Red Lorry Yellow Lorry discography explained

Artist:	Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Studio:	5
Compilation:	6
Video:	1
Ep:	4
Singles:	16

This is the discography of British post-punk band Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.

Albums

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK Indie ^[1]
Talk About the Weather	Released: January 1985^[2] Label: Red Rhino Formats: LP	3
Paint Your Wagon	Released: 7 March 1986^[3] Label: Red Rhino Formats: LP, MC	1
Nothing Wrong	Released: May 1988^[4] Label: Situation Two Formats: CD, LP, MC	3
Blow	Released: 18 September 1989^[5] Label: Situation Two Formats: CD, LP, MC	6
Blasting Off	Released: September 1992^[6] Label: Deathwish Office Formats: CD, LP	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK Indie
Smashed Hits	Released: 15 January 1988^[7] Label: Red Rhino Formats: CD, LP, MC	10
The Singles 1982–87	Released: February 1994^[8] Label: Cherry Red Formats: CD	—
Generation – The Best Of	Released: 1994 Label: Cleopatra Formats: CD US-only release	—
The Very Best of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry	Released: 25 April 2000^[9] Label: Cherry Red Formats: CD	—
See the Fire – Albums, Singles and BBC Recordings 1982–1987	Released: 24 November 2014^[10] Label: Cherry Red Formats: 3xCD	—
Albums and Singles 1982–1989	Released: 24 February 2017^[11] Label: Cherry Red Formats: 4xCD box set	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Video albums

EPs

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK Indie
This Today	Released: February 1984^[12] Label: Red Rhino	18
Crawling Mantra	Released: May 1987 Label: Red Rhino, Homestead As well as being released as a 7" single, it was released as a 2x7", 12" and on cassette	—
Black Tracks	Released: 2004 Label: Self-released	—
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry	Released: 29 August 2015 Label: Self-released Limited release	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		UK Indie
"Beating My Head"	1982	—	rowspan="4"
"Take It All"	1983	23
"He's Read"		20
"Monkey's on Juice"	1984	3
"Hollow Eyes"		6	Talk About the Weather
"Chance"	1985	11	rowspan="2"
"Spinning Around"		9
"Paint Your Wagon"	1986	—	Paint Your Wagon
"Walking on Your Hands"		21
"Cut Down"		6	rowspan="2"
"Crawling Mantra" (as the Lorries)	1987	3
"Open Up"		6	Nothing Wrong
"Nothing Wrong"	1988	5
"Only Dreaming (Wide Awake)"		9
"Temptation"	1989	13	Blow
"Talking Back"	1991	—	Blasting Off
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lazell, Barry. Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. 1997. 0-9517206-9-4.
2. 5 January 1985. New Albums. Music Week. 17. 10 February 2022.
3. 15 February 1986. Sounds. Sounds. 3.
4. 7 May 1988. New Albums. Music Week. 28. 10 February 2022.
5. Web site: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Blow. Discogs. en. 2022-02-10.
6. Strong, M.C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, Edinburgh, p. 476
7. Web site: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Smashed Hits. Discogs. en. 2022-02-10.
8. 12 February 1994. February releases. Music Week. 16. 10 February 2022.
9. Web site: The Very Best of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic. AllMusic. en. 2022-02-10.
10. Web site: 2016-08-12 . See The Fire: Albums, Singles and BBC Recordings 1982-1987 – Cherry Red Records . 2022-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160812201234/https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/see-the-fire-albums-singles-and-bbc-recordings-1982-1987/ . 12 August 2016 . dead.
11. Web site: Newall. Phil. 2017-03-04. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 'Albums & Singles 1982-1989' - album review. 2022-02-10. Louder Than War. en-GB.
12. 18 February 1984. New Singles. Music Week. 18. 10 February 2022.