BEASTS OF BOURBON DISCOGRAPHY
Compiled by Richard Miles.
With additions from Gary Barrett, Didier Georgieff, Magnus Holmgren, Lars Krarup, Maurice Maes, Lisa Palermo, Mark Rubenstein and Henk Vaessen.
This discography contains all Beasts Of Bourbon releases / media appearances I know about on 21/4/02. If you know of others not listed here, e-mail me and they will be added (and you’ll be credited).
7” singles
Chase The Dragon / Can’t Say No (1991. Red Eye SMX78849 / SMX78850)
Single never released, but test pressings and promo copies exist, both with
a plain white cover.
Test pressings: six in existence, handwritten label.
Promo copies: band name and song title printed around the A-side label.
Words From A Woman To Her Man / Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven (Acoustic Live Version) (1990. Red Eye / Polydor 879184-7)
You Let Me Down / Blanc Garçon (1990? Normal RED12S)
Given away with the German pressing of ‘Black Milk’.
‘Let’s Get Funky’ double 7” (1990. Red Eye / Polydor RED21)
Let’s Get Funky / You Let Me Down /// Cool Fire / Blanc Garcon
Moanin’ At Midnight / Good Times (1989? Red Eye / Normal)
Europe only. A-side recorded at ‘Sour Mash’ sessions, ‘Good Times’ is from
the B-side of ‘Psycho’.
‘The Hate Inside’ double 7” (1988. Red Eye RED18)
The Hate Inside / The Big Sleep /// Hard For You / Moaning At Midnight
Hard Work Drivin’ Man // Elvis Impersonator Blues / I Love You Because (1988. Red Eye RED17)
Psycho // Good Times / Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White (1985. Red Eye RED5)
Limited edition numbered re-release, with flyer.
Psycho // Good Times / Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White (1984. Green / Big Time BTS1256)
Original independent release.
LPs
‘Gone’ (1997. Normal (Germany))
‘From The Belly Of The Beasts’ 2LP (1993. Red Eye / Polydor (Europe) REDLP30)
The unlisted CD tracks are not on the vinyl version.
‘The Low Road’ (1991. Red Eye / Polydor REDLP26)
Also available in Germany (1991? Normal).
‘Black Milk’ (1990. Red Eye / Polydor REDLP12)
German pressing includes free 7” - You Let Me Down / Blanc Garçon.
Black Milk / Finger Lickin’ / Cool Fire / Bad Revisited / Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven /
Words From A Woman To Her Man / I’m So Happy I Could Cry // Let’s Get Funky / A Fate Much Worse
Than Life / El Beasto / Blue Stranger / I’ve Let You Down Again / Execution Day / Rest In Peace
‘Sour Mash’ (1988. Red Eye REDLP5)
Also available in Germany (1989. Red Eye / Normal REDLP5).
Hard Work Drivin’ Man / Hard For You / Watch Your Step / Playground / Door To Your Soul / These
Are The Good Old Days / The Hate Inside // Pig / Driver Man / Today I Started Loving You Again /
Flathead (The Fugitive) / This Ol’ Shit / Sun Gods
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (1988. Red Eye REDLP4)
Re-release. Some copies on purple vinyl. Slightly different cover.
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (198?) French pressing
Includes: Psycho (track one), Good Times.
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (198? Hybrid / Statik) UK release
This could be the same as the one above, or not!
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (1985. Big Time BTA001)
US release. Purple on orange sleeve. ‘Good Times’ is from the B-side of
‘Psycho’.
Evil Ruby / Love & Death / Grave Yard Train / Psycho / Good Times // Drop Out / Save Me A Place
/ Lonesome Bones / The Day Marty Robbins Died / Ten Wheels For Jesus
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (1984. Green / Big Time BT7032)
Original independent release.
Evil Ruby / Love & Death / Grave Yard Train / Psycho // Drop Out / Save Me A Place / Lonesome
Bones / The Day Marty Robbins Died / Ten Wheels For Jesus
Cassettes
‘Black Milk’ (1990. Red Eye / Polydor)
‘Sour Mash’ (1990. Red Eye / Polydor)
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (1990. Red Eye / Polydor)
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ (1985. Big Time BTC001)
US release. ‘Good Times’ is from the B-side of ‘Psycho’.
Psycho / Evil Ruby / Love & Death / Grave Yard Train / Good Times // Drop Out / Save Me A Place /
Lonesome Bones / The Day Marty Robbins Died / Ten Wheels For Jesus
Compact Discs & CD Singles
‘Beyond Good & Evil’ CD (1999. Grudge Records / Red Eye / Universal Music 547947-2 (559522-2))
‘The Best of the Beasts Of Bourbon’. Includes bonus CD ‘Live Bonus Disc’.
