The Wildhearts
The Wildhearts formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989 and became one of Britain's most beloved unstable rock bands by smashing together hard rock, punk velocity, power-pop melody, and glam chaos. Led by Ginger Wildheart, the group debuted with Earth vs the Wildhearts, a record packed with huge choruses, jagged riffs, and songs like "Greetings from Shitsville," "TV Tan," and "My Baby Is a Headfuck." P.H.U.Q., Fishing for Luckies, Endless, Nameless, The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed, Chutzpah!, Renaissance Men, and later releases showed a band capable of brilliance, self-sabotage, and improbable returns. The Wildhearts fit both hard-rock and punk scope through their speed, distortion, hooks, and long association with heavy alternative audiences. Their music is heavy but rarely grim, melodic but never tidy. The best songs feel overstuffed in the most exciting way, with choruses arriving like emergency exits and riffs piled on as if restraint were the enemy. The Wildhearts' history is messy, but the catalog remains a high-voltage argument for chaos as craft.
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The Wildhearts Discography
11 tracks
- 1 Greetings from Shitsville 4:31
- 2 TV Tan 4:31
- 3 Everlone 6:32
- 4 Shame on Me 3:56
- 5 Loveshit 3:59
- 6 The Miles Away Girl 5:39
- 7 My Baby Is a Headfuck 4:25
- 8 Suckerpunch 2:54
- 9 News of the World 5:51
- 10 Drinking About Life 2:03
- 11 Love You Till I Don't 5:07
21 tracks
- 1 Inglorious 7:46
- 2 If Life Is Like a Lovebank I Want an Overdraft 3:50
- 3 Schizophonic 8:26
- 4 Do the Channel Bop 7:40
- 5 Geordie in Wonderland 2:50
- 6 Sky Babies 11:39
- 7 Sick of Drugs 4:42
- 8 Red Light - Green Light 2:52
- 9 Soul Searching on Planet Earth (Different Kind of Love) 3:23
- 10 Mood Swings and Roundabouts 1:12
- 11 In Like Flynn 2:30
- 12 Nite Songs 22:14
- 13 Caffeine Bomb 2:41
- 14 Girlfriend Clothes 5:44
- 15 Shut Your Fucking Mouth and Use Your Fucking Brain 1:24
- 16 Suckerpunch 3:00
- 17 Beautiful Thing You 4:43
- 18 Two-Way Idiot Mirror 5:25
- 19 29 X the Pain 3:40
- 20 Hate the World Day 5:42
- 21 Fire Up 5:34
27 tracks
- 1 I Wanna Go Where the People Go 5:05
- 2 V-Day 4:39
- 3 Just in Lust 3:35
- 4 Baby Strange 0:52
- 5 Nita Nitro 3:49
- 6 Jonesing for Jones 4:39
- 7 Woah Shit, You Got Through 2:34
- 8 Cold Patootie Tango 1:58
- 9 Caprice 5:44
- 10 Be My Drug 4:58
- 11 Naivety Play 3:41
- 12 In Lilly's Garden 3:07
- 13 Getting It 5:44
- 14 Shandy Bang 2:54
- 15 Can't Do Right for Doing Wrong 4:41
- 16 Give the Girl a Gun 4:14
- 17 MIndslide 3:55
- 18 Friend for Five MInutes 5:01
- 19 S.I.N. (IN SIN) 1:42
- 20 Sick of Drugs 4:42
- 21 Underkill 3:46
- 22 Bad Time to Be Having a Bad Time 4:48
- 23 Sky Chaser High 2:15
- 24 Red Light - Green Light 2:52
- 25 Got It on Tuesday 3:53
- 26 Do Anything 7:09
- 27 All American Home Boy Crowd 4:32
13 tracks
- 1 I Wanna Go Where the People Go 5:05
