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Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist Ed Kuepper co-founded and recorded with the punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and the grunge-like The Aints.

He has also released 18 solo albums as well as another 14 limited-release albums of live and broadcast performances.[1][2]

Kuepper has won two ARIA Music Awards for Best Independent Album—Black Ticket Day (1992) and Serene Machine (1993). His highest chart placing was with Honey Steel's Gold (1991), which reached No.28 on the national album chart.[1]

Albums

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Studio albums

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Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[3]
Electrical Storm
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: Hot (HOTLP 1020)
  • Format: LP, cassette
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Rooms of the Magnificent
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: Hot (HOTLP 1027)
  • Format: LP, cassette
 98
Everybody's Got To
  • Released: June 1988
  • Label: Truetone (CDP 790513)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
 42
Today Wonder
  • Released: September 1990
  • Label: Hot (HOTLP 1032)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
 139
Honey Steel's Gold
  • Released: November 1991
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1036)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
 28
Black Ticket Day
  • Released: August 1992
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1040)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
 45
Serene Machine
  • Released: April 1993
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1042)
  • Format: Cassette, CD
 48
Character Assassination
  • Released: August 1994
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1049)
  • Format: CD
 32
A King in the Kindness Room
  • Released: July 1995
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1052)
  • Format: CD
 99
Frontierland
  • Released: October 1996
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1056)
  • Format: CD
 103
Starstruck
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1064)
  • Format: CD
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With a Knapsack on My Back
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1066)
  • Format: CD
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The Blue House
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1071)
  • Format: CD
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Smile....Pacific
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1073)
  • Format: CD
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Out-takes, Castaways, Pirate Women & Takeaways
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1078)
  • Format: CD
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Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Hot
  • Format: CD, DD
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Second Winter
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Prince Melon
  • Format: CD, DD
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The Return of the Mail-Order Bridegroom
  • Released: 18 April 2014
  • Label: Valve (V134)
  • Format: CD, DD
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Lost Cities
  • Released: December 2015
  • Label: Prince Melon
  • Format: CD, DD
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After the Flood (with Jim White) 161

Soundtrack albums

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Title Details
Last Cab to Darwin

Live albums

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Title Details
Live
(as Ed Kuepper & His Oxley Creek Playboys)
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1070)
  • Format: CD
Ed Kuepper Live
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 01)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 1
Ed Kuepper Live
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 02)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 2
Ed Kuepper Live: The Euroboot Album
(with Jeffrey Wegener)
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 03)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 3
Ed Kuepper Live: Honey Steel's Gold Live at the Forum
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 04)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 4
Ed Kuepper Live: Duos, Solos and Trios
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 05)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 5
Ed Kuepper Live
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 11)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 11
Ed Kuepper Live: Studio Demos 1988 and 2007
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 12)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 12
Ed Kuepper Live: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 13)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 13
Ed Kuepper Live: Long Rider on the Shortwaves, Radio Sessions 2000
  • Released: November 2010
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 14)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 14
Ed Kuepper Live: Long Rider on the Shortwaves, Radio Sessions 1999
  • Released: November 2010
  • Label: Prince Melon Records (year zero 15)
  • Format: CD, DD
  • Note: The Prince Melon Bootleg Series – Volume 15

Compilation albums

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Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
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The Butterfly Net
  • Released: August 1993
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1045 CD)
  • Format: CD, Cassette
 91
The Butterfly Net
  • Released: 1993 (UK)
  • Label: Castle Communications (CCS CD 384)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: As Part of the Collector Series
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Sings His Greatest Hits for You
  • Released: November 1995
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1057)
  • Format: CD
 72
Wheelie Bin Affair (Some Odds and Sods)
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1065)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Limited numbered edition of 3000
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Reflections of Ol' Golden Eye
  • Released: September 1999
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1072)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: covers compilation
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This Is the Magic Mile
  • Released: September 1999
  • Label: Hot (HOT 1099)
  • Format: 3×CD
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Singles '86–'96
  • Released: 28 May 2021
  • Label: Prince Melon
  • Format: CD, LP
 43
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The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper
  • Released: May 2021
  • Label: Prince Melon
  • Format: 4× LP
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Limited release mail order albums

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Title Details
I Was a Mail Order Bridegroom
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Hot (MAIL 1)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Limited Edition of acoustic versions
Exotic Mail Order Moods
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Hot (MAIL 2)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Limited numbered edition of 3000
Starstruck: Music for Films & Adverts
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Hot (MAIL 5)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Limited numbered edition of 3000
Cloudland
(as Ed Kuepper & His Oxley Creek Playboys)
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Hot (MAIL 7)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Limited numbered edition of 1500

Charting singles

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List of singles that peaked within the top 200
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
AUS
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"Happy As Hell" 1990 158
"The Way I Make You Feel" 1992 144 Honey Steel's Gold
"Real Wild Life"[5] 132 Black Ticket Day
"Sleepy Head" 1993 181 Serene Machine
"If I Had a Ticket" 1994 72 Character Assassination
"Wasn't I Pissed Off Today" 1995 196 A King in the Kindness Room
"Highway to Hell" 165
"Fireman Joe" 1996 160 Frontierland
"All of These Things" 1997 164 Starstruck

References

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  1. ^ a b McFarlane, Ian (1999). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. pp. 353–355. ISBN 978-1-86-448768-8.
  2. ^ The Kuepper Files discography
  3. ^ a b c Peak positions for albums in Australia:
    • All except noted: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 158.
    • Rooms of the Magnificent & Everybody's Got ToKent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 171. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
    • All ARIA chart history: "Ed Kuepper ARIA chart history June 1988 to May 2025". ARIA. Retrieved 17 June 2025 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  4. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 6 July 1992". Bubbling Down Under. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
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