Ian Hunter Discography

Introduction

Since leaving Mott at the end of 1974, Ian has recorded fourteen (and counting!) mostly brilliant studio albums and several live albums. There have also been a number of compilation albums.

All albums listed here have at some point been released on CD, although some may now be deleted.

Original albums

This section lists the original albums released by Ian Hunter, where new and/or previously unreleased material predominates.

• Ian Hunter . 1975 CBS (UK)/1975 Columbia (USA). Once Bitten Twice Shy/Who Do You Love/Lounge Lizzard/Boy/3000 Miles From Here/The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth/It Ain't Easy When You Fall/Shades Off/I Get So Excited/Colwater High^*/One Fine Day^*/Once Bitten Twice Shy (single edit)^*/Who Do You Love (single edit)^*/Shades Off (poem)^*/Boy (edit)^*
• All American Alien Boy . 1976 CBS (UK)/1976 Columbia (USA). Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack/All American Alien Boy/Irene Wilde/Restless Youth/Rape/You Nearly Did Me In/Apathy 83/God (Take 1)/To Rule Britannia From Union Jack (session outtake)^*/All American Alien Boy (early single version)^*/Irene Wilde (Number One) (session outtake)^*/Weary Anger (session outtake)^*/Apathy (session outtake)^*/(God) Advice To A Friend (session outtake)^*
• Overnight Angels . 1977 CBS (UK). Golden Opportunity/Shallow Crystals/Overnight Angels/Broadway/Justice Of The Peace/(Miss) Silver Dime/Wild n' Free/The Ballad of Little Star/To Love a Woman/England Rocks^*
• You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic . 1979 Chrysalis (UK/USA). CD1: Just Another Night/Wild East/Cleveland Rocks/Ships/When The Daylight Comes/Life After Death/Standin' In My Light/Bastard/The Outsider/Don't Let Go (demo)^*/Ships (take 1)^*/When The Daylight Comes (early version)^*/Just Another Night (early version)^*/Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On^* CD2: FBI^*/Once Bitten Twice Shy^*/Life After Death^*/Sons And Daughters^*/Laugh At Me^*/Just Another Night^*/One Of The Boys^*/Letter To Brittania From The Union Jack^*/Bastard^*/All The Way From Memphis^*/Cleveland Rocks^*/All The Young Dudes^*/When The Daylight Comes^*/Sweet Angeline^*
• Welcome to the Club . 1980 Chrysalis (UK/USA). CD1: FBI/Once Bitten Twice Shy/Angeline/Laugh At Me/All The Way From Memphis/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Irene Wilde/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Standin' In My Light/BastardCD2: Walkin' With a Mountain;Rock n' Roll Queen/All The Young Dudes/Slaughter On Tenth Avenue/One Of The Boys^*/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll^*/When The Daylight Comes^*/Once Bitten Twice Shy;Bastard;Cleveland Rocks^*/We Gotta Get Outta Here/Silver Needles/Man O' War/Sons and Daughters
• Short Back and Sides . 1981 Chrysalis (UK/USA). CD1: Central Park n' West/Lisa Likes Rock n' Roll/I Need Your Love/Old Records Never Die/Noises/Rain/Gun Control/Theatre of The Absurd/Leave Me Alone/Keep On BurningCD2: Detroit (rough mix)^*/Na Na Na^*/I Need Your Love^*/Rain^*/I Believe In You^*/Listen To The Eight Track^*/You Stepped Into My Dreams^*/Venus In The Bathtub^*/Theatre Of The Absurd^*/Detroit^*/Na Na Na (extended mix)^*/China^*/Old Records Never Die^*
• All of the Good Ones Are Taken . 1983 CBS/Columbia (UK/USA). All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (fast)/Every Step Of The Way/Fun/Speechless/Death 'n' Glory Boys/That Girl Is Rock 'n' Roll/Somethin's Goin' On/Captain Void n' The Video Jets/Seeing Double/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (slow)/Traitor^*
