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Pooh Sticks Discography: The Pooh Sticks

        Releases attributed to The Pooh Sticks.


The Pooh Sticks
Optimistic Fool

album
1995 April
        Michel van der Woude (drums, guitars)
        Steve Gregory (Spanish guitar)
        Guus van der Heijden (keyboards, guitars)
        Cor van Ingen (bass)

    CD: 1995.04.25  US Seed 92513-2
    CT: 1995.04.25  US Seed 92513-4
    LP: 1995.04.25  UK Seed?
    CT: 1995.03?    US Seed 92513-4P (advance promo, s/s)
                Opening NIGHT
                Cool IN A Crisis
                STARfishing
                Optimistic FOOL
                Who WAS It?
                Bad Morning GIRL
                MISS Me
                Working ON A Beautiful THING
                UP ON The Roof
                Prayer For MY DEMO
                All THINGS Must Pass
                SONG Cycle
                First Of A MILLION Love Songs


The Pooh Sticks
Cool in a Crisis

single
1995 March
    7": 1995.03     US Seed SEED 13
          2'41  Cool in a Crisis
          2'02  When the Night Falls (1993 version)

    C5: 1995.03     US Seed SEED 13 (94171 98178 2)
          2'41  Cool in a Crisis
          2'02  When the Night Falls (1993 version)
          6'39  She's the One


The Pooh Sticks
Million Seller

album
1993
        A desperately hummable, anxiously EROTIC MASTERPIECE from a band
        with enough heart to make your head spin.

        Michel van der Woude (guitars)
        Henk Jonkers (drums)
        Cor van Ingen (bass)
        Amelia Fletcher (guest vocals)
        Guus van der Heijden (keyboards)
        Ward van Groenland (keyboards)
        Edu Hackenitz (lead guitars on [1])
        Arnold Lasseur (lap steel guitar on [2])

    CD: 1993        UK Zoo (BMG) 7244511043-2
    LP: 1993        UK Zoo (BMG) 7244511043-1
    CT: 1993        UK Zoo (BMG) 7244511043-4?
    CD: 1993        US Zoo (BMG) 72445-11043-2
    CT: 1993        US Zoo (BMG) 72445-11043-4
    CT: 1993        US Zoo (BMG) ZADV0047-4 (advance promo, s/s)
    CD: 1993        JP BMG Victor BVCP-613
          1'50  Million Seller
          2'27  Let The Good Times Roll
          1'48  The World is Turning On
          1'37  Sugar Baby
          4'19  I Saw the Light
          2'32  Susan Sleepwalking
          2'11  When the Girl Wants to Be Free
          -
          2'27  Baby Wanna Go Round With Me
          0'45  Sugar Mello
          4'30  Rainbow Rider
          1'50  Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone
          4'52  Like Jelly on a Plate                              [1]
          3'36  That Was The Greatest Song                         [2]


The Pooh Sticks
The World is Turning On

single
1992
    C5: 1992        US Zoo (BMG) ZP17105-2 (promo)
          1'48  The World is Turning On
          2'32  Susan Sleepwalking
          4'30  Rainbow Rider

    7": 1992        UK Zoo (BMG) WALES1 (74321121587) (blue vinyl)
                The World Is Turning On
                Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone

    C5: 1992        UK Zoo (BMG) WALES 1CD (74321121582)
   12": 1992        UK Zoo (BMG) WALES 1T (74321121581) (blue vinyl)
   12": 1992        UK Zoo (BMG) WALES 1T (74321121881)
                The World is Turning On
          Hello to Dick Chris Ray + Simon:
                The World is Turning On 2
                Force Fed By Love
                True Life Hero

    C5: 1993        UK Zoo (BMG) 74321 14096 2
   12": 1993        UK Zoo (BMG) 74321 14096-1
                The World is Turning On
                The World is Turning On 2
                Sugar Baby (acoustic)
                Let the Good Times Roll (acoustic)

    7": 1993        UK Zoo (BMG) 74321 14096-7
          BEER GUT BOY ROCK:
                The World Is Turning On
          -
                Roll Over Easy
                When The Girl Wants to Be Free (Alternative Version)


The Pooh Sticks
Million Seller

single
1992
    7": 1992        UK Zoo FIERCE 42 (one-sided, ltd. ed. of 1,000, s/s)
          1'50  Million Seller


The Pooh Sticks
Young People

single
1991
        Available in both light blue and bubblegum pink marbled vinyl.

