Aesop Rock discography

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**Aesop Rock discography**
Releases
Aesop Rock live in concert.
↙Studio albums	5
↙Extended plays	3
↙Singles	10
↙Music videos	4
↙Guest appearances	43
↙Production credits	13
↙Appearances on compilations	14
References and footnotes

The following is a comprehensive discography of Aesop Rock, an American hip hop artist. Aesop Rock has released a total of five full-length albums and three EPs, as well as ten singles, four music videos, and many appearances on other artists' tracks and on compilations.

Aesop Rock initially recorded and released two self-financed records, Music for Earthworms in 1997 and the Appleseed EP in 1999. After being signed to the Mush label, Aesop Rock released his first major album, Float in 2000. Shortly thereafter, Aesop Rock signed to Manhattan-based hip hop label Definitive Jux, where he has since released Labor Days in 2001, Bazooka Tooth in 2003, and None Shall Pass in 2007.

1 Albums
- 1.1 Downloadable albums
2 Extended plays
3 Singles
4 Music videos
5 Guest appearances
6 Production credits
7 Appearances on compilations
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

[edit] Albums

Year	Title	Peak chart positions^[1]					Notes
Year	Title	US	US R&B	US Heat.	US Ind.	US Int.	Notes
1997	Music for Earthworms Label: self-released	—	—	—	—	—	Self-released on CD-R. Debut release.
2000	Float Label: Mush Records (MH #222) Released: August 2000	—	—	—	—	—	Major label debut.
2001	Labor Days Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #13) Released: September 18, 2001	—	—	—	—	—	First major release on Definitive Jux.
2003	Bazooka Tooth Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #68) Released: September 23, 2003	112	44	1	7	—	Also released as Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth in 2004, which contained both a cappella and instrumental versions of all the songs from Bazooka Tooth.
2007	None Shall Pass Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #144) Released: August 28, 2007	50	35	—	—	50

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

[edit] Downloadable albums

Year	Title	Notes
2007	All Day: Nike+ Original Run Label: Nike Sports Music Released: February 2007	Continuous 45-minute instrumental track. Released in conjunction between Nike and Apple to advertise the Nike+iPod brand.^[2]

[edit] Extended plays

Year	Title	Peak chart positions^[1]				Notes
Year	Title	U.S.	U.S. R&B	U.S. Heat.	U.S. Ind.	Notes
1999	Appleseed Label: self-released	—	—	—	—	Self-released on CD-R.
2002	Daylight Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #21) Release date: February 5, 2002	—	—	—	15
2005	Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #106 and #107) Release date: February 22, 2005	190	100	9	21	Two versions were released: The initial pressing was packaged with an 88-page lyrics booklet. Subsequent pressings omitted the booklet but included a bonus track, "Facemelter". The two versions are cataloged as DJX #106 and DJX #107 respectively.

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	Album
2001	"Coma" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #9) Released: July 2001	Labor Days
2001	"Boombox" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #11)	Labor Days
2001	"Daylight" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #21) Released: February 2002	Daylight
2003	"Limelighters" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #66)	Bazooka Tooth
	"Freeze" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #67) Released: August 2003
	"Easy" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #74) Released: November 2003
2004	"All in All" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #81) Released: July 2004	Def Jux Presents 3
2006	"Fishtales" Label: Definitive Jux (DRX #13) Released: May 2006	non-album single
2007	"None Shall Pass" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #142) Released: August 2007	None Shall Pass
2007	"Coffee" Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #143) Released: August 2007	None Shall Pass

[edit] Music videos

Year	Song	Director
2003	"Freeze"	Michael Kuhn
2003	"No Jumper Cables"	Joey Garfield
2005	"Fast Cars"	Asif Mian
2007	"None Shall Pass"	Michael Kuhn
2007	"Coffee"	Ace Norton

