| Year |
Title |
Notes |
Label
|
| 1970
|
Fela Fela Fela
|
Fela Ransome-Kuti And His Africa '70; made by EMI Nigeria Ltd
|
His Master's Voice
|
| 1971
|
Fela's London Scene
|
"FEHIN FEHINChop Teeth-Chop Teeth" / "Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) / "Who're You" / "Buy Africa" / "Fight To Finish"
|
Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1971
|
Why Black Man Dey Suffer
|
b/w "Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality"
|
Wrasse/MCA Universal/Knitting Factory Records
|
| 1971
|
Live!
|
with Ginger Baker; "Let's Start" / "Black Man's Cry" / "Ye Ye De Smell" / "Egde Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die)"; the 2001 CD release adds "Ginger Baker & Tony Allen Drum Solo (Live at the 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival" as a bonus track
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1972
|
Stratavarious
|
with Ginger Baker; Fela and various band members are on the tracks "Ariwo" / "Iiwa (It's Our Own)" / "Something Nice" / "Ju Ju" only
|
Polydor Records
|
| 1972
|
Na Poi (Part 1&2)
|
b/w "You No Go Die...Unless"; paired with Yellow Fever on the 1997 CD release
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal]
|
| 1972
|
Open & Close
|
b/w "Swegbe And Pako" / "Gbagada Gbagada"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1972
|
Shakara
|
"Lady" / "Shakara (Oloje)"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1972
|
Roforofo Fight: Music of Fela
|
"Roforofo Fight" / "Go Slow"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1972
|
Question Jam Answer: Music of Fela Vol. 2
|
"Question Jam Answer" / "Trouble Sleep Yanga Wahe Am" / "Shenshema" / "Ariya"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universa]
|
| 1973
|
Afrodisiac
|
"Alu Jon Jonki" / "Jeun Ko Ku (Chop & Quench)" / "Eko ille" / "Je'Nmi Temi (Don't Gag Me)"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1973
|
Gentleman
|
"Gentleman" / "FEFE NAA EFE" / "IGBE"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1974
|
Alagbon Close
|
b/w "I No Get Eye For Back"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1975
|
Noise for Vendor Mouth
|
b/w "Mattress"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1975
|
Confusion
|
Confusion Part 1&2
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1975
|
"Everything Scatter"
|
b/w "Who No Know Go Know"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1975
|
He Miss Road
|
b/w "Monday Morning in Lagos" / "It's No Possible"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1975
|
Expensive Shit
|
b/w "Water No Get Enemy"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Unnecessary Begging
|
b/w "No Buredi (No Bread)"
|
EMI Nigeria/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Kalakuta Show
|
b/w "Don't Make Garan Garan"; paired with Ikoyi Blindness on the 2001 CD
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Upside Down
|
b/w "Go Slow"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Ikoyi Blindness
|
b/w "Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)"; paired with Kalakuta Show on the 2001 CD
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana
|
b/w "Sense Wiseness"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Excuse O
|
b/w "Mr. Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Boss"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Zombie
|
b/w "Mister Follow Follow"; the 2001 MCA Universal CD release adds two previously unreleased cuts, "Observation Is No Crime" & "Mistake" (Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival-1978)
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1976
|
Yellow Fever/Na Poi
|
1997 CD includes: "Yellow Fever" / "Na Poi (1975 version)" / "Na Poi (Parts 1&2)" / "You No Go Die...Unless"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1977
|
Opposite People
|
b/w "Equalisation of Trouser And Pant"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1977
|
Fear Not For Man
|
b/w "Palm Wine Sound [Instrumental]"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1977
|
Stalemate
|
b/w "Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message)"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1977
|
Observation No Crime
|
also included on the Wrasse/MCA Universal CD issue of Zombie as Observation Is No Crime
|
EMI Nigeria
|
| 1977
|
J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop) Live!! at Kalakuta Republic
|
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1977
|
I Go Shout Plenty
|
b/w "Frustration of My Lady"; "I Go Shout Plenty" unreleased until 1986; "Frustration of My Lady" unreleased until 1983 under the shortened title "Lady"
|
|
| 1977
|
No Agreement
|
b/w "Dog Eat Dog [Instrumental]"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1977
