The discography of the British new wave band Visage consists of five studio albums, eight compilation albums, one EP and nineteen singles. Formed in 1978, the band released their first single "Tar" on the short-lived Radar Records label in 1979, before signing to Polydor Records in 1980. Their second single, "Fade To Grey", was released soon afterwards and became an international hit. After three studio albums and several personnel changes, the group disbanded in 1985 though a new line-up emerged in the 2000s, again led by vocalist Steve Strange. In 2013, the band released a new album, Hearts and Knives, the first new Visage album for 29 years. The following year, the band released Orchestral, a partly live album featuring various classic Visage songs remade with a symphony orchestra. The band's final studio album, Demons to Diamonds, was released in November 2015 (released posthumously following Strange's death in February that year).
| Visage discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 5 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 8 |
| Singles | 19 |
| Video albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 13 |
| Remix albums | 4 |
Albums
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [3] |
FIN [4] |
GER [5] |
NZ [6] |
SWE [7] |
US [8] | |||
| Visage | 13 | 17 | 11 | — | 1 | 14 | 22 | 178 | ||
| The Anvil |
|
6 | — | — | 25 | 41 | 38 | 33 | — |
|
| Beat Boy |
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79 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hearts and Knives |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Demons to Diamonds |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||
Live albums
edit| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Orchestral |
|
A (partly) live album of eleven Visage songs (and one new track) recorded with the Czech Synthosymphonica Orchestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra |
Remix albums
edit| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection (Special Dance Mix) |
|
Originally only available on cassette, but was also released promotionally on vinyl to DJs. Released on CD by Rubellan Remasters (US) in 2020. |
| Beat Boy (Special Cassette Remix) |
|
Remix of the Beat Boy album, originally only available on cassette. Released on CD by Rubellan Remasters (US) in 2022. |
| Darkness to Diamond |
|
Companion album to Demons to Diamonds, containing remixes, extended versions and alternate versions |
| The Wild Life – The Best of Extended Versions and Remixes 1978 to 2015 |
|
A companion album to The Wild Life compilation featuring newly recorded 12" versions and remixes of tracks from throughout the band's history. Not the original 12" mixes, but re-recorded versions by Visage's final incarnation. |
Compilation albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | |||
| Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection |
|
38 |
|
| Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage [A] |
|
— | |
| Master Series |
|
— | |
| The Damned Don't Cry |
|
— | |
| The Face – The Very Best of Visage |
|
— | |
| The Face – The Very Best of Visage |
|
— | |
| The Wild Life – The Best of 1978–2015 |
|
— | |
| The Wild Life |
|
— | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
EPs
edit| Title | EP details |
|---|---|
| Visage |
|
Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [11] |
BEL (FL) [12] |
GER [5] |
IRE [13] |
NL [14] |
NZ [6] |
SWE [7] |
SWI [15] | ||||
| "Tar" | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Visage | |
| "Fade to Grey" | 1980 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 10 | 12 | 1 | ||
| "Mind of a Toy" | 1981 | 13 | — | — | — | 10 | 16 | 42 | — | — | — | ||
| "Visage" | 21 | — | — | — | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Moon Over Moscow" [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "The Damned Don't Cry" | 1982 | 11 | 94 | — | — | 39 | 22 | — | — | — | — | The Anvil | |
| "Night Train" | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Whispers" [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Pleasure Boys" | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection | ||
| "Love Glove" | 1984 | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Beat Boy | |
| "Beat Boy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fade to Grey" (Bassheads '93 remix) | 1993 | 39 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage | |
| "Shameless Fashion" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hearts and Knives | |
| "Dreamer I Know" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Never Enough" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hidden Sign" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "She's Electric (Coming Around)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fade to Grey" (Orchestral) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Orchestral | ||
| "Lost in Static" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hearts and Knives | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Promotional singles
edit| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "The Anvil" / "Der Amboss" [C] | 1982 | The Anvil |
| "Can You Hear Me" | 1984 | Beat Boy |
| "Casualty" [D] | ||
| "Questions" [D] |
Videos
editVideo albums
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Visage |
Music videos
edit| Title | Year | Director[18] |
|---|---|---|
| "Fade to Grey" | 1980 | Godley & Creme |
| "Mind of a Toy" | 1981 | |
| "Visage" | Midge Ure | |
| "The Damned Don't Cry" | 1982 | |
| "Night Train" | Jean-Claude Luyat | |
| "Pleasure Boys" | Tim Pope | |
| "Love Glove" | 1984 | Nick Morris[19] |
| "The Horseman" | 1985 | Jean-Claude Luyat |
| "Yesterday's Shadow" | ||
| "Love Glove" | ||
| "Wild Life" | ||
| "Beat Boy" | ||
| "Dreamer I Know" | 2013 | Armando[20] |
Notes
edit- ^ Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage is in fact a re-release of Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection with two extra tracks and a new catalogue number.
- ^ a b "Moon Over Moscow" and "Whispers" were only released as singles in Japan.
- ^ A remix of "The Anvil" was released as the B-side of the "Pleasure Boys" single, but became a popular dancefloor track in 1982. A single-sided 7" single was pressed (believed to be either a promo or a test pressing, as it had the same catalogue number as "Pleasure Boys" (POSP 523), and a German-language version, "Der Amboss", was released as a 12" promo (POSPV 523).
- ^ a b There is debate over the actual validity of these promotional releases, as they may be counterfeit.
References
edit- ^ a b c "VISAGE | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 330. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Discographie Visage". austriancharts.at (in German). Retrieved 12 August 2009.
- ^ "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit VER - VÄT". Sisältää hitin. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Discography Visage". charts.nz. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Discography Visage". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 820. ISBN 0898201179.
- ^ a b c "British certifications – Visage". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 22 August 2022. Type Visage in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Visage)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ "Discographie Visage - austriancharts.at". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Discografie Visage - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade - hitparade.ch". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "British certifications – Visage". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 22 August 2022. Type Visage in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Visage)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ "Visage - Visage (VHS) at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
- ^ "Visage Love Glove original video". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "Visage - Dreamer I Know (From the Album Hearts And Knives)". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2013.