Rowland S. Howard Discography

by Maurice Maes and Leo Meijer

Latest update: 1-7-2001
Special thanks to: Hans Wyndaele, Donald Kenoyer, Aurelio Pasini, Sam Difference, Anthony Burnell, Dolf van der Haven, Richard Miles, Kim Beissel, Jeremy Gluck, Cliff McLenehan, Bruce Milne, Anthony Weiland, Christoph Jacke, Henk Vaessen, Gary, Dave Kimball, Wolfgang Kunst, people from Radio One, Janez Golic,

Click here to see what Rowland has been playing in recent years.

Rowland S. Howard - Band Member

Boys Next Door (1978-1980) The Birthday Party (1980-1983) Crime and the City Solution (1985-1986)

Rowland S. Howard solo

CD    1999 "Teenage Snuff Film" - CD released in August 1999.
           LP release expected in 2000 on the label Radio One,
           with 100 copies in Australia on coloured vinyl.
           The LP on Radio One will also come with a bonus exclusive 
           7" featuring two unreleased tracks from Rowland and co.
                Dead Radio
                Breakdown
                She Cried
                I Burnt Yr Clothes
                Exit Everything
                Silver Chain
                White Wedding
                Undone
                Autoluminescent
                Sleep Alone
                    Reliant Records, NC17-0002
                    Cooking Vinyl, COOK CD 199 (Europe, 2000)   
                    Smells Like Records (USA, expected in 2000)

These Immortal Souls

12"   1987 "Marry Me (Lie! Lie!)"
                Marry Me (Lie! Lie!)
                Open Up And Bleed
                "Blood And Sand" She Said (early version)
                    Mute 63

LP/CD 1987 "Get Lost"
                Marry Me (Lie! Lie!)
                Hide
                Hey! Little Child
                These Immortal Souls
                I Ate The Knife
                "Blood And Sand" She Said
                One In Shadow One In Sun
                +CD+ Open Up And Bleed
                +CD+ "Blood And Sand" She Said (Alt. Version)
                +CD+ I Ate The Knife (Alt. Version)
                +CD+ These Immortal Souls (Alt. Version)
                    Mute, STUMM 48

7"    1991 "Loony Tune", split double single with Sonic Youth, Gumball and
           Laughing Hyenas.
                    Subpop Singles Club June/July 1991

12"   1992 "King Of Kalifornia"
CDs             King Of Kalifornia
                Bad
                My One Eyed Daughter (live in Las Vegas)
                Up On The Roof
                    MUTE 90

LP/CD 1992 "I'm Never Gonna Die Again", a Japanese CD version seems to have 9
           bonus tracks.
                The King Of Kalifornia
                Shamed
                Black Milk
                Hyper Space
                The Story Goes
                Insomnicide
                All The Money's Gone
                Crowned
                +CD/CA+ Bad
                +CD/CA+ My One Eyed Daughter (live in Las Vegas)
                +CD/CA+ Up On The Roof
                    Mute, STUMM 98
                    Mute Elektra 9 61396-4 (Cassette)

LP/CD 1995 "Step Right Up: The Songs Of Tom Waits", TIS do the Waits song:
                You Can't Unring a Bell
                    Manifesto/Caroline PT3 41101-2

Shotgun Wedding - Rowland S. Howard with Lydia Lunch

12"   1982 "Some Velvet Morning", by Rowland S. Howard and Lydia Lunch
                Some velvet Morning
                I Fell In Love With A Ghost
                    4AD, BAD 210

12"   1982 "Thirsty Animal/Durstiges Tier", by Einstuerzende Neubauten, with
           Rowland and Lydia.
                    Rip Off

MINLP 1984 "In Limbo Lydia Lunch, contains a cover of Rowland's
                Still Burning
                    Doublevision DVR5

LP/CD 1988 "Honeymoon In Red", by Lydia Lunch. Features Tracey Pew,
CA         Rowland S. Howard, Mick Harvey (uncredited), produced by 
           Clint Ruin. Recorded in 1982. Rowland plays on many songs,
           sings on some, and  co-wrote some.
                Come Fall 
                So Your Heart
                Dead River
                Three Kings
                Done Dun
                Still Burning
                Dead In The Head
                Fields Of Fire
                +CD+ Some Velvet Morning
                +CD+ I Fell In Love With A Ghost
                    Widowspeak WSP 12
                    Atavistic, Canada
                    Torso Records, TORSO 33064 (Netherlands)
                    Widowspeak/EFA/Torso Torso cd146 (Germany)

