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The Durutti Column discography
Studio albums20
EPs6
Live albums4
Compilation albums13
Singles13
Video albums2
Box sets3
Other albums4

This is the discography of English post-punk band the Durutti Column.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie
The Return of the Durutti Column
  • Released: January 1980
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: LP
 7
LC
  • Released: November 1981
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: LP
 12
Another Setting
  • Released: August 1983
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: LP
 4
Without Mercy
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: LP, MC
 8
Circuses and Bread
  • Released: May 1986
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
 11
The Guitar and Other Machines
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC, DAT
 13
Vini Reilly
  • Released: March 1989
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC, DAT
 5
Obey the Time
  • Released: December 1990
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
 —
Sex and Death —
Fidelity —
Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids
  • Released: October 1998
  • Label: Factory Too/London
  • Formats: CD
 —
Rebellion
  • Released: June 2001
  • Label: Artful/Universal
  • Formats: CD
 —
Someone Else's Party
  • Released: 3 March 2003
  • Label: Artful/Universal
  • Formats: CD
 —
Tempus Fugit
  • Released: 17 May 2004
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: CD
 —
Keep Breathing
  • Released: 30 January 2006
  • Label: Artful
  • Formats: CD
 —
Idiot Savants —
Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness
  • Released: 23 June 2008
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 —
Love in the Time of Recession
  • Released: 2 March 2009
  • Label: Artful
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 —
A Paean to Wilson
  • Released: 24 January 2010
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
 —
Short Stories for Pauline
  • Released: 18 June 2012
  • Label: Factory Benelux
  • Formats: 2xCD, LP, digital download
  • Previously unreleased album recorded in 1983
 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details
Live at the Venue London
  • Released: June 1983
  • Label: VU
  • Formats: LP
  • Limited release
Domo Arigato
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Live at the Bottom Line New York
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: ROIR
  • Formats: MC
Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981
  • Released: 4 February 2008
  • Label: LTM
  • Formats: CD

Compilation albums

Title Album details
Valuable Passages
  • Released: December 1986
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC, 2xMC
The Sporadic Recordings
  • Released: December 1989
  • Label: TTTTTTTTT
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release of demos and unreleased material; credited to Vini Reilly, not DC
Lips That Would Kiss (Form Prayers to Broken Stone)
  • Released: March 1991
  • Label: Factory Benelux
  • Formats: CD
Dry
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Materiali Sonori
  • Formats: CD
  • Italy-only release; collection of previously unreleased mid and late 1980s material
Red Shoes
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Materiali Sonori
  • Formats: CD
  • Italy-only release; collection of previously unreleased mid 1980s material and Greetings Three EP
Return of the Sporadic Recordings
  • Released: 1 July 2002
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: 2xCD
  • Limited release
Faith
  • Released: 8 May 2004
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: CD
The Best of the Durutti Column
  • Released: 11 October 2004
  • Label: Warner
  • Formats: 2xCD
Sub Group '06
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: CD
  • Collection of unreleased tracks, demos and outtakes
Sporadic Three
  • Released: 2 April 2007
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: CD
  • Collection of rare and previously unreleased material
At Twilight
  • Released: 6 May 2016
  • Label: Les Disques du Crépuscule
  • Formats: digital download
M24J (Anthology)
  • Released: 20 September 2018
  • Label: Factory Benelux
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP
Deux Triangles
  • Released: 17 July 2021
  • Label: Factory Benelux
  • Formats: 2xLP
  • Limited release; expanded release of the 1981 EP

Box sets

Title Album details
The First Four Albums
  • Released: 1 February 1988
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: 4xCD
Four Factory Records
  • Released: 14 September 2009
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: 6xCD
  • Limited release
2001–2009
  • Released: 2 November 2009
  • Label: Artful
  • Formats: 5xCD
  • Limited release

Video albums

Title Album details
Domo Arigato
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: VHS, Betamax
When the World
  • Released: February 1988
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD-V

Other albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie
Amigos em Portugal
  • Released: December 1983
  • Label: Fundação Atlântica
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • Portugal-only release
 11
Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent)
  • Released: March 2005
  • Label: F4
  • Formats: digital download
  • Release was exclusively available via the F4 website
 —
Treatise on the Steppenwolf
  • Released: 4 August 2008
  • Label: LTM
  • Formats: CD
  • Soundtrack of incidental music to theatre performance – mostly reworkings of recent material
 —
Chronicle
  • Released: 30 April 2011
  • Label: Kooky
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release available exclusively to attendees at the Durutti Column's Bridgewater Hall concert on 30 April 2011
  • Limited expanded reissue in 2014 as Chronicle XL
 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

EPs

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie
Deux Triangles
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Factory Benelux
  • Formats: 12"
  • Belgium-only release
 —
Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
  • Released: March 1985
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: 12"
 5
Greetings Three
  • Released: January 1986
  • Label: Materiali Sonori
  • Formats: 12"
  • Italy-only release
 —
The City of Our Lady (with Debi Diamond)
  • Released: August 1987
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: 12"
 46
WOMAD Live
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Factory
  • Formats: CD
 —
A Collection of Bonus Tracks from 2001–2009
  • Released: 6 December 2009
  • Label: Fullfill
  • Formats: digital download
 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
Indie
"Lips That Would Kiss" (Belgium-only release) 1980 — Non-album singles
"Enigma" (France-only limited release) 1981 —
"Sketch for Summer" (Australia-only release) — The Return of the Durutti Column
"Weakness & Fever" (Belgium-only release) 1982 — Non-album singles
"I Get Along Without You Very Well"/"Prayer" 1983 30
"Love Fading" (Japan-only release) 1984 —
"Tomorrow" (Belgium-only release) 1986 15 Circuses and Bread
"Our Lady of the Angels" 1987 — Non-album singles
"The Together Mix" (credited to Vini Reilly; promo-only release) 1991 —
"Voluntary Arrangement" (promo-only release) 2002 — Rebellion
"Woman" (promo-only release) 2003 — Someone Else's Party
"Cup a Soup Romance" (limited release) 2008 — Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness
"Free from All the Chaos" (featuring Caoilfhionn Rose; limited release) 2020 — Non-album single
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. Though recorded in 1983 and despite being given a catalogue number at the time, this album was not released in its originally intended form until 2012. Previous to this, tracks had been shared between the 1991 Lips That Would Kiss compilation and the LTM reissue of Circuses and Bread. In 2013, it was reissued again by LTM with Live in Bruxelles 13 August 1981 as a second CD.

References

  1. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
  2. "The Durutti Column long-lost classic Short Stories For Pauline to be reissued". Fact Magazine. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
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