|
Sorrow Tears and Blood
|
b/w "Colonial Mentality"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1978
|
Shuffering and Shmiling
|
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1979
|
Unknown Soldier (Part 1 & 2)
|
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1979
|
V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power) Part 1&2 – Live in Berlin
|
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1980
|
Coffin for Head of State
|
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1980
|
I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) Part 1&2
|
paired with Original Suffer-Head on the 1997 CD
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1980
|
Music of Many Colours
|
with Roy Ayers; "2000 Blacks Got To Be Free" b/w "Africa Centre of the World"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1980
|
Authority Stealing (Parts 1&2)
|
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1981
|
Black President
|
"Sorrow, Tears And Blood" / "Colonial Mentality" / "I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)"
|
Arista Records
|
| 1981
|
Original Suffer-Head
|
b/w "Power Show"; paired with "I.T.T." on the 1997 CD
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1983
|
Perambulator
|
b/w "Frustration"; recorded 1977
|
Lagos International
|
| 1983
|
Lady
|
b/w "Lady part 2"; recorded 1977 under the title "Frustration of My Lady"
|
EMI
|
| 1983
|
Live in Amsterdam
|
"M.O.P. (Movement of the People) Political Statement Number 1" / "You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit" / "Custom Check Point"
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1983
|
Fela Anikulapo=Kuti & the Africa 70
|
Double LP: "Alu Jon Jonki Jon" / "Chop and Quench" / "Eko Ile" / "Je'Nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)" / "Let's Start" / "Black Man's Cry" / "Ye Ye De Smell" / "(Egbe mi O) Carry Me I Want to Die"; recorded 1971/72
|
EDP Records/EMI
|
| 1985
|
Army Arrangement
|
the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds "Government Chicken Boy" previously unreleased original version
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1985
|
Army Arrangement
|
"Cross Examination" / "Government Chicken Boy" / "Army Arrangement"; Fela later disowned this version Produced by Bill Laswell who added session musicians to the original tracks
|
YABA / Celluloid Records
|
| 1986
|
Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
|
b/w "Look And Laugh"; the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds: "Just Like That", a track that was left off of Beast of No Nation's CD release due to time constraints
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1986
|
I Go Shout Plenty
|
b/w "Why Black Man Dey Suffer"; A-side recorded 1977
|
Decca Afrodisia Records
|
| 1989
|
Beasts of No Nation
|
b/w "Just like That"; b/w "O.D.O.O." on the 2001 CD release
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1989
|
O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)
|
b/w "Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)"; "O.D.O.O." was included on the 2001 Beasts of No Nation CD release
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1992
|
U.S. (Underground System)
|
b/w "Pansa Pansa"; the 2001 CD release adds "Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)", which was previously the B-Side of the O.D.O.O. album
|
Barclay Records/Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 1996
|
Buy America
|
|
Movie Play Gold
|
| 1998
|
Perambulator
|
"Original Sufferhead" Japanese CD, also includes "Frustration" (instrumental) and "Power Show"
|
Victor
|
| 1999
|
The Best Best of Fela Kuti
|
re-issued in 2009 as The Best of the Black President
|
Barclay/Wrasse/MCA Universal/Wrasse Records (2002)/Knitting Factory Records (2009)
|
| 2001
|
Koola Lobitos 64–68
|
six previously unreleased tracks that also includes The '69 Los Angeles Sessions
|
Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 2004
|
The Underground Spiritual Game
|
|
Quannum Projects
|
| 2007
|
Anthology 1
|
2-CD and DVD set covering his Early Years and pre-1975 Africa 70 recordings; the DVD includes the 1984 documentary Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
|
Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 2008
|
Lagos Baby 1963 to 1969
|
39 track, 2-CD set covering Fela's "Jazz & Highlife" recordings from 1963 to 1965 and his "Soul & Afrobeat" recordings from 1966–1969
|
Vampisoul
|
| 2009
|
Anthology 2
|
2-CD and DVD set of Africa 70 recordings from 1975 to 1980; the DVD includes the 1978 concert film Fela Live in Berlin
|
Wrasse/MCA Universal
|
| 2012
|
Live in Detroit, 1986
|
|
Knitting Factory Records, Strut Records
|