Psycho / Drop Out / Hard For You / Playground / Door To Your Soul / Let’s Get Funky / Black
Milk / Finger Lickin’ / Cool Fire / Words From A Woman / Execution Day / Chase The Dragon / Just
Right / Low Road / Can’t Say No / Saturated / Fake / Makem Cry / Is That Love / Goodbye Friends
‘Live Bonus Disc’ CD (1999. Grudge Records / Red Eye / Universal Music 547948-2)
Only available with the CD ‘Beyond Good & Evil’. Recorded live at the
Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne, 1997.
What A Way To Live / Hard For You / Straight, Hard & Long / Fake / Makem Cry
‘Gone’ CD (1997. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD58)
Also available in Germany (1997. Normal).
Saturated / Fake / Makem Cry / Mullett / Get On / I S’pose / What A Way To Live / That Sinking
Feeling Again / So Long / Is That Love / This Day Is Over / Unfolded
‘Taken From The Album Gone’ CD (1996. Red Eye / Polydor BBQBEAST1)
Promo only. No cover.
Saturated / Fake / Makem Cry / This Day Is Over
‘Beasts Of Bourbon’ CD (1993. Red Eye / Polydor MS02783)
Only available with the book Ten Years Behind Bars. AKA ‘Muddy Waters Auf
Crack’. Tracks 2, 3 and 4 exclusive to this.
Chase The Dragon (live) / Train Kept A Rollin’ (live) / No Reason (Alternative EQ Version) / Be
My Lover (live)
‘From The Belly Of The Beasts’ 2CD (1993. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD32)
Last track on each disc is unlisted. ‘Hope You Find...’ had been put
out before, as the b-side of ‘Words From A Woman...’.
Also released in France (1993. Red Eye REDCD30).
LIVE 91 & 92:
Chase The Dragon / Driver Man / Save Me A Place / Bad Revisited / Black Milk / Drop Out /
Hard For You / Straight, Hard & Long / Let’s Get Funky / Cocksucker Blues / Watch Your Step /
Execution Day / Good Times / The World’s Got Everything In It
SHIT WE DIDN’T PUT OUT THE FIRST TIME:
No Reason / Junkie Girlfriends / Ramblin’ Man / Not Gonna Try No More / Kill This Fire /
Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven / Love & Death / E.S.P. / Dead Flowers / Train Kept A Rollin’ /
So Agitated / Dirty Water / Crawfish / Anarchy In The UK
‘Just Right’ CD single (1992. Red Eye / Polydor 865191-2)
Last track unlisted. Tracks 4 & 5 recorded at The Prince Of Wales, Melbourne,
May 1991.
Just Right / Getcha Money Ready / There’s No Cure / Black Milk (live) / Let’s Get Funky (live) /
(Spanish? radio ad for Beasts of Bourbon gig)
‘The Low Road’ CD (1991. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD26)
Chase The Dragon / The Low Road / Just Right / There’s A Virus Goin’ Round / Can’t Say No / Ride
On / Straight, Hard & Long / Cocksucker Blues / Something To Lean On / Goodbye Friends
‘Beasts Of Bourbon Live Volume One’ CD (1991? Oblivion Records ORCD9101 (cover), ORCD9102
(disc))
Bootleg of final gig of 1990 European tour. Claims to be from Italy, but the
band suspects (Austrian) ABC in Vienna is responsible. Some copies have inserts with track
listings.
Drop Out / Finger Lickin’ / Driver Man / Door To Your Soul / Watch Your Step / Save Me A Place /
Bad Revisited / Cool Fire / Let’s Get Funky / Pig / Moaning At Midnight / Shit Happens / Hard
For You / I’m So Happy I Could Cry
‘Beasts Of Bourbon Live Volume Two’ CD (1991? Oblivion Records ORCD9102 (cover), ORCD9105
(disc))
Same details as volume one.
Black Milk / Execution Day / Psycho / Hard Work Drivin’ Man / Good Times / Rest In Peace
‘Words From A Woman To Her Man’ CD single (1990. Red Eye / Polydor 879184-2)
Words From A Woman To Her Man / Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven (Acoustic Live Version)
‘Black Milk’ CD (1990. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD12)
Bonus CD only tracks marked *.
Black Milk / Finger Lickin’ / Cool Fire / Bad Revisited / Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven /
Words From A Woman To Her Man / I’m So Happy I Could Cry / You Let Me Down* / Let’s Get Funky /
A Fate Much Worse Than Life / El Beasto / Blue Stranger / I’ve Let You Down Again / Blanc
Garcon* / Execution Day / Rest In Peace
‘Sour Mash’ CD (1990. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD5)
CD release of 1988 LP. Bonus CD only tracks marked *.
