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Bill Nelson discography
Studio albums122
EPs8
Soundtrack albums4
Live albums2
Compilation albums16
Singles33
Singles box sets1
Collaborative albums2
Collaborative EPs1
DVDs3

English singer-songwriter Bill Nelson's discography, excluding his time with Be-Bop Deluxe, Red Noise, Channel Light Vessel, and colloborative records, consists of 122 studio albums; this also includes albums within larger album sets that have seen standalone releases at later dates. Nelson has operated under various major and independent records labels such as Mercury, Portrait, Virgin, and personal labels Cocteau and Sonoluxe.

In addition to an extensive solo discography, Nelson has produced and contributed recordings for several artists such as Gary Numan, David Sylvian, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and the Skids.[1]

Studio albums

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1970s

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Title Release details
Northern Dream
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Smile

1980s

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Title Year Release details Peak chart positions Notes
UK
[2]
Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam 1981 7
Sounding the Ritual Echo (Atmospheres for Dreaming) [a]
The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart) 1982
  • Released: June 1982
  • Label: Mercury
28
Chimera (mini album) 1983
  • Released: May 1983
  • Label: Mercury
30
Savage Gestures for Charms Sake (mini album)
  • Released: December 1983
  • Label: Cocteau
Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours) (album set) The Summer of God's Piano 1985
  • Released: January 1985
  • Label: Cocteau
Rereleased October 1986
Chamber of Dreams (Music from the Invisibility Exhibition) Rereleased June 1986
Pavilions of the Heart and Soul Rereleased August 1989
A Catalogue of Obsessions Rereleased August 1989
Getting the Holy Ghost Across 1986 91 [b]
Living for the Spangled Moment (mini album)
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: Portrait
Chameleon
  • Released: November 1986
  • Label: Themes International Music
Iconography (Orchestra Arcana)
  • Released: December 1986
  • Label: Cocteau
[c]
Map of Dreams 1987
  • Released: January 1987
  • Label: Cocteau
Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights (album set)
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: Cocteau
[d]
Optimism (Orchestra Arcana) 1988
  • Released: September 1988
  • Label: Cocteau
[c]
Demonstrations of Affection (album set) Chimes and Rings 1989
  • Released: December 1989
  • Label: Cocteau
Each separately rereleased September 1990
Nudity
Heartbreakland
Details
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

1990s

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Title Year Release details Notes
Simplex 1990
  • Released: September 1990
  • Label: Cocteau
Altar Pieces
  • Released: July 1990
  • Label: The Orpheus Organisation
Luminous 1991
Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars 1992
  • Released: August 1992
  • Label: Virgin
Crimsworth (Flowers, Stones, Fountains and Flames) 1995
  • Released: February 1995
  • Label: Resurgence
Practically Wired (or How I Became Guitar Boy)
  • Released: March 1995
  • Label: All Saints
My Secret Studio, Vol. 1 (Music from the Great Magnetic Back of Beyond) (album set) Buddha Head
  • Released: December 1995
  • Label: Resurgence
Rereleased August 1997
Electricity Made Us Angels Rereleased August 1997
Deep Dream Decoder Rereleased June 1997
Juke Box for Jet Boy
After the Satellite Sings 1996
  • Released: April 1996
  • Label: Resurgence
Confessions of a Hyperdreamer: My Secret Studio, Vol. 2 (album set) Weird Critters 1997
  • Released: February 1997
  • Label: Populuxe
Rereleased June 1998
Magnificent Dream People
Atom Shop 1998

2000s

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Title Year Release details Notes
Whistling While the World Turns 2000
  • Released: June 2000
  • Label: Lenin Imports
Caliban and the Chrome Harmonium 2001
  • Released: August 2001
  • Label: Almost Opaque
Noise Candy (A Creamy Centre in Every Bite!) (album set) 2002
  • Released: June 2002
  • Label: Toneswoon
Astral Motel
  • Released: September 2002
  • Label: Almost Opaque
Whimsy (album set) 2003
  • Released: June 2003
  • Label: Fabled Quixote
Luxury Lodge
  • Released: August 2003
  • Label: Almost Opaque

Simultaneously released

The Romance of Sustain – Volume One: Painting with Guitars
  • Released: August 2003
  • Label: Universal Twang
Plaything 2004
  • Released: January 2004
  • Label: Universal Twang
Custom Deluxe
  • Released: October 2004
  • Label: Universal Twang

