Reel Big Fish discography
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The following is a complete discography of the band Reel Big Fish.
Studio albums9
EPs3
Soundtrack albums16
Live albums1
| Reel Big Fish discography | |
|---|---|
Reel Big Fish performing at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California on March 27, 2008. | |
| Studio albums | 9 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Soundtrack albums | 16 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 5 |
| Video albums | 3 |
| Demos | 3 |
| 7" vinyl records | 2 |
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US Alt. [2] |
US Indie [3] |
US Rock [4] |
AUS [5] |
SCO [6] |
UK [6] |
UK Indie [6] | ||||||||||
| Everything Sucks |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Turn the Radio Off | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
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67 | — | — | — | 54 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Cheer Up! |
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115 | — | — | — | 47 | 97 | 96 | 14 | ||||||||
| We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy |
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155 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free |
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106 | — | 13 | — | — | — | 190 | — | ||||||||
| Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
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177 | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Candy Coated Fury |
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91 | 21 | 14 | 33 | — | — | — | 24 | ||||||||
| Life Sucks...Let's Dance! |
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— | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | 37 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||||||
Live albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album |
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Compilations
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCO [6] |
UK [6] |
UK Indie [6] |
UK Rock [6] | ||||||||||||||
| Viva La Internet/Blank CD |
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| Favorite Noise |
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92 | 115 | 19 | 17 | ||||||||||||
| Greatest Hit...And More |
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| A Best of Us... For the Rest of Us |
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Skacoustic |
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||||||
EPs
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Indie [3] |
SCO [8] |
UK [6] |
UK Indie [6] |
UK Rock [6] | |||||||||||||
| Keep Your Receipt EP |
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— | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Sold Out EP |
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— | 60 | 62 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Duet All Night Long |
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| Happy Skalidays |
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46 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||||||
Demos
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| In The Good Old Days |
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| Return of the Mullet |
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| Buy This! |
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Video
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| The Show Must Go Off! Reel Big Fish - Live at the House of Blues |
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| Reel Big Fish Live! In Concert! |
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7" Vinyl Records
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Teen Beef |
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| Vacationing in Palm Springs |
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| Where Have You Been? |
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| Monkey Man |
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Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Air. [10] |
US Mod. [11] |
AUS Hit. [12] |
SCO [13] |
UK [6] |
UK Indie [6] |
UK Rock [6] | |||||||||||
| "Sell Out" | 1997 | 69 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | Turn the Radio Off | ||||||||
| "Beer"[14] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "She Has a Girlfriend Now"[15] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Take On Me" | 1998 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Why Do They Rock So Hard? | ||||||||
| "The Set Up (You Need This)"[16] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Somebody Hates Me"[17] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "The Kids Don't Like It"[18] | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| "Where Have You Been?" | 2002 | — | — | 12 | 78 | 76 | 16 | 7 | Cheer Up! | ||||||||
| "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" | 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy | ||||||||
| "Party Down"[19] | 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free | ||||||||
| "Slow Down"[20] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Monkey Man" | 2009 | — | — | — | — | 86 | 16 | — | Fame, Fortune and Fornication | ||||||||
| "I Dare You to Break My Heart"[21] | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Candy Coated Fury | ||||||||
| "Don't Stop Skankin'"[22] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Evil Approaches" | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Punk Rock Halloween[23] | ||||||||
| "You Can't Have All of Me"[24] | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Life Sucks... Let's Dance! | ||||||||
| "—" denotes recording that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||||||
Soundtracks
| Title | Year | Soundtrack |
|---|---|---|
| Skatanic | 1995 | Misfits Of Ska |
| Vacationing in Palm Springs | 1997 | Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy |
| Hungry Like the Wolf | 1997 | The Duran Duran Tribute Album |
| Take On Me | 1997 | BASEketball Original Soundtrack |
| Beer | ||
| Gigantic | 1999 | Where is My Mind? – A Tribute to the Pixies |
| Kiss Me Deadly | 2000 | Metalliska |
| 2000 | The Solution to Benefit Heal the Bay | |
| Take On Me | 2000 | Samba De Amigo |
| Monkey Man | 2002 | The Wild Thornberrys Movie Soundtrack |
| Doo-Doo | 2002 | Because We Care: A Benefit for the Children's Hospital of Orange County |
| Baroque Hoedown (Main Street Electrical Parade) | 2002 | Dive into Disney |
| It's Not Easy (Pete's Dragon) | 2004 | Mosh Pit on Disney (Japanese Only) |
| We Close Our Eyes | 2005 | Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo |
| Stray Cat Strut | 2006 | Go Cat Go! A Tribute to Stray Cats |
| Rave-o-lution (Rave Master theme) | 2006 | OKYOPOP Presents: Anime Trax, Vol. 1 |
| Snoop Dog, Baby | 2017 | Ladybird Soundtrack |
| No Hope (a Louser song featuring Reel Big Fish) | 2022 | Clerks III Soundtrack |
Multiple titled songs
Songs that have different titles on different releases, despite being essentially the same song.