Hard Work Drivin’ Man / Hard For You / Watch Your Step / Playground / Door To Your Soul / These
Are The Good Old Days / The Hate Inside / The Big Sleep* / Pig / Driver Man / Elvis Impersonator
Blues* / Today I Started Loving You Again / Flathead (The Fugitive) / This Ol’ Shit / Sun Gods
‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ CD (1990. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD4)
CD release of 1984 LP.
Evil Ruby / Love & Death / Grave Yard Train / Psycho / Drop Out / Save Me A Place / Lonesome
Bones / The Day Marty Robbins Died / Ten Wheels For Jesus
Videos
‘From The Belly Of The Beasts’ (1993. Red Eye / Polygram Video 086128-3)
First ten tracks live, Phoenician Club, Sydney, December 1991 & April 1992.
Chase The Dragon / Driva Man / Save Me A Place / Bad Revisited / Black Milk / Drop Out / Ride On
/ Hard For You / Straight, Hard & Long / Let’s Get Funky / Just Right / Chase The Dragon / Let’s
Get Funky / Cool Fire / Words From A Woman To Her Man / The Low Road / Psycho
Compilations featuring Beasts Of Bourbon
‘POLPRO-12’ CD (1997. Polydor POLPRO-12) Promo only. Beasts Of Bourbon (one track)
‘Big 2’ CD (1997. PolyGram Records BIG2) Promo only, originally available with ‘Gone’ CD. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Saturated’
‘Music For Film & TV’ 2CD (1995. Polygram INSTR11 & INSTR12) Promo only. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Flathead (The Fugitive)’, ‘El Beasto’
‘Into The Red’ video (1992. Red Eye / Polydor 085576-3) Live at Phonecian Club, Sydney, December 1991. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Save Me A Place’, ‘Ride On’, ‘Hard For You’
‘Into The Red’ CD (1992. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD31. Also on cassette) Live at Phonecian Club, Sydney, December 1991. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Save Me A Place’, ‘Ride On’, ‘Hard For You’
‘In Store For You’ CD (1992. Red Eye / Polydor RED1CD) with Beasts Of Bourbon
‘Red Eye Appetizer’ CD (1992. Red Eye / Polydor INDIGO0632-2) with Beasts Of Bourbon
‘Five Years Into The Future - Music From Australia For The World’ CD (1991. Red Eye / Polydor / Lost In Music REDPRO2) Promo only. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Chase The Dragon’, ‘Can’t Say No’ (from the sessions for ‘The Low Road’)
‘Triple J Live At The Wireless’ CD (1991. Mushroom Records / White Label D30669) Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Bad Revisited’
‘10 Jahre Normal’ CD (199? Normal NORMAL150CD) German compilation with Beasts Of Bourbon. Some copies also have a bonus disc featuring Beasts Of Bourbon
‘COMBO 02’ CD single (1990? COMBO02) European 5 track compilation on a 3” single in a white card sleeve. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven’
‘Up From Down Below’ CD (1990. Red Eye PROSAMP) Promo only. Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Bad Revisited’, ‘The Hate Inside’
‘Various Artists On Red Eye Records - A Sides & Besides’ CD (1990. Red Eye / Polydor REDCD7) Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Psycho’. Also on cassette
‘Various Artists On Red Eye Records - A Sides & Besides’ 2LP (1990. Red Eye / Polydor REDLP7) Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Psycho’, ‘The Big Sleep’, ‘Elvis Impersonator Blues’
‘3RRR Megazine (#1)’ cassette (July 1985) Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Psycho’
Video Clips
* - on ‘From The Belly Of The Beasts’.
Fake (live) (1997)
Makem Cry (live) (1997)
Saturated (live) (1997)
The Low Road (1992)*
Just Right (1992)*
Chase The Dragon (1991)*
Words From A Woman To Her Man (1990)*
Cool Fire (1990)*
Let’s Get Funky (1990)*
Psycho (1984)*
Posters
‘Gone’ (1997) with Australian tour dates
‘Ten Years Behind Bars’ (1993) Two sizes - one is huge!
‘The Low Road’ (1991) Looks like CD cover
‘Kick Arse Tour’ (1991)
‘The Sour Mash Tour - January 1989’ with Sydney gig details
‘Appearing April 1988, Paddington Town Hall, Easter Sunday - 8PM’
‘Tex’s Chainsaw Massacre!’ (1984)
‘Bury The Bottle’ (1984)
‘The Sultans Of Swig’ (1984)
TV & Radio Appearances
19/9/01 - ‘Long Way To The Top’ (ABC TV) Tex Perkins talks about some of his bands, plus there are some clips including one of Tex Deadly & The Dum Dums!
