Diesel discography explained

Artist:Diesel
Studio:16
Compilation:4
Live:2
Video:6
Ep:6
Singles:40

The discography of Mark Denis Lizotte (also known as Diesel and Johnny Diesel), an American-born Australian singer-songwriter. He has released sixteen studio albums, as well as two live album and four compilation albums.

He has won five ARIA Music Awards, including three for Best Male Artist in 1993, 1994 and 1995.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[2]
NZ
[3]
Johnny Diesel and The Injectors
2 25

2× Platinum[4]

Hepfidelity
  • Released: March 1992
  • Label: Chrysalis/EMI
1 1
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum[5]
The Lobbyist
  • Released: 9 August 1993
  • Label: EMI
1 27
  • ARIA: Gold
Solid State Rhyme
  • Released: November 1994
  • Label: EMI
10
  • ARIA: Gold
Short Cool Ones
(with Chris Wilson)
  • Released: March 1996
  • Label: EMI
18
Soul Lost Companion
  • Released: September 1999
  • Label: Festival, Warner
18
Hear
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Hepfidelity, MGM
Coathanger Antennae 23
Days Like These
  • Released: August 2008
  • Label: Liberation
17
  • Released: 20 July 2009
  • Label: Liberation
50
Under the Influence
  • Released: 4 July 2011
  • Label: Liberation
57
Let It Fly
  • Released: 9 August 2013
  • Label: Liberation
31
Americana
  • Released: 1 July 2016
  • Label: Liberation
15
Sunset Suburbia
  • Released: 28 August 2020[6] [7]
  • Label: Bloodlines (BLOOD72)
10
Alone with Blues
  • Released: 16 July 2021[8]
  • Label: Bloodlines (BLOOD89)
20
Bootleg Melancholy
  • Released: 13 October 2023[9]
  • Label: Bloodlines (BLOOD110)
43
[10]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
AUS
Singled Out
  • Released: 2004
  • Live Acoustic album (and 4 studio tracks)
  • Label: Liberation Blue
78
Greatest Hits Live
  • Released: 3 June 2011
  • Label: Liberation

Compilation albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
Rewind – The Best Of
  • Released: October 1996
  • Label: EMI
The Essential Diesel
  • Released: February 2009
  • Label: EMI
You Get There from Here
  • Released: 8 June 2012
  • Label: Liberation
16

EPs

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
AUS
Live in London
  • Released: 10 July 1989
  • Label: Chrysalis Records/ EMI
27
iTunes Live From Sydney: Aussie Legends
  • Released: 20 October 2009
  • Label: Liberation
7 Axes
  • Released: 4 February 2011
  • Label: Liberation
71
Last Shower (with Tim Chaisson)
  • Released: 11 October 2013
  • Label: Liberation
Sunset Suburbia Vol 1[13]
  • Released: 2 August 2019
  • Label: Bloodlines
Sunset Suburbia Vol 2[14]
  • Released: 8 November 2019
  • Label: Bloodlines
Skin and Bone (The Flesh and Blood Demos)
(Jimmy Barnes featuring Diesel)
  • Released: 15 October 2021[15]
  • Label: Bloodlines

Singles

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:1em;"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
AUS
NZ
UK
[16]
Credited as Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
"Don't Need Love"198810 7 Johnny Diesel and the Injectors
"Soul Revival"19899
"Cry In Shame"10
"Lookin' for Love"28
"Since I Fell for You"79
"Please Send Me Someone to Love"199011 The Delinquents
Credited as Johnny Diesel
"Love Junk"199119 Hepfidelity
Credited as Diesel
"Come to Me"19918 3 93Hepfidelity
"Tip of My Tongue"19924 3 78
"Man Alive"20 25
"One More Time"59 39
"Never Miss Your Water"199312 17 The Lobbyist
"Masterplan"42
"I've Been Loving You Too Long"41
"Still Got a Long Way to Go"
(with Jimmy Barnes)
199457 Flesh and Wood
(Jimmy Barnes album)
"All Come Together" 17 Solid State Rhyme.
"15 Feet of Snow" 199529
"Get It On" 75
"I Can't Stand the Rain"
(with Chris Wilson)
199666 Short Cool Ones
"Strange Love"
(with Chris Wilson)
Credited as Mark Lizotte
"Dig" 199918 Soul Lost Companion
"Satellite"
Credited as Diesel
"Getta Kick" 2002Hear
"Battleworn"
"Angel Face" 2003
"Faith & Gasoline"
"Postcards from the Moon" 2005non-album single
"Saviour" 2006Coathanger Antennae
"Crazytown" 39
"Steal My Sunshine"[17] 2007
"Days Like This"[18] 2008Days Like These
"Have Love, Will Travel"[19] 20117 Axes
"Highway Mind"[20] 2012 (soundtrack)
"Angel from Montgomery" 2016Americana
"Queen Jane Approximately"
"Ring of Fire"
"Give Me Saturday Night"[21] 201830: The Greatest Hits
"By the Scars"[22] 2019Sunset Suburbia Vol. 1
"In Reverse"[23] Sunset Suburbia Vol. 2
"On the Inside"[24] 2020Sunset Suburbia
"Six Steel Strings"2021Alone with Blues
"Lost and Lookin'"[25]
"Forever"2023Bootleg Melancholy
"Pasadena"[26]
"Remember My Love"[27] 2024

