Chris Connelly
Chris Connelly was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1964 and began his music career in the early 1980s with Fini Tribe before relocating to Chicago in 1986 to immerse himself in the industrial scene centered around Wax Trax! Records. He performed as lead vocalist on the Revolting Cocks' debut Big Sexy Land (1986) and served as a touring vocalist for Ministry, while also maintaining a prolific solo career spanning post-punk, industrial rock, and alternative rock. In 2008 he published a memoir, Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible, and Fried, documenting his years in that scene.
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Chris Connelly Discography
11 tracks
- 1 Daredevil 5:10
- 2 Ghost Of A Saint 4:43
- 3 This Edge Of Midnight 6:49
- 4 The Last Of Joy 3:11
- 5 The Amorous Humphrey Plugg 3:49
- 6 Stowaway 3:52
- 7 The Hawk, The Butcher, The Killer Of Beauties 3:20
- 8 The Game Is All Yours 5:04
- 9 Confessions of The Highest Bidder 10:56
- 10 Stowaway (Daydream Mix) 6:48
- 11 This Edge Of Midnight (Remix) 7:02
18 tracks
- 1 The Whistle Blower (2023 Remaster) 6:13
- 2 July (2023 Remaster) 6:27
- 3 Souvenir from a Dream (2023 Remaster) 4:01
- 4 Come Down Here (2023 Remaster) 5:06
- 5 Too Good to Be True (2023 Remaster) 5:33
- 6 Heartburn (2023 Remaster) 7:54
- 7 No Lesser of Two Evils (2023 Remaster) 3:04
- 8 Ignition Times Four (2023 Remaster) 6:14
- 9 Dirtbox Tennessee (2023 Remaster) 4:17
- 10 July (Single Edit) [2023 Remaste] 4:07
- 11 This Edge of Midnight (Sparse MIX) [2023 Remaster] 7:04
- 12 Heartburn (Tucker / Raven MIX) [2023 Remaster] 5:42
- 13 The Last of Joy (Secret MIX) [2023 Remaster] 4:02
- 14 Come Down Here (Fini Tribe MIX) [2023 Remaster] 7:25
- 15 Heartburn (Live on Kcrw) [2023 Remaster] 4:12
- 16 July (Live on Wcrw) [2023 Remaster] 3:57
- 17 The Hawk, the Butcher, the Killer of Beauties (Live on Kcrw) [2023 Remaster] 4:01
- 18 Trash (2023 Remaster) 3:07
11 tracks
- 1 Candyman Collapse 4:14
- 2 Spoonted Celeste 4:34
- 3 What's Left But Solid Gold? 4:13
- 4 Destimony III 4:36
- 5 Anyones' Mistake 5:17
- 6 Drench 3:29
- 7 The Early Nighters 4:16
- 8 Swimming 7:16
- 9 Model Murmur 6:24
- 10 Meridian Alterburn 4:34
- 11 Shipwreck 4:50
8 tracks
- 1 Harbour Days 8:32
- 2 Samaratin 6:09
- 3 You Versus Miracle 4:50
- 4 About The Beauty Of Laura 5:00
- 5 Fortune Strikes Again 4:32
- 6 Lipstick In Labyrinth Park 5:59
- 7 No One Is Scared 5:45
- 8 The Last Hit Man In Heaven 6:21
10 tracks
- 1 Too Long In My Mind 3:14
- 2 Don't Landslide Away From Me 4:02
- 3 Night Of Your Life 7:02
- 4 Stella (Stand Up And Take Your Man) 4:07
- 5 Glass Rose 3:47
- 6 Nicola 6 2:51
- 7 Roulettescape 5:36
- 8 Respond To Beauty 7:42
- 9 Cartwheel Proposal 5:39
- 10 Stevie Smith 3:01
25 tracks
- 1 Detestimony 3:57
- 1 2000 Light Years From Home 4:56
- 2 Mania 5:08
- 2 Paperself 7:08