Simultaneously released

Dreamland to Starboard
Satellite Songs
  • Released: October 2004
  • Label: Sonic Masonic
Wah-Wah Galaxy
  • Released: November 2004
  • Label: Almost Opaque
Rosewood – Ornaments and Graces for Acoustic Guitar: Volume One 2005
  • Released: May 2005
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Rosewood – Ornaments and Graces for Acoustic Guitar: Volume Two
  • Released: July 2005
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Orpheus in Ultraland
  • Released: October 2005
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon
The Alchemical Adventures of Sailor Bill: a Coastal Song Suite
  • Released: November 2005
  • Label: Sonoluxe
[e]
Neptune's Galaxy 2006
  • Released: July 2006
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Arcadian Salon
  • Released: October 2006
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon

Simultaneously released

Return to Jazz of Lights
  • Released: October 2006
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Gleaming Without Lights 2007
  • Released: April 2007
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Secret Club for Members Only
  • Released: October 2007
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon
Simultaneously released
And We Fell into a Dream
  • Released: October 2007
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Silvertone Fountains 2008
  • Released: June 2008
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Simultaneously released
Illuminated at Dusk
Mazda Kaleidoscope
  • Released: September 2008
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Clocks & Dials
  • Released: November 2008
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon
Simultaneously released
Golden Melodies of Tomorrow
  • Released: November 2008
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Fancy Planets 2009
  • Released: July 2009
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Simultaneously released
Here Comes Mr Mercury
The Dream Transmission Pavilion
  • Released: September 2009
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon
Simultaneously released
Theatre of Falling Leaves
  • Released: September 2009
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Non-Stop Mystery Action
  • Released: November 2009
  • Label: Sonoluxe

2010s

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Title Year Release details Peak chart positions Notes
UK Indie
[2]
SCOT
[2]
Modern Moods For Mighty Atoms 2010
  • Released: September 2010
  • Label: Blue Shining Fountain
Captain Future's Psychotronic Circus
  • Released: November 2010
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon
Simultaneously released
Fables and Dreamsongs (A Golden Book of Experimental Ballads)
  • Released: November 2010
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Fantasmatron 2011
  • Released: August 2011
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Hip Pocket Jukebox (mini album)
  • Released: October 2011
  • Label: none
Simultaneously released
Model Village
  • Released: October 2011
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Signals from Realms of Light
Songs of the Blossom Tree Optimists 2012
  • Released: January 2012
  • Label: Sonoluxe
The Last of the Neon Cynics
  • Released: May 2012
  • Label: Sonoluxe
[f]
Joy Through Amplification: The Ultra-Fuzzy World of Priapus Stratocaster
  • Released: July 2012
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Return to Tomorrow (These Tapes Rewind: Volume One)
  • Released: September 2012
  • Label: Discs of Ancient Odeon
Simultaneously released
The Palace of Strange Voltages
  • Released: September 2012
  • Label: Sonoluxe
The Dreamshire Chronicles
  • Released: November 2012
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Blip! 2013
  • Released: June 2013
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Simultaneously released
The Tremulous Doo-Wah Diddy (Blip! 2)
Albion Dream Vortex
  • Released: September 2013
  • Label: Sonoluxe
The Sparkle Machine (Several Sustained Moments)
  • Released: December 2013
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Stereo Star Maps 2014
  • Released: November 2014
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Shining Reflector
  • Released: December 2014
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Astroloops 2015
  • Released: January 2015
  • Label: Astrotone
[g]
Quiet Bells
  • Released: March 2015
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Swoons and Levitations (Musical Magic from Fantasmo's Soundarium)
  • Released: April 2015
  • Label: Sonoluxe
The Years
  • Released: June 2015
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Plectrajet (Painting with Guitars Volume Two)
  • Released: August 2015
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Electric Atlas
  • Released: November 2015
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Loom (Astroloops Volume Two)
  • Released: December 2015
  • Label: Astrotone
Perfect Monsters 2016
  • Released: February 2016
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Special Metal
  • Released: April 2016
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
All That I Remember
  • Released: July 2016
  • Label: Sonoluxe
New Northern Dream
  • Released: October 2016
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Six String Super Apparatus (Painting with Guitars Volume Three)
  • Released: December 2016
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
The Awakening of Dr Dream 2017
  • Released: March 2017
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
Kid Flip & the Golden Spacemen
  • Released: April 2017
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
Luxury Wonder Moments
  • Released: May 2017
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Songs for Ghosts
  • Released: October 2017
  • Label: Sonoluxe
That Old Mysterioso 2018
  • Released: January 2018
  • Label: Sonoluxe
The Unrealist
  • Released: February 2018
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
Drive This Comet Across the Sky
  • Released: April 2018
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
Dynamos and Tremolos
  • Released: July 2018
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Auditoria
  • Released: December 2018
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Stand By: Light Coming 2019
  • Released: August 2019
  • Label: Sonoluxe
26 86
The Last Lamplighter
  • Released: August 2019
  • Label: Tremolo Boy
Old Haunts
  • Released: November 2019
  • Label: Sonoluxe
47
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

