The Manray Starfishes (80s Indie)

"THE MANRAY STARFISHES" (DISCOGRAPHY)

May 86
7" Sunday Shine Smile/Day Tripper (Live) (GB1)

July 86
7" Sunday Shine Smile (New Version)/ When Will the Days Die? (734-098)
12" Sunday Shine Smile (New Version)/ When Will the Days Die?/ Battering Ram (734-098T)
12" Sunday Shine Smile (Extended)/ Battering Ram (Remix) (734-098R)

September 86
12" Battering Ram (Low Down Dirty Mix)/Battering Ram (Be Serious Mix) (promo only) (PRO-098RR)

October 86
LP Battering Ram (GBLP1) Sunday Shine Smile/ Trashy Girl on the Underground/ Where is the Time?/ Old Mother's Daughter/ I Tried to Find My Way Home (But My Shoes Would Not Leave You)/ Masked Ball/ The Best Job in the World/ Falkland Song/ Battering Ram/ When Will the Days Die?/The Water That Drives Me/ (Refrain)
CD Battering Ram (as above, released January 1987) (GBCD1)

December 86
7" Old Mother's Daughter/ Arthur, You're Boring Me (734-107)
12" Old Mother's Daughter (Remix)/ Calamity Jane is Washing Her Hair/ Arthur, You're Boring Me (734-107T)
CDV Old Mother's Daughter/ Arthur, You're Boring Me/ Sunday Shine Smile (Original Version)/ My Sister is a Hairdressing Poet/ Old Mother's Daughter (video) (GIBVIDCD2)

February 87
7" Battering Ram/ All Along the Watchtower/ Masked Ball (John Peel Version)
12" Battering Ram (Low Down Dirty Mix)/ Battering Ram/ Masked Ball (John Peel Version)/ Masked Ball (John Peel's Low Down Dirty Mix)
CDV Battering Ram/ All Along the Watchtower/ Masked Ball (Album Version)/ Day Tripper (Live) (unreleased except in Japan) (TOCT:GOBVIDCD3)

March 87
7" Falkland Song (Acoustic)/ Trashy Girl On the New York Subway (flexi disc free with "NME")

May 87
12" A Short Goodbye EP (734-112) Sunday Shine Smile (Original)/ Day Tripper (Live)/ Arthur You're Boring Me/ Old Mother's Daughter (promo only EP released for the 1987 MCPS Conference)
CD A Short Goodbye EP (734-112CD) Unreleased???
CD A Short Goodbye EP (TOCT:GOVL11X) (As above, Japanese released 1994)

June 95 (originally recorded April 87)
LP The Unreleased Second Album (FRYLP5 - limited to 500 copies) Fluid Retention/ I Drank Wine in Seventeen Bars/ Capuccino Dream/ Trashy Girl on the New York Subway/ Drums and Side-Partings/ 127a Cockfosters' Avenue/ Port Merrion/ Sunday Morning, Lunch With Renoir/ Daisy Chain/ Daisy Chain (Take II)/ I've Known Many Shits In My Life, But None so Pretty
CD The Unreleased Second Album (FRYCD5) As above with extra tracks: Glandular Fever/ Don't Shout at Me David/ Wellingborough on a Saturday

August 95
LP Battering Ram (FRYLP7 - remaster of original album, limited to 499 copies)
CD Battering Ram (FRYCD7 - remaster of original album) Includes extra CD-only tracks Masked Ball (John Peel)/ When Will the Days Die? (John Peel)/ Live From an Icerink (John Peel)/ Beards of Wisdom, Stars of Pain (John Peel)/ Sunday Shine Smile (Janice Long)

September 98
CD Starfish Eggs (FRYCD23) Sunday Shine Smile (GB1 Mix)/ Day Tripper (Live)/ When Will The Days Die/ Battering Ram (Remix)/ Old Mother's Daughter (Remix)/ Arthur, You're Boring Me/ Calamity Jane is Washing Her Hair/ My Sister is a Hairdressing Poet/ All Along the Watchtower/ Beards of Wisdom, Stars of Pain (Previously Unreleased studio version)/ Barbara Put It In the Microwave (Previously unreleased studio version)

August 04
CD An Introduction to the Manray Starfishes (Universal 898-780) Sunday Shine Smile (album Mix)/ I've Known Many Shits In My Life, But None So Pretty/ Sunday Lunch With Renoir/ Old Mother's Daughter/ My Sister is a Hairdressing Poet (Demo)/ Trashy Girl on the Underground/ The Best Job in the World/ 127a Cockfosters Avenue/ Falkland Song (Acoustic)/ I Tried to Find My Way Home (But My Shoes Would Not Leave You)/ Day Tripper (Live)/ Arthur, You're Boring Me/ Calamity Jane is Washing Her Hair/ Wellingborough on a Saturday

August 07
CD The Manray Starfishes (Live at the BBC) (Universal 898-998) Masked Ball (John Peel)/ When Will the Days Die? (John Peel)/ Live From an Icerink (John Peel)/ Beard of Wisdom, Stars of Pain (John Peel)/ Trashy Girl on the Underground (Janice Long)/ Where Is the Time? (Janice Long)/ Sunday Shine Smile (Janice Long)/ Battering Ram (Live on Pebble Mill 27/11/86)/ Battering Ram (Live at Brixton Academy 12/12/86)/ The Best Job in the World (Live at the Brixton Academy 12/12/86)/ Arthur, You're Boring Me (Live at the Brixton Academy 12/12/86)/ Day Tripper (Live at the Brixton Academy 12/12/86)/ Fluid Retention (Live at the Brixton Academy 12/12/86)/ Falkland Song (Live at the Brixton Academy 12/12/86)/ Port Merrion (Live at the Dublin Castle 05/07/87)/ Old Mother's Daughter (Live at the Dublin Castle 05/07/87)/ I Drank Wine in Seventeen Bars (Live at the Dublin Castle 05/07/87)/ Band Argument (Live at the Dublin Castle 05/07/87)/ Trashy Girl on the Underground (Live at the Dublin Castle 05/07/87)

December 07
CD Battering Ram (Universal 899-007) As original album but with the "Starfish Eggs" CD issues as a second CD