Zebrahead discography explained

Artist:Zebrahead
Studio:13
Singles:39
Ep:5
Live:1
Compilation:2
Video:5
Music Videos:43

The discography of Zebrahead, an American punk rock band, currently consists of 13 studio albums, 2 compilation albums, 39 singles, 43 music videos, 5 video albums, 7 extended plays and 1 demo.

Zebrahead formed in 1996, releasing their self-titled debut album Zebrahead (more commonly known as Yellow due to the color of the cover) through independent label Doctor Dream Records in April 1998, before getting signed to Columbia Records and releasing their mainstream debut Waste of Mind in October later that year, which charted at No. 34 on the U.S Top Heatseekers chart, along with the single "Get Back", which charted on the U.S Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts at No. 32.

The band's follow-up album Playmate of the Year was released in August 2000 and charted at No. 4 on the U.S Top Heatseekers, No. 127 on the Billboard 200 and No. 20 on the Japanese charts. MFZB, released in October 2003, served as Zebrahead's fourth studio album, charting at No. 33 on the Top Heatseekers chart and No. 9 on the Japanese charts, earning the band's first official record certification there as gold. Shortly before the departure of band member Justin Mauriello, Zebrahead released Waste of MFZB exclusively in Japan, due to their popularity there. It eventually peaked on the charts there at No. 16.

With new band member Matty Lewis, Zebrahead released their sixth studio album Broadcast to the World first in Japan in February 2006, before being released in other territories later through the year. Its peak position at No. 10 on the Japanese charts earned the band their second gold certification from there and overall. Zebrahead's follow-up album Phoenix was released in the summer months of 2008 and charted at No. 30 on the U.S Top Heatseeks and No. 10 in Japan.

In late 2009, the band released their first covers album, titled Panty Raid, featuring songs by female musicians from the 1990s and 2000s. It peaked at No. 8 on the Japanese charts. Zebrahead released their ninth studio album Get Nice! in the summer of 2011. The follow-up Call Your Friends was released two years later in August 2013.

In 2014 the band started a crowd funding campaign via PledgeMusic.com to release a live performance recorded in Köln, Germany, on 19 October 2013. A download of the album was released to pledgers on 16 December 2014. The album was released along with a DVD of the performance. Both are entitled Way More Beer, Live in Köln, Germany, October 19th, 2013.

Albums

Studio albums

Album detailsChart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
USUS Heat.Japan (Oricon)
[1]
Japan (Billboard)
[2]
" Web site: Billboard Japan Top Albums (in Japanese). Billboard Japan. September 2, 2013.

Zebrahead 122
Waste of Mind 3430
Playmate of the Year
  • Released: August 22, 2000
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, cassette, digital download
127420
MFZB
  • Released: October 21, 2003
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CD, digital download
339
Waste of MFZB
  • Released: July 22, 2004
  • Label: Sony Music Japan
  • Formats: CD
16
Broadcast to the World
  • Released: February 22, 2006
  • Label: Sony Music Japan, Icon, SPV
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
10
  • RIAJ: Gold
Phoenix
  • Released: July 9, 2008
  • Label: Sony Music Japan, SPV, ICON, MES, EMI, Fontana North
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
301011
Panty Raid
  • Released: November 4, 2009
  • Label: Sony Music Japan
  • Formats: CD
87
Get Nice!
  • Released: July 27, 2011
  • Label: Sony Music Japan, MFZB
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1314
Call Your Friends
  • Released: August 7, 2013
  • Label: Sony Music, MFZB
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
1615
The Early Years – Revisited
  • Released: April 21, 2015
  • Label: Sony Music, MFZB, Rude
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
7812
Walk the Plank
  • Released: October 7, 2015
  • Label: Sony Music, MFZB, Rude
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
2318
Brain Invaders
  • Released: March 6, 2019
  • Label: Avex Entertainment, MFZB
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
40
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Album detailsChart positions
Japan (Oricon)Japan (Billboard)
Greatest Hits? – Volume 1
  • Released: March 11, 2015
  • Label: Sony Music Japan, MFZB
  • Formats: CD, digital download
2520
The Bonus Brothers
  • Released: November 24, 2017
  • Label: MFZB
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Extended plays

Extended play detailsChart positions
Japan
Stupid Fat Americans
  • Released: January 31, 2001[5]
  • Label: Sony Music Japan
  • Formats: CD
85
Not the New Album
  • Released: July 8, 2008
    (re-released February 2010)
  • Label: ICON, MES
  • Formats: Digital download
Hell Yeah...It's a Tour
  • Released: October 22, 2009
    (UK exclusive; limited edition)
  • Label: MFZB Records
  • Formats: CD
Out of Control
  • Released: May 20, 2015
  • Label: SMR
  • Formats: CD
2
Wanna Sell Your Soul?
  • Released: January 14, 2020
  • Label: MFZB Records
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
III
  • Released: November 26, 2021
  • Label: MFZB Records
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
II
  • Released: February 2, 2023
  • Label: MFZB Records
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital download, streaming
I
  • Released: November 13, 2024
  • Label: MFZB Records
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital download, streaming
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Demos

Demo detailsChart positions
US
One More Hit[6]
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Up Front Records
  • Formats: Cassette
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

