Alien Sex Fiend discography

The English gothic rock band Alien Sex Fiend have released 13 studio albums, six live albums, 17 compilation albums, two extended plays, 22 singles and eight video albums. Most of their releases have been on Anagram Records, a sub-label of Cherry Red Records. The band have also released three studio albums and three singles on the 13th Moon label, founded in 1996 by band members Nik Wade (Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs. Fiend).

Alien Sex Fiend discography
Alien Sex Fiend live in Paris, 2007
Studio albums13
Live albums5
Compilation albums14
Video albums5
EPs2
Singles23
Box sets3

In the 1980s, the band's releases regularly reached the top 20 on the UK Indie Chart, beginning with the 1983 release of "Ignore the Machine", which peaked at No. 6 on the UK Indie Singles Chart. Between 1983 and 1987, 12 more Alien Sex Fiend singles appeared on the charts, all but one of which reached the top 20. Five of their albums made the top 20 on the UK Independent Album Chart.[1]

Two mid-1980s singles also made the official UK Singles Chart: "Dead and Buried" peaked at No. 91 in 1984, while a reissued version of "Ignore the Machine" reached No. 99 the following year. Maximum Security was the band's sole album to make the UK Albums Chart, reaching No. 100 in 1985.[2]

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[3]
UK Indie
[4]
Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain
  • Released: 25 November 1983
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: LP
10
Acid Bath
  • Released: October 1984
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: LP, MC
4
Maximum Security
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: LP, MC
100 5
"It" the Album
  • Released: November 1986
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: LP, MC
7
Here Cum Germs
  • Released: October 1987
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: LP, MC
22
Another Planet
  • Released: November 1988
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Curse
  • Released: 24 September 1990
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Open Head Surgery
  • Released: March 1992
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Inferno – The Odyssey Continues
  • Released: November 1994
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
Nocturnal Emissions
  • Released: 10 March 1997
  • Label: 13th Moon
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
Information Overload
  • Released: February 2004
  • Label: 13th Moon
  • Formats: CD
Death Trip
  • Released: 3 May 2010
  • Label: 13th Moon
  • Formats: CD, LP
Possessed
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Indie

[4]
Turn the Monitors Up
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: F.O.
  • Formats: MC
Liquid Head in Tokyo
  • Released: July 1985
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: LP
7
Too Much Acid?
  • Released: 18 September 1989[5]
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC
The Altered States of America
  • Released: February 1993
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Flashbacks! – Live 1995–1998
  • Released: September 2001
  • Label: Yeaah!
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Album details
All Our Yesterdays
  • Released: February 1988
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP
The Legendary Batcave Tapes
  • Released: October 1993
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Drive My Rocket – The Collection Part One
  • Released: September 1994
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
The Singles 1983–1995
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
I'm Her Frankenstein – The Collection Part Two
  • Released: January 1995
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
Wardance of the Alien Sex Fiend
  • Released: 9 February 1998
  • Label: Recall 2cd
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Bat Cave Masters
  • Released: April 1998
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
Fiend at the Controls Vol. 1 & 2
  • Released: 24 May 1999
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Best of Alien Sex Fiend
  • Released: 26 February 2001
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: CD
R.I.P. – A 12'' Collection
  • Released: 17 November 2008
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: 2xCD
Bat Cave Anthems
  • Released: February 2009
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
Between Good and Evil – The Collection
  • Released: 6 May 2013
  • Label: PressPlay
  • Formats: CD
Abducted! The Best of Alien Sex Fiend
  • Released: 10 July 2013
  • Label: Anagram
  • Formats: digital download
Fiendology: A 35 Year Trip Through Fiendish History 1982–2017 A.D. and Beyond
  • Released: 25 August 2017
  • Label: Cherry Red
  • Formats: 3xCD

Box sets

Title Album details
A.S.F. Box
Classic Albums and BBC Sessions Collection
  • Released: 23 February 2015
  • Label: Cherry Red
  • Formats: 4xCD
Classic Albums Volume 2
  • Released: 24 June 2016
  • Label: Cherry Red
  • Formats: 4xCD

Video albums

Title Album details
A Purple Glistener
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Jettisoundz Video
  • Formats: VHS
Liquid Head in Tokyo
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Cherry Red Films
  • Formats: VHS
Edit
  • Released: June 1987
  • Label: Jettisoundz Video
  • Formats: VHS
Over Dose!
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Jettisoundz Video
  • Formats: VHS
Re-Animated – The Promo Collection
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Visionary Communications/Cleopatra
  • Formats: VHS
  • US-only release

EPs

Title EP details
The Impossible Mission Mini L.P.
  • Released: August 1987
  • Label: PVC
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • US-only release
Re-Possessed EP
  • Released: 8 November 2019
  • Label: 13th Moon
  • Formats: digital download

Singles

Single Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[3]
UK Indie
[4]
"Ignore the Machine" 1983 6 Non-album single
"Lips Can't Go" 126[6] 12 Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain
"R.I.P. (Blue Crumb Truck)"/"New Christian Music" 1984 103[7] 4 Non-album single
"Dead and Buried" 91 4 Acid Bath
"E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)" 120[7] 3
"Ignore the Machine" (reissue) 1985 99 6 Non-album single
"I'm Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilight Home" 138[8] Maximum Security
"I Walk the Line" 1986 133[9] 12 Non-album single
"Smells Like..." 128[9] "It" the Album
"Hurricane Fighter Plane" 1987 Non-album single
"The Impossible Mission" 11 Here Cum the Germs
"Here Cum Germs" 14
"Stuff the Turkey" 14 Non-album single
"Bun Ho!" 1988 Another Planet
"Haunted House" 1989 Non-album single
"Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied" 1990 Curse
"Magic" 1992 Open Head Surgery
"Inferno" (The Mixes) 1994 Inferno – The Odyssey Continues
"Evolution" 1996 Nocturnal Emissions
"On a Mission" (Remixes) 1997
"Tarot" 1998
"All the Madmen" (US-only release) 2007 Non-album single
"Shit's Coming Down" 2018 Possessed
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

References

  1. Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989: The Complete U.K. Independent Charts (Singles & Albums). London: Cherry Red. ISBN 978-0-9517206-9-1. OCLC 38292499.
  2. "Official Charts – Artists – Alien Sex Fiend". OfficialCharts.com. The Official UK Charts Company. 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. "ALIEN SEX FIEND | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  4. Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
  5. "Indies" (PDF). Music Week. 23 September 1989. p. 30. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  6. "UK Singles Charts: 1983 (including chart panel sales)". UKMIX Forums. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  7. "UK Singles Charts: 1984 (including chart panel sales)". UKMIX Forums. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  8. "UK Singles Charts: 1985 (including chart panel sales)". UKMIX Forums. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  9. "UK Singles Charts: 1986 (including chart panel sales)". UKMIX Forums. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
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