LP/CD 1991 "Shotgun Wedding", Lydia Lunch, Rowland S. Howard.
                Burning Skulls
                In My Time Of Dying
                Solar Hex
                Endless Fall
                What Is Memory
                Pigeon Town
                Cisco Sunset
                Incubator
                Black Juju
                    Triple X Records, 51111-2 (US)
                    UFO/Triple X Records, UFO WSP2CD (UK)

CD    1993 "Tribute To Alice Cooper", various artists. 
                Black Juju
                    Triple X, 51109
             
2CD   1994 "Transmutation/Shotgun Wedding Live"
           CD one: transmutation
                Endless Fall (with Rowland)
                So Your Heart
                Vandal (with Die Haut)
                Some Velvet Morning (with Rowland) 
                Knives In The Drain 
                Twisted
                Evil Hearted You
                Motor Oil Shanty
                Why Don't We Do It In The Road
                Race Mixing
                Stinkfist 
                Meltdown
                The Crumb
           CD two: Shotgun Wedding Live
                In My Time Of Dying
                Pigeon Town
                Solar Hex
                What Is Memory
                Cisco Sunset
                Still Burning
                Incubator
                Burning skulls
                Gospel Singer 
                Black JuJu
                    Insipid Vinyl, IV 34 (Australia)
                    New Millennium Communications, 1999 rerelease

2LP/  199? "Hystery", By Lydia Lunch contains
2CD             I Fell in Love With A Ghost

Rowland S. Howard with Nikki Sudden

LP 1987 "Texas" by Nikki Sudden and the Jacobites. Rowland plays on
three songs.
Creation,

12" 1987 "Wedding Hotel", by Rowland S. Howard and Nikki Sudden.
Wedding Hotel
Hello Wolf (Little Baby)
Girl Without A Name
Wedding Hotel (Original Mix)
Creation,

LP 1987 "Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc" by Nikki Sudden and Rowland S. Howard.
+CD+ Wedding Hotel
Rebel Grave
Sob Story
Snowplough
A Quick Thing
Feather Beds
+CD+ French Revolution Blues
Crossroads
Don't Explain
+CD+ Hello Wolf (Little Baby)
Better Blood
Debutante Blues
+CD+ Girl Without A Name
+CD+ Wedding Hotel (The Moose)
Creation, CRECD 022

LP 1988 "Dead Men Tell No Tales" by Nikki Sudden and Rowland S. Howard.
When I Cross The Line
Before I Leave You
Dog Latin
Wooden Leg
Dog Rose
How Many Lies
Cupful Of Change
Kiss At Dawn
Jangle Into Town
Death Is Hanging Over Me
Creation,

CD 1990 "Dead Men Tell No Tales/Texas" by Nikki Sudden and the Jacobites.
Rowland is not mentioned.
When I Cross The Line
Before I Leave You
Dog Latin
Wooden Leg
Dog Rose
How Many Lies
Cupful Of Change
Kiss At Dawn
Jangle Into Town
Death Is Hanging Over Me
In Your Room
Glass/Such A Little Girl
Broken Tooth
Stuka
Basement Blues
Wedding Dress
When I Left You
Captain Kennedy(Just Vocal)
Captain Kennedy(Instrumental)
Creation, CRE CD 016

CD 1990 "Back To The Coast" by Nikki Sudden. French compilation CD.
Creation, CRECD 083

LP 1998 "From Warwick Road To The Banks Of The Nile" by Nikki Sudden.
Contains the song "Misty Roads" with Rowland, from the KYKC sessions.
Sucksex Records, (LIM. 311)

CD 1998 "Egyptian Roads" by Nikki Sudden. Contains the song "Misty Roads" with Rowland,
from the KYKC sessions. It is an instrumental version of "Death Is Hanging Over Me".
Indies Records, MAM 069-2

Jeremy Gluck, Rowland S. Howard and Nikki Sudden

LP    1987 "I Knew Buffalo Bill" by Jeremy Gluck, music and guitar by Rowland.
           The 1998 rerelease contains more tracks.
                Looking For A Place To Fall
                Too Long
                Gone Free
                Hymn
                Time Undone
                Gallery Wharf
                Four Seasons Of Trouble
                All My Secrets
                    Flicknife
                    Diesel Motor Records Diesel Motor Records, MotorCD101 1998 CD rerelease!

