Ripper Records Discography

This is a complete discography of Brain Staff's Ripper label. This label existed from 1980 until about 1983. There are a few of these records I would like to find, these are marked with three asterisks (***).

Singles and EP's: RIP 1 Proud Scum- Suicide 2/The Terrorways- Short Haired Rock And Roll 7"

RIP 002 The Swingers- One Good Reason/It's All Over Town 7"

RIP 003 A Ripper Bunch Of Blokes- 6 Piece Chamber/The Instrumental 7"

RIP 004 Spelling Mistakes- Reena/Whizz Kids- Occupational Hazard 7"

RIP 005 Pop Mechanix- Now/Radio Song 7"

RIP 006 unreleased

RIP 007 unreleased

RIP 008 Marilyn Waring- Working Class Hero/Couldn't Get It Right 7"

RIP 009 Reel To Real- Time To Leave/Can You Ever Be Right 7" ***

RIP 010 The Spys- Give Me A Reason/Daddy Was A DJ 7" ***

RIP 011 unreleased

RIP 012 The Swingers- Counting The Beat/One Good Reason 7"

RIP 013 Screaming MeeMees- Can't Take It/Newmantics- Judas 7"

RIP 014 Larry And The Ladders- Looking For An Answer/Finally Woke Up 7"

RIP 015 The Swingers- It Ain't What You Dance It's the Way That You Dance It/Flak 7"

RIP 016 Otis Mace And Rex Reason- Mecca/An Instrumental 7"

RIP 017 Instigators- Not Really Bad/In Line 7"

RIP 018 Techtones- T.T. 23/Too Young 7"

RIP 019 The Swingers- One Track Mind/ Distortion 7"

RIP 020 Androidss- Getting Jumpy/Auckland Tonight 7"

RIP 021 Spines- Fishing EP: Gillian/Fishing/It's All Inane/Sideways 7"

RIP 022 The Swingers- Punch And Judy/In The Middle Of Nowhere 7"

RIP 023 Instigators- Hope She's Alright/No Problems + No Problems Dub 7"

RIP 024 Tommy Adderley- Gimme That Wine/Mauveen 7"

RIP 025 Spines- Punch/Your Body Stays 12" Single

RIP 026 Various- Rip Shit Or Bust 12" EP
Short Haired Rock And Roll (Terrorways), Getting Jumpy (Androidss), Reena's Piss Flaps (Spelling Mistakes), Hope She's Alright (Instigators), Can't Take It (Screaming MeeMees), Police Wheels (Primmers)

Albums: RPR 1 Various- AK79 LP
Mysterex (The Scavengers), Never Been To Borstal (The Terrorways), I Am A Rabbit (Proud Scum), True Love (The Scavengers), Suicide (Proud Scum), She's A Mod (The Terrorways), Certain Sound (The Swingers), Funny Stories (The Primmers), Squeeze (Toy Love), Baby (The Swingers), You're Gonna Get Done (The Primmers), Toy Love Song (Toy Love)

RPR 002 Various- Hauraki Homegrown Eighty
Video Eyes (Hattie And The Hotshots), Living Is For Loving (Meryl Yvonne/Jess Hawk David), I'm Gonna Make It (Middle Finger), Billy De Witt (Memos), One Way Or Another (Loose Change), Looking For Trouble Tonight (Tony King), Third World War (Top Scientists), Yesterday's Girl (Valentinos), Mad (Rhythm Method), See Me Go (Screaming MeeMees), What Does it Take (Hit And Run), Mud (Rob Skiffington)

RPR 003 Techtones- TT 23 LP***

RPR 004 The Swingers- Practical Jokers LP

RPR 005 Various- Goats Milk Soup LP
Trendy Lefties (Mockers), Never Never (Swingers), Playing The Champion (Newmatics), The Kids Are Crying (New Entrants), The Girls (Famous Five), The Israelites (Instigators), The Second To The Last Song Toy Love Wrote With Ad Lib Lyrics (Toy Love), Pointy Ears (Screaming MeeMees), ECG (Danse Macabre), Ward (Corners), Blue Asthma (Blue Asthmatics), Familiar Strangers (Bongos), Save It (She Collapsed), 1981 (Roit 111)

RPR 006 Sonya Waters- No Pain 12" EP




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