Arista Records Album Discography, Part 26: Time Bomb Recordings
Artist manager Jim Guerinot formed the Time Bomb label in 1995 in Laguna Beach, California, as a vehicle for anything that would qualify as alternative rock music, punk and indie rock in particular. Its most popular artist was the band Social Distortion (indeed, the label’s first few releases were reissues of albums the group release prior to the label’s founding); the label was also home to such acts as Peter Searcy, Mike Ness, No Knife, Berlin, and the Amazing Crowns. It also allowed the Goldenvoice label to use its numbering system for the purpose of issuing two albums recorded by the crime-fighting superhero punk band The Aquabats.
The label was distributed by Arista from 1995 until 2000. From then onward, its releases became sporadic, with one album being done under Sony Music distribution and two others being distributed by BMG, with a Social Distortion compilation arriving by way of RED Distribution. It has even gone its own way for some 2014 releases by the Offspring.
Arista-distributed Time Bomb releases were in a 70930–43500 series. The vinyl releases used a label with a white top half and a black bottom half. The top half featured a logo with a clock strapped to a series of explosives and the text “TIME BOMB RECORDINGS” in a typewriter font. The text ring read “Time Bomb Recordings, 219 Broadway #519, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. Manufactured and Distributed by Arista Records, Inc., a Bertelsmann Music Group Company, 6 West 57th Street, N.Y., N.Y., 10019. Manufactured in U.S.A.” This discography covers only the Arista-distributed era of Time Bomb Recordings.
70930–43500–1/2/4 — Mommy’s Little Monster — Social Distortion [1995] Reissue of 13th Floor SD 1301. The Creeps (I Just Wanna Give You)/Another State Of Mind/It Wasn’t A Pretty Picture/Telling Them//Hour Of Darkness/Mommy’s Little Monster/Anti-Fashion/All The Answers/Moral Threat
70930–43501–1/2/4 — Prison Bound — Social Distortion [1995] Reissue of Restless 72251–1/2/4. It’s The Law/Indulgence/Like An Outlaw (For You)/Backstreet Girl/Prison Bound/No Pain No Gain/On My Nerves/I Want What I Want/Lawless/Lost Child
70930–43502–1/2/4 — Mainliner (Wreckage From The Past) — Social Distortion [1995] 1945 (Posh Boy)/Playpen (Posh Boy)/Mainliner/Moral Threat/All The Answers//Justice For All/Under My Thumb/1945 (13th Floor)/Playpen (13th Floor)/Mass Hysteria
70930–43503–2 — Peace Thru Vandalism/When In Rome Do As The Vandals — Vandals [1995] Reissue of 7 72288–2. Copies of this CD would feature either black or light blue labels. These are labeled by Discogs as black or light blue discs, but this is inaccurate terminology as the playing sides of all copies have standard silver coating. Tracks 1–6 are from the “Peace Thru Vandalism” album; tracks 7–17 are from the “When in Rome Do as the Vandals” album. Wanna Be Manor/Urban Struggle/The Legend Of Pat Brown/Pirate’s Life/H.B. Hotel/Anarchy Burger (Hold The Government)/Ladykiller/Bad Birthday Bash/Master Race (In Outer Space)/Big Bro Vs. Johnny Sako/Mohawk Town/Viking Suit/Hocus Pocus/I’m A Fly/Slap Of Love/Airstream/Rico
70930–43504–1/2/4 — Pop Bus — Elevator Drops [02–27–96] Side 1 is labeled as “Pop Side”, while Side 2 is labeled as “Drop Side”. Snow/Car 2/Be A Lemonhead (Beautiful Junkie)/Seeking Transport/Elevator To Heaven/The Last Fourth Of July…Ever//Car/Drop 19 (I Wanna Be A)/Lollipop Fields/Lollipop Failure/Shangrila
