Sad Lovers & Giants - Discography

Epic Garden Music

CHIME 00.01 (Midnight Music)

1982

“Echoplay”, “Clocktower Lodge”, “Clint”, “Lope”, “Cloud 9”, “ART (By Me)”, “Alice (Isn't Playing)”, “Far From the Sea”

Released as a 12″ 45. Released on CD as CHIME 00.01 CD with the following bonus tracks from earlier singles: “Imagination”, “Landslide”, “When I See You”, “Colourless Dream”, “Things We Never Did”, “Lost In a Moment”, “The Tightrope Touch”

Feeding the Flame

CHIME 00.03 (Midnight Music)

1983

“Big Tracks Little Tracks”, “On Another Day”, “Sleep (Is for Everyone)”, “Vendetta”, “Man of Straw”, “Strange Orchard”, “Burning Beaches”, “Your Skin And Mine”, “In Flux”

Released on CD as CHIME 00.03 CD with the following bonus tracks: “Imagination”, “Cow Boys”, “3 Lines”,“Close To The Sea”

In the Breeze

CHIME 00.07 (Midnight Music)

1984

“50:50”, “The Change”, “Interlude”, “Landslide” (different recording), “Echoplay” (different recording), “Sex Without Gravity” (Peel session), “There Was No Time” (Peel session), “Alice (Isn't Playing)” (Peel session), “3 Lines”, “Imagination” (new recording)

Total Sound

CHIME 00.22 (Midnight Music)

1986

“Echoplay”, “Things We Never Did”, “Sleep (Is For Everyone)”, “Landslide”, “Cow Boys”, “Man Of Straw”, “Imagination”

Mini-LP Live in Holland

The Mirror Test

CHIME 00.30 (Midnight Music)

1987

“White Russians”, “Take Seven”, “Seven Kinds of Sin”, “Wire Lawn”, “Summer & Smoke”, “Cuckooland”, “Return to Clocktower Lodge”, “The Green Years”, “House of Clouds”

Released on CD as CHIME 00.30 CD with the following bonus tracks: “Ours To Kill”, “A Map Of My World”, “The Outsider”, “Life Under Glass”

Les Années Vertes

CHIME 00.40 (Midnight Music)

1988

“50:50”, “The Change”, “Landslide”, “Echoplay”, “Sex Without Gravity”, “There Was No Time”, “Alice (Isn't Playing)”, “Clint”, “Things We Never Did”, “Cuckooland”, “Imagination”, “Cloud 9”, “The Best Film He Ever Made”, “Sleep (Is For Everyone)”, “3 Lines”, “Seven Kinds of Sin”, “Return To Clocktower Lodge”, “Colourless Dream”

Released on CD as CHIME 00.40 CD with extensive liner notes detailing the history of the band.

Headland

CHIME 01.10 (Midnight Music)

1990

“Godless Soul”, “Like Thieves”, “One Man's Hell”, “Restless”, “Alaska”, “It's Snowing”, “My Heart's On Fire”, “Life Will Kill Us”

Released on CD as CHIME 01.10 CD

Treehouse Poetry

CHIME 01.20 (Midnight Music)

1991

“Toy Planes in a Southern Sky”, “Lizard King”, “Still Restless”, “Parachute of Love”, “Christmas on Easter Island”, “Criminally Sane”, “Jungle of Lies”, “The Sky is a Glove”

Released on CD as CHIME 01.20 CD

E-mail From Eternity

(The Best of Sad Lovers & Giants)

CDMGRAM 104 (Anagram Records, distributed by Cherry Red)

2000

“Things We Never Did”, “Clint”, “Alice (Isn't Playing)”, “Art (By Me)”, “Imagination”, “Cowboys”, “On Another Day”, “Sleep (Is For Everyone)”, “In Flux”, “The Best Film He Ever Made”, “White Russians”, “Take Seven”, “Seven Kinds Of Sin”, “Return To Clocktower Lodge”, “One Man's Hell”, “Alaska”, “The Sky Is A Glove”, “Things We Never Did (De Puta Madre Live Version)”

La Dolce Vita

(Sad Lovers & Giants Live in Lausanne)

VKR001CD (Voight-Kampff Records)

1999

“Close To The Sea”, “In Flux”, “Alaska”, “Cowboys”, “Like Thieves”, “Sleep”, “Echoplay”, “One Man's Hell”, “Imagination”, “Colourless Dream”, “Return To Clocktower Lodge”

A live album recorded in Lausanne, Switzerland, during the band's European tour in 1988 this recording showcases some of the band's favourites including In Flux, Alaska, Clint, Cowboys and One Man's Hell.

Headland and Treehouse Poetry

VKR002CD (Voight-Kampff Records)

2001

“Godless Soul”, “Like Thieves”, “One Man's Hell”, “Restless”, “Alaska”, “It's Snowing”, “My Heart's On Fire”, “Toy Planes in a Southern Sky”, “Lizard King”, “Parachute of Love”, “Christmas on Easter Island”, “Criminally Sane”, “Still Restless”, ”Jungle of Lies”, “The Sky is a Glove”

The previously hard to find and much sought after SLAG CDs Headland and Treehouse Poetry have been re-released on a single CD by Voight-Kampff Records.

Melting in the Fullness of Time

VKR003CD (Voight-Kampff Records)

2002

“A Daughter”, “German Cars”, “Submarine Girl”, “I'm Not in Love”, “Learn”, “Melting in the Fullness of Time”, “Red Sky”, “Black Crow”

Containing all new material this CD was in the works for a long time, and almost didn't make it; at the last moment the computer containing all the music files was stolen. Fortunately a copy of the final mixes had been saved, and we've been blessed to have them available.

Man of Straw

(DONG 5)

1983

“Man of Straw”, “Cow Boys (version)”, “Close to the Sea”

Seven Kinds of Sin

(DONG 31)

1987

“Seven Kinds of Sin”, “The Outsider”, “Ours to Kill”

White Russians

(DONG 34)

1987

“White Russians”, “A Map of My World”, “Life Under Glass”

Cow Boys

(DONG 36)

Cow Boys

1988

Sleep / A Reflected Dream

(DONG 40)

1988

with The Essence

Clocks Go Backwards

(DONG 59)

1990

Clé

LM 003 (Last Movement)

1981

“Imagination”, “When I See You”, “Landslide”

Colourless Dream

LM 005 (Last Movement)

“Colourless Dream”, “Things We Never Did”

Initial copies were pressed with the labels backwards.

Lost in a Moment

DING 1 (Midnight Music)

1982

“Lost in a Moment”, “The Tightrope Touch”

Man of Straw

DING 5 (Midnight Music)

1983

“Man of Straw”, “Cow Boys”