- 2 V-Day 4:41
- 3 Just in Lust 3:35
- 4 Baby Strange 0:52
- 5 Nita Nitro 3:49
- 6 Jonesing for Jones 4:39
- 7 Woah Shit, You Got Through 2:34
- 8 Cold Patootie Tango 1:58
- 9 Caprice 5:43
- 10 Be My Drug 5:00
- 11 Naivety Play 3:42
- 12 In Lilly's Garden 3:09
- 13 Getting It 4:38
10 tracks
- 1 Junkenstein 2:00
- 2 Nurse Maximum 4:24
- 3 Anthem 3:19
- 4 Urge 4:53
- 5 Pissjoy 5:07
- 6 Soundog Babylon 5:09
- 7 Now Is the Colour 4:22
- 8 Heroin 5:21
- 9 Why You Lie 4:34
- 10 Thunderfuck 7:19
11 tracks
- 1 Nexus Icon 2:38
- 2 Only Love 2:56
- 3 Someone That Won't Let Me Go 3:32
- 4 Vanilla Radio 3:12
- 5 One Love, One Life, One Girl 2:31
- 6 Get Your Groove On 1:49
- 7 So Into You 2:39
- 8 There's Only One Hell 2:42
- 9 It's All Up to Me 4:18
- 10 Out from the Inside 2:31
- 11 Top of the World 3:52
3 tracks
- 1 So Into You - Gordon Raphael's Mix 2:39
- 2 Action Panzer 2:59
- 3 The People That Life Forgot 3:45
3 tracks
- 1 So Into You 2:40
- 2 Danny's Dancin' 1:09
- 3 Lake of Piss 5:33
20 tracks
- 1 Stormy in the North, Karma in the South 2:47
- 2 Move On 3:54
- 3 Cheers 4:02
- 4 The People That Life Forgot 3:45
- 5 L.T.D. 3:15
- 6 Looking for the One 3:48
- 7 6.30 Onwards 4:24
- 8 Eager to Leave 'er 3:42
- 9 Putting it On 3:33
- 10 Better Than Cable 3:16
- 11 Lake of Piss 5:33
- 12 If I Decide 4:24
- 13 Bang! 5:07
- 14 You Got to Get Through What You've Got to Go Through to Get What You Want, But You Got to Know What You Want to Get Through What You Got to Go Through 3:39
- 15 Hit It on the Head 3:31
- 16 Let's Go 3:56
- 17 Return to Zero 4:04
- 18 O.C.D. 4:56
- 19 Action Panzer 2:59
- 20 Danny's Dancin' 1:09
21 tracks
- 1 I Wanna Go Where the People Go - Live 4:51
- 1 Girlfriend Clothes 5:30
- 2 Greetings from Shitsville 4:33
- 2 Jonesing for Jones 4:46
- 3 Top of the World 3:46
- 3 Suckerpunch 2:58
- 4 Vanilla Radio 3:19
- 4 Beautiful Thing You 4:10
- 5 Caffine Bomb 2:55
- 5 Turning American 6:00
- 6 O.C.D 4:56
- 6 My Baby Is a Headfuck 4:28
- 7 Someone That Won't Let Me Go 3:43
- 7 Loch Ness Interlude 0:58
- 8 Nita Nitro 3:57
- 8 Cheers 4:00
- 9 Caprice 7:17
- 9 Nothing Ever Changes but the Shoes 5:02
- 10 Dangerlust 6:01
- 11 Love U Til I Don't 5:44
- 12 Don't Worry About Me 1:54
15 tracks
- 1 I Wanna Go Where the People Go 5:15
- 2 Sick of Drugs 4:38
- 3 Greetings from Shitsville 4:30
- 4 Nita Nitro 4:08
- 5 Stormy in the North - Karma in the South 3:24
- 6 TV Tan 4:19
- 7 Nothing Ever Changes but the Shoes 5:02
- 8 Everlone 6:59
- 9 Geordie in Wonderland 3:32
- 10 Vanilla Radio 3:17
- 11 Caffeine Bomb 3:06
- 12 Suckerpunch 3:14
- 13 My Baby Is a Headfuck 5:16
- 14 29 X the Pain 3:25
- 15 Love You Til I Don't 6:10
10 tracks
- 1 The Jackson Whites 3:26
- 2 Plastic Jebus 3:16
- 3 The Only One 3:49
- 4 John of Violence 3:51
- 5 You Are Proof That Not All Women Are Insane 2:49
- 6 Tim Smith 3:28
- 7 Low Energy Vortex 3:28
- 8 You Took the Sunshine from New York 3:39
