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Robert Wyatt discography
Studio albums8
EPs9
Compilation albums10
Singles15
Archival albums3
Remix albums1
Collaborative albums3
Box sets2

The discography of Robert Wyatt, a retired English musician, consists of eight solo studio albums, six archival/collaborations albums, ten compilation albums, two boxed sets, nine EPs and 15 singles. He has also appeared as a guest musician on a large number of albums by other artists.

Between 1966 and 1971 Wyatt was drummer and vocalist for the Canterbury scene band Soft Machine and played on the first four of the band's albums: The Soft Machine (1968), Volume Two (1969), Third (1970) and Fourth (1971).

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
UK Indie
BEL
(FL)

FRA
IT
SWE
The End of an Ear
  • Released: 4 December 1970
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: LP
Rock Bottom
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
  • Released: 30 May 1975
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
Old Rottenhat 4
Dondestan
  • Released: August 1991
  • Label: Rough Trade, Gramavision
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Shleep 136 35
Cuckooland
  • Released: 25 September 2003
  • Label: Hannibal
  • Formats: CD
173 20 59 49
Comicopera 85 8 63 41 48 52
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Archival albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
IT
Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974
  • Released: 10 October 2005
  • Label: Hannibal
  • Formats: CD
  • As Robert Wyatt & Friends
73
Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981
  • Released: 7 August 2009
  • Label: Rai Trade
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Italy-only release
'68
  • Released: 8 October 2013
  • Label: Cuneiform
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Remix albums

Title Album details
Dondestan (Revisited)
  • Released: 21 October 1998
  • Label: Hannibal, Thirsty Ear
  • Formats: CD

Collaborative albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
UK Indie
FRA
US Jazz
Musik: Rearranging the 20th Century
...For the Ghosts Within
  • Released: 11 October 2010
  • Label: Domino
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
  • With Gilad Atzmon and Ros Stephen
150 18 120 24
KiTsuNe / Brian the Fox
  • Released: 6 March 2019
  • Label: Flau
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP, digital download
  • Japan-only release
  • With the Future Eve
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie

BEL
(FL)

Nothing Can Stop Us
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: Rough Trade, Gramavision
  • Formats: LP
  • Germany-only release
4
1982–1984
  • Released: November 1984
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Formats: LP
Late '70's – Early '80's
  • Released: 25 May 1985
  • Label: Japan
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
Compilation
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Gramavision
  • Formats: CD, MC
Mid-Eighties
  • Released: 25 September 1993
  • Label: Rough Trade, Gramavision
  • Formats: CD
Going Back a Bit: A Little History of Robert Wyatt
  • Released: June 1994
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 2xCD
Flotsam Jetsam
  • Released: 15 August 1994
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Formats: CD
Solar Flares Burn for You
  • Released: 16 September 2003
  • Label: Cuneiform
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
His Greatest Misses
  • Released: 29 September 2004
  • Label: Hannibal
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
Different Every Time
  • Released: 14 November 2014
  • Label: Domino
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Also released in 2 2xLP volumes
26 191
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Box sets

Title Album details
EPs
  • Released: 9 February 1999
  • Label: Hannibal, Thirsty Ear
  • Formats: 5xCD
Robert Wyatt Box Set
  • Released: 3 August 2009
  • Label: Domino
  • Formats: 14xCD

EPs

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie

Summer Into Winter
The Animals Film
  • Released: April 1982
  • Label: Mute
  • Formats: LP
  • Mini-album
18
Work in Progress
  • Released: August 1984
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Formats: 12"
2
4 Track EP
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: 12"
The Last Nightingale
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: Rē
  • Formats: 12"
10
The Peel Sessions 36
A Short Break
The Garden of Love
Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt and Geese
  • Released: 22 December 2008
  • Label: EMI/DFA
  • Formats: CD
  • With Hot Chip and Geese
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions
UK
UK
Indie

NZ
"I'm a Believer" 1974 29
"Yesterday Man" 1977
"Arauco" 1980 10
"At Last I Am Free" 18
"Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" 1981 26
"Grass" 14
"Shipbuilding" 1982 35 1 27
"The Wind of Change" (with the Swapo Singers) 1984 86 3
"Chairman Mao" (Italy-only release) 1987
"Free Will and Testament" 1997
"This Summer Night" (with Bertrand Burgalat) 2007
"What a Wonderful World" (with Gilad Atzmon and Ros Stephen; promo-only release) 2010
"Stella Maris" (with Boris Grebenshchikov; Russia-only release) 2015
"Ibrahim" (The Great Divide featuring Robert Wyatt) 2016
"Tutti Shrutti" (Future Pilot A.K.A. featuring Robert Wyatt) 2019
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Tributes

Year Album Artist
1998 The Different You - Robert Wyatt e Noi (various)
2000 Soupsongs Live: The Music of Robert Wyatt (various, featuring Julie Tippetts, Ian Maidman, Annie Whitehead, Didier Malherbe, George Khan, Harry Beckett, Phil Manzanera, Janette Mason, Steve Lamb & Liam Genockey)
2001 MW pour Robert Wyatt (various)
2009 Around Robert Wyatt Orchestre National de Jazz
2011 The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons The Unthanks
2018 What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing Janek Schaefer
2019 Folly Bololey North Sea Radio Orchestra

Appearances

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