Videos / DVDs

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ARIA Awards 2009 : History: Winners by Artist: Diesel . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 5 December 2009 .
  2. Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
  3. Web site: charts.nz > Diesel in New Zealand Charts. Hung Medien. 16 April 2016.
  4. Web site: ARIA Top 50 Albums 1989. Australian Recording Industry Association. 25 March 2016.
  5. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia.
  6. Web site: Sunset Suburbia. JB HiFi. 5 May 2020.
  7. Web site: Diesel Sets Release Date for Sunset Suburbia Album . Noise11. 4 May 2020. 5 May 2020.
  8. Web site: Diesel's New Song "Six Steel Strings" Is a Ross Wilson Song. noise11. 19 May 2021. 25 May 2021.
  9. Web site: Diesel Announces 14-Track Album 'Bootleg Melancholy', Drops New Single. The Music. 23 August 2023. 9 September 2023.
  10. Web site: ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart. Australian Recording Industry Association. 23 October 2023. 20 October 2023.
  11. Australia. Diesel. album. 1996. 28 November 2021.
  12. Web site: Diesel - 30: The Greatest Hits . JBHiFi. 8 June 2018.
  13. Web site: Sunset Suburbia Vol 1 EP. iTunes Australia. 25 June 2019.
  14. Web site: Sunset Suburbia Vol 2 EP. iTunes Australia. 4 October 2019.
  15. Web site: Skin and Bone (The Flesh and Blood Demos)[feat. Diesel] - EP]. Apple Music. 15 October 2021. 9 October 2021.
  16. Web site: The 76-100 pos. UK-Charts-Thread (from ukmix.org). Imgur. 16 April 2016. N.B. "Come to Me" debuts in the 7 November 1992 listing, and "Tip of My Tongue" debuts in the 27 February 1993 listing.
  17. Web site: Steal My Sunshine - single. Diesel Music. 10 June 2018.
  18. Web site: Days Like This - single. Diesel Music. 10 June 2018.
  19. Web site: Have Love, Will Travel - single. Diesel Music. 10 June 2018.
  20. Web site: Highway Mind - single. 16 May 2012 . iTunes. 12 April 2016.
  21. Web site: Give Me Saturday Night. 26 May 2018 . iTunes Australia. 8 June 2018.
  22. Web site: New Single "By the Scars" Out Now. Diesel Music. 11 June 2019. 10 May 2020.
  23. Web site: Sunset Suburbia EP Vol 2 is out in November!. Bloodlines Music. October 2019. 10 May 2020.
  24. Web site: Preorder Now New album Sunset Suburbia . Diesel Music. 4 May 2020. 10 May 2020.
  25. Web site: https://www.facebook.com/officialdieselmusic/posts/332962691529139?__cft__[0=AZUckQ6ngNwo9xcXgXqCYSW7f9HJcPP-LtdP1a2oAN-bSW2Z1bnPa0I_ldL4ofF-VvNC40UQVstKs8n5V6ZXQiM5pesaogAY94ja4BlFgxId5S4Bv9yGZhEBRgQ3VR_zk88_vZxIu0fbMhXzTlQ496rrvOfuAg_fIP8qFPsLbuYEB58dMabGtQ4Gaes0pNsaIv4&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R The next taste of Diesel Music's forthcoming album is out today! The new single "Lost and Lookin'"]. Facebook. 18 June 2021. 18 June 2021.
  26. Web site: Diesel shares ‘Pasadena’, the latest cut from his new album Bootleg Melancholy, an unabashedly exuberant 14-track LP that is at once the most diverse and most cohesive album Diesel has recorded to date.. Amrap. 22 September 2023. 22 September 2023.
  27. Web site: Diesel Announces 'Bootleg Melancholy' 2024 Australian Tour. The Music. 9 July 2024. 12 July 2024.