- 9 Mazel Tov Cocktail 2:58
- 10 Chutzpah 5:46
1 track
- 1 The Only One 3:49
20 tracks
- 1 I Wanna Go Where the People Go - Live 4:59
- 1 Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Live 0:48
- 2 V Day - Live 5:08
- 2 Weekend - Live 5:23
- 3 Just in Lust - Live 3:31
- 3 Stormy in the North, Karma in the South - Live 3:01
- 4 Baby Strange - Live 0:49
- 4 Red Light - Green Light - Live 2:44
- 5 Nita Nitro - Live 4:03
- 5 White Lies - Live 3:22
- 6 Jonesing for Jones - Live 4:45
- 6 29 X the Pain - Live 5:05
- 7 Up Your Arse You Fucking Cunt - Live 0:26
- 8 Woah Shit, You Got Through - Live 3:07
- 9 Cold Patootie Tango - Live 1:46
- 10 Caprice - Live 6:20
- 11 Be My Drug - Live 5:10
- 12 Naivety Play - Live 3:13
- 13 In Lilly's Garden - Live 3:05
- 14 Getting It - Live 4:10
10 tracks
- 1 Dislocated 5:51
- 2 Let 'Em Go 4:12
- 3 The Renaissance Men 2:49
- 4 Fine Art of Deception 2:56
- 5 Diagnosis 5:51
- 6 My Kinda Movie 3:24
- 7 Little Flower 3:07
- 8 Emergency (Fentanyl Babylon) 2:24
- 9 My Side Of The Bed 4:17
- 10 Pilo Erection 3:39
6 tracks
- 1 Diagnosis 5:51
- 2 God Damn 3:29
- 3 A Song About Drinking 2:21
- 4 The First Time 3:52
- 5 That's My Girl 2:47
- 6 LOCAC 3:07
1 track
- 1 Dislocated 5:51
17 tracks
- 1 Dislocated - Live 5:56
- 2 Everlone - Live 6:23
- 3 Suckerpunch - Live 3:00
- 4 Anthem - Live 3:40
- 5 Diagnosis - Live 5:42
- 6 TV Tan - Live 4:14
- 7 The Jackson Whites - Live 3:25
- 8 Let 'Em Go - Live 4:11
- 9 Vanilla Radio - Live 3:07
- 10 Urge - Live 4:41
- 11 Mazel Tov Cocktail - Live 2:47
- 12 Sick Of Drugs - Live 4:31
- 13 Someone Who Won't Let Me Go - Live 3:06
- 14 The Revolution Will Be Televised - Live 4:29
- 15 Caffeine Bomb - Live 2:54
- 16 Love U Til I Don't - Live 5:26
- 17 I Wanna Go Where The People Go - Live 5:22
10 tracks
- 1 21st Century Love Songs 4:56
- 2 Remember These Days 4:52
- 3 Splitter 4:04
- 4 Institutional Submission 5:37
- 5 Sleepaway 5:31
- 6 You Do You 2:42
- 7 Sort Your Fucking Shit Out 3:13
- 8 Directions 4:01
- 9 A Physical Exorcism 3:43
- 10 My Head Wants Me Dead 4:47
3 tracks
- 1 Sleepaway 5:19
- 2 Sort Your Fucking Shit Out 3:13
- 3 Remember These Days 4:52
2 tracks
- 1 Sort Your Fucking Shit Out 3:13
- 2 Remember These Days 4:52
1 track
- 1 Remember These Days 4:52
4 tracks
- 1 Allein 3:02
- 2 Continental 3:20
- 3 Listen 3:51
- 4 We Sing For Tim 3:10
1 track
- 1 Failure Is The Mother Of Success 7:46
10 tracks
- 1 Eventually 6:15
- 2 Scared Of Glass 5:16
- 3 Troubadour Moon 4:39
- 4 Fire In The Cheap Seats 4:31
- 5 Kunce 2:58
- 6 Maintain Radio Silence 4:08
- 7 Blue Moon Over Brinkburn 3:04
- 8 Hurt People Hurt People 3:46
- 9 I'll Be Your Monster 3:20
- 10 Failure Is The Mother Of Success 7:46
3 tracks
- 1 I'll Be Your Monster 3:20
- 2 Troubadour Moon 4:39
- 3 Failure Is The Mother Of Success 7:46
2 tracks
- 1 Troubadour Moon 4:39
- 2 Failure Is The Mother Of Success 7:46
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