes

  • There are many variations of this album - the track list above applies to the most complete version.
  • An infamous bootleg, and the one most commonly owned by Tap fans.


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