- 3 At The Top 6:24
- 3 Me And My Shadow 3:14
- 4 Stick 4:34
- 4 Confessions Of The Highest Bidder (Original Demo) 4:41
- 5 I Can Do No Wrong 6:17
- 5 No Man's Land 4:07
- 6 Stainless Steel Providers (Live Version) 6:56
- 6 What's Left But Solid Gold (Acoustic Version) 3:58
- 7 Rubber Glove Seduction 5:24
- 7 The Long Weekend 5:27
- 8 All Fours 4:12
- 8 Twilight Shiner 4:40
- 9 Ignore The Noise 3:51
- 9 Partick Roullette 2:58
- 10 My East Is Your West 4:17
- 10 About The Beauty Of Laura 5:00
- 11 To Play A Slow Game 5:41
- 11 The Fortune (Demo) 3:39
- 12 The Call Girls 3:15
- 12 Niddrie Street Tape Loop Experiment 2:14
- 13 A Mutual Friend 3:40
13 tracks
- 1 Artificial Madness 3:21
- 2 Wait for Amateur 2:05
- 3 Classically Wounded 4:31
- 4 Cold Blood in Present Company 3:05
- 5 Compatibility 5:24
- 6 The Modern Swine 2:29
- 7 Imperfect Star 5:16
- 8 The Paraffin Hearts 3:01
- 9 The Subjects 2:13
- 10 The Goner 2:26
- 11 A Career in Falsehood 4:16
- 12 British Drug Lords 6:12
- 13 Classically Wounded (Fade Kainer Remix) 7:22
10 tracks
- 1 A Distant Black Spring 4:30
- 2 People Become Estranged 1:51
- 3 Union Canal Blues 3:13
- 4 Slim Volume 6:13
- 5 Seven Days, Seven Lies, Seven Lovers 2:57
- 6 Art & Gender 3:04
- 7 Mama Bluebell 3:22
- 8 Stampede Weather 3:05
- 9 Saint Symptom's Day 2:49
- 10 Old Hymn of New Intent 3:12
2 tracks
- 1 Jackietown 10:33
- 2 The Last Renoir (A Fiction) 15:06
10 tracks
- 1 A Distant Black Spring 4:29
- 2 People Become Estranged 1:50
- 3 Union Canal Blues 3:13
- 4 Slim Volume 6:15
- 5 Seven Lies, Seven Days, Seven Lovers 2:56
- 6 Art & Gender 3:01
- 7 Mama Bluebelle 3:16
- 8 Stampede Weather 3:02
- 9 Saint Symptom's Day 2:49
- 10 Old Hymn of New Intent 3:12
16 tracks
- 1 Bloodhounds 5:55
- 2 Jump, Goddess, Jump 5:48
- 3 Ascension 4:00
- 4 A Farewell To Athens 4:00
- 5 Desolation Blues 5:36
- 6 AAISW 4:47
- 7 F-Birds 5:35
- 8 Anna Karina's Guide To Being Mesmerized 3:40
- 9 Encyclopedia Of Haunted Lovers 7:05
- 10 Our Last Conversation 5:30
- 11 I Figured It Would Be My Undoing 4:15
- 12 I Dream In Argentina 3:50
- 13 Richter Grey Stairs 4:00
- 14 Mirador, Matador, Minataur 1:32
- 15 Another Song About A Sculpture 5:15
- 16 Brush Stroke Blues 2:14
10 tracks
- 1 Another Song About A Painting 4:42
- 2 Jackietown 8:15
- 3 Heart Full Of Clouds / Cloud Full Of Hearts 6:04
- 4 Fickle Will 2:48
- 5 New Omen 4:46
- 6 Someone Else's Rope 4:23
- 7 The Blue Fraud 5:12
- 8 The Tide Stripped Bare 5:35
- 9 Ophelia Moment 6:22
- 10 Third Bass 4:47
16 tracks
- 1 Bloodhounds 5:55
- 2 Jump, Goddess, Jump 5:48
- 3 Ascension 4:00
- 4 A Farewell to Athens 4:00
- 5 Desolation Blues 5:36
- 6 AAISW 4:47
- 7 F-Birds 5:35
- 8 Anna Karina's Guide to Being Mesmerized 3:40
- 9 Encyclopedia of Haunted Lovers 7:05
- 10 Our Last Conversation 5:30
- 11 I Figured It Would Be My Undoing 4:15
- 12 I Dream in Argentina 3:50
- 13 Richter Grey Stairs 4:00