• YUI Orta . 1990 Mercury (UK)/1989 Mercury (USA). American Music/The Loner/Women's Intuition/Tell It Like It Is/Livin' In A Heart/Big Time/Cool/Beg A Little Love/Following In Your Footsteps/Sons 'n' Lovers/Pain/How Much More Can I Take/Sweet Dreamer/4th Hour Of My Sleep^*/Power Of Darkness^*
• Ian Hunter's Dirty Laundry . 1995 Norsk (Norway)/1995 Cleveland International (USA). Dancing On The Moon/Another Fine Mess/Scars/Never Trust A Blonde/Psycho Girl/My Revolution/Good Girls/Red Letter Day/Invisible Strings/Everyone's A Fool/Junkee Love/The Other Man
• The Artful Dodger 1997 Citadel (UK). . Too Much/Now Is The Time/Something To Believe In/Resurrection Mary/Walk On Water/23A Swan Hill/Michael Picasso/Open My Eyes/The Artful Dodger/Skeletons (In Your Closet)/Still The Same/F*ck It Up^*
• Rant . 2001 Papillon (UK)/2001 Fuel 2000 (USA) Still Love Rock 'n' Roll/Wash Us Away/Death Of A Nation/Morons/Purgatory/American Spy/Dead Man Walkin' (Eastenders)/Good Samaritan/Soap and Water/Ripoff/Knees Of My Heart/No One
• Strings Attached 2003 Universal. CD1: Rest In Peace/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Twisted Steel/Boy/23A Swan Hill/Waterlow/All The Young Dudes/Irene Wilde/Once Bitten Twice Shy CD2: Rollerball/Ships/A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square/Michael Picasso/Wash Us Away/Don't Let Go/All The Way From Memphis/Roll Away The Stone/Saturday Gigs
• The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nuthin' But The Truth . 2005 Snapper/Secret. CD1: Rest In Peace/Rock 'n' Roll Queen/Once Bitten Twice Shy/Twisted Steel/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Knees Of My Heart/23A Swan Hill/Irene Wilde/The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nuthin' But The Truth/Rollerball CD2: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square/Roll Away The Stone/Saturday Gigs/All The Young Dudes/The Journey/Dead Man Walking/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Michael Picasso/Standing In My Light/All The Way From Memphis
• Shrunken Heads . 2007 Yep Roc/Jerkin' Crocus. Words (Big Mouth)/Fuss About Nothin'/When The World Was Round/Brainwashed/Shrunken Heads/Soul Of America/How's Your House/Guiding Light/Stretch/I Am What I Hated When I Was Young/Read 'em 'n' Weep/Your Eyes/Wasted/Real Or Imaginary
• Man Overboard .2009 New West. The Great Escape/Arms And Legs/Up And Running/Man Overboard/Babylon Blues/Girl From The Office/Flowers/These Feelings/Win It All/Way With Words/River Of Tears
• When I'm President . 2012 Proper Records. Comfortable (Flyin' Scotsman)/Fatally Flawed/When I'm President/What For/Black Tears/Saint/Just The Way You Look Tonight/Wild Bunch/Ta Shunka Witco (Crazy Horse)/I Don't Know What You Want/Life
• Live In The UK 2010 . 2014 Rant Records. Sea Diver/Arms And Legs/Big Mouth (Words)/The Great Escape/Ships/Irene Wilde/Flowers/Soul Of America/Man Overboard/Waterlow/Michael Picasso/Wash Us Away/23A Swan Hill/Sweet Jane/All The Young Dudes
• Fingers Crossed . 2016 Proper Records. That's When The Trouble Starts/Dandy/Ghosts/Fingers Crossed/White House/Bow Street Runners/Morpheus/Stranded In Reality/You Can't Live In The Past/Long Time
• Defiance Part 1 . 2023 Sun Records. Defiance/Bed of Roses/No Hard Feelings/Pavlov's Dog/Don't Tread On Me/Guernica/I Hate Hate/Angel/Kiss n' Make Up/This Is What I'm Here For/I Hate Hate (alternate version)

