Virgin Prunes Discography

• Gavin Friday
• Guggi
• Dave-Id Busarus
• Dik
• Strongman
• Mary
  
  
  Gavin & Guggi
  
  
  Mary, Strongman & Pod circa 1985
  

Bio:

See the bands official website for full details.

• Twenty Tens EP

side one:
Twenty Tens (I've Been Smoking All Night Long)
Revenge

side two:
The Children Are Crying
...Greylight

• Moments and Mine EP

side one:
Moments and Mine (Despite Straight Lines)

side two:
In the Greylight
War

• A New Form of Beauty 1

side one:
Sandpaper Lullaby

side two:
Sleep
Fantasy Dreams

• A New Form of Beauty 2

side one:
Come To Daddy

side two:
Sweet Home (Under White Clouds)
Sad World

• A New Form of Beauty 3

side one:
Beast: Seven Bastard Suck

side two:
The Slow Children: Abbagall
Brain Damage
No Birds To Fly

• A New Form of Beauty 4 ("Din Glorious")

tracks: "Din Glorious"

Notes:
Extracts from a performance at the A New Form of Beauty exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin on 8 November 1981. No track listing is provided.

• A New Form of Beauty [Parts 1-4]

• A New Form of Beauty [Parts 1-3]

• A New Form of Beauty [Parts 1-4]

Notes:
Double LP collecting all four parts of the New From of Beauty series, with the live cassette taking up the second disc. The Mute double-CD maintains the same format. A track listing is provided for the Part 4, absent from the original cassette:

Come to Daddy
Delay Box
Suck Me Baby
Bodhran
The Forest
Theme for Thought
The Slow Child
Come to Daddy
Dave-Id Performance
Children are Crying
Sandpaper Lullaby
Pig Children

• Jigsawmentallama

tracks: Jigsawmentallama

Notes:
Given away with issue #9 of Vinyl Magazine (December 1981), a Dutch music magazine. Also contains a track by The Higsons ("The Lost And The Lonely")

• various artists - C81

 

tracks: Red Nettle

• various artists - Perspectives & Distortion

tracks: Third Secret

• various artists - Endzeit

tracks: Song (live at the Project Arts Centre Dublin 25 April 1981)

Notes:
Compiled by John Balance of Coil. Housed in a cardboard bag. Other tracks by Cultural Amnesia, Section 25, Culturcide, Raudive Bunker Experiment and Die Klopferbande.

• Pagan Lovesong / Dave-Id is Dead

• Pagan Lovesong (Vibe Akimbo) // Pagan Lovesong / Dave-Id is Dead

• Pagan Lovesong EP

CD tracks:
Pagan Lovesong (tormentallama)
Love Lasts Forever (lovelornalimbo)
Pagan Lovesong (vibeakimbo)
Dave-id Is Dead

Notes:
Nicely packaged CD single offering one new track, the "tormentallama" remix produced by Ian Bryan at STS Studios Dublin, March 1993

• Heresie

Disc 1:
We Love Deirdre
Rhetoric
Down the Memory Lane
Man on the Corner
Nisam Lo
Loved One
Go 't' Away Deirdre


Disc 2: recorded live @ Rex Club Paris - June 1982
Caucasian Walk
Walls of Jericho
Pagan Lovesong
Theme for Thought
Come to Daddy

• Heresie

• Heresie

• Baby Turns Blue / Yeo

• The Faculties of a Broken Heart EP

side one:
The Faculties of a Broken Heart (What Shall We Do If Baby Turns Blue)

side two:
Chance of a Lifetime
Yeo

• Baby Turns Blue / Walls of Jericho

• ...If I Die, I Die

 

 

Brown side:
Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall
Sweethome Under White Clouds
Baü-Dachöng

Blue side:
Baby Turns Blue
Ballad of the Man
Walls of Jericho
Caucasian Walk
Theme for Thought

CD Tracklistings:
Ulakanakulot
Decline And Fall
Sweethome Under White Clouds
Baü-Dachöng
Pagan Lovesong ¹
Dave-Id Is Dead ¹
Fádo ¹
Baby Turns Blue
Ballad Of The Man
Walls Of Jericho
Caucasian Walk
Theme For Thought
Chance Of A Lifetime ¹
Yeo ¹

¹ Mute CD bonus tracks

 

Notes:
This Rough Trade CD issue contained two errors, corrected in subsequent issues:
1. Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall mastered too slow
2. Baby Turns Blue: the 12" mix was used by accident

• various artists - Dokument: Ten Highlights in the History of Popular Music 1981-1982

tracks: Mad Bird in the Wood

Notes:
Compiled by Vinyl Magazine

• various artists - Bethel

 

tracks: Untitled

Notes:
Compiled by Geff Rushton and Andreas Muller (founder of Datenverarbeitung Kassetten, who released the Endzeit cassette mentioned above). Described by Rolf Vasellari in "Faculties of a Broken Heart" as a bootleg release.