| Original Title | Album | Alternate Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuck Yourself | Everything Sucks | All I Want Is More | Turn the Radio Off |
| I'm Cool | Everything Sucks | Cool Ending | Turn the Radio Off |
| Why Do They Rock So Hard? | |||
| In the Pit | Our Live Album Is Better than Your Live Album | Thank You for Not Moshing | Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
| Teen Beef | |||
| Big Fuckin' Star | Everything Sucks | Big Star | Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
Cover songs
Reel Big Fish are well known for their cover songs (so much so that their former label, Jive Records, chose to promote the album We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy with stickers on the CD jewel case proclaiming that the album included "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" and "Story of My Life"; both covers) and frequently end live shows with their cover of a-ha's 1985 hit "Take On Me". Reel Big Fish released their first studio album composed only of cover songs, entitled Fame, Fortune and Fornication, in January 2009.
Although the band are known to play a variety of other songs live regularly, this is a comprehensive, roughly chronological list of all known cover songs officially recorded by Reel Big Fish.
| Song | Originally By | Album(s) |
|---|---|---|
| "Take On Me" | a-ha | Teen Beef BASEketball Soundtrack |
| "Unity" | Operation Ivy | Keep Your Receipt EP Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy |
| "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" | Rodgers and Hammerstein | Vacationing in Palm Springs Viva La Internet |
| "Hungry Like the Wolf" | Duran Duran | Sold Out EP Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
| "Kiss Me Deadly" | Lita Ford | Viva La Internet Cheer Up! |
| "Gigantic" | Pixies | Viva La Internet |
| "Uniform of Destruction" | Suburban Rhythm | Viva La Internet Runnin' Naked Thru the Cornfield |
| "Mele Kalikimaka" | Robert Alexander Anderson | Viva La Internet |
| "Love Boat" | Jack Jones | Viva La Internet |
| "Boys Don't Cry" | The Cure | Viva La Internet Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album |
| "Ska Sucks" | Propagandhi | Viva La Internet |
| "Boss DJ" | Sublime | Viva La Internet Cheer Up! |
| "Main Street Electrical Parade" | Main Street Electrical Parade | Dive into Disney |
| "New York, New York" | Liza Minnelli | Cheer Up! |
| "Rock It with I" | The Melodians | Cheer Up! |
| "Give It to Me" | The J. Geils Band | Cheer Up! The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Dance Wid Me" | Hepcat | The Show Must Go Off! Reel Big Fish Live at the House of Blues DVD |
| "So Lonely" | The Police | The Show Must Go Off! DVD |
| "Monkey Man" | Toots & the Maytals | The Wild Thornberrys Movie Soundtrack Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "It's Not Easy" | Helen Reddy and Sean Marshall | Mosh Pit On Disney |
| "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" | Morrissey | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" | Tracy Chapman | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album |
| "Story of My Life" | Social Distortion | We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy |
| "Stray Cat Strut" | The Stray Cats | Go Cat Go! A Tribute to Stray Cats The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "We Close Our Eyes" | Oingo Boingo | Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Ask" | The Smiths | Duet All Night Long |
| "Lyin' Ass Bitch" | Fishbone | Duet All Night Long |
| "Another Day in Paradise" | Phil Collins | Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps For Free The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Nothin' But a Good Time" | Poison | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" | Slade | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Veronica Sawyer" | Edna's Goldfish | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Authority Song" | John Mellencamp | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Brown Eyed Girl" | Van Morrison | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "The Long Run" | The Eagles | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Won't Back Down" | Tom Petty | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Keep a Cool Head" | Desmond Dekker & the Aces | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Talk Dirty to Me" | Poison | Fame, Fortune and Fornication The Best Songs We Never Wrote |
| "Twist and Crawl" | The English Beat | Fame, Fortune and Fornication |
| "Don't Let Me Down Gently" | The Wonder Stuff | Candy Coated Fury |
| "The Promise" | When in Rome | Candy Coated Fury |
| "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" | Elmo & Patsy | Happy Skalidays |
| "Lickle Drummond Boy" | Harry Simeone Chorale | Happy Skalidays |
| "Carol of the Beers" | Mykola Leontovych | Happy Skalidays |
| "Auld Lang Syne" | Robert Burns | Happy Skalidays |
| "Evil Approaches" | The Forces of Evil | Punk Rock Halloween |
| "Ska Show" | The Forces of Evil | Life Sucks...Let's Dance! |
| "The Good Old Days" | The Forces of Evil | Life Sucks...Let's Dance! |
^ An instrumental version of the song also exists
^ bonus track only available on the vinyl album or via download