(All releases UK unless noted.)
Singles
Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag | Sunny Day | Getting Up | The Big Bean | Hit The ‘O’ Deck
Albums
Dr Heckle & Mr Jive | Lend An Ear | Pigbag | Favourite Things | Discology – Best of Pigbag
BBC Sessions | Seven Piggies | Live At The Hippodrome | Re-Issues | Year of the Pigbag
Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
Recorded at Berry St Studio, March 1981
Produced By Dick O’Dell, Dave Hunt & Pigbag
7″ (Y10 1981 c/w “The Backside”)
12″ (Y10 1981 c/w “As It Was (Live)”)
12″ (Y10 1982 c/w “Another Orangutango” [label says “Orangutango Dub Mix”])
German 12″ (Intercord Y INT 126.620 c/w “As It Was (Live)”)
1994 CD (c/w “Sunny Day”)
2010 12″ and CD with Vuvuzela Mix – Cat No: BLAZE178
7″ front cover | 7″ back cover | 7″ A-side label | 7″ B-side label |
Sunny Day
Recorded at Berry St Studio, July 1981.
Produced By Dick O’Dell, Dave Hunt & Pigbag
7″ (Y12 1981 c/w “Elephants Wish To Become Nimble”)
12″ (Y12 1981 c/w “Elephants Wish To Become Nimble” & “Whoops Goes My Body”)
US 12″ (Stiff Records TEES 12-05 c/w “Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag” & “Whoops Goes My Body”)
7″ front cover | 7″ back cover | 7″ A-side label | 7″ B-side label |
Getting Up
Recorded at Berry St Studio, November 1981.
Produced By Dick O’Dell, Dave Hunt & Pigbag
7″ (Y16 1982 c/w “Go Cat”)
12″ (Y16T 1982 c/w “Go Cat” & “Giggling Mud”)
7″ front cover | 7″ back cover | 7″ A-side label | 7″ B-side label |
The Big Bean
Recorded at Abbey Road, June 1982.
Produced by Simon Underwood, engineered by Pat Stapley.
7″ (Y24 1982)
The Big Bean – 3:25
Scumda – 4:05
12″ (Y24T 1982)
The Big Bean – 4:57
Scumda – 6:37
US 12″ (12″ Y USA 5)
The Big Bean – 5:00
Schounda – 6:40
(Despite track time and name differences, this is the same as the UK 12″)
7″ front cover | 7″ back cover | 7″ A-side label | 7″ B-side label |
Hit The ‘O’ Deck
Recorded and Mixed at Blackwing.
Engineer: John Fryer
Produced by Simon Underwood.
12″ (YT101) c/w “Six of One” & “Hit The ‘O’ Deck (Instrumental)”
7″ front cover | 7″ back cover | 7″ A-side label | 7″ B-side label |
Dr Heckle & Mr Jive
Recorded at Berry St Studio, 1981.
Produced by Pigbag & Dick O’Dell. Engineered by Dave Hunt.
LP & cassette (Y17 released 1982)
Sleeve painting by Ralph Petty.
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Tracks
- Getting Up
- Big Bag
- Dozo Don
- Brian The Snail
- Wiggling
- Brazil Nuts
- Orangutango
- As It Will Be
Re-released on BMG’s Camden label in October 2000 with 4 bonus tracks:
- Whoops Goes My Body
- Sunny Day (12″ version)
- Another Orangutango (remix)
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (7″ version)
Front Cover – LP & CD – Back Cover – LP Only
Lend An Ear
Produced by Simon Underwood and mixed by Pigbag at Blackwing with engineer John Fryer and Jacobs Studio with Terry Barham. Additional mixing at Berry St. with engineer Brad.
LP & cassette (Y LP 501, released 1983)
Sleeve Design by James Johnstone.
- Weak At The Knees
- Hit The ‘O’ Deck
- Ubud
- One Way Ticket To Cubesville
- Jump The Line
- Can’t See for Looking
- No Such Thing As
- Listen Listen (Little Man)
Pigbag
LP (YMP 1001, released 1983)
Sleeve Design by Mark Harrington
Tracks
- Shack Of Scraps (Live – Berlin Latin Quarter – 5th April 1983)
- Smiling Faces (Live – Berlin Latin Quarter – 5th April 1983)
- Sunny Day (Live – Birmingham Locarno – 17th March 1982)
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (Live – Hammersmith Palais – 16th March 1982)
- Jump The Line (Remix – Jacobs Studio – December 1982)
- Global Terrain (Live – Berlin Latin Quarter – 5th April 1983)
- End Of Ubud (Live – Munich Alabama Hall – 6th April 1983)
- Can’t See For Looking – (Live – Tokyo Sun Plaza – July 1982)
Favourite Things
LP (YPB 100, released 1983)
Compilation
Tracks
- Getting Up
- Six Of One
- Hit The ‘O’ Deck
- Sunny Day (12″)
- One Way Ticket To Cubesville
- Brazil Nuts
- The Big Bean (12″)
- Wiggling
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (12″)
Discology (The Best of Pigbag)
CD (KAZ CD 3) (2 releases with different covers available)
Tracks
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (12″ version)
- Weak At The Knees
- Hit The ‘O’ Deck (Instrumental)
- Getting Up
- Brazil Nuts
- Jump The Line
- Another Orangutango (12″ version)
- Sunny Day (12″ version)
- Big Bean (12″ version)
- Can’t See For Looking
- Six Of One
- Big Bag
- Listen Listen Little Man
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (7″ version)
Pigbag – The BBC Sessions
CD (SFRSCD072, released 1998) (released on Strange Fruit)
Tracks
- Honk Wild
- Eating Burgers
- Wile In
- Me And Your Shadow
- The Dug Out
- You Can Wiggle My Toe To That
- Jack Frost
- En Ti La Tierra
- Ubud
- Can’t See For Looking
Seven Piggies
Japanese-only release on “Brand New Beat” label.
Almost certainly a bootleg, but professionally pressed.
Live tracks all recorded at Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo on July 23rd 1982.
Presumably this was the same gig that “Can’t See For Looking” on “Pigbag” was recorded.
Tracks:
- Big Bean
- Six of One
- Weak At The Knees (mislabelled as “Week At The Needs”)
- Getting Up
- Wiggling
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
Live at the Hippodrome (cassette)
This may have been a bootleg, though it was available from a reputable mail-order store.
Year of the Pigbag
Released on Monday 25th March 2013 as both a physical CD and a digital download.
Cat No: FOD095CD
Tracks
- Cuban Rice (Is Very Nice) 8:42
- Disco Mama 6:02
- Out Of Chaos 10:00
- Tabula Rasa 7:15
- Beluga 5:47
- Jumpers For Goalposts 5:01
- Brains 5:44
- Honeydew Lady 6:56
- Afrodite On The Horizontal 6:43
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