The Angels discography explained

Artist:The Angels (Australian band)
Studio:13
Live:4
Compilation:10
Ep:8
Singles:46

The Australian hard rock band, the Angels, have released thirteen studio albums, four live albums, eight extended plays and forty-six singles. The Angels were formed in Adelaide in 1974 by the Brewster brothers, John and Rick, together with Bernard "Doc" Neeson. The line-up of the band has since gone through numerous changes with Rick as the mainstay member. They are known as Angel City internationally (to avoid confusion with 70s glam-rock band Angel.)

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 The Angels were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
NZ
[2]
US
[3]
The Angels
  • Released: August 1977
  • Label: Alberts (APLP-025), (465235 4)
  • Formats: LP, MC
Face to Face
  • Released: June 1978
  • Label: Alberts (APLP-031)
  • Formats: LP
18 152
  • AUS: 4× platinum
No Exit
  • Released: June 1979
  • Label: Alberts (APLP-038)
  • Formats: LP
8
Dark Room
  • Released: June 1980
  • Label: Epic (ELPS 4061)
  • Formats: LP
5 37 133
  • AUS: Platinum[5]
Night Attack
  • Released: November 1981
  • Label: Epic (ELPS 4258)
  • Formats: LP
13 14 174
  • AUS: Platinum[6]
Watch the Red
  • Released: May 1983
  • Label: Epic (ELPS 4364)
  • Formats: LP
6 43
Two Minute Warning
  • Released: January 1985
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53154)
  • Formats: LP
2 31 201
Howling
  • Released: October 1986
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53226)
  • Formats: LP, MC
6 10
Beyond Salvation
  • Released: November 1989
  • Label: Chrysalis (F2 21677)
  • Formats: LP, CD
1 3
  • AUS: Platinum[8]
Red Back Fever
  • Released: November 1991
  • Label: Mushroom (TVD93352, RMD53352)
  • Formats: LP, CD
14 41
  • AUS: Gold
Skin & Bone
  • Released: March 1998
  • Label: Shock (Shock 0025)
  • Formats: LP, CD
27
Take It to the Streets
  • Released: 31 August 2012
  • Label: Liberation (LMCD0193)
  • Formats: 2× CD
24
Talk the Talk
  • Released: 17 January 2014
  • Label: Liberation (LMCD0235)
  • Formats: CD
46
Ninety Nine
  • Released: 28 June 2024[9]
  • Label: Bloodlines (BLOOD117CD)
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Live albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
NZ
Live Line
  • Released: December 1987
  • Label: Mushroom (L 59001/2, C 59001/2, CD 59001/2)
  • Formats: 2× LP, 2× MC, 2× CD
3 13
Live at the Basement(by the Original Angels Band)
  • Released: September 2005
  • Label: MGM (MGM TOAB001)
  • Formats: CD
40 Years of Rock – Vol 2: 40 Greatest Live Hits 48
The Wireless Show
  • Released: 11 June 2021[10]
  • Label: Bloodlines
  • Formats: DD, streaming
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Compilation albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
AUS
NZ
The Angels' Greatest
  • Released: May 1980
  • Label: Alberts (APLP-043, TC-APLP-043)
  • Formats: LP, MC, CD
5
  • AUS: Platinum
The Angels' Greatest Vol. II
  • Released: November 1985
  • Label: Epic (ELPS 4516)
  • Formats: LP
38
Their Finest Hour... and Then Some
  • Released: October 1992
  • Label: Alberts/Mushroom (472250 2)
  • Formats: CD
76
Evidence
  • Released: December 1994
  • Label: Mushroom (TVD93368, RMD53368)
  • Formats: CD
30 44
  • AUS: Gold
Greatest Hits: The Mushroom Years
  • Released: May 1999
  • Label: Mushroom (MUSH33181.2)
  • Formats: CD
The Complete Sessions 1980-1983
Wasted Sleepless Nights: The Definitive Best Of
  • Released: July 2006
  • Label: Liberation (BLUE 123.2)
  • Formats: CD
22 16
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 25 November 2011
  • Label: Liberation (LMCD0156)
  • Formats: CD
26
  • Released: 2 May 2014
  • Label: Alberts, Liberation (LMCD0239)
  • Formats: 3× CD
20
Brothers, Angels & Demons
  • Released: 4 August 2017
  • Label: Liberation
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Extended plays

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
Out of the Blue
  • Released: October 1979
  • Label: Alberts (AS37)
  • Formats: 12"
29
Never So Live
  • Released: October 1981
  • Label: Epic (EX12016)
  • Formats: 12"
17
Four Play Volume 6
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD
Live from Angel City
(by The Angels from Angel City)
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Telegraph Records (ACE 001)
  • Formats: 12"
The Hard Evidence Tour EP
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD
Ivory Stairs
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: The Angels (TAIS2007)
  • Formats: CD (limited to 1,000 copies)
Tour EP 2008
  • Released: July 2008
  • Label: Albert/Sony
  • Formats: CD
53
Triple M Oztober Live
  • Released: November 2019
  • Label: Bloodlines
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
  • Recorded in October 2019
Under the Stone
  • Released: 5 June 2020[12]
  • Label: Bloodlines
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Singles