2020s

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Title Year Release details Peak chart positions
UK Indie
[2]
SCOT
[2]
The Jewel 2020
  • Released: April 2020
  • Label: Sonoluxe
11 68
New Vibrato Wonderland
  • Released: December 2020
  • Label: Sonoluxe
45
Dazzlebox 2021
  • Released: April 2021
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Mixed Up Kid
  • Released: December 2021
  • Label: Sonoluxe
My Private Cosmos
  • Released: December 2021
  • Label: Sonoluxe
47
Electra (In Search of the Golden Sound) 2022
  • Released: July 2022
  • Label: Sonoluxe
25
Marvellous Realms 2023
  • Released: January 2023
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Stupid/Serious
  • Released: January 2023
  • Label: Sonoluxe
All the Fun of the Fair
  • Released: November 2023
  • Label: Sonoluxe
47
Starlight Stories
  • Released: December 2023
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Powertron 2024
  • Released: May 2024
  • Label: Sonoluxe
37
Studio Cadet
  • Released: December 2024
  • Label: Sonoluxe
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

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Title Release details Notes
Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios, London
  • Released: June 2012
  • Label: Salvo
[h]
Tripping the Light Fantastic
  • Released: September 2017
  • Label: Sonoluxe

Soundtracks

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Title Release details Notes
Das Kabinett (the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
  • Released: November 1981
  • Label: Cocteau
[i]
La Belle et la Bête
Picture Post
  • Released: April 2010
  • Label: Sonoluxe
[j]
Pedalscope
  • Released: June 2014
  • Label: Sonoluxe
[k]

Extended plays

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Title Year Release details
Sleepcycle 1982
  • Released: April 1982
  • Label: Cocteau
King of the Cowboys
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Cocteau
Flaming Desire and Other Passions
  • Released: December 1982[7]
  • Label: PVC
Dancing on a Knife's Edge 1983
  • Released: May 1983
  • Label: Cocteau
The World and His Wife
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: Cocteau
Hard Facts from the Fiction Department 1984
  • Released: May 1984
  • Label: Cocteau
Giants of the Perpetual Wurlitzer
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: Cocteau
The Cote D'Azur E.P. 1986
  • Released: October 1986
  • Label: Cocteau

Singles

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Title Year Peak chart positions Album Notes
UK
[2]
UK Indie
"Do You Dream in Colour?" 1980 52 Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
"Rooms with Brittle Views" 1981 Non-album single
"Banal" Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
"Youth of Nation on Fire" 73
"Living in My Limousine"
"Airfields" (To Heaven a Jet) / "Tony Goes to Tokyo (and Rides the Bullet Train)" (The Revox Cadets) Non-album single [l]
"Eros Arriving" 1982 The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart)
"Flaming Desire"
"Touch and Glow" 1983 Permanent Flame (The Beginner's Guide to Bill Nelson)
"Acceleration" 1984 78 4[8] Chimera
"Sex-Psyche-Etc" (Orchestra Arcana) 1985 Iconography
"Wildest Dreams" 1986 Getting the Holy Ghost Across
"Secret Ceremony" (Scala) (theme from Brond)[citation needed] 1987 Non-album single [m]
"Life in Your Hands" 1989
"The Dead We Wake with Upstairs Drums" 1992 Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars
"Six Strings for Sara" 2007 Non-album single
"Contemplation-2007" Getting the Holy Ghost Across
"The Dreamsville Poetry Experiment" (with the Dreamsville Poets) Non-album single
"A Million Whistling Milkmen" 2008 Simultaneously released
"I Hear Electricity" / "Kiss You Slowly" Fancy Planets / The Dream Transmission Pavilon
"Rocket to the Moon" 2009 Non-album single
"The Jingler"
"Soluna Oriana" 2010
"Holey Moley, It's a Parallel World!"
"Frost-O-Matic"
"Silent Night" 2012 Simultaneously released
"Think and You'll Miss It" / "Beat Street"
"Snow Is Falling" 2013 Arcadian Salon
"Starland" Non-album single
"The Rumbler" / "Perfidia 2017" 2017
"Variation on the Theme of a White Christmas"
"The Lockdown Song (It's All Downhill from Here)" 2020
"Brave Flag" / "Mondo Bravado" 2022
"All Dressed Up in Your Art School Clothes" / "Five Flying Horses" 2023
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Collaborations