Compilations and retrospectives

This section lists best-of compilations and retrospective releases, albums where previously-released material predominates.

• Behind The Shades Airline Records AR-CD-0209 (USA). Once Bitten Twice Shy/Rock 'n' Roll Queen/I Wish I Was Your Mother/The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth/All The Young Dudes/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Michael Picasso/The Journey/Roll Away The Stone/Dead Man Walking/All The Way From Memphis/All The Young Dudes (live acoustic)
• The Collection . 1988 Castle (UK). LP 1: Golden Opportunity/All The Way From Memphis (live)/One Of The Boys/Roll Away The Stone/Sucker/You Nearly Did Me In/Sweet Jane/All The Young Dudes (live)/Crash Street Kids/Stiff Upper Lip/Jerkin' Crocus/Violence LP 2: Once Bitten Twice Shy/Ready For Love/Marionette/Drivin' Sister/Rose/Hymn For The Dudes/Saturday Gigs/Where Do You All Come From/It Takes One To Know One/Rest In Peace/Sweet Angeline (live)/Walkin' With a Mountain (live)
• The Collection . 1991 Castle (UK) Cleveland Rocks/Just Another Night/Ships/Bastard/Standin' In My Light/Central Park n' West/I Need Your Love/Gun Control/Rain/We Gotta Get Outta Here/Man O' War/Silver Needles/Once Bitten Twice Shy/All The Way From Memphis/Irene Wilde/All The Young Dudes
• From The Knees Of My Heart CD1: Just Another Night/Wild East/Cleveland Rocks/Ships/When The Daylight Comes/Life After Death/Standin' In My Light/Bastard/The Outsider/Don't Let Go (Demo Version)/The Other Side Of Life (Outtake)/Ships (Early Version)/When The Daylight Comes (Early Version)/Just Another Night (Version #3)/The Outsider (Early Version)/Alibi CD2: FBI/Once Bitten Twice Shy/Angeline/Laugh At Me/All The Way From Memphis/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Irene Wilde/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Standin' In My Light/Bastard/Walkin' With a Mountain;Rock And Roll Queen/All The Young Dudes/Slaughter On 10th Avenue/One Of The Boys/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll CD3: Central Park 'n' West/Lisa Likes Rock 'n' Roll/I Need Your Love/Old Records Never Die/Noises/Rain/Gun Control/Theatre Of The Absurd/Leave Me Alone/Keep On Burning/Na Na Na/I Believe In You/Listen To The Eight Track/You Stepped Into My Dreams/Venus In The Bathtub/Detroit (Take 1)/China (Rough Mix with Ronson vocal) CD4: Once Bitten Twice Shy/Gun Control/Central Park 'n' West/All The Way From Memphis;Honky Tonk Women/I Need Your Love/Noises/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Irene Wilde/All The Young Dudes;Honaloochie Boogie;Roll Away The Stone;Ships/Sons And Daughters/We Gotta Get Out Of Here (Alternate version)/Silver Needles/Man O' War
• Gold Sony/Crimson CRIMCD683 CD1: All The Young Dudes/One Of The Boys/Momma's Little Jewel/Sweet Jane/Jerkin' Crocus/Sea Diver/Honaloochie Boogie/Rose/Drivin' Sister/All The Way From Memphis (single version)/Ballad of Mott The Hoople/Hymn For The Dudes/Whizz Kid/Violence/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Roll Away The Stone (single version)/Where Do You All Come From CD2: The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll/Rest In Peace/Alice/Crash Street Kidds/Marionette/Pearl 'n' Roy (England)/Foxy, Foxy/Trudi's Song/Saturday Gigs/Once Bitten Twice Shy/3,000 Miles From Here/Lounge Lizard/It Ain't Easy When You Fall - Shades Off/The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth/Who Do You Love/I Get So Excited CD3: All-American Alien Boy (single version)/God (Take 1)/You Nearly Did Me In/Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack/Irene Wilde/Apathy '83/Justice Of The Peace/(Miss) Silver Dime/Shallow Crystals/Broadway/Overnight Angels/England Rocks/Wild 'n' Free/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (fast version)/Death 'n' Glory Boys/Traitor/Seeing Double
• The Golden Age 1969-1997 Raven RVCD-295 Rock 'n' Roll Queen/Walkin' With a Mountain/Death May Be Your Santa Claus/All The Young Dudes/One Of The Boys/Honaloochie Boogie/All The Way From Memphis/Ballad of Mott The Hoople/Roll Away The Stone/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll/Saturday Gigs/Once Bitten Twice Shy/ You Nearly Did Me In/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Central Park 'n' West/The Loner/Michael Picasso
• Greatest Hits Live In London Secret Records (UK) SECLP173. Rock and Roll Queen/Roll Away The Stone/Saturday Gigs/All The Young Dudes/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Once Bitten twice Shy/Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/All The Way From Memphis
• The Journey 2006 Sony/BMG. CD1: Road to Birmingham/ Backsliding Fearlessly/Walking With a Mountain/Angel of Eighth Avenue/Waterlow/The Debt/One Of The Boys/ The Journey/The Moon Upstairs/All The Young Dudes/Momma's Little Jewel/ Jerkin' Crocus/Sea Diver/Honaloochie Boogie/The Ballad of Mott The Hoople/ Hymn For The Dudes/Whizz Kid/I Wish I Was Your Mother CD2: All The Way From Memphis/Violence/ Roll Away The Stone/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll/Marionette/ Crash STreet Kidds/Foxy Foxy/Saturday Gigs/Once Bitten Twice Shy/ Who Do You Love?/Lounge Lizzard/3000 Miles From Here/ The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth/It Ain't Easy When You Fall - Shades Off/ Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack/Irene Wilde/You Nearly Did Me In/Justice Of The Peace CD3: Cleveland Rocks/Standin' In My Light/ Bastard/The Outsider/Gun Control/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken/ Speechless/Ill Wind/The Loner/23a Swan Hill/Michael Picasso/ I'm In Awe^*/Avalanche^*/Morons^*/Wash Us Away/Knees Of My Heart/Dead Man Walking