    7": 1991        US Sweet Virginia (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
                        SWEET VA 003 (SFTRI 149)
                Young People
                Crazy Love

   12": 1991        UK Cheree cheree 23
          Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts:
                Young People
          40 Red White and Blue Shoe Laces Can't Be Wrong:
                Pandora's Box
                Crazy Love
                [Hue's Record Collection]


The Pooh Sticks
The Great White Wonder

album
1991
        Hue (vocals)
        Amelia (vocals)
        Paul (guitar)
        Alison (bass)
        Trudi (tambourine, tape sections, ARP & Moog synthesisers, piano)
        Stephanie (drums)

        Michel van der Woude (guitars)
        Cor van Ingen (bass)
        Jerry Goossens (drums)
        Amelia Fletcher (guest vocals)
        Ward van Groenland (keyboards)
        Edu Hackenitz (lead guitars on [2])

        The US Zoo releases rename [1] to “Sweet Baby James”.

    LP: 1991        UK Cheree CHEREE 18LP (g/f)
    CD: 1991        UK Cheree (Fierce) Cheree 18CD (original cover)
    CT: 1991        UK Cheree ?
    CD: 1991        US Sweet Virginia (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
                        SWEET VA 002 (SFTRI 123) (re-done cover)
    CD: 1992        US Zoo (BMG/Fierce) 72445-11029-2 (re-done cover #2,
                        longbox, sticker reads “Hey, Get Into It!
                        Suggested Retail $9.98” 7-11029-S2B)
    CT: 1992        US Zoo (BMG/Fierce) 72445-11029-4 (re-done cover #2)
          I DON'T BELIEVE YOU:
          3'53  Young People
          3'25  The Rhythm of Love
          3'10  Who Loves You                                      [1]
          2'57  Pandora's Box
          4'44  Desperado
          JUDAS:
          1'58  Good Times
          1'13  The Wild One, Forever
         14'36  I'm in You                                         [2]
          2'42  When Sunny Gets Blue


The Pooh Sticks
Who Loves You

single
1991
    7": 1991        UK Cheree CHEREE 17 (die-cut s/s)
                Who Loves You
                Good Times

    C5: 1991        UK Cheree (Fierce) cheree 17cd (p/b p/s)
                Who Loves You?
                Rainbow Rider (single version)
                Rainbow Rider (instrumental)

   12": 1991        UK Cheree (Fierce) cheree 17t
          Big girls don't cry (with etchings of tears):
                Who Loves You?
          Dune buggy love batallion:
                Rainbow Rider (single version)
                Working On a Beautiful Thing

Who Loves You
        Singlefold sleeve, available in green, pink and blue vinyl.

    7": 1991        US Sweet Virginia (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
                        SWEET VA 001 (SFTRI 115)
                Who Loves You
          Short But Sweet:
                The World is Turning On (b-side)


The Pooh Sticks
The Pooh Sticks

album
1991
        BBC Peel sessions.

    LP: 1991        UK Overground (BBC) OVER 018
          19/4/88:
                On Tape
                I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee
                        Quite Well
                Heartbreak
                Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution
          9/4/89:
                Desperado
                Young People
                Hard On Love
                Dare, True, Kiss, Promise


The Pooh Sticks
Multiple Orgasm

album
1991
        Signed limited edition.  Songs 1-9 were recorded live on September
        17th 1988 in Trudi Tangerine's basement and have previously been
        issued as the album Orgasm on the 53rd & 3rd label.  Songs 10-19
        are studio recordings made by The Pooh Sticks over the two weekends
        immediately following that performance.  Originally planned as
        Multiple Orgasm, a boxed set of 7" 45s to follow up the successful
        Alan McGee set, the release was cancelled in favour of the 53rd &
        3rd album.

    CD: 1991        UK Fierce Fright 047cd
    LP: 1991        UK Fierce FRIGHT 047
          Orgasm:
                I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee
                        Quite Well
                Heroes and Villians
                Foxy Boy
                Force Fed By Love
                Sex Head
                On Tape
                Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution
                1-2-3 Red Light
                Heartbreak
          Multiple Orgasm:
                Cinnamon
                When The Night Falls
                Do Something To Me
                Force Fed By Love
                Tear the Roof Right Off My Head
                Goody Goody Gumdrops
                Saturday Night's The Big Night
                It's a Good Day For a Parade
                Just a Minute
                Do It Again (A Little Bit Slower)


The Pooh Sticks
Tonight

single
1990
    7": 1990        US Sympathy For The Record Industry SFTRI 76 (p/d, no
                        p/s)
          Other Side - For Taggy Lee with love:
                Tonight (Bandwagon Version)
          This Side:
                Time To Time
                Emergency


