The following is a complete discography of the band Reel Big Fish.
| Reel Big Fish discography | |
|---|---|
 Reel Big Fish performing at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California on March 27, 2008. | |
| Studio albums | 9 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 5 |
| Video albums | 3 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Soundtrack albums | 16 |
| Demos | 3 |
| 7" vinyl records | 2 |
Studio albums edit
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US Indie [2] |
AUS [3] |
UK [4][5] | |||
| 1995 | Everything Sucks
|
— | — | — | 190 | |
| 1996 | Turn the Radio Off | 57 | — | — | — | |
| 1998 | Why Do They Rock So Hard?
|
67 | — | 54 | — | |
| 2002 | Cheer Up!
|
115 | — | 47 | 96 | |
| 2005 | We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy
|
155 | — | — | — | |
| 2007 | Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free
|
106 | 13 | — | 190 | |
| 2009 | Fame, Fortune and Fornication
|
177 | 26 | — | — | |
| 2012 | Candy Coated Fury
|
80 | 14 | — | — | |
| 2018 | Life Sucks...Let's Dance!
|
— | — | — | — | |
Live albums edit
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album
|
Compilations edit
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK [4][5] | ||
| 2000 | Viva La Internet/Blank CD
|
— |
| 2002 | Favorite Noise
|
115 |
| 2006 | Greatest Hit...And More
|
— |
| 2010 | A Best of Us... For the Rest of Us
|
— |
| 2011 | Skacoustic
|
— |
EPs edit
- Keep Your Receipt EP - July 1, 1997, Mojo Records/Jive Records
- Sold Out EP - 2002, Mojo Records/Jive Records (#62 UK)[5]
- Duet All Night Long (split EP with Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer) - February 20, 2007, Reignition Records[7]
- Happy Skalidays - December 15, 2014, Rock Ridge Music
Demos edit
- In The Good Old Days... (1992)
- Return of the Mullet (Reel Big Fish) (1994)[8]
- Buy This! (1994)
Video edit
- The Show Must Go Off! Reel Big Fish - Live at the House of Blues (2003)
- Reel Big Fish Live! In Concert! (2009)
7" vinyl records edit
- Teen Beef (with Goldfinger on reverse side)(1996)
- Vacationing in Palm Springs (with Cherry Poppin' Daddies on reverse side) (1997)
- Where Have You Been? (UK Exclusive) (2002)
- Monkey Man (UK Exclusive) (2005)
Singles edit
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Mod. Rock | US Air. | UK | |||
| 1997 | "Sell Out" | 10 | 69 | — | Turn the Radio Off |
| "Beer"[9] | — | — | — | ||
| "She Has a Girlfriend Now"[10] | — | — | — | ||
| 1998 | "Take On Me" | — | — | — | Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
| "The Set Up (You Need This)"[11] | — | — | — | ||
| "Somebody Hates Me"[12] | — | — | — | ||
| 1999 | "The Kids Don't Like It"[13] | — | — | — | |
| 2002 | "Where Have You Been?" | — | — | 76 | Cheer Up! |
| 2005 | "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" | — | — | — | We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy |
| 2007 | "Party Down"[14] | — | — | — | Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free |
| "Slow Down"[15] | — | — | — | ||
| 2009 | "Monkey Man" | — | — | 86 | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| 2012 | "I Dare You to Break My Heart"[16] | — | — | — | Candy Coated Fury |
| "Don't Stop Skankin'"[17] | — | — | — | ||
| 2017 | "Evil Approaches" | — | — | — | Digital-only release |
| 2018 | "You Can't Have All of Me"[18] | — | — | — | Life Sucks... Let's Dance! |
Soundtrack edit
- Misfits Of Ska – "Skatanic" (1995)
- Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy – "Unity" (1997)
- The Duran Duran Tribute Album – "Hungry Like the Wolf" (1997)
- BASEketball Original Soundtrack – "Take On Me", "Beer" (1998)
- Where is My Mind? – A Tribute to the Pixies – "Gigantic" (1999)
- Metalliska – "Kiss Me Deadly" (2000)
- The Solution to Benefit Heal the Bay – "Kiss Me Deadly" (2000)
- Samba De Amigo – "Take On Me" (2000)
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie Soundtrack – "Monkey Man" (2002)
- Because We Care: A Benefit for the Children's Hospital of Orange County – "Doo-Doo" (2002)
- Dive into Disney – "Baroque Hoedown (Main Street Electrical Parade)" (2002)
- Mosh Pit on Disney (Japanese Only) – "It's Not Easy (Pete's Dragon)" (2004)
- Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo – "We Close Our Eyes" (2005)
- Go Cat Go! A Tribute to Stray Cats – "Stray Cat Strut" (2006)
- TOKYOPOP Presents: Anime Trax, Vol. 1 – "Rave-o-lution" (Rave Master theme) (2006)
- Ladybird Soundtrack – "Snoop Dog, Baby" (2017)
- Clerks III Soundtrack – "No Hope" (a Louser song featuring Reel Big Fish) (2022)
Multiple titled songs edit
Songs that have different titles on different releases, despite being essentially the same song.
- "Fuck Yourself" (Everything Sucks) / "All I Want Is More" (Turn the Radio Off)
- "Cool Ending" (Turn the Radio Off) / "I'm Cool" (Everything Sucks, Why Do They Rock So Hard?)
