Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist Ed Kuepper co-founded and recorded with the punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and the grunge-like The Aints.
He has also released 18 solo albums as well as another 14 limited-release albums of live and broadcast performances.
Kuepper has won two ARIA Music Awards for Best Independent Album—Black Ticket Day (1992) and Serene Machine (1993). His highest chart placing was with Honey Steel's Gold (1991), which reached No.28 on the national album chart.
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS | ||
| Electrical Storm |
|
— |
| Rooms of the Magnificent |
|
98 |
| Everybody's Got To |
|
42 |
| Today Wonder |
|
— |
| Honey Steel's Gold |
|
28 |
| Black Ticket Day |
|
45 |
| Serene Machine |
|
48 |
| Character Assassination |
|
32 |
| A King in the Kindness Room |
|
99 |
| Frontierland |
|
— |
| Starstruck |
|
— |
| With a Knapsack on My Back |
|
— |
| The Blue House |
|
— |
| Smile....Pacific |
|
— |
| Out-takes, Castaways, Pirate Women & Takeaways |
|
— |
| Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog |
|
— |
| Second Winter |
|
— |
| The Return of the Mail-Order Bridegroom |
|
— |
| Lost Cities |
|
— |
Soundtrack albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Last Cab to Darwin |
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Live albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Live (as Ed Kuepper & His Oxley Creek Playboys) |
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| Ed Kuepper Live |
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| Ed Kuepper Live |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: The Euroboot Album (with Jeffrey Wegener) |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: Honey Steel's Gold Live at the Forum |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: Duos, Solos and Trios |
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| Ed Kuepper Live |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: Studio Demos 1988 and 2007 |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: Long Rider on the Shortwaves, Radio Sessions 2000 |
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| Ed Kuepper Live: Long Rider on the Shortwaves, Radio Sessions 1999 |
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Compilation albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS | ||
| The Butterfly Net |
|
91 |
| The Butterfly Net |
|
— |
| Sings His Greatest Hits for You |
|
72 |
| Wheelie Bin Affair (Some Odds and Sods) |
|
— |
| Reflections of Ol' Golden Eye |
|
— |
| This Is the Magic Mile |
|
— |
| Singles '86–'96 |
|
43 |
| The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper |
|
— |
Limited release mail order albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| I Was a Mail Order Bridegroom |
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| Exotic Mail Order Moods |
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| Starstruck: Music for Films & Adverts |
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| Cloudland (as Ed Kuepper & His Oxley Creek Playboys) |
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Charting singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | |||
| "Real Wild Life" | 1992 | 132 | Black Ticket Day |
| "If I Had a Ticket" | 1994 | 72 | Character Assassination |
References
- ^ McFarlane, Ian (1999). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. pp. 353–355. ISBN 978-1-86-448768-8.
- The Kuepper Files discography
- ^ Peak positions for albums in Australia:
- All except noted: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 158.
- Rooms of the Magnificent & Everybody's Got ToKent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 171. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 6 July 1992". Bubbling Down Under. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
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