12"   1987 "Looking For A Place To Fall" by Jeremy Gluck & Friends
                Looking For A Place To Fall
                Time Goes Faster
                One More Story
                Looking For A Place To Fall (Reprise)
                    Tuff! Enuff, tuff-t-01 

LP    1988 "Burning Skulls Rise", by Jeremy Gluck, 6 track mini-album by
           Jeremy Gluck, Rowland S. Howard, Nikki Sudden plus guest musicians
                Sorrow Drive
                Episode In A Town 
                April North
                The Proving Trail
                They're Hanging me Tonight
                Burning Skulls Rise
                    Flicknife Records 1988 - Blunt 043

Rowland S. Howard - as a Bad Seed

LP/CD 1986 "Kicking Against The Pricks", Rowland appears on:
CA              All Tomorrow's Parties       (backing vocals)
                By The Time I Get To Phoenix (organ and guitar)
                    Mute Records, STUMM 28

2CD   1993 "Viva Eight" NME compilation CD with two live tracks 
CA         from 1 September 92, London, Town & Country club.
                Nick The Stripper (with Rowland S. Howard on guitar)
                    Viva 8 CD

CD/LP 1994 "Let Love In", backing vocals on:
                Do You Love Me?
                    Mute, STUMM 123 

LP/CD 1996 "Murder Ballads" Backing vocals on:
                The Curse Of Millhaven
                    Mute, CD STUMM 138 

video 1996 "Ritual Habitual", video from the Big Day Out festival
           features Rowland S. Howard.
                    Polygram Video, PVA1232

Rowland S. Howard - Guest Musician & all else

CA    1978 "Shivers" by The Young Charlatans.
                    Fast Foward 4

7"    1980 "Samurai Star/The Man From Brashs/Dangerman Theme" by Peter Lillee
           features Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard and Phill Calvert.  
                    Missing Link MLS12 

LP    1981 "Peter Lillee's Guitar Method" by Peter Lillee includes 
                Samurai Star
                    Missing Link LINK12 

LP    1984 "Gag" by Fad Gadget, Rowland plays guitar on two songs.
                    Mute, STUMM 15

12"   1984 "I Discover Love" by Fad Gadget. Guitar.
                    Mute 028

LP/CA 1986 "The Fad Gadget Singles" by Frank Tovey.
                    Sire 25549

12"   1987 "Time Was" by A.C. Marias. Guitar.
                    Mute

LP/CA 1987 "Short Walk On a Long Pier", spoken word album by Henry Rollins.
           Rowland plays guitar on "Alienation".
                    Lone Wolf

LP/CD 1989 "Moss Side Story", by Barry Adamson.
CA         Rowland plays guitar on "Autodestruction".
                    Mute STUMM 53
                    Mute 71420

film  1990 "In Too Deep", Rowland plays in a band in this film (with
           Hugo Race and Chris Hughes et al.)

LP/CD 1991 "Delusion", by Barry Adamson.
CA         Rowland plays guitar on "These Boots Are Made For Walking".
                    Mute, IONIC 4

12"/  1991 "These Boots Are Made For Walking", by Barry Adamson and Anita Lane.
CDs        Rowland plays guitar.
                These Boots are Made for Walking (7" version) 
                These Boots are Made for Walking (Bonnie floats on air wair mix) 
                Go Johnny 
                These Boots are Made for Walking (Sleepwalking Mix) 
                    Mute 119

CD    1992 "Rise Above", by Epic Soundtracks. Rowland plays on this one.
                Meet Me On The Beach
                Sad Song
                Wild Situation
                    Bar/None AHAON-029-2 

LP/CD 1994 "Rumour Of Death", by Spencer Jones, Rowland plays on
                Slamming On The Breaks
                Jet Boy, Jet Girl
                    Polydor
                    Red Eye CD RED 41 25347 2

CD    1995 "Language", by Chris Haskett.
           Rowland plays guitar and co-wrote 4 songs.
                    2.13.61
    
CD    1999 Rowland produced an album by The Hungry Ghosts.

TEXT  1999 Rowland has written the liner notes to the "best of" album
           "Beyond Good And Evil" by The Beasts Of Bourbon.

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