Shinkansen Discography
SHINKANSEN 01 (7″)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Abba On The Jukebox
Abba On The Jukebox / She’s Always There
April 1996
SHINKANSEN 02 (7″)
TOMPOT BLENNY: Thinking Of Ways Of Keeping You Warm
Thinking Of Ways Of Keeping You Warm / Sleepwaiting For Trains; Smile Again
May 1996
SHINKANSEN 03 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Her Handwriting
A Single Kiss; For This One; What Can I Say To Change Your Heart?; Abba On The Jukebox; The Far Too Simple Beauty; Less Than Love; Less Than Love (reprise); Do People Ever?; Last Summertime’s Obsession; A London Story; Saffron, Beautiful And Brown-Eyed; Nobody But You; Two Octobers; To Keep Your Heart Whole
May 1996
SHINKANSEN 05 (7″/CD)
TOMPOT BLENNY: Green Is The Best Colour
7″: Green Is The Best Colour; The Short-Haired Girl In The Left-Legged Pineapple / Dr.Fitzpiers
CD: Dr.Fitzpiers; Sleepwaiting For Trains; Green Is The Best Colour; Thinking Of Ways Of Keeping You Warm; Smile Again; The Short-Haired Girl In The Left-Legged Pineapple
November 1996
SHINKANSEN 06 (7″)
EAST RIVER PIPE: Miracleland
Miracleland / King Of Nothing Never; Mindcracker
September 1997
SHINKANSEN 07 (CD)
EAST RIVER PIPE: Mel
The Club Isn’t Open; I Am A Small Mistake; The Way They Murdered Me; Beautiful Worn-Out Love; New York Crown; Kill The Action; We’re Going To Nowhere; Miracleland; Lonely Line Away; Prettiest Whore; Guilty As Charged; Take Back The Days; Life Is Born Today
October 1997
SHINKANSEN 08 (7″/CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: The Rainbow
7″: The Rainbow / Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms
CD: The Rainbow; Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms; She’s Always There; The Rainbow (long version)
November 1997
SHINKANSEN 09 (7″/CD)
BLUEBOY: Marco Polo
7″: Marco Polo / What Do People Do All Day?
CD: Marco Polo; What Do People Do All Day?; Love Yourself; Melancholia
June 1998
SHINKANSEN 10 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Lips That Taste Of Tears
All I Never Said; Headlights; Never Loved You More; The Rainbow; Made For Each Other; Letter Never Sent; I’m Tired, I’ve Tried; You’ve Done Nothing Wrong Really; Old Photographs; Never Loved You More 2; Deserve; Cecilia In Black And White; Tailspin; Farewell To Forever
February 1998
SHINKANSEN 11 (7″)
MONOGRAPH: Paper Museum
International Klein Blue; Cheering, Applause / Brevity Thing; Paper Museum
June 1998
SHINKANSEN 12 (CD)
BLUEBOY: The Bank Of England
Joined-Up Writing; Miss UK; Love Yourself; By Appointment; Marco Polo; Jennifer Yeah!; Disco Bunny; Chadwick; Ask The Family; Bradford, Texas; Angel At My Table
June 1998
SHINKANSEN 13 (7″/CD)
CODY: Anticyclone
7″: Anticyclone; Photogenic
CD: Anticyclone; Photogenic; Dovetails; Holding Pattern
October 1998
SHINKANSEN 14 (double CD)
THE FIELD MICE: Where’d You Learn To Kiss That Way?
