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STOKED! 2007

INTIFADADAVIDA: Songs & Monologues 1989-1999, 2007

DEAR OXYGEN (with Lewis MacAdams), 2007

WHEN I GROW UP TO BE A MAN (2nd Printing, 2007)

WHEN I GROW UP TO BE A MAN (First Edition 2001)
11 Track CD. Produced by The Dark Bob except Without You and When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) Produced by The Dark Bob and Glenn Nishida. Andy Dick & The Dark Bob Produced by Andy Dick & The Dark Bob for Pollywog Sounds Company and MITB Records.
1. I Don’t Get That
2. That Perfect Day
3. Everything Can Wait (Except Love)
4. 40 Days And 40 Nights
5. You Keep Comin'’ At Me
6. Smokin’
7. Without You
8. Emmy Lou
9. When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
10. Singin’ A Song
11. ANDY DICK & THE DARK BOB

Unreleased tracks: War of ’99, Original Universe, Home of Stone, 50 Years Ago, Oh God Beautiful

KINGDOM COME (1998)
8 Song CD. Produced by John Chelew and The Dark Bob.
1. Pray For Rain
2. Valerie
3. Two Worlds
4. Hillowee! Hillowee! Hillowee!
5. Beirut
6. There’s A Place
7. 2000
8. Kingdom Come

Unreleased tracks: Temptation, Wanted Man, Only Love, Mighty L.A. River (Roll On)

AN EVER OMINOUS DREAM: The Dark Bob Sings 1991-1995 (1995)
13 Song CD. Anthology of 13 songs previously unreleased. Produced by The Dark Bob. Chronic Interactive Music and MITB Records. Distributed by Printed Matter, New York City.
1. When The Lion Roars
2. Who Are You To Me?
3. Parfectijed (For Everyone)
4. I Can’t Love You Enough
5. Complicated
6. He Knows What I Need
7. Dangertown
8. Heroes
9.An Ever Ominous Dream
10. Medley: Live Performance Monologue into
11. Love (Is An Opening)
12. Glorious Site
13. A Million Years of Love

Unreleased tracks: Radical Eyes, You’re The One I Love, Hard Travelin’

DANGERTOWN (1993)
8 songs. Produced by The Dark Bob. MITB Records.
1. Your Kind of Song
2. Emmy Lou
3. I Couldn’t Face The Fact
4. Ecstasy
5. I Wanna Get Close
6. Take A Walk
7. Ann
8. My Scarf Is A Dog

Unreleased tracks: The Batman’s Lament, Let People Be Free To Be, Everybody Knows (It Goes On and On)

UNCONTROLLABLE LOVE (1987)
5 song EP. Produced by Henry Lewy with The Dark Bob and Heidi Zin. AIN (An Illuminated Nation) Records. Vinyl available. A re-mastered CD with bonus tracks is scheduled for release.
1. King of the Darkness Ring
2. Uncontrollable Love
3. I’d Better Do Better
4. Save Me!
5. The Barking Dog

Unreleased tracks: (Oh!) Beautiful Clare, Everybody Knows

KABBALAMOBILE (Limited Edition Cassette) (1985)
Commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum Theater and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Text: Rachel Rosenthal, Music: Written and performed by The Dark Bob. Available Museum of Contemporary Art and M.I.T.B. Records. CD re-issue scheduled.

ON PICO b/w THE LEAST I CAN DO (1984)
45rpm single. Limited Edition (1,000) released by The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA as part of the Gold Coast Performance Art Festival featuring The Dark Bob, Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, Lewis MacAdams, Eleanor Antin and others.

ONE BOB JOB (1982)
One-sided 12in. Vinyl LP. M.I.T.B. Records.
1. Outside of Moab
2. The List
3. Interstate 5

Unreleased tracks: You’ve Changed A Lot, I’ll Be Gone (When I’m Gone), The Body Song, Tell Me That You Love Me, The Change (Has Come and Gone)

BEIRUT
45rpm single. Produced by Ron Meckler. High Performance Records.

RECENT COMPILATIONS with material by The Dark Bob:

The History of The Future (CD-ROM) (1999)
Compiled by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York City

History of the Onyx
(2000)
Compiled by Ulysses Jenkins, 5-CD Box set, Othervisions Art Band, Los Angeles

Bob & Bob DISCOGRAPHY - 1976–84
In addition to the above recordings, The Dark Bob's collaborative work as one-half of Bob & Bob yielded the following.


WE'RE ALL LUCKY (1984)
Cassette tape. Produced by MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) as part of the Territory of Art. Distributed Nationwide by MOCA.

WE KNOW YOU'RE ALONE b/w WE'VE BEEN SEEING THINGS (1983)
12 in. EP and cassette. Major U.S. distribution, limited European distribution. Produced by PolyGram/Polydor Records, New York, NY.

ROTTERBOBS (1983)
Cassette tape. released twice: 1. International Performance Art Festival, Lantaren Venster - Cassette distributed in the Netherlands only.

High Performance - The Record, Artists Doing Songs (1983)
dbl. LP. Distributed internationally. High Performance Records.

ACROSS AMERICA (1981)
12 in. LP. A continuous sound collage from the audio portion of performance by the same name. Distributed nationally by Printed Matter, New York, NY. M.I.T.B. Records.

SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE (1978)
12 in. LP. 14 original songs. Distributed nationally. M.I.T.B. Records.

BOB & BOB - THEIR GREATEST HITS (1976)
12 in. LP. 56 short cuts of Bob & Bob getting "hit". All spoken dialog. M.I.T.B. Records.