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Albums

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Title Release details
Culturemix with Bill Nelson (with Culturemix)
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Resurgence
Fantastic Guitars (with Reeves Gabrels)
  • Released: July 2014
  • Label: Sonoluxe

Extended plays

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Title Release details
Three White Roses & a Budd (with Harold Budd and Fila Brazillia)
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Twentythree

DVDs

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Title Release Details
Flashlight Dreams... and Fleeting Shadows: an Audio-Optical Diary by Bill Nelson
Picture House
  • Release date: 2010
  • Label: Visuluxe
Bill Nelson and the Gentlemen Rocketeers: Filmed live at Metropolis Studios

Compilations

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Albums

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Title Year Release details Peak chart positions Notes
UK Indie
[2]
Vistamix 1984
The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything 1985
  • Released: February 1985
  • Label: Cocteau
Das Kabinett / La Belle et la Bête 1985
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Cocteau
Chimera / Savage Gestures for Charms Sake 1987
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Cocteau
The Strangest Things (A Collection of Recordings: 1979–1989) 1989
  • Released: October 1989
  • Label: Enigma
Duplex: The Best of Bill Nelson 1989
  • Released: September 1989
  • Label: Cocteau
Magpie Box Set 1992
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Magpie Direct Music
What Now, What Next? (The Cocteau Years Compendium 1980-1990) 1998
The Hermetic Jukebox (Orchestra Arcana) 2002
  • Released: December 2002
  • Label: Fabled Quixote
Crimsworth / Culturemix 2003
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Resurgence
The Practice of Everyday Life: Celebrating 40 Years of Recordings 2011
The Dreamer's Companion Volume 1: How I Got My Secret Powers 2014
  • Released: January 2014
  • Label: Sonoluxe
Simultaneously released
The Dreamer's Companion Volume 2: In This I Reveal My Secret Identity
The Dreamer's Companion Volume 3: Songs of the Bel-Air Rocketmen
Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from the Echo Observator 2017
  • Released: December 2017
  • Label: Esoteric
Transcorder: The Acquitted by Mirrors Recordings 2020
  • Released: December 2020
  • Label: Sonoluxe
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"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles box sets

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Title Release details Notes
Permanent Flame (The Beginners Guide to Bill Nelson)
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: Cocteau
[n]

Compilation appearances

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Title Release details
Future Perfect
Electrotype: The Holyground Recordings 1968–1972
  • Released: February 2001
  • Label: Holyground