70930–43505–1/2/4 — Drunk on the Moon — No Knife [04–96] Be Mini/Ginger Vitus/Habits/Punch ’N’ Judy/At The Heart Of The Terminal//Kiss Your Killer/Ephedrine/Small Of My Back/…If I Could Float…/Titanic/Daniels
70930–43506–1/2/4 — Resident Double U — Crumbox [02–97] 2-CD set. Rescuscitation/Two Palms Down/To The Well/Could You Focus, Please!/Nobody You Know/Leadfoot//Sharon Tate/Nu Slow/You Bought Sound/Weather King/Larry Tate/Grief And Sorrow
70930–43507–1/2/4 — Tenderloin — Tenderloin [07–97] So Cold/Fat Side Up/Lights Out/Bourbon/Amemba Me/Crazy Love/Pawnshop//Alligator/B, B & B/Waiting/Crackerbox/Leather Jesus/Precious And Grace
70930–43508–1/2/4 — . . . Hit Man Dreams . . . — No Knife [07–15–97] Your Albatross/Charades/Hit Man Dreams/Jackboots/Testing The Model/Median/Rebuilding Jericho/Bad Landing/Roped In — Lock On/Lex Hit Reset/Sweep Away My Shadow
70930–43509–1/2/4 — People Mover — Elevator Drops [1997] Sentimental Love/Coke & Amphetamines/Right Back Home/Tokyo Techno/Proto/Maybe, I Don’t Know/Public Transport Authority…/Space Song/$7 Single/The March Of The Kraftwerk Replicants/Rats/The Theme To The Gary Newman Show/Proto Eleven/Unibomber Vs. Hollywood/People Mover/Starlight/Mophiglobe
70930–43510–1/2/4 — An Instinct For Detection — Lionrock [1997] Licensed from Deconstruction Records. Morning Will Come When I’m Not Ready/Straight At Yer Head/Peace Repackaged/Death Valley Clapperboard/Fire Up The Shoesaw/Don’t Die Foolish/Depth/Snapshot On Pollard Street/The Guide/Number Nine/Bag Of Biros/Wilmslow Road//Fire Up The Shoesaw (Vocal Mix)/Packet Of Peace (Chemical Brothers Mix)/Packet Of Peace (Prankster Sound System Mix)/Straight At Yer Head (An Instinct For Version)/Are You Willing To Testify?/Sun Up In The Centre/Call A Cab
70930–43511–2/4 — Dead Elvis — Death in Vegas [09–10–97] Licensed from Concrete Records. All That Glitters/Opium Shuffle/GBH/Twist And Crawl/Dirt/Rocco/Rekkit/I Spy/Amber/Rematerialised/68 Balcony/Sly
70930–43512–2/4 — The Fury of the Aquabats! — Aquabats [10–28–97] Released in conjunction with Goldenvoice. Super Rad!/Red Sweater!/Magic Chicken!/Fight Song!/Cat With 2 Heads!/The Story Of Nothing!/Captain Hampton And The Midget Pirates!/Martian Girl!/Attacked By Snakes!/Idiot Box!/Powdered Milk Man!/My Skateboard!/Phantasma Del Mar!/Lobster Bucket!/Theme Song!/(silence)-Playdough!
70930–43513–2/4 — Hell Comes To Your House — Various Artists [1997] Lude Boy — Social Distortion/Telling Them — Social Distortion/Daddy’s Gone Mad — Legal Weapon/Puss ’N’ Boots’ — Red Cross/Out Of My Head — Modern Warfare/Street Fightin’ Man — Modern Warfare/Deception — Secret Hate/New Routine-Suicide — Secret Hate/Suburban Bitch — Conseratives/Just Cuz-Nervous — Conservatives/Evil — 45 Grave/Concerned Citizen — 45 Grave/45 Grave — 45 Grave/Dogs — Christian Death/Reject Yourself — 100 Flowers/Marry It — Rhino 39/Death on the Elevator — Super Heroines/Embalmed Love — Super Heroines
70930–43514–2/4 — Peculiar World — Litany [05–19–98] Madrigal/By Myself/Aurora/Labyrinth/When You Gonna Stop/Rome/Schubert/Bad Faith/Cathedral/Buy Me An Ocean/Rapunzel
70930–43515–2/4 — City Delirious — Lionrock [06–02–98] Push Button Cocktail/Rude Boy Rock/Electric Hairdo/City Delirious/Best Foot Forward/Rock Steady Romance/She’s On The Train/Scatter & Swing/Wet Roads Glisten/A Cellar Full Of Noise/Canal Heist/Zip Gun Rumble/It’s Panoramic/Amazing New Product