[edit] Guest appearances

Year	Song	Artist(s)	Album
2001	"Put Your Quarter Up"	Molemen with Slug and MF DOOM	Ritual of The... Revisited and Remastered
	"Water"	Atoms Family	Euphony
	"Coma (Remix)"	Atoms Family
	"Sinister"	Atoms Family with Yeshua Dapoed
	"Blacklist"	Prefuse 73	Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
2002	"Take me to the Basement"	Opus	First Contact 001
	"Killing Time"	Illogic	Got Lyrics?
	"Dry Bones (remix)"	Oddjobs with Vast Aire, Kimani	"Dry Bones" 12"
	"Flesh (remix)"	Atmosphere	"Godlovesugly" 12"
	"Success"	Mr. Lif	I Phantom
	"Delorean"	El-P	Fantastic Damage
2003	"Obsolete"	Blueprint with Slug, Eyedea, and Illogic	The Weightroom
	"Secret Agents"	Chase Phoenix	Cut to the Chase
	"Kill 'em All (remix)"	RJD2	Loose Ends
	"Final Frontier (remix)"	RJD2 with Blueprint, Murs, Vast Aire	The Horror
	"Happy Pillz"	MURS	The End of the Beginning
	"Love to Fuck"	S.A. Smash	Smashy Trashy
	"Shut Down"	Push Button Objects	Ghetto Blaster
2004	"Encounter"	Blueprint	Chamber Music
	"Hold Mine"	Blueprint with Slug, Illogic, and Eyedea	Printmatic: Vitamins and Minerals EP
	"Apocalypse Zone"	Cryptic One	The Anti-Mobius Theory
	"Time Capsule"	Illogic with Vast Aire	Celestial Clockwork
	"Crooked"	Evil Nine	You Can Be Special Too
	"Jet Son"	Blockhead with Camu Tao	Sunday Seance
	"Kill Switch"	DJ Krush	Jaku
	"Posse Slash"	Vast Aire with Karniege, Breez Evahflowin, Poison Pen	Look Mom ... No Hands
2005	"Lo-Fi Funk"	Blueprint	1988
	"Sabbatical with Options"	Prefuse 73	Surrounded by Silence
	"Poems 4 Post Modern Decay"	Zion I	True & Livin'
	"Voltronic Instructional Espionage"	Grayskul	Deadlivers
	"Try to Remember"	Hangar 18	The Donkey Show Volume 1
	"Helium"	Vordul Mega	Yung World
	"Slow Suicide Stimulus"	Tame One & The Dusted Dons	Slow Suicide Stimulus
	"Nuclear Five"	The Presence with Karniege, and Masai Bey	Common Man's Anthems
	"Left it to Us"	Cage with El-P, Tame One, and Yak Ballz	Hell's Winter
2006	"Take, Hold, Fire"	Mr. Lif with El-P	Mo' Mega
2006	"Side Two"	DJ Ese with Babbletron	Side Two
2007	"Run the Numbers"	El-P	I'll Sleep When You're Dead
	"The Office"	Grayskul with Slug	Bloody Radio
	"Smoke if You Got'um"	Rob Sonic	Sabotage Gigante
	"Catch 22"	Grimace Federation	Tasted by Chemists
	"Borrowedtime"	LuckyIam with Slug	Most Likely to Succeed
	"The Dirt and the Filth"	Percee P	Perseverance
2008
2008	"Dirt"	tobacco	F___ed Up Friends