Five Moments; If You Need Someone; Sensitive; Couldn’t Feel Safer; Below The Stars; Coach Station Reunion; Everything About You; It Isn’t Forever; Between Hello And Goodbye; And Before The First Kiss; Tilting At Windmills; Missing The Moon; Let’s Kiss And Make Up; Triangle; Canada; Anyone Else Isn’t You; September’s Not So Far Away / Emma’s House; Landmark; Willow; Holland Street; Clearer; Quicksilver; Star Of David; When Morning Comes To Town; The Last Letter; Indian Ocean; This Love Is Not Wrong; Fabulous Friend; White; When You Sleep; An Earlier Autumn; End Of The Affair; This Is Not Here; A Wrong Turn And Raindrops; So Said Kay
October 1998
SHINKANSEN 15 (7″/CD)
MONOGRAPH: Please Don’t Be Afraid Of Anything
7″: Please Don’t Be Afraid Of Anything / Strange Disease; A Story Time Has Told Us
CD: Please Don’t Be Afraid Of Anything; Strange Disease; A Story Time Has Told Us; International Klein Blue; Cheering, Applause; Brevity Thing; Paper Museum
February 1999
SHINKANSEN 16 (CD)
HARVEY WILLIAMS: California
Cindy’s Been And Gone; The Ballad Of Katie And Amanda; Her Boychart; Lost California Love; On Holiday; Everything’s Alright; Introducing…; Eurostar
May 1999
SHINKANSEN 18 (7″ blue vinyl)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Doo-wop Music
Doo-Wop Music / Now That There’s Nothing In The Way
August 1999
SHINKANSEN 19 (7″)
MONOGRAPH: Don’t Gimme Shelter
Don’t Gimme Shelter / Holding On In Colour; Pale Light
September 1999
SHINKANSEN 20 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Dark Eyes
Dark Eyes; A Slender Wrist; Her World Beneath The Waves; Half In Love With Leaving
October 1999
SHINKANSEN 21 (CD)
MONOGRAPH: Lorelei
Something That You Do; Speaking Clearly; An Afterthought; The River; Last Word To The Underdog; To Be Loved; Our Sometime Star; Don’t Gimme Shelter; Long Stretch; New League Of Nations; Your Perfect World; I Can’t Help It; Finding New Rest For The Ghost; Bring On The Lonely Hearts; Gallant Losers
October 1999
SHINKANSEN 22 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Broken By Whispers
Ripples; She Just Couldn’t Stay; Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise; To Leave It Now; Fragile; I No Longer Know Anything; Back To You; Birthday Girl; Snow Showers; Sleep; Dark Eyes
February 2000
SHINKANSEN 23 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: She Just Couldn’t Stay
She Just Couldn’t Stay; Find Her Gone; Smoke And Steam; Where Norfolk Meets Lincolnshire
June 2000
SHINKANSEN 24 (CD)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Lights On A Darkening Shore
A Story Time Has Told Us; Anticyclone; Melancholia; Abba On The Jukebox (7″ version); New League Of Nations; Thinking Of Ways Of Keeping You Warm; Bradford, Texas; Cindy’s Been And Gone; Doo-Wop Music; Rounder; Smile Again; Finding New Rest For The Ghost; Farewell To Forever; Joined-Up Writing; File Under Forsaken; Letter Never Sent; Her Boychart; Green Is The Best Colour; Paper Museum
June 2000
SHINKANSEN 25 (CD)
FOSCA: The Agony Without The Ecstasy
The Agony Without The Ecstasy; Confused And Proud; Weightless
June 2000
SHINKANSEN 26 (CD)
FOSCA: On Earth To Make The Numbers Up
The Agony Without The Ecstasy; It’s Going To End In Tears (All I Know); The Millionaire Of Your Own Hair; Storytelling Johnny; Assume Nothing; Live Deliberately; On Earth To Make The Numbers Up; There Is Another Country
October 2000
SHINKANSEN 27 (CD)
PACIFIC RADIO: Pacific Radio
Slow Refrain 1; Downwind; Pop Heart; You Don’t Understand; Head Start For Nothing; The Rain Comes Down; Slow Refrain 2
September 2000
SHINKANSEN 28 (CD)
TOMPOT BLENNY: Found Under Blankets