YearSongChart positions Album
US Alt
[7]
Japan (Oricon)Japan (Billboard)
[8] [9] [10]
1998"Check"Zebrahead
"Get Back"32 Waste of Mind
1999"The Real Me"
"Deck the Halls (I Hate Christmas)"Playmate of the Year
2000"Playmate of the Year"
2001"Now or Never"
2003"Into You"MFZB
2004"Rescue Me"
"Falling Apart"
"Hello Tomorrow"
"Are You for Real?"Waste of MFZB
2006"Anthem"Broadcast to the World
"Broadcast to the World"
"Postcards from Hell"
2007"Karma Flavored Whisky"
2008"Mental Health"16 16Phoenix
"Hell Yeah"
2009"The Juggernauts"
"Girlfriend"83Panty Raid
2010"Underneath It All"
2011"Ricky Bobby"Get Nice
"Get Nice"76
2013"Call Your Friends"48Call Your Friends
2015"Devil on My Shoulder"Greatest Hits? – Volume 1/The Early Years – Revisited
"Worse Than This"Walk the Plank
2016"So What"
"Blue Light Special"
2019"All My Friends Are Nobodies"Brain Invaders
"We're Not Alright"
"When Both Sides Suck, We're All Winners"
"If You're Looking for My Knife...I Think My Back Found It"
"The Perfect Crime"Wanna Sell Your Soul? - EP
2020"Shock and Awe by the Sea"
2021"Lay Me to Rest"III
"A Long Way Down"
"Out of Time"
2022"No Tomorrow"II
"Licking on a Knife for Fun"
"Evil Anonymous""—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Music videos

YearSong titleDirector
1998"Check"Cory Reeder[11]
"Get Back"Liam Lynch[12]
2000"Playmate of the Year"Mark Kohr[13]
2003"Rescue Me"rowspan="3"
2004"Into You"
"Hello Tomorrow"
"Are You For Real?"Ilan Sharone[14]
2006"Anthem"
"Broadcast to the World"
"Postcards from Hell"
"Back To Normal"James Watt
2007"Karma Flavored Whisky"
"The Walking Dead"James Watt
2008"Mental Health"Elliot Dillman[15] [16]
"Hell Yeah!"
2009"The Juggernauts"
"Photographs"Darren Reynolds[17]
"Girlfriend"rowspan="6"
"All I Want for Christmas is You"
2010"Underneath It All"
2011"Ricky Bobby"
"Get Nice!"
"She Don't Wanna Rock"
"Blackout"Mathieu Bouckenhove
"Nudist Priest"Arthur Cauty & Jake Cauty
2012"Truck Stops and Tail Lights"Thomas Barg & Daniel Lindner
"Nothing to Lose"Magnétoscope
2013"Call Your Friends"
"I'm Just Here for the Free Beer"Daniel Lindner & Thomas Barg
"Sirens"
2014"Automatic"ChiliCake Films
2015"Lockjaw"Daniel Lindner & Thomas Barg
"Devil on My Shoulder"
"Worse Than This"ChiliCake Films
2016"So What"
"Who Brings a Knife to a Gunfight?"Chilicake Films
2019"All My Friends Are Nobodies"Daniel Lindner
"We're Not Alright"Daniel Lindner and Thomas Barg
"When Both Sides Suck, We're All Winners"Daniel Lindner
"Follow Me (Japanese Short Version) (Acoustic-Ish)"Daniel Lindner and Owen Hardman[18]
2020"Up in Smoke"rowspan="2"
2021"Lay Me to Rest"
2022"No Tomorrow"Alex Ochoa

DVDs

DVD information
MFZB - The DVD - Banzai Mother F**ker!
  • Released: October 22, 2003
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • Length: 40 min
The Show Must Go Off! Zebrahead Live At The House Of Blues
Blood, Sweat & Beers!Live In Tokyo
  • Released: September 13, 2005
  • Label: Independent release
  • Length: N/A
Broadcast to the World: The Fucking DVD
  • Released: December 16, 2007
  • Label: Independent release
  • Length: N/A
Way More Beer, Live in Köln, Germany, October 19, 2013
  • Released: October 16, 2014
  • Label: MFZB
  • Length: N/A

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/2019-03-18/. ja:週間 CDアルバムランキング 2019年03月18日付. Weekly CD Album Ranking on March 18, 2019. Oricon News. March 13, 2019. ja.
  2. Peak positions for Zebrahead's albums on Billboard Japan Top Albums:
  3. Web site: SOUNDZ from "The Yellow" . www.zebrahead.org . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20010424014253/http://www.zebrahead.org/yellow.html . 24 April 2001 . dead.
  4. RIAA albums
  5. Web site: Stupid Fat Americans . Sony Music Japan . https://web.archive.org/web/20010709101651/http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/International/Special/Zebrahead/ . July 9, 2001 .
  6. Web site: Zebrahead Discography . Zebrahead.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20010305035147fw_/http://www.zebrahead.org/disco.html . 5 March 2001 . dead.
  7. http://www.billboard.com/artist/431776/zebrahead/chart?f=377 Zebrahead - Chart history
  8. http://www.billboard.com/artist/431776/zebrahead/chart?f=848 Zebrahead - Chart history
  9. http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2008&month=07&day=21 Billboard Japan Hot 100
  10. http://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2013&month=08&day=26 Billboard Japan Hot 100
  11. live. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/TqXGlkrsCDU. 2021-12-11. Zebrahead - Check - Rare Music Video . YouTube.
  12. Web site: Zebrahead - Get Back (1998).
  13. Web site: Zebrahead - Playmate of the Year (2000).
  14. Web site: Ilan Sharone : Director.
  15. Web site: Zebrahead - Hell Yeah!.
  16. Web site: SHOT: Zebrahead - Elliot Dillman, director. VideoStatic.
  17. live. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/glucHXsTfME. 2021-12-11. Zebrahead - Photographs (Music Video) . YouTube.
  18. live. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/sKEU5Vz5Grs. 2021-12-11. Zebrahead - Follow Me - Acoustic-ish (Official Music Video) . YouTube.