This Complete List Of Allan Holdsworth Albums And Songs presents the full discography of Allan Holdsworth studio and live albums. This Allan Holdsworth discography also includes select collaborations. All these brilliant Allan Holdsworth albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each Allan Holdsworth album as well as all original album covers. Every album listed below showcases the entire album track listing.
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH STUDIO ALBUMS
‘Igginbottom’s Wrench
Released 1969
Side One:
1 The Castle 2:55
2 Out Of Confusion 2:09
3 The Witch 3:03
4 Sweet Dry Biscuits 2:52
5 California Dreamin’ 4:00
6. Golden Lakes
Side Two:
1 Not So Sweet Dreams 5:00
2 Is She Just A Dream 4:33
3 Blind Girl 3:46
4 The Donkey 10:42
Velvet Darkness
Released 1976
CD Track Listings:
1. Good Clean Filth (5:20)
2. Floppy Hat (2:46)
3. Wish (4:20)
4. Kinder (3:07)
5. Velvet Darkness (4:42)
6. Karzie Key (3:11)
7. Las May (1:38)
8. Gattox (4:51)
9. Good Clean Filth – Alternate take (5:38)
10. Kinder -Alternate take (3:07)
11. Velvet Darkness – Alternate take (4:44)
12. Karzie Key – Alternate take (2:15)
13. Gattox – Alternate take (6:47)
I.O.U.
Released 1982
CD Track Listings:
1. The Things You See (when You Haven’t Got Your Gun) (5:50)
2. Where Is One (5:32)
3. Checking Out (3:34)
4. Letters Of Marquee (6:57)
5. Out From Under (3:32)
6. Temporary Fault (3:15)
7. Shallow Sea (5:51)
8. White Line (4:50)
Road Games (EP)
Released 1983
CD Track Listings:
- Three Sheets To The Wind
- “Road Games”
- “Water on the Brain—Pt. II”
- “Tokyo Dream”
- “Was There?”
- “Material Real”
Metal Fatigue
Released 1985
CD Track Listings:
1. Metal Fatigue (4:54)
2. Home (5:29)
3. Devil Take The Hindmost (5:33)
4. Panic Station (3:31)
5. The Un-Merry-Go-Round (14:06)
6. In The Mystery (3:49)
Atavachron
Released 1986
CD Track Listings:
1. Non Brewed Condiment (3:39)
2. Funnels (6:10)
3. The Dominant Plague (5:41)
4. Atavachron (4:45)
5. Looking Glass (4:31)
6. Mr. Berwell (6:21)
7. All Our Yesterdays (5:25)
Sand
Released 1987
CD Track Listings:
1. Sand (5:25)
2. Distance Vs. Desire (5:17)
3. Pud Wud (6:43)
4. Clown (5:14)
5. The 4.15 Bradford Executive (8:28)
6. Mac Man (4:02
Secrets
Released 1989
CD Track Listings:
1. City Nights (2:33)
2. Secrets (4:21)
3. 54 Duncan Terrace (Dedicated To Pat Smythe) (4:35)
4. Joshua (5:59)
5. Spokes (3:32)
6. Maid Marion (7:17)
7. Peril Premonition (4:44)
8. Endomorph (Dedicated To My Parents) (4:19)
Wardenclyffe Tower
Released 1992
CD Track Listings:
1. 5 to 10 (5:36)
2. Sphere Of Innocence (5:58)
3. Wardenclyffe Tower (8:44)
4. Dodgy Boat (5:37)
5. Zarabeth (6:31)
6. Against The Clock (4:58)
7. Questions (4:07)
8. Oneiric Moor (1:41)
9. Tokyo Dream (5:05)
10. The-Unmerry-Go-Round: Part 4 (3:01)
11. The-Unmerry-Go-Round: Part 5 (1:58)
Hard Hat Area
Released 1993
CD Track Listings:
1. Prelude (1:35)
2. Ruhkukah (5:34)
3. Low Levels, High Stakes (9:05)
4. Hard Hat Area (6:06)
5. Tullio (6:02)
6. House Of Mirrors (7:47)
7. Postlude (5:28)
None Too Soon
Released 1996
CD Track Listings:
1. Countdown (3:11)
2. Nuages (5:41)
3. How Deep Is The Ocean (5:29)
4. Isotope (5:42)
5. None Too Soon (7:44) :
– a) None Too Soon, Part 1
– b) Interlude
– c) None Too Soon, Part 2
6. Norwegian Wood (5:55)
7. Very Early (7:42)
8. San Marcos (3:24)
9. Inner Urge (6:15)
The Sixteen Men of Tain
Released 2000
CD Track Listings:
1. 0274 (7:41)
2. The Sixteen Men Of Tain (6:23)
3. Above And Below (3:05)
4. The Drums Were Yellow (5:55)
5. Texas (5:41)
6. Downside Up (7:03)
7. Eidolon (4:33)
8. Above And Below (Reprise) (4:06)
Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie
Released 2001
CD Track Listings:
1. The Duplicate Man [Intro] (1:51)
2. The Duplicate Man (4:37)
3. Eeny Meeny (4:43)
