ZOO RECORDS – discography

Zoo Records

Label started by Bill Drummond, and Dave Balfe with the able assistance of Pam Young

Singles

CAGE 001 –  Big In Japan  – From Y to Z And Never Again EP    1978 (Nothing Special/Suicide A Go Go/Taxi/Cindy And The Barbi Dolls)

CAGE 002 – Those Naughty Lumps  – Iggy Pop’s Jacket/Pure And Innocent   1979

CAGE 003 – Teardrop Explodes – Sleeping Gas/Camera Camera/Kirby Workers Dream Fades  1979

CAGE 004 – Echo & The Bunnymen – Pictures On My Wall/Read It In Books 1979

CAGE 005 – Teardrop Explodes – Bouncing Babies/All I Am Is Loving You 1979

CAGE 006 – Lori & The Chameleons – Touch/Love By The Ganges 1979
(later Re-released on Sire Records)

CAGE 007 – Expelaires – To See You/Frequency 1979

CAGE 008 – Teardrop Explodes – Treason(Its Just A Story)/Read It In Books) 1980
The labels biggest seller – shifting 25,000 copies

CAGE 009 – Wild Swans – Revolutionary Spirit/God Forbid 1982
(Also on 12″)

Albums

Zoo Two – Scott Walker – Fire Escape In The Sky – The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker 1981
(reached #14 in the Indie Charts)

Zoo Four – Various – To The Shores Of Lake Placid 1982
(Came in G/Fold sleeve & 4 page booklet)

Zoo One was scheduled to be the Teardrop Explodes album Kilimanjaro (later released on Mercury Records) while Zoo Three was to be the same band’s album Wilder (or perhaps their ‘never released’ album Everyone Wants to Shag the Teardrop Explodes).