Serial Monogamy: New Label For Every Album

the cannanes

BBR's track record:

1998 England Made Me: Chrysalis
2000 The Facts Of Life: Nude
2003 Passionoia: One Little Indian

Bad Brains, especially if you take out all those filler live albums, is pretty slutty;ROIR, Caroline, SST, Caroline, Epic, Maverick, Reggae Lounge.

Captain Beefheart's Resumé:

A&M (2 singles only)
Kama Sutra
Buddha
Blue Thumb
Straight
Reprise
Mercury
Warner Bros.
Virgin

Never more than 2 per label.

MF Doom?

elektra, fondle em, big dada, stones throw, rhymesayers, epitaph .... whatever label all that Special Herbs shiz is on ...

okay not the longest, but not bad.

Tiny Lights:
Temple
Gaia
Absolute A Go-Go/Rough Trade
Doctor Dream (2 albums)
Bar/None (ditto)

17 Pygmies: 5 albums, 5 different labels

Graham Parker went through a few labels (including Mercury, Arista, Elektra, RCA, Razor and Tie, and now Bloodshot. Also, if I remember correctly, he was even signed to another major label and dropped without even releasing an album (was that Atlantic?).

So far, Beefheart owns.

For the Inches project, Les Savy Fav put out singles through nine different labels.

Good evening, we are The Fall:

Step Forward (2 albums)
Rough Trade (2 albums, 1 EP)
Situation Two/Kamera (2 albums)
Begger's Banquet/PVC (2 albums)
B.B./WEA (1 album)
B.B/RCA (3 albums!)
Fontana (3 albums)
Matador (2 albums)
Permanent (1 album)
Jet (1 album)
Artful (2 albums)
Eagle (1 album)
Voiceprint (1 album)
Action (1 album)
Slogan/Sanctuary (1 album)

This is essentially a chronological list of their studio albums. I did not include live albums except for Totale's Turns, Seminal Live, and Kurious Oranj as those have new and/or studio material and came out in order. God knows what you'd get if you included all the live records, collections, compilations, and outtakes.

Pretty impressive but that RCA/Fontana streak really ruins it. Still, they've been on a roll lately.

Man, if not for that second album on Artful (A World Bewitched?) they would be our current champions with 7 for 7!

But a bunch of those Beefheart ones are 2-per-label also!

2nd Fall album for Artful was Marshall Suite.

before DGC, Sonic Youth pretty much belonged in this category

It's kind of a different animal, but Prince has used a different label to distribute each of his last several records, hasn't he?

I can't be bothered to put these in chronological order, but you get the idea anyway :

