The discography of the English singer, songwriter and recording artist Marc Almond consists of music recorded since the late 1970s. He has recorded as a solo artist and with several other groups, these include Soft Cell, Marc & the Mambas, The Willing Sinners and Flesh Volcano. He has also worked with Michael Cashmore, and has contributed to numerous one-off releases with a variety of artists.
Selections of his Royal Albert Hall concert in September 1992. Also available on VHS and DVD
1998
Live in Concert
Release date: November 1998
Label: Some Bizarre
Selections of his first concerts with La Magia (his backing band back then) in London's Astoria Theatre, 13/14 December 1987. La Magia appears wrongly credited as Le Magia. A video of this was released in 1992
2000
Live at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 1992
Release date: December 2000
Label: Blue Star Music
Official website exclusive release. Live on 12 June 1992
2001
Live at the Union Chapel
Release date: December 2001
Label: Blue Star Music
Official website exclusive release. Live on 12 December 2000. Also available on DVD
2003
The Willing Sinner – Live at the Passion Church, Berlin
Release date: 23 June 2003
Label: Cherry Red
Live on 15 September 1991. Also available on DVD
2008
In 'Bluegate Fields' – Live at Wilton's Music Hall
Release date: October 2008
Label: Strike Force Entertainment Cherry Red
Recorded at a series of concerts Wilton's Music Hall, London 28 April – 4 May 2008. Comes with a DVD of the show. There's another edition that comes in a DVD box format with exactly the same thing
2009
Marc in Soho – Live at the London Palladium Soho Jazz Festival 1986
Release date: October 2009
Label: no label
Official website exclusive release. Live on 12 October 1986. This production is an 'official bootleg' and not of high audio quality
2012
Live in Barcelona at the Apollo 2007 – A Blue Star Official Bootleg
Release date: January 2012
Label: Blue Star Music
Official website exclusive release. Comes with a DVD of the same show. This production is an 'official bootleg' and not of high audio quality
2023
Chaos And More (Live At The Royal Festival Hall 10th February, '20)
Release date: 2023
Label: Strike Force Entertainment
Concert With Chris Braide, previously released as 2 bonus cd's together with 'Things We Lost' EP
Compilation albums
Singles 1984 – 1987 (1987, Some Bizarre Virgin) (compilation of singles from The Willing Sinners era)
Fan-club exclusive release. Different version than the one that appeared on Jacques album. Later released in the official website Brel Extras EP release
1986
Your Aura
Release date: April 1986
Label: Gutter Hearts
Fan-club exclusive release. Originally by Marc and the Mambas, a Black Heart single b-side. This different version is live from a solo concert in 1985 or 1986
1992
Christmas in Vegas
Release date: December 1992
Label: no label
Fan-club exclusive release. Different version than the one that was later released in the "Child Star" CD-single
1995
When I Was A Young Man
Release date: December 1995
Label: no label
Fan-club exclusive release. Live at Liverpool Philharmonic 12 June 1992. Later released in the Liverpool Philharmonic, 1992 official website release
1996
Marie Et Marc
Release date: January 1996
Label: Freedom
Fan-club exclusive release. Collaboration EP with Marie France. It includes two self-penned tracks from Marc, sung by Marie, The Flame and Sheherazade. And two duets, A Quoi Ca Sert L'Amour and Autumn Leaves. The Flame has been performed live by Marc since 1992, a Marc version of Sheherazade was released in 2004 in a 7" available through his official site and then in his Almeida Theatre shows
2004
Sheherezade
Release date: 20 July 2004
Label: Blue Star Music
Official website exclusive release. Released in a dark pink 7" vinyl available through his official site and then in his Almeida Theatre shows. Limited to 500 copies
2005
Delirious / Theatre of Dreams
Release date: May 2005
Label: Blue Star Music
Official website exclusive release. Released in a blue 7" vinyl, 500 limited, and later in a CD5" with an extra track. Delirious and Theatre of Dreams were produced by Mekon and were intended as b-sides for the unreleased Come Out EP (taken from Stranger Things), supposed to be out in February 2002.