4. Please Hold On (3:56)
5. Snow Moon (7:59)
6. Curves (5:31)
7. So Long (5:27)
8. Bo Peep (3:42)
9. Don’t You Know (9:12)
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH COLLABORATION ALBUMS
Conversation Piece – Part 1 & 2, with Gordon Beck, Jeff Clyne and John Stevens
Released 1980
CD Track Listings:
1. Conversation Piece – Part 1 (23:11)
2. Conversation Piece – Part 2 (17:38)
The Things You See, with Gordon Beck
Released 1980
CD Track Listings:
1. Golden Lakes (4:45)
2. Stop Fiddlin’ (2:53)
3. The Things You See (4:29)
4. Diminished Responsibility (8:14)
5. She’s Lookin’, I’m Cookin’ (11:54)
6. At The Edge (3:15)
7. Up Country (4:15)
With a Heart in My Song, with Gordon Beck
Released 1988
CD Track Listings:
1. Equus (7:12)
2. 54, Duncan Terrace (5:10)
3. Ain’t No Grief (On The Southwest Chief) (8:20)
4. With A Heart In My Song (5:45)
5. 999 (4:20)
6. Sundays (3:56)
7. So, So, Calypso (5:28)
Truth in Shredding with Frank Gambale, and The Mark Varney Project
Released 1990
CD Track Listings:
- “Rocks”
- “Humpty Dumpty”
- “The Fall”
- “Not Ethiopia”
- “New Boots”
- “Ana Maria”
- “Bathsheba”
Heavy Machinery, with Jens Johansson and Anders Johansson
Released 1996
CD Track Listings:
- “Joint Ventures”
- “Beef Cherokee”
- “On the Frozen Lake”
- “Mission: Possible”
- “Good Morning, Mr. Coffee
- Siouxp of the Day”
- “On the Fritz”
- “Tea for One and a Half”
- Never Mind Our Weather”
- “Macrowaves”
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH LIVE ALBUMS
I.O.U. Live
Released 1997
CD Track Listings:
1. Road Games
2. White Line
3. Panic Station
4. Letters Of Marque
5. Material Real
6. Metal Fatigue
7. Where Is One
8. The Things You See
9. Was There (Something)
All Night Wrong
Released 2002
CD Track Listings:
1. Lanyard Loop (5:46)
2. The Things You See (6:53)
3. Alphrazallan (7:04)
4. Funnels (5:01)
5. Zone (9:19)
6. Water On The Brain Pt. II (5:30)
7. Above & Below (8:21)
8. Gas Lamp Blues (7:59)
Live – Then!
Released 2003
CD Track Listings:
1. Zone I (4:08)
2. Proto-Cosmos (5:42)
3. White Line (9:39)
4. Atavachron (4:42)
5. Zone II (5:30)
6. Pud Wud (8:05)
7. House of Mirrors (4:26)
8. Non-Brewed Condiment (5:44)
9. Zone III (7:39)
Blues For Tony (with Alan Pasqua/Jimmy Haslip/Chad Wackerman)
Released 2009
CD Track Listings:
Disc One:
1. Blues for Tony
2. Fifth, The
3. It Must Be Jazz
4. Fred
5. Guitar Intro
6. Pud Wud
Disc Two:
1. Looking Glass
2. To Jaki, George and Thad
3. San Michele
4. Protocosmos
5. Red Alert
Live in Japan 1984
Released 2018
CD Track Listings:
1 Tokyo Dream
2 Road Games
3 White Line
4 Panic Station
5 Letters of Marque
6 Home
7 Devil Take the Hindmost
8 Material Real
9 Metal Fatigue
10 Where is One
11 The Things You See (When You Haven’t Got Your Gun)
12 Was There?
Warsaw Summer Jazz Days ’98
Released 2019
CD Track Listings:
CD
1. The Sixteen Men of Tain (6:42)
2. Looking Glass (5:31)
3. Above and Below (6:26)
4. Water on the Brain (Pt. II) (5:35)
5. Material Unreal (9:07)
6. 0274 (8:13)
7. Letters of Marque (11:57)
8. Texas (7:35)
9. Proto-Cosmos (3:58)
DVD:
1. Looking Glass (5:19)
2. Water on the Brain (Pt. II) (5:21)
3. Improvisation (6:22)
4. Material Unreal (2:31)
5. 0274 (7:53)
6. Letters of Marque (10:28)
7. Texas (6:08)
8. The Sixteen Men of Tain (7:00)
9. Looking Glass (0:54)
10. Improvisation (2:35)
11. Above and Below (4:03)
12. Texas (1:44)
13. Proto-Cosmos (3:55)
Leverkusen 2010
Released 2021
CD Track Listings:
1. Leave Them On (7:23)
2. Fred (6:02)
3. Water on the Brain – Pt. II (5:33)
4. Madame Vintage (4:22)
5. Above and Below (8:12)
6. The Things You See (When You Haven’t Got Your Gun) (2:54)
7. Material Real (2:46)
8. The Fifth (9:08)
9. Letters of Marque (11:49)
10. Proto-Cosmos (3:14)
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