[edit] Production credits

Year	Track(s)	Artist	Album
2000	"Float" "Big Bang" "Garbage" "Fascination" "6B Panorama" "How to be a Carpenter" "Prosperity" "The Mayor and the Crook"	Aesop Rock	Float
2001	"Kill 'em All"	various artists	Definitive Jux Presents
	"Labor" "One Brick" "Battery" "Boombox"	Aesop Rock	Labor Days
	"Wise Up"	various artists	Tag of the Times 3
2002	"Bracket Basher"	Aesop Rock	Daylight
2002	"Dead Pan"	various artists	Definitive Jux Presents 2
2003	"Bazooka Tooth" "N.Y. Electric" "Easy" "No Jumper Cables" "Limelighters" "Super Fluke" "Freeze" "The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History" "Frijoles" "Kill the Messenger" "Mars Attacks"	Aesop Rock	Bazooka Tooth
2004	"All in All" "You're Dead to Me"	various artists	Definitive Jux Presents III
2005	"Zodiaccupuncture" "Rickety Rackety" "Food, Clothes, Medicine" "Facemelter"	Aesop Rock	Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
2005	"Knowledge"	C-Rayz Walz	Year of the Beast
2007	"All Day"	Aesop Rock	Nike + Original Run
	"Keep off the Lawn" "Catacomb Kids" "39 Thieves" "Citronella" "Five Fingers"	Aesop Rock	None Shall Pass
	"Give Me Love"	Grayskul	Bloody Radio

[edit] Appearances on compilations

Year	Tracks	Album	Other contributing artists
1999	"Tugboat Complex"	Inside Out: Vol. 1
2001	"Kill 'em All"	Def Jux Presents
2001	"Wise Up"	Tags of the Times 3
2002	"Skip Town" "Dinner with Blockhead"	Modern Montra (DJ Spooky mix album)
	"Dead Pan"	Def Jux Presents 2
	"Train Buffer"	Urban Renewal
	"Inner City Hustle"	Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files	with L.I.F.E. Long^[3]
2003	"Numb (To the Guns)"	Nature Sounds Presents: The Prof. In... Convexed Sampler
2003	"Miss By A Mile"	We Came From Beyond, Vol. 2	with Slug and Eyedea
2004	"All in All"	Def Jux Presents 3
2005	"Preservation"	Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture	with Del tha Funkee Homosapien
2005	"Junkyard"	NBA 2K6: The Tracks

[edit] See also

Definitive Jux discography

[edit] References

General

Aesop Rock. Definitive Jux. Retrieved on 2008-01-02.
Aesop Rock. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2008-01-02.
Aesop Rok – Intertia. InertiaMusic.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-02.

Specific

^ ^a ^b Aesop Rock > Charts & Awards. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2008-01-02.
^ Nike+ Aesop Rock: New “Original Run” Mix This Tuesday. Podophile.com (2007-02-11). Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
^ Various Artists (Embedded Music) – 'Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files' Item Detail. Undergroundhiphop.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.

[edit] External links

Aesop Rock at Definitive Jux
Aesop Rock at Discogs

v • d • e Definitive Jux

Artists	Aesop Rock (discography) \| Cage \| Camu Tao \| Cannibal Ox \| Cool Calm Pete \| C-Rayz Walz \| Danny! (discography) \| Despot \| El-P (discography) \| Hangar 18 \| Junk Science \| Mr. Lif (discography) \| MURS \| Party Fun Action Committee \| The Perceptionists \| RJD2 \| Rob Sonic \| S.A. Smash

Full length albums	The Cold Vein \| Labor Days \| Fantastic Damage \| Deadringer \| I Phantom \| The End of the Beginning \| Smashy Trashy \| Let's Get Serious \| Ravipops (The Substance) \| Bazooka Tooth \| Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition \| Since We Last Spoke \| The Multi-Platinum Debut Album \| Telicatessen \| Collecting the Kid \| Black Dialogue \| Year of the Beast \| Lost \| Hell's Winter \| Mo' Mega \| I'll Sleep When You're Dead \| None Shall Pass \| Sabotage Gigante \| Sweep the Leg \| Gran'Dad's Nerve Tonic \| Nostalgialator \| Eleventh Hour \| Maths + English \| Depart from Me

EPs	Enters the Colossus \| Daylight \| Emergency Rations \| The Horror \| We Live: The Black Samurai \| Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives

Compilation Albums	Def Jux Presents \| Farewell Fondle 'Em \| Def Jux Presents 2 \| Def Jux Presents 3 \| Bucket of B-Sides Vol. 1 \| Def Jux Teaser 2005 \| Definitive Swim

Related Topics	Label discography \| Company Flow \| The Weathermen

Categories: Rappers discographies