2008
Brel Extras
Release date: September 2008
Label: Sin Songs
Official website exclusive release. Jacques Brel covers, it includes live cuts, a new version, a reissue and two new covers, The Desperate Ones and Amsterdam
2009
Marc Mix
Release date: October 2009
Label: Sin Songs
Official website exclusive release. • A one-hour Marc mix of underground dance & electro tracks including excerpts from Loverush UK, Replicant, Punx Soundcheck, T-Total, Mekon, System F, Starcluster, King Roc & MAD Drivers
2010
Soho Songs for Piccadilly Bongo
Release date: August 2010
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Seven song CD only available with Piccadilly Bongo, a collection of poetry by Jeremy Reed. The songs are Eros & Eye, Fun City, Brewer Street Blues, Seedy Films, Sleaze, Twilights and Lowlifes & Soho So Long. All songs are newly recorded for the CD and feature Neal X on guitar, loops and harmonica.
2015
Dead Eyed Child / Black Satin
Release date: June 2015
Publisher: First Third Books
7" only available with the deluxe edition of "Marc Almond", a photobiography book. Limited to 1000 copies.
Guest appearances and contributions (singles and EPs)
Lead vocals on "Burning Boats". Marc Almond is credited as Raoul Revére. Released later as a b-side for "The House Is Haunted" single by Marc Almond, 1985
If You Can't Please Yourself You Can't, Please Your Soul
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Love Amongst The Ruined". Later released in the Flesh Volcano•Slut compilation, 1997
Guitar on "Restless Day". Marc Almond is credited as Raoul Revére. A track by Coil, later released in the Scatology album reissued first in 1988, and subsequent reissues
1986
MM Vinyl Conflict 1
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Oily Black Limousine". Later released in the Violent Silence / A Woman's Story compilation, 1997
Fruitcakes & Furry Collars
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Indigo Blue". Later released in the Violent Silence / A Woman's Story compilation, 1997
Backing vocals on "Who by Fire" (Leonard Cohen cover) and "Slur". Marc Almond is credited as Raoul Revére
1988
'Til Things Are Brighter...A Tribute to Johnny Cash
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Man in Black"
Provoke N° 3
Various artists
Reading two self penned poems, "The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge" and "Pushin' Ink (For Spring)" both featured in his first poems book The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge, 1988
Duet on "Yesterday Has Gone" and on "Child of Clay". Marc produced this and also wrote "I'm Coming Back", "Devil in Red Velvet" and "Suburban Opera", the last one was later released in a demo form in the official website compilation Little Rough Rhinestones Volume 1
Lead vocals on "Sequins and Stars" and "One Night of Sin" (Elvis Presley cover). "Sequins and Stars" was later released in the Marc Almond album Open All Night reissue, 2010
1999
Hommage to À Polnareff
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Ame Câline". Sangin French. Later released in the Marc Almond album Stranger Things reissue, 2010
Lead vocals on "Erotic Shopping". The song belong to an unreleased soundtrack album for Rhythm & Blues, a British comedy. Later released in the Marc Almond official website exclusive compilation Little Rough Rhinestones – Volume 1, 2002
2001
Electro-Fiction – Les Belles Promesses électroniques
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Hell". The song belong to an unreleased soundtrack album for Rhythm & Blues, a British comedy. Later released with a different name "Tale of a Tart (Hell)", on the Marc Almond album Open All Night reissue, 2010
Small World, Big Band
Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Lead vocals on "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (cover of own song)
2002
A Tribute to Johnny Thunders: I Only Wrote This Song for You
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Hurt"
Songs
Betjeman & Read
Lead vocals on "Narcissus". The song featured in a 1998 withdrawn album by them called Words and Music, that exists as a promo. Not the same song recorded by Marc and the Mambas on Torment and Toreros
Lead vocals on "Boy Toy (I'm the Boy)". Tribute to Serge Gainsbourg. Collaboration with Trash Palace. Later released in the Marc Almond album Stranger Things reissue, 2010
Not Alone
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Our Love My Love" (Charles Aznavour cover). Later released in the Marc Almond album Stranger Things reissue, 2010
Lead vocals on "Idumea". There's a different version released on Current 93's Black Ships Eat the Sky
01
So
Duet on "Way You Walk". There's a different version included on the EP called "Way You Walk (Alone with Him Remix)"
2008
Black & Gold
Punx Soundcheck
Lead vocals on "Exibitionist", "Saint Now" and backing vocals on "Flowerpower". A different version of "Exibitionist" was later released on Marc's album Varieté, 2010
Lead vocals on "The Epitaph of God", "Tonight" and "Tango Song" (lyrics by Aleister Crowley)[35]
2009
Mr & Mrs Smith in Bed with... Volume One
Various artists
Lead vocals on "That Dress (Keen K Remix)", although this is credited as a remix there's no original version released anywhere. Soundtrack to the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2010
The Madcap Laughs Again!