• Old Records Never Die Shout 826663-10970 CD1: Rock 'n' Roll Queen/Walkin' With a Mountain/Whiskey Women/Sweet Angeline/Death May Be Your Santa Claus/All The Young Dudes/Sweet Jane/Sucker/All The Way From Memphis/Honaloochie Boogie/Violence/Ballad of Mott The Hoople/Roll Away The Stone/Crash Street Kidds/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll/Saturday Gigs CD2: Once Bitten Twice Shy/Who Do You Love/3000 Miles From Here/You Nearly Did Me In/Justice Of The Peace/Cleveland Rocks/Just Another Night/Ships/When The Daylight Comes/Old Records Never Die/Central Park 'n' West/Speechless/Women's Intuition/The Artful Dodger/Still Love Rock 'n' Roll/Words (Big Mouth)
• Once Bitten: The CBS Collection Sony Side 1: Once Bitten Twice Shy/Lounge Lizard/Who Do You Love/3000 Miles From Here/The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth Side 2: It Ain't Easy When You Fall;Shades Off/All-American Alien Boy/You Nearly Did Me In/Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack/Irene Wilde Side 3: Apathy 83/Justice Of The Peace/(Miss) Silver Dime/Shallow Crystals/Broadway/England Rocks Side 4: Wild 'n' Free/The Ballad Of Little Star/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken/Death 'n' Glory Boys/Seeing Double/Traitor
• Once Bitten Twice Shy . 2000 Columbia (UK/USA) CD1: Once Bitten Twice Shy/Who Do You Love/Colwater High/One Fine Day/The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth/All American Alien Boy/Common Disease/Justice Of The Peace/When The Daylight Comes/Cleveland Rocks/Bastard/Gun Control/Speechless/Traitor/(I'm The) Teacher/Great Expectations/Good Man In A Bad Time/Women's Intuition/Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady/All The Young Dudes (live)CD2: Shades Off (poem)/Boy/Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack/You Nearly Did Me In/(God) Advice To A Friend/Shallow Crystals/Ships/Standing In My Light/The Outsider/Junkman/Old Records Never Die/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken/Seeing Double/Bluebirds/Sunshine Eyes/Ill Wind/All Is Forgiven/Michael Picasso (live)
• Original Album Classics Box set of the three albums Ian Hunter, All American Alien Boy and Overnight Angels.
• Shades of Ian Hunter . 1990 Chrysalis (USA) Just Another Night/Cleveland Rocks/Ships/Standin' In My Light/Bastard/When The Daylight Comes/Old Records Never Die/Noises/Gun Control/Lisa Likes Rock 'n' Roll/Central Park n' West/Once Bitten Twice Shy/All The Way From Memphis/All The Young Dudes/We Gotta Get Outta Here
• Shades of Ian Hunter: The Ballad of Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople . 1980 CBS (UK)/1980 Columbia (USA) CD1: All The Young Dudes/One Of The Boys/Sweet Jane/All The Way From Memphis/I Wish I Was Your Mother/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll/Roll Away The Stone/Marionette (live)/Rose/Foxy Foxy/Where Do You All Come From/Rest In Peace/Saturday GigsCD2: Once Bitten Twice Shy/3000 Miles From Here/I Get So Excited/You Nearly Did Me In/All American Alien Boy/England Rocks/Wild n' Free/Justice Of The Peace/Overnight Angels/Golden Opportunity
• Stranded In Reality Sumptuous box set of the albums Ian Hunter, All American Alien Boy, Overnight Angels, You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic, Welcome To The Club, Short Back 'n' Sides, All Of The Good Ones Are Taken, YUI Orta, Dirty Laundry, BBC Live In Concert, The Artful Dodger, Rant, Strings Attached, Shrunken Heads, Man Overboard, When I'm President and Live In The UK 2010. In addition, there are the rare and previously-unreleased Tilting The Mirror, If You Wait Long Enough For Anything You Can Get It On Sale, Bag Of Tricks, Acoustic Shadows, Experiments and It Never Happened.
• The Best of Ian Hunter . 2001 EMI/Capitol Special Products (USA). Cleveland Rocks/Once Bitten Twice Shy (live)/All The Young Dudes (live)/Just Another Night/Old Records Never Die/All The Way From Memphis (live)/Slaughter On 10th Avenue (live)/I Wish I Was Your Mother (live)/Lisa Likes Rock 'n' Roll/Na Na Na (Extended Mix)
• The Singles Collection 1975-83 Airline Records AR-CD-0209 (USA). CD1: Once Bitten Twice Shy/3,000 Miles From Here/Who Do You Love?/Boy/All American Alien Boy/Rape/You Nearly Did Me In/Letter From Britannia To The Union Jack/Justice Of The Peace/The Ballad Of Little Star/England Rocks/Wild 'n' Free/When The Daylight Comes/Life After Death/Ships/Wild East CD2: Cleveland Rocks/Bastard/We Gotta Get Out Of Here/Medley: Once Bitten Twice Shy;Bastard;Cleveland Rocks (live)/Sons And Daughters (live)/One Of The Boys (live)/Lisa Likes Rock 'n' Roll/Noises/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken/Death n Glory Boys/Traitor/Somethin's Goin' On/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (slow version)
• The Very Best of Ian Hunter . 1990 CBS (Germany) Roll Away The Stone/Once Bitten Twice Shy/England Rocks/Sweet Jane/Saturday Gigs/Rest In Peace/You Nearly Did Me In/Seeing Double/Overnight Angels/I Get So Excited/All The Way From Memphis/All The Young Dudes/The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll/Who Do You Love/Foxy Foxy/One Of The Boys/Rose/All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (slow)