Masami Akita's solo and group recordings as Merzbow

Age Of 369/Chant 2 CD - 2CD Extreme - Extreme Special Editions, Australia 1996
Aka Meme cassette V2_Archief, Holland 1984
Akasha Gulva CD, ltd. 1000 Alien8 Recordings, Canada 1996
Amlux CD Important Records, USA 2002
Animal Magnetism CD Alien8 Recordings, Canada 2003
Antimonument picture LP, CD ZSF, Japan / Art Directe, Sweden 1986
Aqua Necromancer CD Alien8 Recordings, Canada 1998
Artificial Invagination 3" CD Vanilla Records, Japan 1991
A Taste of Merzbow CD MEGO, Austria 2002
Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets 2LP RRRecords, USA 1986
Batztoutai with Material Gadgets (recreate version) 2CD RRRecords, USA 1993
Blues Maggots CD-R ZSF, Japan
Cloud Cock OO Grand CD, ltd. 500 ZSF, Japan 1990
Collapse 12 Floors CD OHM Records, Norway 2000
Crocidura Dsi Nezumi cassette RRRecords, USA 1988
Cycle CD Very Friendly, UK 2003
Dada Rotenvator LP, ltd. 175 Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany 1995
Dharma CD Hydrahead, USA 2001
Door Open at 8 am CD Alien8 Recordings, Canada 1999
Ecobondage LP (ltd. 300), CD ZSF, Japan / Distemper, USA 1987
Electric Salad CD Etherworld, USA 1996
Electroknots picture 7" Cold Spring, UK 1995
Electro Magnetic Unit CD Los Apson?, Japan 2004
Electroploitation 7" Hax, Italy 1994
Fantail CD, ltd. 500 Clu Clux Clam, Canada 2002
Flare Gun 12" EP, ltd. 479 Ten Bob Swerver, UK 1995
Frog LP, ltd. 1000
"frog-colored" vinyl Misanthropic Agenda, USA 2001
Frog+ 2CD Misanthropic Agenda, USA 2003
Great American Nude/Crash For Hi-Fi CD Alchemy Records, Japan 1991
Green Wheels CD/5" vinyl Self Abuse Records, USA 1995
Hanover Interruption LP Dom, Germany 1991
Happenings 1000years Time Ago 7" ltd 200
gray vinyl ideal Recordings, Sweden 1999
Hard Lovin' Man CD Anoema Recordings, Finland 2001
Hole CD ltd. 500 Heelstone, Germany 1994
Hummingbird 7", ltd. 500
denim sleeve L.S.D. Organisation, USA 2001
Hybrid Noisebloom CD Vinyl Communications, USA 1997
Ikebukuro Dada CD Circumvent Recordings, USA 2002
Kinbakubi - Soundtrack CD ROM Cine Magic, Japan 1994
Last of Analogue Session (Catapillar, Medamaya, Springharp) 3CD Important Records, USA 2003
Live at 20000v, 30 sept 1995 1-sided 12",
red vinyl Blackbean & Placenta, USA 1996
Live at Radio 100 (Akita, Bara & Reiko) CD, ltd. 500 ERS, Holland 2000
Live in Khabarovsk, CCCP - I'm Proud by rank of the workers LP ZSF, Japan 1988
Live Magnetism CD Caminante Recordings, USA 2003
Lowest Music II cassette
Magnesia Nova CD Staalplaat, Holland / Perverse Series, Greece 1995
Maschinenstil CD Dual Plover, Australia 1998
Material Action 2 LP Eastern Works, Japan 1983
Mercurated CD Alchemy Records, Japan 1996
Merzbeat CD Important Records, USA 2002
Merzbox Sampler CD Extreme, Australia 1997
Merzzow CD Opposite Records, USA 2002
Metal Mad Man cassette Stinky Horse F*ckers 1992
Metalvelodrome - Exposition Of Electro-Vivisection 4CD Box, ltd. 700 Alchemy Records, Japan 1993
Mini Cycle 3" CD OHM Records, Norway 2004
Mixed Total cassette, ltd. 250 Sterilized Decay, UK 1997
Mort Aux Vaches - Locomotive Breath CD Staalplaat, Holland 1995
Music For Bondage Performance CD Extreme, Australia 1991
Music For Bondage Performance 2 CD Extreme, Australia 1996
Music For Deadman 2 7" orange vinyl Robot, USA 1994
Neo Orgasm 7" blue vinyl Vertical, USA 1994
New Takamagahara CD OHM / Jazzassin Records, Norway 1998
Nil Vagina For Mice 7" Banned Productions, USA 1993
Noisembryo-'Psycho-Analytic Study Of Coital Noise Posture' CD The Releasing Eskimo, Sweden 1994
Noizhead CD, ltd. 1000 Blast First, UK 1995
Oersted CD Vinyl Communications, USA 1996
Offering CD, ltd. 505 Tantric Harmonies, Russia 2003
Paradise Pachinko CD-R, ltd. 70 Tochnit Aleph, Germany 1999
Pinkream CD, 2x10" Dirter Promotions, UK 1995
Pornoise 5 cassette box Statutory Tapes/RRR, USA 1984
Project Frequency LP, ltd. 200 AIPR, Germany 1996
Psychorazer CD Kubitsuri Tapes, Japan 1997
Pulse Demon CD Release, USA 1995
Puroland CD OHM Records, Norway 2002
Rainbow Electronics CD Alchemy Records, Japan 1990
Rainbow Electronics 2 CD Dexter's Cigar, USA 1996
Recycled Music cassette RRRecords, USA
Red 2 Eyes 10" pink vinyl V2_Archief, Holland 1997
Rod Drug 93 7" The Way Out Sound, USA 1993
Scatologic Baroque (never released) CD + CD ROM Hachiman Publishing, Japan 1989
S.C.U.M. Scissors For Cutting Merzbow 2LP, ltd 500 ZSF, Japan
SCUM/Scissors For Cutting Merzbow - SCUM/Scan has Undergone Several Minor Revisions cassette Japan 1989
SCUM/Society For Cutting Up Merzbow - Severences cassette Discordia Concordia/ZSF, Japan/USA 1990
Sha Mo 3000 CD, Ltd 900
CD Boxset w/CD-r, Ltd 99 Essence Music, Brazil 2004
Song For Fandango (Sordinent Sentinental)
Space Metalizer CD Alien8 Recordings, Canada 1997
Spiral Honey CD, ltd 500 Work In Progress, UK 1996
Steel Cum 7" yellow vinyl Verticle, USA 1993
Storage LP, ltd. 500 ZSF, Japan 1988
Tamago CD, Ltd. 350 Plan DX-17, USA 2004
Tauromachine CD Release, USA 1996
Tentacle CD Alchemy Records, Japan 1999
The prosperity of vice, the misfortunes of virtue CD Che, UK 1996
Timehunter 4x3"CD Ant-Zen, Germany 2003
Tint CD Single Vinyl Communications, USA 1997
Venereology CD Relapse, USA 1994
Vibractance CD E(R)ostrate, France 1998
Wakantanka / Aboriginie of Anniversary 50 Years After War 7", ltd. 120 Syntactic, Austria 1995
White Blues (* sometimes called 'Now') 7" ltd. 500 Self Abuse Records, USA 1994
Yoshinotsune CD, ltd. 500 Clu Clux Clam, Canada 2004
1930 CD Tzadik, USA 1998
24 Hours - A Day of Seals 4CD Dirter Promotions, UK 2002
Merzbox - 50 CD Box plus extras Extreme, Australia 2000