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Late Night", a tribute to Syd Barrett
Peace
Various artists
Lead vocals on "Dead Eyed Child". Downloadable compilation, bit rate quality of 320 kbit/s
Lead vocals on "The Dark Age of Love". Originally available as an MP3 (128kbs) download through Coil's website at Brainwashed.com in 1999, part of a collection of songs called Songs of the Week. "The Dark Age of Love" was one of the working titles for Coil's Love's Secret Domain album[36]
Lead vocals on "After All". Duet with Glenn Gregory on "Watch That Man". Live tribute to David Bowie at O2 Shepherds's Bush Empire – London, 22 September 2014
2016
Hannibal Season 3 – Volume 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
Video compilation of his first 10 solo singles, from "The Boy Who Came Back" until "Mother Fist"
1991
Memorabilia – The Video Singles
Release date: August 1991
Label: 4 Front Video
Video compilation of some Soft Cell videos including two 1991 versions plus some solo videos
1992
Live in Concert
Release date: 1992
Label: Winsong
A selection of the two Astoria concerts in 13/14 December 1987. This was reissued on DVD in 2002, under the name of A Lover Spurned – Live at the Astoria London and with a different front cover
1993
12 Years of Tears – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Release date: April 1993
Label: WEA
Live on 30 September 1992. This was reissued on DVD in 2007
2002
The Willing Sinner
Release date: June 2002
Label: Cherry Red
Live at the Passionkirche in Berlin, 15 September 1991
2003
Live at the Union Chapel
Release date: 17 November 2003
Label: Cherry Red
Live in London, 12 December 2000
2004
Live at the Lokerse Feesten 2000
Release date: November 2004
Label: SPV
Live in a Belgium festival, on 7 August 2000. This edition is unauthorized by Marc Almond. The authorized edition was released in 2005 with extras
2005
Sin Songs, Torch and Romance – Live at the Almeida Theatre 2004
Release date: January 2005
Label: Demon Vision
Live in London, 22 July 2004
2008
In 'Bluegate Fields' – Live at Wilton's Music Hall
Release date: October 2008
Label: Strike Force Entertainment, Cherry Red
Recorded at a series of concerts Wilton's Music Hall, London 28 April – 4 May 2008. Comes with a CD of the show. There's another edition that comes in a CD box format with exactly the same thing
Film released on DVD. Soundtrack by Marc Almond. Lead vocals on "Rhythm & Blues", "Thrill of the Kill", "Hell", "Porn Star" and "Erotic Shopping". It includes an audio section with "Rhythm & Blues" and "Thrill of the Kill". All tracks were released somewhere but "Thrill of the Kill" which remains exclusive to this release.
2007
Marc Bolan – The Celebration Concert
Various artists
Tribute released on DVD. All tracks are originally by Marc Bolan / T-Rex. Lead vocals on "Brokenhearted Blues", "The Visit", "The Perfumed Garden of Gulliver Smith", "Change", "Life's a Gas", "Dandy in the Underworld" and "Teenage Dream". Duets with Gloria Jones on "Tainted Love". All tracks are exclusive to this release.
Books
1988 The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge (poems)
1999 Beautiful Twisted Night (poems, lyrics and prose)
1999 Tainted Life (autobiography, reprinted in paperback in 2000)
2001 The End of New York (poems and prose, including spoken word CD)
2004 In Search of the Pleasure Palace – Disreputable Travels (autobiography)
Notes
^"The Tyburn Tree (Dark London)" did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 20 on the UK Independent Albums Chart, and at number 78 on the UK Physical Albums Chart.[11]
^"Ten Plagues – A Song Cycle" did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 30 on the UK Soundtrack Albums Chart.[12]
^"Demon Lover" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 83 on the UK Physical Singles Chart.[23]
^"My Death" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 1 on the UK Vinyl Singles Chart, at number 4 on the UK Physical Singles Chart, and at number 33 on the UK Singles Sales Chart.[24]
^"Marc Sings The Shangri-Las" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 2 on the UK Physical Singles Chart, at number 2 on the UK Vinyl Singles Chart, and at number 27 on the UK Singles Sales Chart.[25]
^"The Coldest Night of the Year" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 12 on the UK Vinyl Singles Chart, at number 13 on the UK Physical Singles Chart, and at number 61 on the UK Singles Sales Chart.[26]
^"Prime Evil" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 13 on the UK Dance Singles Chart.[33]
^"Baby's On Fire" / "Take Me Away" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 48 on the UK Independent Singles Chart.[34]
References
^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 20. ISBN1-904994-10-5.