Archive and historic releases

This section lists archive and other historic releases, albums where previously-unreleased material predominates.

• BBC Live in Concert . 1995 Windsong (UK)/1998 Strange Fruit (UK) Once Bitten Twice Shy/How Much More Can I Take/Beg A Little Love/Following In Your Footsteps/Just Another Night/Sweet Dreamer/(Give Me Back My) Wings/Standin' In My Light/Bastard/The Loner/You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time/All The Way From Memphis/Irene Wilde
• Live At Rockpalast . 2011 MIG (Germany) FBI/Once Bitten Twice Shy/Angeline/Laugh At Me/Irene Wilde/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Just Another Night/We Gotta Get Out Of Here/Bastard/All The Way From Memphis/Cleveland Rocks/All The Young Dudes/Slaughter On 10th Avenue
• Missing In Action . 2000 NMC (UK) CD1: Life After Death/Ships/Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack/We Gotta Get Outta Here/While You Were Looking At Me/(I'm The) Teacher/American Music/Day Tripper/Tell It Like It Is/Pain/Women's Intuition/Wild East/Na Na NaCD2: FBI/Once Bitten Twice Shy/When The Daylight Comes/Laugh At Me/I Wish I Was Your Mother/Cleveland Rocks/Bastard/Standing In My Light/Angeline/All The Way From Memphis/Walkin' With a Mountain;Rock 'n' Roll Queen/All The Young Dudes/Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
• Sampling In Reality . 2016 Proper Records. A Little Rock 'n' Roll/Your Eyes/Waterlow/Sons 'n' Lovers/When I'm President/American Music/Sweet Jane

Collaborations, guest appearances, etc.

Ian has collaborated on a number of albums by other artists. Usually this has been in his role as producer, where he maybe has supplied keyboards or backing vocals on one or more tracks. The list is quite large, and the completist is referred to Sven Gusevik's Outsider fanzine, where he has listed all such albums.

I will, however, list those collaborations where Ian's contribution is significant, supplying vocals on at least one track.

• From Hope by Martin's Folly . 2003 Johnsons Wax Records. Ian guests on one track, an excellent cover of I Wish I Was Your Mother.
• Mick Ronson Memorial Concert . 1997 Citadel (UK)/2001 NMC (UK). Official release of the first Mick Ronson Memorial Concert, recorded on 29-April-1994 at London's Hammersmith Apollo theatre.
• Rick Derringer and Friends . 1998 King Biscuit (US). Ian guests on this live KBFH archive concert from 1983.
• Ringo And His New All-Starr Band . 2002 King Biscuit (US). Ian was part of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band in 2001, recorded live in concert.
• The Secret Sessions . 1999 Pet Rock Records (US). Corky Laing, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and Felix Pappalardi. Collaborative venture from 1978, finally granted a commercial release.

Images of LP sleeves are for illustrative purposes only. Copyright remains vested in the individual record companies. ^* in the track listings denotes a bonus track on the remastered/reissued CD (ie a track not on the original LP/CD).