Aesop Rock discography
 Aesop Rock live in concert. | |
| Releases | |
|---|---|
| ↙Studio albums | 6 |
| ↙EPs | 3 |
| ↙Singles | 10 |
| ↙Music videos | 9 |
| ↙Guest appearances | 43 |
| ↙Production credits | 13 |
| ↙Appearances on compilations | 14 |
| ↙Collaborations | 4 |
Aesop Rock is an American hip hop artist currently signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His discography consists of six studio albums, and three EPs, as well as ten singles, four collaborations, one compilation, nine music videos, and many appearances on other artists' tracks and on compilations.
Aesop 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. Skelethon, was released by Rhymesayers Entertainment in 2012.
Albums
Studio albums
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions[1] | Notes | ||||
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| US | US R&B | US Rap | US Ind. | ||||
| 1997 | Music for Earthworms | — | — | — | — |
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| 2000 | Float
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| 2001 | Labor Days
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| 2003 | Bazooka Tooth
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112 | 44 | — | 7 |
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| 2007 | None Shall Pass
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50 | 35 | — | — |
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| 2012 | Skelethon
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21 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||
Downloadable mixes
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2007 | All Day: Nike+ Original Run
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| 2014 | The Blob
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Extended plays
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions[1] | Notes | |||
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| U.S. | U.S. R&B | U.S. Heat. | U.S. Ind. | |||
| 1999 | Appleseed
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| 2002 | Daylight
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— | — | — | 15 |
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| 2005 | Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
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190 | 100 | 9 | 21 |
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Singles
| Year | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | "Coma" | Labor Days |
| "Boombox" | ||
| 2001 | "Daylight" | Labor Days & Daylight |
| 2003 | "Limelighters" | Bazooka Tooth |
| "Freeze" | ||
| "Easy" | ||
| 2004 | "All in All" | Def Jux Presents 3 |
| 2006 | "Fishtales" | non-album single |
| 2007 | "None Shall Pass" | None Shall Pass |
| "Coffee" | ||
| 2012 | "Zero Dark Thirty" | Skelethon |
| "ZZZ Top" | ||
Music videos
| Year | Title | Producer |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | "Abandon All Hope"[7] | Ian Bavitz |
| 2003 | "Freeze" | Michael Kuhn |
| "No Jumper Cables" | Joey Garfield | |
| 2005 | "Fast Cars" | Asif Mian |
| 2007 | "None Shall Pass" | Michael Kuhn |
| "Coffee" | Ace Norton | |
| 2012 | "Zero Dark Thirty" | Brooke Kennedy |
| "ZZZ Top" | Lizzie Rose | |
| "Cycles to Gehenna" | Ben Fee & Pete Lee | |
| "Homemade Mummy" | Unspecified |
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)" | |||
| "Sinister" | Atoms Family with Yeshua Dapoed | ||
| "Blacklist" | Prefuse 73, with MF DOOM | Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives | |
| 2002 | "Take me to the Basement" | The 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 | "Worlds Collide" | Rasco | The Dick Swanson Theory |
| "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 | |
| "Akinesia" | 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 |
| "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 | "Dirt" | Tobacco | Fucked Up Friends |
| "Alchemy" | Blueprint | Iron & Niacin | |
| "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" remix | The Mountain Goats | Heretic Pride | |
| "Side Two (CCP Remix)" | Cool Calm Pete | Loosies - Remixes and Other Oddities | |
| "The Explanation" | The Gigantics | Die Already | |
| 2009 | "Diabolical Fun (Remix)" | Illogic | Diabolical Fun |
| "Low Tide" | DJ Signify | Of Cities | |
| "Sink Or Swim" | |||
| "Molly" | Tame One | Acid Tab Vocab | |
| "Stand Up" | Awol One | Owl Hours | |
| "Give It Up" | Felt | Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez | |
| 2010 | "Primor" | Dark Time Sunshine | Vessel |
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 |
| "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 |
| "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" |
None Shall Pass | ||
| "Give Me Love" | Grayskul | Bloody Radio |
Original contributions to compilations
| Year | Tracks | Album | Other contributing artists |
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| 1999 | "Tugboat Complex" | Inside Out: Vol. 1 | |
| 2000 | "The Active Element" | Ropeladder 12''[8] | |
| 2001 | "Kill 'em All" | Def Jux Presents | |
| "Wise Up" | Tags of the Times 3 | ||
| 2002 | "Skip Town" "Dinner with Blockhead" |
Modern Montra (DJ Spooky mix album) |
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| "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[9] | |
| 2003 | "Numb (To the Guns)" | Nature Sounds Presents: The Prof. In... Convexed Sampler |
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| "Dragon Coaster" | The Bastard EP 12'' | with Mojo | |
| "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 |
| "Junkyard" | NBA 2K6: The Tracks |
Collaborations
The Weathermen
Main article: The Weathermen (hip hop group) § History
Hail Mary Mallon
Main article: Hail Mary Mallon § Discography
See also
References
- General
- "Aesop Rock". Definitive Jux. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- "Aesop Rock". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- "Aesop Rok – Intertia". InertiaMusic.com. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Specific
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Aesop Rock > Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- ↑ "UKMix Soundscan Database". UKMix.org. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
- ↑ "UKMix Soundscan Database". ukmix.org. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
- ↑ Billboard - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
- ↑ "Nike+ Aesop Rock: New "Original Run" Mix This Tuesday". Podophile.com. 2007-02-11. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
- ↑ "UGHH Soundscan Numbers". forums.undergroundhiphop.com. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
- ↑ SpiritStereo. "Abandon All Hope". Youtube.com. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ↑ "MH-401 Various Artists - Ropeladder 12 Tracklist". MushRecords.com. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ↑ "Various Artists (Embedded Music) – 'Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files' Item Detail". Undergroundhiphop.com. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
External links
- Aesop Rock Archived 2 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine at Definitive Jux
- Aesop Rock discography at Discogs
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