- 14 Mirador, Matador, Minataur 1:32
- 15 Another Song About a Sculpture 5:15
- 16 Brush Stroke Blues 2:14
10 tracks
- 1 Another Song About a Painting 4:42
- 2 Jackietown 8:15
- 3 Heart Full of Clouds / Cloud Full of Hearts 6:04
- 4 Fickle Will 2:48
- 5 New Omen 4:46
- 6 Someone Else's Rope 4:23
- 7 The Blue Fraud 5:12
- 8 The Tide Stripped Bare 5:35
- 9 Ophelia Moment 6:22
- 10 Third Bass 4:47
11 tracks
- 1 Maria Imbrium 9:06
- 2 Picassa 5:32
- 3 The Sun Is A Maze 7:38
- 4 Obsession Stares Back 7:24
- 5 Private Screening 5:31
- 6 The Belonging 7:29
- 7 Young Magician 10:17
- 8 The Black Hive 5:58
- 9 L.W.W. 1:32
- 10 Picassa (Fantome Tranquile Remix) 5:33
- 11 The Sun Is A Maze (M-Descent Remix) 7:35
10 tracks
- 1 Graveyard Sex 3:37
- 2 Infinite Last Wish 2:19
- 3 Silk Balune 3:33
- 4 Lindsay Cooper 4:10
- 5 The Hypnotic Stand-by 3:05
- 6 The Heart Has To Ache Before It Learns To Beat 3:52
- 7 Mesmerido 4:13
- 8 For The Love Of The Tension 3:04
- 9 You Forget To Answer 4:57
- 10 Looking For A Coda 3:11
2 tracks
- 1 How Long 4:11
- 2 Covert 4:01
1 track
- 1 The Hypnotic Stand-By 3:05
18 tracks
- 1 My Father Took Me Everywhere 5:33
- 2 Stella, Stan & Dostoevsky 5:16
- 3 A Minor Hoolie 2:29
- 4 Cigarettes At Daw 1:04
- 5 A Maze Amongst The Tenements 4:25
- 6 Tae The Poets 4:13
- 7 What Strangeness Of Light & Dark 4:00
- 8 The Lowland Fulcrum 4:49
- 9 A Rain Soaked Idyll 2:59
- 10 A Phantom Marriage 5:36
- 11 O Blessed Saint Magnus 2:13
- 12 The Poet Herself 5:23
- 13 A Desolate Spell 5:15
- 14 Let Us Be Hushed 1:22
- 15 My Heart Is A Plough On This Wilderness Field 1:51
- 16 Smiler Wi' A Knife 4:05
- 17 The Birthday Poems 3:53
- 18 From A Dreamer's Shore 5:58
24 tracks
- 1 Ripcord, Ripcord 4:11
- 1 The Black Rooms of Richelieu 4:08
- 2 Via Margutta 4:35
- 2 Valley of the Kings 5:15
- 3 The Last Mile 2:27
- 3 Reims (Vendredi 13 Décembre1974) 5:02
- 4 Union Square West 2:26
- 4 A Slow Jones in New York 3:36
- 5 Andy, Incidentally 5:10
- 5 80s Beat Boys 4:39
- 6 Femme Fatale 3:15
- 6 Running Pure 4:30
- 7 Eulogy to Lenny Bruce 4:14
- 7 Sixty Forty 4:50
- 8 Oh Jim II 5:12
- 8 Vegas 4:06
- 9 Frozen Warnings 4:21
- 9 Draw from It (Like a Vampire) 5:24
- 10 I Cannot Care for You 4:08
- 10 Saeta 4:05
- 11 The Falconer 6:41
- 11 Tananore 4:44
- 12 Fa Massa Calor 3:29
- 13 Hanging Gardens of Semiramis 6:06
8 tracks
- 1 So Long, Arianne 3:25
- 2 Swords at St. Peter's 3:35
- 3 Lost to Your Amour 5:50
- 4 Odeon 4:03
- 5 The Scars 5:48
- 6 Fini Chagall 3:59
- 7 Port of St. Catharine 5:54
- 8 Midnight on the Swansway 5:31
9 tracks
- 1 Tesco Disco 2:59
- 2 Zyklon B Zombie 4:52
- 3 Mother Spunk 5:20
- 4 Maggot Death - Rat Club 4:47
- 5 Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II 7:25
- 6 Heathen Earth 5:54
- 7 Nuffield Theatre - Extract 2:26
- 8 Persuasion 6:38
- 9 Air Gallery - Extract 4:27
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