Full track listing:

Side one
1. David Jay (Bauhaus) - The Gospel According To Fear
2. Pure - No Future
3. Nurse With Wound - Summertime Belongs To Me
4. Coil - Red Weather
5. Meat Puppets - Soup
6. Virgin Prunes - Untitled

Side two
1. You've Got Foetus On Your Breath (Jim Thirwell) - Piano Piece
2. You've Got Foetus On Your Breath (Jim Thirwell) - Te Deum
3. Romans - Membrum Lucis
4. Boyd Rice (Non) - Black Light District
5. Boyd Rice (Non) - Tourist Trap
6. Doo-dooettes - Jesus Theme
7. 23 Skidoo - Maccay Serasse

• Over the Rainbow (Rarities 1981-1983)

LP version, side one:
Down the Memory Lane
Red Nettle
Mad Bird in the Wood
Jigsawmentallama (slightly different mix)

side two:
The King of Junk
Just a Love Song
The Happy Dead
Third Secret




Tracklisting Mute edition:
CD 1:
Red Nettle
Twenty Tens
Pagan Lovesong Vibe-Akimbo
Moments and Mine
Mad Bird In The Wood
The Children Are Crying
Jigsawmentallama
King Of Junk
War
Greylight

CD 2:
White History Book
The Facilities Of A Broken Heart
In The Greylight
The Happy Dead
Revenge
Third Secret
Love Lasts Forever

Notes:
The Mute edition is the definitive collection of officially released rarities, including the first two singles. Two tracks included on the original LP have been moved to other discs in the reissue series. Why this logic hasn't also been applied to "Pagan Lovesong Vibe-Akimbo", "Facilities", "White History Book" and "Love Lasts Forever" I can't say!

• Sons Find Devils

• Sons Find Devils (video soundtrack)

tracks:
Over the Rainbow
Uncle Arthur's Lonely World
Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall
Pagan Lovesong
New Form of Beauty
Walls of Jericho
Caucasian Walk
Bernie & Attracta Sing
Rhetoric (promo video by John Balance & Peter Christopherson)
Sweet Home Under White Clouds
The Pig Children
Come to Daddy
Down the Memory Lane
(The Blues Song)
Pagan Lovesong (live) [enhanced video track on Cherry Red CD only]

Notes:
Compiled from live performances from 1981 and 1983.

At this point Guggi & Dik both left the band. Mary switched from drums to guitar and Pod became the drummer.

• Love Lasts Forever / True Life Story

• "Our Love Will Last Forever"

side one:
Lovelornalimbo

side two:
I Like The Way You're Frightened

• The Moon Looked Down and Laughed

 



Tracklisting:
Heaven
Love Lasts Forever
I am God
Sons Find Devils
Alone
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed
Uncle Arthur's Lonely World
"Don't Look Back"
Betrayal
Deadly Sins

 

CD Tracklisting (alphabetical):
Heaven
Love Lasts Forever (AKA Our Love Will Last Forever Until The Day It Dies)
I Am God
Sons Find Devils
Alone
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed
Uncle Arthur's Lonely World
"Don't Look Back" (AKA The Tortured Heart)
Betrayal
Deadly Sins
Day of Ages ¹
True Life Story ¹
The White History Book ²
Just A Love Song ³

¹ CD bonus tracks
² New Rose CD bonus track
³ Mute CD bonus track

• Don't Look Back / The White History Book

• Don't Look Back EP

side one:
Don't Look Back (Let's All Sing Of The Tortured Heart)

side two:
The White History Book
Day of Ages

• The Hidden Lie

 



Tracklisting: Baile Binn (Faoi Néalta Bánn) (AKA Sweethome (Under White Clouds))
Lady Day
God Bless the Child
Never Ending Story
Pagan Lovesong
Heaven ¹
Love is Danger
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed
Caucasian Walk
The Blues Song
Alone ¹ Sweethome (Under White Clouds) ¹

¹ CD bonus tracks

• Artfuck

tracks:
Twenty Tens (I've Been Smoking All Night Long)
Revenge
The Children are Crying
...Greylight
In the Greylight
War
Moments and Mine (Despite Straight Lines)
Red Nettle
Mad Bird in the Woods
Jigsawmentallama
King of Junk
Just a Love Song
The Happy Dead
Third Secret

Notes:
A revamped Over The Rainbow, omitting one track while adding the first two singles. A tough one to find for completists, though it was made redundant by the Mute CD reissue series.

• An Exhibition

tracks:
Baby Turns Blue
Love Lasts Forever
Theme For Thought
Heaven
Sandpaper Lullabye
Twenty Tens
Loved One
Mad Bird In The Wood
Pagan Lovesong (Live at the Rex Club, Paris, April 1982)
Come To Daddy

plus videos:
Pagan Lovesong
Rhetoric
Gavin, Guggi and Dave-Id, 01.07.04 (Video Introduction)

Notes:
Compilation promoting Mute's imminent (at the time) reissue program, with 10 audio tracks plus 3 video tracks

• An Extended Play EP

tracks:
Pagan Lovesong
Baby Turns Blue - Director's Cut (2004 remix by Colin Newman)
Twenty Tens
Greylight
Mad Bird In The Wood
Red Nettle

Bootlegs Discography

• Reptiles

 

tracks:
Dave-id - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Uncle Arthur
Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall
Theme for Thought
Pagan Lovesong
Sweet Home Under White Clouds
Gaga
Baü-dachöng
Gaga
Come to Daddy
The Blues Song

• Reptiles

 

tracks:
Decline and Fall
Theme for Thought
Pagan Lovesong
Sweethomeunderwhiteclouds
Instrumental
Baü-Dachöng
Instrumental (Love Lasts)
Come to Daddy

• Reptiles

tracks:
Over The Rainbow [Dave-id Busarus]
Uncle Arthur's Lonely World
Decline And Fall
Theme For Thought
Pagan Lovesong
Sweet Home Under White Clouds
Gaga
Baü-Dachöng
Jam [Love Lasts]
Come To Daddy
The Blue Song

Notes:
Recorded live at Rouen Garbage Hall 1 February 1983. The original bootleg LP is a tough one to find. Note the 2006 CD edition omits the Dave-id Busarus performance.

• Moonshiner

side one:
Blue Song
Lady Day
God Bless the Child
Never Ending Story
My Death

side two:
Love Last Forever
Love is a Danger
Moon Looked Down
Caucasian Walk
Deadly Sins

Notes:
Recorded live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 17 June 1986.

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