Sole discography explained

Artist:Sole
Studio:27
Ep:14
Compilation:3
Singles:12
Option:2
Option Name:Mixtapes
1Option:3
1Option Name:Remix albums
2Option:1
2Option Name:Audio books
3Option:1
3Option Name:DVDs
4Option:31
4Option Name:Guest appearances

Sole is an American alternative hip hop artist based in Denver, Colorado. His discography consists of eighteen studio albums, four collaboration albums, ten EPs, two mixtapes, three remix albums, three compilations, twelve singles, one audiobook, one DVD, and many guest appearances on other artists' tracks.

Discography

Studio albums

YearTitleNotes
2000Bottle of Humans
  • Released: 2000
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Anticon
  • Debut solo album.
2001uck rt
  • Released: 2001
  • Format: CDr
  • Label: Self-released
  • CDr of demos sold on tour in 2001. Includes early versions of several tracks that would later appear on Selling Live Water.
  • The title is a play on the phrase "Fuck Art" and is alternately rendered "uck rt", "_uck _rt" or "uckrt" in various listing on the internet.
2003Selling Live Water
  • Released: 2003
  • Format: CD, vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
  • Released: 2003
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Self-released (2004 re-release on Morr Music)
  • Entirely self-produced.
  • Inititially self-released, the album was repackaged and remastered with additional tracks in 2004 and released by Morr Music under the title The New Human Is Illegal, with Sole using "Man'sbestfriend" (with an apostrophe) as an alternate moniker rather than as a title for the first time, as he would again (without an apostrophe) for his 2007 instrumental project Poly.Sci.187.
2005Songs That Went Tin
  • Released: February 21, 2005
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Self-released
  • A collection of rare or previously unreleased tracks recorded for Bottle of Humans, Selling Live Water, Live from Rome and the Mansbestfriend series.
Live from Rome
  • Released: February 22, 2005
  • Format: CD, vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
Mansbestfriend Pt. 3: My Own Worst Enemy
  • Released: June 6, 2005
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Self-released
  • Entirely self-produced.
2007Poly.Sci.187
  • Released: 2007
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Anticon
  • Instrumental project.
  • Entirely self-produced.
  • Sole adopted the "Mansbestfriend" moniker for this album (as he had first done for the Volume 2 re-release), intending upon releasing instrumental work under that name.
    However, "Mansbestfriend" has since reverted to the title of a series of self-produced albums (as it began) with the release of fifth and sixth entries in the series in 2011. Poly.Sci.187 thereby retroactively became Mansbestfriend 4.
Sole and the Skyrider Band (with Skyrider)
  • Released: 2007
  • Format: CD, vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
  • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
Desert Eagle Volume One
  • Released: 2007
  • Format: CDr, CD
  • Label: Self-released
  • Entirely self-produced.
  • Initially sold as a CDr on tour in 2007. Re-released on CD in 2008 without the "Volume One" subtitle.
2009Plastique (with Skyrider)
  • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
2011Hello Cruel World (with Skyrider)
  • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
2012A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
  • Released: November 13, 2012
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
2013No Wising Up No Settling Down
  • Released: May 1, 2013
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
No More Dystopias (with Yasamin Holland, as Whitenoise)
  • Released: September 17, 2013
  • Format: Cassette, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
  • Instrumental project.
  • Whitenoise started out as a moniker for Sole's new instrumental music, but he collaborated closely with his wife Yasamin on this album, and in the process Whitenoise became their name as a duo.
Crimes Against Totality
  • Released: November 5, 2013
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
2014Death Drive (with DJ Pain 1)
  • Released: May 6, 2014[1]
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
2015Ruins (with Yasamin Holland, as Whitenoise)
  • Released: March 24, 2015
  • Format: Cassette, download
  • Label: Black Box Tapes
Mansbestfriend 7
  • Released: September 4, 2015
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Box Tapes
  • Entirely self-produced.
2016Nihilismo (with DJ Pain 1)
  • Released: April 22, 2016
  • Format: CD, vinyl, download
  • Label: Black Box Tapes
  • Entirely produced by DJ Pain 1.
2018Let Them Eat Sand
  • Released: February 2, 2018
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Box Tapes
  • Entirely self-produced.
2019Destituent
  • Released: February 22, 2019
  • Format: Vinyl, download
  • Label: Black Box Tapes
  • Entirely self-produced.
No God nor Country (with DJ Pain 1)
  • Released: November 18, 2019
  • Format: CD, vinyl, download
  • Label:
  • Entirely produced by DJ Pain 1.
2021MBFX
  • Released: March 5, 2021
  • Format: Vinyl, download
  • Label: Black Box Tapes
  • Entirely self-produced.
  • The tenth entry in the Mansbestfriend series, retroactively positioning Let Them Eat Sand and Destituent as the eighth and ninth entries respectively.
2022Post American Studies (with DJ Pain 1)
  • Released: February 4, 2022
  • Format: TBA
  • Label: eMERGENCY heARTS
  • Entirely produced by DJ Pain 1.