The Pooh Sticks
Formula One Generation

album
1990
    LP: 1990        UK Fierce FRIGHT 037
          Jam modernity:
                Radio Ready
                Teenage High
                Time To Time
                Susan Sleepwalking
                All The Good That's Happening
          Swansea - South of Wales / Porky - South of Liverpool:
                Dare True Kiss Promise
                Teenage High (2)
                Tonight
                Soft Bed, Hard Battles

    LP: 1990.05     US Sympathy For The Record Industry SFTRI 58
          Swansea Sympathy Orchestra:
                [intro]
                Radio Ready
                Teenage High
                Time To Time
                Susan Sleepwalking
                Dare True Kiss Promise
                All The Good That's Happening
          Fiercer Than Thou:
                Dying For It
                Teenage High (Mach 2)
                Tonight
                Soft Bed, Hard Battles

    CD: 1996        US Sympathy For The Record Industry SFTRI 58
    DD: 2005?       US Sympathy For The Record Industry (Apple iTunes) 6919932 (AAC)
    DD: 2007.09?    US Sympathy For The Record Industry (Amazon) B000R034VK (MP3)
          Matchbook Psalms and Gypsy Hymns:
          1'00  Intro
          1'54  Radio Ready
          1'58  Teenage High
          2'10  Time to Time
          2'32  Susan Sleepwalking
          3'41  All The Good That's Happening
          2'43  Dare True Kiss Promise
          2'09  Teenage High 2
         10'37  Tonight
          1'25  Soft Beds, Hard Battles
          3'04  Dying for It


The Pooh Sticks
Trade Mark Of Quality

album
1989 October
        Recorded live at Southampton Labour Club, originally available as
        limited edition mail-order-only LP.

    CT: 1989        UK Fierce? (stickered plain cassette, hand-coloured p/s)
          Southampton, 9th March 1989:
                Young People
                Foxy Boy
                Heroes and Villains
                Dare-True-Kiss-Promise
                Dyin' For It
                Sexhead!
                Heartbreak
                Riot?

    LP: 1989        UK Fierce Fright 048 (reissue)
          Southampton, 9th March 1989:
                [intro]
                Young People
                Foxy Boy
                Heroes and Villains
                Dare True Kiss Promise
                Dying For It
                Sex Head
                HeartBreak

Trade Mark of Quality
    CD: 1991        UK Fierce Fright 048 CD (reissue)
          [as above plus bonus tracks:]
          U.L.U., 3rd March 1989:
                [intro]
                Heartbreak
                Go Go Girl
          Studio:
                Dying For It (alternative studio single version)


The Pooh Sticks
The Pure Styx 7"

single
1989
        Available in grape, green, and white vinyl, singlefold p/s.

    7": 1989        US Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 33
          a:
                Teenage High
          b:
                Soft Beds, Hard Battles
                Teenage High


The Pooh Sticks
Encores E.P.

bootleg
1989
        Numbered LIMITED eDItIOn of 1,000.  Box set includes Pooh Sticks
        watch, sticker, badge, and discography.  Coloured vinyl, etched
        b-side.  Recorded at U.L.U. 3/3/89.  The ‘song’ is clapping,
        shouting etc., something played over the PA at the wrong speed,
        more clapping etc., then it loops back to the start.

        Bootleg.

    7": 1989        UK Anonymous ANOn 2 (bootleg)
          Hue Pooh We Love You — Somzing Gotten Holed Auf Mine Hert:
                Encores


The Pooh Sticks
Hard On Love

flexi
1989 April
        Included with Woosh Magazine No. 3.  Included free Pooh Sticks
        fanzine.

        The Pooh Sticks are Hue, Trudi, Alison, Paul, Stephanie, Keith.

    F7: 1989.04     UK Woosh WOOSH 007
                The Pooh Sticks: Hard On Love


The Pooh Sticks
Dying For It

single
1989 March
        Sold only at the U.L.U. gig 3/3/89.  Issued in two different covers.
        One-sided single in singlefold p/s. Some copies signed by the band.
        Some copies include white panther sticker.

    7": 1989.03.03  UK Fierce FRIGHT 034 (ltd. ed. of about 300)
          I'm Going To Bend The Sound A Little:
                Dying For It


The Pooh Sticks
Go Go Girl / Simon E

flexi
1989
    F7: 1989        UK Cheree CHEREE F3/3F (includes fold-out fanzine)
                Go Go Girl {Bolan}
                Simon E


The Pooh Sticks
Orgasm

album
1989
        Limited edition, available in pink and black vinyl.
        Recorded live in Trudi's basement on 17 September 1988.

