Cul de Sac Discography

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Image / Title	Label	Format	Date	Songs
The Strangler's Wife	Strange Attractors Audio House	CD	2003	First Victim (Apple) / Main Titles (3:22) Second Victim? (1:32) "That's Great Then, Isn't It?" (1:43) Second Victim (Shower) (2:27) Lovemaking / Mae's Theme (2:30) Flashbacks (2:10) Mirror I ("We're the Same Person") (0:53) Pregnancy Test I ("Will You Take Care of Us, Mr. Bear?") (0:14) Tailing the Strangler (2:16) Mirror II (Mae and Elena) (5:14) Frustrated Seduction ("Wash It Off!") (1:32) Fifth Victim (Aerobics) (1:08) Mae Learns the Truth (4:36) The Dumpster (2:04) "You Don't Do Bad Things!" (1:18) Seventh Victim (Fire Extinguisher) (2:20) Denouement / End Credits (4:52)
Death of the Sun	Strange Attractors Audio House	CD	2003	Dust of Butterflies (9:54) Bamboo Rockets, Half Lost in Nothingness, Searching for an Inch of Sky (4:29) Turok, Son of Stone (7:26) Bellevue Bridge (6:13) Death of the Sun (8:46) I Remember Nothing More (5:40) TOTAL: 42:30
Immortality Lessons	Strange Attractors Audio House	CD	2002	Etaoin Without Shrdlu (6:17) Enhoft Down (2:16) Immortality Lessons (4:58) Tartarugas (3:28) Frozen in Fury on the Roof of the World (6:42) The Dragonfly's Bright Eye (10:31) Hagstrom (9:17) Liturgy (3:10) Fying Music from Faust (4:48) Blues in E (10:59) TOTAL: 53:17
Crashes to Light, Minutes to its Fall	Thirsty Ear	CD	1999	Etaoin Shrdlu (8:55) K (6:20) A Voice Through a Cloud (9:23) Into the Cone of Cold (3:46) Far Off, The Fabulous Iron Serpent Whistles (6:04) Father Silence (9:25) Hagstrom (9:17) Sands of Iwo Jima (12:24) Auf der Maur (0:53) On the Roof of the World (6:27) TOTAL: 73:37
The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (with John Fahey)	Thirsty Ear	CD	1997	Tuff (5:05) Gamelan Collage (10:11) The New Red Pony (5:52) Maggie Campbell Blues (3:17) Our Puppet Selves (8:20) Gamelan Guitar (5:28) Come On In My Kitchen (4:06) Magic Mountain (9:00) More Nothing (6:37) Nothing (15:49) TOTAL: 73:48
China Gate	Thirsty Ear Flying Nun	CD CD/LP	1996 1996	China Gate (1:10) Sakhalin (5:49) Nepenthe (8:43) Doldrums (5:42) James Coburn (6:30) / Virgin Among Cannibals (2:10) / ". . . his teeth got lost in the mattress. . . ." (3:04) Hemispheric Events Command (6:13) The Fourth Eye (11:32) The Colomber (6:12) China Gate (Reprise) (0:30) Utopia Pkwy. (6:52) TOTAL: 64:55
I Don't Want to Go to Bed	Nuf Sed Flying Nun Thirsty Ear	CD CD/LP CD	1995 1995 1997	Abandoned Hospital (10:41) Doldrums (9:24) Graveyard for Robots (11:26) The Fraud of Satisfaction (4:02) Roses in the Wallpaper (5:48) This is the Metal that Do Not Burn (11:00) Lower Hate, Massachusetts (2:15) The Kim Parker Report (3:38) Count Donut (5:09) For Seasickness (5:33) Lully's Gangrene (6:57) TOTAL: 76:22
ECIM	Rough Trade / Capella (non-US) Northeastern (US)	CD/LP CD	1991 1992	Death Kit Train (6:51) The Moon Scolds the Morning Star (4:42) Stranger at Coney Island (1:54) Homunculus (7:52) The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California (4:11) Nico's Dream (5:45) The Invisible Worm (4:15) Song to the Siren (3:37) Electar (4:57) Lauren's Blues (5:13) TOTAL: 49:38
	Earworm (UK)	7" Single	1999	"The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California" b/w "Hagstrom"
	New World of Sound	7" Single	1993	"Milk Devil" b/w "Rain Moths"
	Lunar Rotation (US)	7" Single	1993	"Frankie Machine" b/w "K"
	Nuf Sed (US)	7" Single	1992	"Doldrums" b/w "...his teeth got lost in the mattress..."
	Shock (UK)	7" Single	1992	"Sakhalin" b/w "Cant"

Note: All titles that appear on both CD and 7" single are different recordings, sometimes made years apart.

A rough (i.e.; awful) mix of "K" (the 7" single version) appeared on the bonus EP in an issue of the UK magazine Ptolemaic Terrascope in 1993.

Anthologies:

Cul de Sac have one previously unissued track ("Into the Cone of Cold") on Succour (1996), the double-disc benefit collection for Ptolemaic Terrascope.