31/5/97 - ‘Rage’ (ABC TV) simulcast with JJJ-FM, recorded 7-8/2/97. These appear to be from
some promo only live compilation video that I know nothing about.
Saturated (live) / Makem Cry (live) / Fake (live)
5/11/96 - 3PBS-FM, Beasts Of Bourbon live-to-air
19/12/94 - JJJ-FM ‘Live At The Wireless’, recorded live at The Palace (Melbourne), 12/12/93
Chase The Dragon / Driver Man / Bad Revisited / Can’t Say No / Ride On / Straight, Hard & Long
3/9/90 - JJJ-FM ‘Live At The Wireless’, recorded 15/8/90, Sydney ABC Studio 221 (‘Bad Revisited’ and others)
late 1989 - 2JJJ-FM, Tony Biggs’ show (‘Ramblin’ Man’)
1989 - ABC (Vienna, Austria) (‘Hope You Find Your Way To Heaven’)
Magazine & Newspaper Articles / Books
* - with cover shots.
Beastiality (dB, #208, 3/11/99)
Toby Creswell & Martin Fabinyi’s book ‘The Real Thing: Adventures In Australian Rock & Roll’
(Random House, Sydney, 1999) has Beasts Of Bourbon content in chapters 14 & 17
Best Of The Best (Rip It Up, #543, 7/10/99)* about the best-of discs of the Beasts Of
Bourbon, Cruel Sea, Clouds and Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes, also reviews of each of these
discs
The Low Road To Newy (Concrete Press, #46, 13/5/97) also a photo in the Giveaways section
Ripping Heads Off (The Drum Media, #329, 11/2/97)* + gig ads
The Beasts That Wouldn’t Die (Juice, #48, February 1997) + a photo on page 7
The Beasts Of Bourbon - The Wild, The Willing And The Inner-City Blues + interview with Tex
Perkins 17/3/96 (Prehistoric Sounds, #4, 1996)* about all of Tex’s bands bar The Cruel Sea
The Beasts Are Back! (Underworld, #4, Southern Summer 1996)
Clinton Walker's book ‘Stranded: The secret history of Australian independent music 1977 -
1991’ (Macmillan, Sydney, 1996) has bits on the Beasts Of Bourbon
Driva Man (Juice, #14, April 1994)* also article ‘The Performing Beast’ and another photo
Beasts Of Bourbon ‘Ten Years Behind Bars - From The Belly Of The Beasts’ (Wise Publications,
Sydney, 1993) With bonus ‘Muddy Waters Auf Crack’ CD. Has music and lyrics to 13 songs, and many
photos
Tex Perkins Interview - Beasts Of Bourbon (Big Day Out 1993 program guide)
Tex Talks (Spleen, #2, April 1993) about the Beasts Of Bourbon
Tex Perkins - Taking The Low Road To The Top (Rolling Stone (Australia), #472, July 1992)
mainly about the Beasts Of Bourbon, but covers Tex’s other bands
One More From The Road (Juke, #872, 11/1/92)
Lemon #13 (1992) has an article about the Beasts Of Bourbon
Taming The Beast (The Drum Media, #23, 26/2/91) also an ad for the ‘Kick Arse Tour’, and the
photo from the article also appears on pages 2 and 25
Beasts Of Bourbon gig review (Juke, #757, 28/10/89)
Beasts Of Bourbon gig reviews (Party Fears (Perth), #10, Autumn 1989) on pages 32 and 34
Fear & Loathing In The Suburbs (RAM, #349, 22/2/89)
Beasts Are Back (On The Street, #380, 30/3/88) plus a gig ad
Beasts Of Bourbon gig review (Juke 16/3/85)
More Sydney Stuff (DNA, #39-40, January 1985) has a paragraph on the Beasts
Part Three Of Harry Butler’s Awesome Tale In Which Perth Becomes Adelaide And Here Is The
Story Of... (B-Side, #8, January 1985?) a history of Tex Deadly & The Dum Dums, Beasts Of
Bourbon and Salamander Jim (along with other bands not featuring Tex), also a Beasts Of Bourbon
gig review
Tex Deadly / Salamander Jim / Beasts Of Bourbon History (DNA, #38, October 1984) a complete
Tex Perkins musical history up to late 1984, plus Beasts Of Bourbon and Tex Perkins family trees
Beasts Of Bourbon (B-Side, #5, October? 1984)* and another photo
RAM 5/1/84, page 54 has a review of the 1983 live scene with a sentence on the Beasts Of
Bourbon
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