Contributions

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Albums

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Year Album Artist Role
1970 A to Austr (Musics from Holy Ground) A to Austr Guitar and Hawaiian guitar[9]
1971 Astral Navigations (split album) Lightyears Away / Thundermother Guitar on "Yesterday" and "Today (North County Cinderella)"; guitar, vocals on "Tomorrow (Buffalo)"
1978 Disguise in Love John Cooper Clarke Guitar on "I Don't Want To Be Nice", "Readers Wives", and "Health Fanatic"
1979 Days in Europa (original mix) Skids Producer, keyboards
1980 Days in Europa (remix) Co-producer, keyboards
1981 La Rocca! Snips Synthesizers
1982 Rice Music Masami Tsuchiya E-bow guitar
What Me Worry? Yukihiro Takahashi Guitars, E-bow guitar
1983 Listen A Flock of Seagulls Producer on "(It's Not Me) Talking"
Naughty Boys Yellow Magic Orchestra Guitar
Naughty Boys (Instrumental)
Third Eye Monsoon E-bow guitar, electric guitar; bass on "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Tomorrow's Just Another Day Yukihiro Takahashi Guitar on "This Island Earth"; guitar, backing vocals on "Are You Receiving Me"
Warriors Gary Numan Guitar, keyboards; co-producer except "Sister Surprise", "The Tick Tock Man", and "Love Is Like Clock Law"
1984 Time and Place Yukihiro Takahashi Guitar, vocals
Viva Lava Liva Sandii & the Sunsetz Lyrics on "Walk Away"
Wild & Moody Yukihiro Takahashi Guitar, vocals on "Helpless"; lyrics, co-composer, guitar, vocals on "Bounds of Reason Bonds of Love"
1986 Gone to Earth David Sylvian Guitar on "Before the Bullfight", "Wave", "Silver Moon", "The Healing Place", "Answered Prayers", and "Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees"
1987 Code Cabaret Voltaire Guitar on "Don't Argue", "Here to Go", "Trouble (Won't Stop)", "White Car", and "No One Here"
Still Looking for Heaven on Earth Crazy House Guitar on "Burning Rain", "This Means Everything to Me", "Feel the Fire", "Heaven Said My Name", and "Shake (Sell Your Soul)"
1988 Ego Yukihiro Takahashi Co-writer on "Only the Heart Has Heard"
1990 Gagalactyca (split album) Chris Coombs & Lightyears Away / Thundermother Lead guitar on Chris Coombs & Lightyears Away tracks
1991 By the Dawn's Early Light Harold Budd Acoustic and electric guitars; co-composer on "The Place of Dead Roads"
Heaven & Hell: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground – Volume Two Various Producer, keyboard on "Pale Blue Eyes"; "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" (Bill Nelson and the Roy Rogers Rocketeers)
Lovesnake Jean Park Producer on "Your Body in Soap" and "Feel like a Wheel"
Rain Tree Crow Rain Tree Crow Guitar on "Big Wheels in Shanty Town", "Blackwater", and "Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City"
Willerby The Rhythm Sisters Producer, guitars, sitar, keyboards
1992 Chill & Kiss Ramon Tikaram Guitar on "Love So Terse", "Get It On", "This Song in You", and "Get Stoned"
The Familiar Roger Eno with Kate St John Co-producer, guitar, percussion, Korg M1 synthesizer
1993 Geography Culturemix Guitars
1994 Earthly Paradise Joe Hisaishi Musician
1995 Lines of Desire Su Lyn Producer, guitar, bass on "Out of the Ice Age", "The Photograph", and "Precinct of Life"
The Way Out Is the Way In Audio Active & Laraaji Guitar on "Music & Cosmic (Feel Yourself)"[10]
1996 360° Gillcover & the Monkey Producer, keyboards
1997 Yablokitay Nautilus Pompilius Producer, guitars, keyboards, percussion, vocals
2001 Alienshamanism Dr. Jan (guru) Guitar solo on "Alienshamanism – Prologue"; flamenco guitar solo on "Flamenco Luminoso"; guitars and E-bow guitars on "Desire Machine"
Loose Routes: One – Music from Holyground Various "A Little Bit of Nelsonia", "Outro to the Friend", and "Dear Mr. Fantasy"
Loose Routes: Two – Music from Holyground Guitar on "From King John's Christmas"
2010 Leaving the Electric Circus Sea of Wires Co-producer, mixer, guitars
2015 Dreams & Absurdities Dave Sturt Co-writer, guitar, E-bow guitar on "White & Greens in Blue"
2016 Animals They Dream About Units Co-producer, synthesizers, guitars, drums

Extended plays

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Year EP Artist Role
1983 New Way to Move Units Producer, guitar, synthesizer
1999 The Eternal Desire Machines of Dr Jan Dr. Jan (guru) Guitars and E-bow guitars on "Desire Machine (Dance Meditation)"
2000 Pink & Clean Honeytone Cody Producer
Believe in the Promise of Tomorrow Producer, piano