Red Light Ryan; Don’t Let Her Know; Ingleberry; Artless Aliens; Real-Life Scooby-Doo; Falling; Roses Jar; Found Under Blankets
November 2000
SHINKANSEN 29 (CD)
CODY: Stillpoint Primer
Never Expect Any More; August Song; Ideas Are Allies; Sleepy Park Royal; From The Edge Of Maps; Headlights Rush Forever; Ghost Shakers; Stickleback; Chromophone; Black Wings In A Blue Sky
November 2000
SHINKANSEN 30 (3″CD + booklet)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Christmas EP
TREMBLING BLUE STARS Introduction; PACIFIC RADIO Pop Heart; CODY Ghost Shakers; FOSCA The Millionaire Of Your Own Hair; TOMPOT BLENNY Found Under Blankets; TREMBLING BLUE STARS Christmas & Train Trips & Things
December 2000/March 2001
SHINKANSEN 31 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: The Ghost Of An Unkissed Kiss
The Ghost Of An Unkissed Kiss; As Long As She’s Needed; Before We Know It; While Your Heart Is Still Beating
September 2001
SHINKANSEN 32 (CD)
FOSCA: Supine On The Astroturf
Supine On The Astroturf; Square In The Social Circle; My Body Isn’t Me
September 2001
SHINKANSEN 33 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Alive To Every Smile
Under Lock And Key; With Every Story; Haunted Days; Here All Day; Until The Dream Gets Broken; St.Paul’s Cathedral At Night; The Ghost Of An Unkissed Kiss; Maybe After All; Ammunition; Little Gunshots
October 2001
SHINKANSEN 35 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: Slow Soft Sighs
Slow Soft Sighs; Home And Dry; It’s Easier To Smile
April 2002
SHINKANSEN 36 (CD)
FOSCA: Secret Crush On Third Trombone
Secret Crush On Third Trombone; Diary Of An Antibody: Entries 1-22; Diary Of An Antibody: Entries 23-30
June 2002
SHINKANSEN 37 (CD)
CODY: Distance Learning
Uplift; Share and Enjoy; Bolero and Cipher; Cooperativa; Dorian; Evening Falls; Oscillator; A Single Thread; In Our Own Time; Ripples Run Forever; Sentinels
June 2002
SHINKANSEN 38 (CD)
FOSCA: Diary Of An Antibody
Secret Crush On Third Trombone; Idiot Savant; The Director’s Cut; Oh Well There’s Always Reincarnation; Universal Gatecrasher; Supine On The Astroturf (album version); I’m On Your Side; Letter To Saint Christopher; I Know I Have Been Happier; Rude Esperanto
August 2002
SHINKANSEN 39 (CD)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS: A Certain Evening Light
The Rainbow; Abba On The Jukebox (7″ version); Slow Soft Sighs; While Your Heart Is Still Beating; Doo-Wop Music; Before We Know It; Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms; As Long As She’s Needed; She’s Always There; A Slender Wrist; Home And Dry; Find Her Gone; Her World Beneath The Waves; It’s Easier To Smile; Now That There’s Nothing In The Way; Smoke And Steam; Half In Love With Leaving; Christmas & Train-Trips & Things
June 2003
SHINKANSEN 40 (digital)
TOMPOT BLENNY: Sketches From Longhamville
Leicester Road; Smurf Girl; Wanda Falbo; All This Love; Christian Band; Dark Honey; I Was The Serpent; Of Troy; Save Follow; Meadowstone; So Far; Swiggo And The Winkybird; Ebola; Longhamville
January 2017
SHINKANSEN 41 (digital)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Other Futures Shine Like Stars In Other People’s Eyes
Cooperativa; The Millionaire of Your Own Hair; Smurf Girl; Haunted Days; You Can’t Have It All; August Song; Leicester Road; Secret Crush on Third Trombone; Pop Heart; The Ghost of an Unkissed Kiss; Real-Life Scooby-Doo; The Agony Without The Ecstasy; Dark Eyes; Dorian; Found Under Blankets; Don’t Gimme Shelter; Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise; Rude Esperanto; Sleepy Park Royal
November 2017