    LP: 1989        UK 53rd & 3rd AGAMC 5
          Pet Sounds:
                I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee
                        Quite Well
                Heroes and Villians
                Foxy Boy
                Force Fed by Love
                Sex Head
          Phil Spector Was Here:
                On Tape
                Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution
                1-2-3 Red Light
                Heartbreak


The Pooh Sticks
The Pooh Sticks
(Singles Box Set)

album
1988 August
        At least two different coloured covers available.  Side one has the
        first four tracks, and a locking groove.  To hear track five, you
        have to pick the needle up and move it to the next groove.  Side
        two has two grooves, at the outer and inner extremities, separated
        by an area with band autographs and stick-figure pictures etched
        into the vinyl, and the message “OH NO HERE COME THE POOH STICKS
        AND THEY'VE GOT THEIR GUITARS WITH THEM.  THIS MEANS THEY'RE GOING
        TO MAKE A NOISE AND BE ALL HORRIBLE!” WELL GO SUCK MUSIC LOVERS WE
        JUST DON'T CARE!!!  Inner sleeve has cartoon The Incredible Story of
        FIERCE!  These songs were first issued as a boxed set of one-sided
        45's in June '88.

        Some copies include a sticker: “Includes all the EARLY FUNNY
        ones”.

        Hue (vocals)
        Paul (guitar)
        Stephanie (bass drum, guitar, drum sounds)
        Alison (bass)
        Trudi Tangerine (tamborine)

    LP: 1988.08     UK Fierce FRIGHT 028 (ltd. ed.)
          fright 028A:
                Heroes and Villains
                Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution
                123 Red Light
                Heartbreak
          -
                On Tape
          fright 028B:
                How To Get To Hue Pooh Stick
          -
                Please Hue, Please


The Pooh Sticks
“Alan McGee” CD

album
1988
        Contains the songs from the Singles Box Set and the first single.
        Limited edition of 500 copies.  Originally issued in slimline jewel
        box without a booklet.  Later copies were issued in a 7" box with a
        6-page booklet.  The cover of the box features a nude Hue posing
        with his arms behind his head and bears the legend “support the
        power of Pooh Stick / use the power of man / support the flower of
        Pooh Stick / use the word: / FUCK / the word is love”.

    CD: 1988        UK Fierce FRIGHT 026
                How To Get To Hue Pooh-Stick
                Heroes and Villains
                Indiepop Aint Noise Pollution
                1-2-3 Red Light
                Heart Break
                I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee
                        Quite Well
                On Tape
                Please Hue, Please


Dumb Angels
Love & Mercy

single
1988
        Hue (vocals)
        Trudi (vocals)

    7": 1988        UK Fierce FRIGHT 033 (same both sides, num. ltd. ed. of
                        500)
                Love & Mercy {Wilson/Landy}


The Pooh Sticks
Singles Box Set

collection
1988 June
        Box set of five one-sided 7" singles, hand-stamped and labeled, with
        photocopied insert.  B-sides have etched artwork.  Some singles were
        apparently released seperately in singlefold coloured sleeve.
        Limited edition of 50?.

  7"x5: 1988.06     UK Fierce FRIGHT 021-025
          Suck my lollipop (FRIGHT 021):
                1-2-3 Red Light
          Psychedelic bagel please (FRIGHT 022):
                Heroes and Villains
          Terminal chaos love (FRIGHT 023):
                Heartbreak
          David Padfield, you are my life (FRIGHT 024):
                I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee
                        Quite Well
          Let's go down to the arcade and get tattooed (FRIGHT 025):
                Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution


The Pooh Sticks
I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well

single
1988
    7": 1988        UK Fierce FRIGHT 024 (one-sided, etched, ltd. ed.)
                I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee
                        Quite Well


The Pooh Sticks
Heartbreak

single
1988
    7": 1988        UK Fierce FRIGHT 021 (one-sided, etched, ltd. ed.)
                Heartbreak


The Pooh Sticks
1-2-3 Red Light

single
1988
    7": 1988        UK Fierce FRIGHT 021 (one-sided, etched, ltd. ed.
                        of 1,000?)
                1-2-3 Red Light


The Pooh Sticks
On Tape

single
1988 February
    7": 1988.02     UK Fierce FRIGHT 011 (one-sided, ltd. ed. of 500?)
    7": 1988        UK Fierce FRIGHT 011 (one-sided, etched, ltd. ed. of
                        500?)
                On Tape


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