Singles

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Year Single Artist Role
1979 "Charade" / "Grey Parade" Skids Producer, keyboards; co-writer on "Grey Parade"
"Masquerade" Co-producer, keyboard arrangements
"Working for the Yankee Dollar" / "Vanguard's Crusade" Producer, keyboards on "Vanguard's Crusade"
1980 "Animation" / "Pros & Cons" Keyboards; Co-producer on "Animation"; producer on "Pros & Cons"
1981 "Losing You" Stranger Than Fiction Producer
"Novel Romance" Nash the Slash Producer only on "Novel Romance"
"Telecommunication" A Flock of Seagulls Producer only on "Telecommunication"
1982 "Are You Receiving Me" Yukihiro Takahashi Guitar, backing vocals only on "Are You Receiving Me"
"Tomorrow Never Knows" Monsoon Guitars and bass
"Wings of the Dawn (Prem Kavita)" E-bow guitar only on "Wings of the Dawn (Prem Kavita)"
1983 "(It's Not Me) Talking" A Flock of Seagulls Producer only on "(It's Not Me) Talking"
"Sister Surprise" / "Poetry & Power" Gary Numan Co-producer on "Poetry & Power"
"Warriors" Co-producer, guitar, keyboards
1985 "Castles in Spain" / "A Gathering", "Ring Those Bells" (12") The Armoury Show Co-writer on "Ring Those Bells"
"Stranger Things Have Happened" / "Bounds of Reason, Bonds of Love", "Metaphysical Jerks" (12") Yukihiro Takahashi Co-writer, vocals, guitar, keyboards on "Bounds of Reason, Bonds of Love"; writer, guitar, keyboards on "Metaphysical Jerks"
1990 "Infotainment" The Rhythm Sisters Producer, guitar, sitar, keyboards
"Magic Boomerang" The Mock Turtles Producer
1991 "Rain" / "She Rides" The Rain Poets Producer; guitar on "Rain"; sitar on "She Rides"

Notes

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  1. ^ Sounding the Ritual Echo... was originally packaged as a free LP with certain copies of Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam (1981).[3]
  2. ^ Issuing label Portrait, due to fear of backlash in America due to the title for Getting the Holy Ghost Across (1986), released and restructured the album in the US as On a Blue Wing.[4]
  3. ^ a b The albums Iconography (1986) and Optimism (1988) are credited to Orchestra Arcana, an alias for Bill Nelson.
  4. ^ Chance Encounters... (1987) is a studio album set which additionally included Ecclesia Gnostica (Music for the Interior Church) EP exclusive to its release.
  5. ^ In The Alchemical Adventures of Sailor Bill... (2005), Nelson is credited as Bill Nelson and His Lighthouse Signal Mechanism Orchestra.
  6. ^ The CD release of The Last of the Neon Cynics (2012) additionally contained a graphic novel by Matt Howarth.[citation needed]
  7. ^ Astroloops (2015) was exclusively released with a purchase of an Astroluxe Cadet from Eastwood Guitars.[citation needed]
  8. ^ Credited as Bill Nelson and the Gentlemen Rocketeers.
  9. ^ The soundtracks Das Kabinett... (1981) and La Belle et la Bête (originally released with some copies of the 1982 studio album The Love That Whirls...) were both made for stage productions by the Yorkshire Actors Company; both soundtracks were later reissued together as a double album in 1985.[5]
  10. ^ Picture Post is the soundtrack to the documentary American Stamps.[citation needed]
  11. ^ Pedalscope (2014) is the soundtrack to the cycling documentary Velorama.[6]
  12. ^ In the single B-side "Tony Goes to Tokyo (and Rides the Bullet Train)" (1981), Nelson is credited as The Revox Cadet.
  13. ^ The 1987 single "Secret Ceremony" is credited to Scala, a group that consisted of Bill Nelson & Daryl Runswick.
  14. ^ Except for the single "Touch and Glow", the singles box set Permanent Flame... (1983) contained material previously released by Nelson, Be-Bop Deluxe, and Red Noise.

References

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  1. ^ McNair, James (October 2022). "Music in Dreamland". Mojo. No. 347. pp. 56–61.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Bill Nelson | Artist | Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  3. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. pp. 1069–71. ISBN 1-84195-615-5.
  4. ^ LeRoy, Dan. "On a Blue Wing – Bill Nelson | AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  5. ^ Robbins, Ira. "Bill Nelson". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
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