- "Thank You for Not Moshing" (Why Do They Rock So Hard?) / "In the Pit" (Our Live Album Is Better than Your Live Album)
- "Big Fuckin' Star" (Everything Sucks) / "Big Star" (Why Do They Rock So Hard?)
Cover songs edit
Reel Big Fish are well known for their cover songs (so much so that their former label, Jive Records, chose to promote the album We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy with stickers on the CD jewel case proclaiming that the album included "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" and "Story of My Life"; both covers) and frequently end live shows with their cover of a-ha's 1985 hit "Take On Me". Reel Big Fish released their first studio album composed only of cover songs, entitled Fame, Fortune and Fornication, in January 2009.
Although the band are known to play a variety of other songs live regularly, this is a comprehensive, roughly chronological list of all known cover songs officially recorded by Reel Big Fish.
| Song | Originally By | Album(s) |
|---|---|---|
| "Take On Me"[1] | a-ha | Teen Beef BASEketball Soundtrack |
| "Unity" | Operation Ivy | Keep Your Receipt EP Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy |
| "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" | Rodgers and Hammerstein | Vacationing in Palm Springs Viva La Internet |
| "Hungry Like the Wolf" | Duran Duran | Sold Out EP Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
| "Kiss Me Deadly" | Lita Ford | Viva La Internet Cheer Up! |
| "Gigantic" | Pixies | Viva La Internet |
| "Uniform of Destruction" | Suburban Rhythm | Viva La Internet Runnin' Naked Thru the Cornfield |
| "Mele Kalikimaka" | Robert Alexander Anderson | Viva La Internet |
| "Love Boat" | Jack Jones | Viva La Internet |
| "Boys Don't Cry" | The Cure | Viva La Internet Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album |
| "Ska Sucks" | Propagandhi | Viva La Internet |
| "Boss DJ" | Sublime | Viva La Internet Cheer Up! |
| "Main Street Electrical Parade" | Main Street Electrical Parade | Dive into Disney |
| "New York, New York" | Liza Minnelli | Cheer Up! |
| "Rock It with I" | The Melodians | Cheer Up! |
| "Give It to Me" | The J. Geils Band | Cheer Up! The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Dance Wid Me" | Hepcat | The Show Must Go Off! Reel Big Fish Live at the House of Blues DVD |
| "So Lonely" | The Police | The Show Must Go Off! DVD |
| "Monkey Man" | Toots & the Maytals | The Wild Thornberrys Movie Soundtrack Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "It's Not Easy" | Helen Reddy and Sean Marshall | Mosh Pit On Disney |
| "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" | Morrissey | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" | Tracy Chapman | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album |
| "Story of My Life" | Social Distortion | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy |
| "Stray Cat Strut" | The Stray Cats | Go Cat Go! A Tribute to Stray Cats The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "We Close Our Eyes" | Oingo Boingo | Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Ask" | The Smiths | Duet All Night Long |
| "Lyin' Ass Bitch" | Fishbone | Duet All Night Long |
| "Another Day in Paradise" | Phil Collins | Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps For Free The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Nothin' But a Good Time" | Poison | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" | Slade | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Veronica Sawyer" | Edna's Goldfish | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Authority Song" | John Mellencamp | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Brown Eyed Girl" | Van Morrison | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "The Long Run" | The Eagles | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Won't Back Down" | Tom Petty | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Keep a Cool Head" | Desmond Dekker & the Aces | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Talk Dirty to Me" | Poison | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Twist and Crawl" | The English Beat | Fame, Fortune and Fornication[2] |
| "Don't Let Me Down Gently" | The Wonder Stuff | Candy Coated Fury |
| "The Promise" | When in Rome | Candy Coated Fury |
| "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" | Elmo & Patsy | Happy Skalidays |
| "Lickle Drummond Boy" | Harry Simeone Chorale | Happy Skalidays |
| "Carol of the Beers" | Mykola Leontovych | Happy Skalidays |
| "Auld Lang Syne" | Robert Burns | Happy Skalidays |
| "Evil Approaches" | The Forces of Evil | Punk Rock Halloween[19] |
| "Ska Show" | The Forces of Evil | Life Sucks...Let's Dance! |
| "The Good Old Days" | The Forces of Evil | Life Sucks...Let's Dance! |
^ An instrumental version of the song also exists
^ bonus track only available on the vinyl album or via download
References edit
- ^ "Reel Big Fish Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard charts. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ Peaks in Australia:
- Why Do They Rock So Hard?: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 232.
- Cheer Up!: "Discography Reel Big Fish". australian-charts.com. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ a b "UK Top 40 Hit Database". Every hit. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
- ^ a b c "Chart Log UK: The Rabble Army - RZA".
- ^ "RIAA - Gold & Platinum Searchable Database - September 24, 2015". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ Paul, Aubin (December 17, 2006). "New Songs from Reel Big Fish/ Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer split EP". Punknews.org. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
- ^ "History of Reel Big Fish".
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - Beer (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - She Has A Girlfriend Now (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - The Setup (You Need This) (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - Somebody Hates Me (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - The Kids Don't Like It (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - Party Down (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - Slow down (CD)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - I Dare You To Break My Heart (Official Music Video)". youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - Don't Stop Skankin' (Official Music Video)". youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
- ^ "Reel Big Fish - You Can't Have All Of Me (2018, 256kbps, File)". discogs.com.
- ^ "Evil Approaches by Reel Big Fish, by Reel Big Fish". Punk Rock Halloween. Retrieved 2022-04-11.