Title!scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
AUS
NZ
US
Main

[13]
"Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"197658 The Angels
"You're a Lady Now"197790
"Comin' Down"197880 Face to Face
"Take a Long Line"29
"Straight Jacket"
"After the Rain"52
"Shadow Boxer"197925 No Exit
"No Secrets"19808 Dark Room
"Poor Baby"72
"Face the Day"67 30
"Into the Heat"198114
"Night Attack"198284 Night Attack
"Living on the Outside"
"Stand Up"21 Watch the Red
"Eat City"198322
"Live Lady Live"43
"Is That You?
"Between the Eyes"198444 Two Minute Warning
"Look the Other Way"198555
"Sticky Little Bitch"77
"Underground"55 35
"Nature of the Beast"198627 Howling
"Don't Waste My Time"40 38
"We Gotta Get out of This Place"7 13
"Can't Take Any More"198763
"Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" (live)198811 Live Line
"Love Takes Care" (live)[14]
"Finger on the Trigger"34
"Let the Night Roll On"199017 Beyond Salvation
"Dogs Are Talking"11 12 AUS: Gold[15]
"Back Street Pickup"23 29
"Rhythm Rude Girl"77
"Bleeding with the Times"199154
"Some of That Love"53 Red Back Fever
"Once Bitten, Twice Shy"199243 32
"Tear Me Apart"33
"Don't Need Mercy"199475 Evidence
"Turn It On"77
"Call That Living"1996Skin & Bone
"Caught in the Night"199778
"Northwest Highway"
"My Light Will Shine"1998
"Waiting For The Sun"2012Take It to the Streets
"One Word"[16] 2019non-album single
"Under the Stone"[17] 2020Under the Stone
"Ninety Nine (Go For Broke)"2024Ninety Nine
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Video albums

TitleDetailsCertification
Live At Narara
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Festival Records
  • Format: VHS
From All Angles 1980-1990
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Mushroom Records
  • Format: VHS
Beyond Salvation Live
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Mushroom Records
  • Format: VHS
Live @ The Basement
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Chief Entertainment, Warner Music Australia
  • Format: DVD
Live At Narara & Beyond Salvation Live
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Liberation Music
  • Format: 2x DVD
Wasted Sleepless Nights, The Definitive Greatest Hits
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Liberation Music
  • Format: DVD
This Is It Folks...Over the Top
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: DVD
No Way Get F*#ked F*#k Off
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Beyond Home Entertainment
  • Format: DVD
Symphony of Angels
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: Bloodlines
  • Format: DVD
The Wireless Show
  • Released: 2021
  • Label: Bloodlines
  • Format: DVD

Other appearances

YearTrack(s)AlbumCatalogue no.
1998
  • "Dogs Are Talking"
  • "We Gotta Get out of This Place" (VHS only)
Mushroom 25 LiveMUSH25.2 (CD), MUSH25.8 (VHS)
2001
  • "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
The Andrew Denton Breakfast Show - Musical Challenge Vol. 25041282000
2003
  • "Take a Long Line"
  • "No Secrets"
  • "I Ain't the One"
  • "Marseilles"
Gimme Ted – The Ted Mulry Benefit Concerts
(by Members of the Angels)
2564600802

Notes

  1. Web site: Winners by Award: Hall of Fame . . 23 October 2020.
  2. Web site: Discography The Angels . Hung . Steffen . New Zealand Charts Portal . Hung Medien . 28 December 2016.
  3. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=angel city|chart=Billboard 200}} ''Billboard'' 200: Angel City Album & Song Chart History ]. . . 3 July 2015.
  4. International Dateline. Cash Box. World Radio History. 54. 7 July 1979. 1 December 2021.
  5. Web site: Kent Music Report No 341 – 5 January 1981 > Platinum and Gold Albums 1980. Kent Music Report. Imgur.com. 12 November 2021.
  6. >Web site: Platinum and Gold Albums 1982 . . 453 . . 28 February 1983 . 26 December 2022 .
  7. Jackson Leads Int'I Certifications For CBS. Cash Box. World Radio History. 34. 2 July 1983. 10 November 2021.
  8. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 16–17.
  9. Web site: The Angels Announce First Album In 10 Years 'Ninety Nine'. The Music. 30 May 2024. 2 June 2024.
  10. Web site: The Wireless Show (DD). Apple Music. 15 June 2021.
  11. Web site: ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2015 Albums . Australian Recording Industry Association . 31 December 2015 . 2 January 2016.
  12. Web site: New EP Under The Stone. The Angels. 5 June 2020. 7 June 2020.
  13. Angel City – Chart history . Billboard . 3 January 2017.
  14. Web site: Australian Music Report No 722 – 30 May 1988 > Singles: New Releases. Australian Music Report. 23 February 2020.
  15. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 16–17.
  16. Web site: One Word - single. iTunes Australia. 1 October 2019 . 1 October 2019.
  17. Web site: The Angels Release New EP Under the Stone. Rock Club 40. 5 June 2020. 7 June 2020.
  18. Australia. The Angels. album. 2007. 11 December 2021.
  19. Australia. The Angels. video. 2007. 11 December 2021.
  20. Australia. The Angels. video. 2014. 11 December 2021.

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