70930–43516–1/2/4 — Live at the Roxy — Social Distortion [06–30–98] Story Of My Life/Bad Luck/Under My Thumb/Prison Bound/Mommy’s Little Monster/Mass Hysteria/The Creeps/Another State Of Mind/Let Me Be/No Pain, No Gain/Cold Feelings/Telling Them/I Was Wrong/1945/Don’t Drag Me Down/Ball & Chain/Ring Of Fire
70930–43517–1/2/4 — All Aboard! — Indigo Swing [07–14–98] The Indigo Swing/(Today’s The Day) I’m Glad I’m Not Dead/How Lucky Can One Guy Be?/Blue Suit Boogie/Baron Plays The Horses/That’s Where My Money Goes/Hot In Harlem/Regular Joe/What’s The Matter, Baby/Violent Love/The Way We Ought To Be/Drinkin’ It Up/So Long!/Memory Of You
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70930–43520–2/4 — Map of the Sky — Crumbox [10–27–98] Gravity Girl/Drown/Negative Type/Crush The Star/Novocaine/Still My Sun/Fourth Of July/The Sign/Golden State/Purolator/Map Of The Sky/Your Music’s Dead
70930–43521–2/4 — The Contino Sessions — Death in Vegas [09–14–99] Dirge/Soul Auctioneer/Death Threat/Flying//Aisha/Lever Street/Aladdin’s Story/Broken Little Sister/Neptune City
70930–43522–2/4 — F=O — Disappointment Incorporated [03–23–99] American/Forget/Don’t Think The Sun/Bleeding Boy/Candy (Let Me In)/Chinese/Hurts To Laugh/Gone To Heaven/Feelings Mean Nothing/Anna/Vanishing/Almost Again (Our Summer Song)
70930–43523–2/4 — Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives — Wellwater Conspiracy [02–09–99] Destination 24/Compellor/Teen Lambchop/Hal McBlaine/Born With A Tail/Destination 7/Red Light Green Light/B.O.U./Psycho Scrimm/Van Vanishing/Right Of Left Field/Ladder To The Moon/Dark Passage/Good Pushin’/Dr. Browne Dr. Greene/Jefferson Experiment
70930–43524–1/2/4 — Cheating at Solitaire — Mike Ness [04–13–99] The Devil In Miss Jones/Don’t Think Twice/Misery Loves Company/Crime Don’t Pay//Rest Of Our Lives/You Win Again/Cheating At Solitaire/No Man’s Friend//Charmed Life/Dope Fiend Blues/Ballad Of A Lonely Man/I’m In Love With My Car//If You Leave Before Me/Long Black Veil/Send Her Back/Company C
70930–43525–2/4 — Kitten Licks — Screamfeeder [06–29–99] Australian band. Static/Bridge Over Nothing/Dart/Bruises/Explode Your Friends/Down The Drinker/Summertime/Gravity/Ant/End Of The Wire/Helen’s Theme/Pigtails On A Rock
70930–43526–2/4 — Music From The Motion Picture “Idle Hands” — Various Artists [1999] Second Solution — Living End/Enthused — Blink-182/Beheaded (1999) — Offspring/Mama Said Knock You Out — Waking Hours/Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix) — Rob Zombie/Mindtrip (Idle Hands Mix) — Zebrahead/Push It — Static-X/Bleeding Boy — Disappointment Inc./Cailin — Unwritten Law/My Girlfriend’s Dead — Vandals/Rude Boy Rock — Lion Rock/Shout at the Devil — Motley Crue/Idle Hands Theme — Graeme Revell
79030–43527–2/4 — Primer — Chlorine [1999] Way Out/Before Too Long/Don’t Even Care/Back Down/Over You/Second Thoughts/Over Your Shoulder/Gravity/Live A Lie/Get To Tomorrow/Disappear
79030–43528–2/4 — Red Light! — Indigo Swing [06–01–99] Red Light!/The Best You Can/Pop’s At The Hop/Another Day In L.A./Love’s Gonna Find You/Hot Pot Boogie/Big Hair Mama/Don’t Worry So Much/They Say I Must Be Crazy/Stayin’ Up Late With Sonny/I Know My Love Is True/Ruby Mae/So Far Away From Me/Guillaume’s Pepper Step
79030–43529–1/2 — Fire in the City of Automatons — No Knife [05–18–99] Academy Flight Song/Minus One/Secret Handshake/Heavy Weather/K-214/The Spy//Charming/Angel Bomb/Short Term Memory/Under The Moon/Mission Control/If It Moves Kiss It