Collaboration albums

YearTitleNotes
1996What's It All About (with Moodswing9, as Live Poets)
  • Released: 1996
  • Format:, CD, cassette
  • Label: 45 Below
1999The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? (with Alias, Doseone & Slug, as Deep Puddle Dynamics)
  • Released: 1999
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Anticon
2001Paint by Number Songs (with Alias & DJ Mayonnaise, as So-Called Artists)

EPs

YearTitleNotes
1994Madd Skills & Unpaid Bills (with Moodswing9, as Northern Exposure)
  • Released: 1994
  • Format: Cassette
  • Label: 45 Below
1998Music Without a Face
  • Released: 1998
  • Format: Cassette
  • Label: 45 Below
2002Mansbestfriend
  • Released: May 2002
  • Format: CDr, CD
  • Label: Self-released
We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) (with Anticon & Deep Puddle Dynamics)
  • Released: 1999
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Anticon
  • "More from June" is a song by Deep Puddle Dynamics, featuring Eyedea. "We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes)" and "Pitty Party People" are posse cuts by Anticon.
2007Exhile
  • Released: May 21, 2007
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Anticon
2009Battlefields (with Skyrider)
  • Released: October 13, 2009
  • Format: CD, vinyl, download
  • Label: Fake Four Inc.
  • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
2011Mansbestfriend Vol. 5
  • Released: February 14, 2011
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
Mansbestfriend V. 6: Radioactive Rain
  • Released: May 26, 2011
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
The Challenger EP (with Skyrider)
  • Released: December 13, 2011
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label: Fake Four Inc.
  • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
2012Yung Planetz EP (with Bleubird & K-the-I???, as Waco Boyz)
  • Released: June 19, 2012
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Fake Four Inc.
Songs That Went Void
  • Released: August 3, 2012
  • Format: Download
  • Label:
  • EP of previously unreleased tracks, made available exclusively to backers of Sole's Kickstarter campaign for A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (2012). The majority of these songs later appeared on Crimes Against Totality (2013).
2014Warfare (with DJ Pain 1)
  • Released: April 11, 2014
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
Pattern of Life (with DJ Pain 1)
  • Released: August 26, 2014
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
2019Destituted
  • Released: March 20, 2019
  • Format: Download
  • Label:
  • Patreon-exclusive companion EP to the album Destituent.
2020Worlds Not Yet Gone
  • Released: February 4, 2020
  • Format: Download
  • Label:

Mixtapes

YearTitleNotes
2001Red Dawn: A Baybridge Epic (with Pedestrian, as Da Babylonianz)
  • Released: 2001
  • Format: CD-R
  • Label:
  • Gangsta rap parody album. Sole and Pedestrian adopted the names Blazefest and Whitefolks (respectively) for this album.
2009Nuclear Winter Volume 1
  • Released: October 30, 2009
  • Format: Download
  • Label:
  • Topical political songs recorded over commercial hip hop beats.
2011Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel
  • Released: June 21, 2011
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
  • Topical political songs recorded over commercial hip hop beats.

Remix albums

YearTitleNotes
2008The Secret History of Underground Rap
  • Released: 2008
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label:
  • Remixes of classic hip hop songs from the 1990s.
2009Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP
  • Released: February 3, 2009
  • Format: CD, download
  • Label:
  • Remixes of songs from the album Sole and the Skyrider Band by a variety of artists.
2010Spring Offensive Volume 1: Nuclear Winter Remixes
  • Released: August 10, 2010
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
  • Remixes of songs from the mixtape Nuclear Winter Volume One by a variety of artists.
2015Death Drive: First as Tragedy, Then as Remix
  • Released: January 6, 2015
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
  • An EP of remixes of songs from the album Death Drive by a variety of artists.

Compilation albums

YearTitleNotes
2002Learning to Walk
  • Released: April 9, 2002
  • Format: CD
  • Label: 6 Months
  • A selection of Sole's early material, compiled from the years 1994-1998.
2011Dispatches from the American Fall
  • Released: 2011
  • Format: Download
  • Label: Black Canyon Music
  • A selection of Sole's political songs, compiled from the years 2003-2011.

Live albums

YearTitleNotes
2008Live at The Middle East (with Skyrider)
  • Released: November 18, 2008
  • Format: Download
  • Label:
2010Live in Europe (with Skyrider)
  • Released: 2010
  • Format: CD-R
  • Label:

Singles

YearTitleNotes
1995"Sole" (with Live Poets)
  • Released: 1995
  • Format: 7" vinyl
  • Label: 45 Below
1997"Respect" (with Live Poets)
  • Released: 1997
  • Format: 7" vinyl
  • Label: 45 Below
1998"Respect"
  • Released: 1998
  • Format: 7" vinyl
  • Label: 45 Below
1999"Rainmen" (with Deep Puddle Dynamics)
  • Released: 1999
  • Format: 10" vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
"Bottle of Humans"
  • Released: 1999
  • Format: 10" vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
2001"Sideshow" (with So-Called Artists)
  • Released: 2001
  • Format: 10" vinyl
  • Label: Mush Records
2002"Salt on Everything"
  • Released: 2002
  • Format: 10" vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
2003"Plutonium"
  • Released: 2003
  • Format: 10" vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
2005"New Single"
  • Released: 2005
  • Format: 10" vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
2011"Hello Cruel World" (with Skyrider)
  • Released: 2011
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Fake Four Inc.
2012"Young Sole"
  • Released: 2012
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records
"The Untouchables"
  • Released: 2012
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Black Canyon Records

DVDs

Guest appearances

Tracks appear on

Notes and References

  1. Web site: limited . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/59670321209/10152006056061210 . 2022-04-30. sole on Facebook . Facebook.
  2. Web site: New track from hip-hop local act: The Bins. Qadir. Jawad. 2011-11-08. The Daily Californian. en-US. 2019-12-26.