79030–43530–2/4 — The Aquabats Vs. The Floating Eye Of Death! And Other Amazing Adventures, Vol. 1 — Aquabats [10–26–99] Released in conjunction with Goldenvoice. Sequence Erase/Giant Robot-birdhead/Anti-matter/Lotto Fever/Lovers Of Loving Love/Chemical Bomb/The Man With Glooey Hands/Monsters Wedding/The Ballad Of Mr. Bonkers/Canis Lupus/Tiny Pants/The Thing On The Bass Amp/Amino Man/Hello, Good Night
79030–43531–2/4 — The Best Of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas: Volume One — Various Artists [1999] Selections from a concert held by the Pasadena-licensed Los Angeles station. Despite the title, this compilation contains a grand total of ZERO Christmas songs. Dammit — Blink 182/Stupid Girl — Garbage/What It’s Like — Everlast/Doll Parts — Hole/Walking On The Sun — Smash Mouth/Spiderwebs — No Doubt/I Will Buy You A New Life — Everclear/Everything Zen — Bush/The Distance — Cake/Fake Plastic Trees — Radiohead/I Alone — Live/Blister In The Sun — Violent Femmes
79030–43532–2/4 — Waking Hours — Waking Hours [07–27–99] Picture Show/Dolores/Work It Out/I Got You/Hold On/Morning Sun/Out Of My Mind/Love It, Be It/Caroline/Come Down/Don’t Fade Away/Life Goes On
79030–43533–2/4 — Could You Please And Thank You — Peter Searcy [02–22–00] Furniture/Losing Light Fast/Broken/Hateful/Ceiling Stars/Invent/Nothing/Could You Please And Thank You/Movie Star Life/Bored/Living (Last Day On Earth)
79030–43534–2/4 — Spend a Night in the Box — Reverend Horton Heat [03–21–00] Spend A Night In The Box/Big D Boogie Woogie/Sleeper Coach Driver/The Girl In Blue/Sue Jack Daniels/Hand It To Me/I’ll Make Love/It Hurts Your Daddy Bad/The Bedroom Again/King/Whole Lotta Baby/The Millionaire/Unlucky In Love/The Party In Your Head
79030–43535–2/4 — Sustainer — Starling [2000] Don’t Deflate/Earnest/Die Hard Crush/Delusional/Superfrayed/If I Could Do/Louise/Everything In The World/Celibate/Best Behaviour/Homely/Deliver Me
79030–43536–2/4 — Under The Influences — Mike Ness [11–09–99] All I Can Do Is Cry/Gamblin’ Man/Let The Jukebox Keep On Playing/I Fought The Law/Big Iron/One More Time/Six More Miles/A Thief In The Night/Once A Day/Funnel Of Love/House Of Gold/Wildwood Flower/Ball And Chain (Honky Tonk)
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79030–43539–2/4 — Live: Sacred and Profane — Berlin [04–18–00] Masquerade/Touch/No More Words/Steps/You Don’t Know/The Metro/Turn You On/For All Tomorrow’s Lies//Confession Time/Tell Me Why/Sex (I’m A … )/Take My Breath Away/Shayla/Angel’s Wings/Xgirl
79030–43540–2/4 — Royal — Amazing Crowns [06–08–00] Still Royal/Mr. Fix-It/Perfect Sin/The Ride/Halos & Horns/Flipping Coins/Hat Size/Invitation To Alienation/Out The Door/Greasy/Losing Streak/Bitter Life/Blue Light/Chop Shop
79030–43541–1/2/4 — The Rising Tide — Sunny Day Real Estate [06–20–00] Vinyl releases appeared on green vinyl. Killed By An Angel/One/Rain Song//Disappear/Snibe/The Ocean//Fool In The Photograph/Tearing In My Heart/Television//Faces In Disguise/The Rising Tide
79030–43542–2/4 — Live At The Hootenanny Volume One — Various Artists [2000] Five-O Ford — Reverend Horton Heat/Just One More Time — Derailers/I’m In Love With My Car — Mike Ness/Walkin’ Like Brando — Royal Crown Revue/Muleskinner Blues — Deke Dickerson/Everyday — Cadillac Tramps/Out in California — Dave Alvin/Rumblin’ Bass — Lee Rocker/Halos and Horns — Amazing Crowns/You Sure Never Loved Me — Hot Rod Lincoln/Talkin’ Woman — Buddy Blue/Don’t You Wait For Me — Russell Scott/Slowdown — Paladins
