Visage discography
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The discography of the British new wave band Visage consists of five studio albums, eight compilation albums, one EP and nineteen singles. Formed in 1978, the band released their first single "Tar" on the short-lived Radar Records label in 1979, before signing to Polydor Records in 1980. Their second single, "Fade To Grey", was released soon afterwards and became an international hit. After three studio albums and several personnel changes, the group disbanded in 1985 though a new line-up emerged in the 2000s, again led by vocalist Steve Strange. In 2013, the band released a new album, Hearts and Knives, the first new Visage album for 29 years. The following year, the band released Orchestral, a partly live album featuring various classic Visage songs remade with a symphony orchestra. The band's final studio album, Demons to Diamonds, was released in November 2015 (released posthumously following Strange's death in February that year).
Studio albums5
EPs1
Live albums1
Compilation albums8
| Visage discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 5 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 8 |
| Singles | 19 |
| Video albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 13 |
| Remix albums | 4 |
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [3] |
FIN [4] |
GER [5] |
NZ [6] |
SWE [7] |
US [8] | |||
| Visage | 13 | 17 | 11 | — | 1 | 14 | 22 | 178 | ||
| The Anvil |
|
6 | — | — | 25 | 41 | 38 | 33 | — |
|
| Beat Boy |
|
79 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hearts and Knives |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Demons to Diamonds |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||
Live albums
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Orchestral |
|
A (partly) live album of eleven Visage songs (and one new track) recorded with the Czech Synthosymphonica Orchestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra |
Remix albums
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection (Special Dance Mix) | Initially only available on cassette and "Special Dance Mix Promotional Album" vinyl to DJs, with the "Special Limited Edition Dance Mix Album" subsequently released on 17 February 1984. Released on CD by Rubellan Remasters (US) on 31 January 2020. | |
| Beat Boy (Special Cassette Remix) |
|
Remix of the Beat Boy album, originally only available on cassette. Released on CD by Rubellan Remasters (US) on 18 February 2022. |
| Darkness to Diamond |
|
Companion album to Demons to Diamonds, containing remixes, extended versions and alternate versions |
| The Wild Life – The Best of Extended Versions and Remixes 1978 to 2015 |
|
A companion album to The Wild Life compilation featuring newly recorded 12" versions and remixes of tracks from throughout the band's history. Not the original 12" mixes, but re-recorded versions by Visage's final incarnation. |
Compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] | |||
| Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection |
|
38 |
|
| Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage [A] |
|
— | |
| Master Series |
|
— | |
| The Damned Don't Cry |
|
— | |
| The Face – The Very Best of Visage |
|
— | |
| Fade to Grey – The Best of Visage |
|
— | |
| The Wild Life – The Best of 1978–2015 |
|
— | |
| The Wild Life |
|
— | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
EPs
| Title | EP details |
|---|---|
| Visage |
|
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [17] |
BEL (FL) [18] |
GER [5] |
IRE [19] |
NL [20] |
NZ [6] |
SWE [7] |
SWI [21] | ||||
| "Tar" | 1979 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Visage | |
| "Fade to Grey" | 1980 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 10 | 12 | 1 | ||
| "Mind of a Toy" | 1981 | 13 | — | — | — | 10 | 16 | 42 | — | — | — | ||
| "Visage" | 21 | — | — | — | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Moon Over Moscow" [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "The Damned Don't Cry" | 1982 | 11 | 94 | — | — | 39 | 22 | — | — | — | — | The Anvil | |
| "Night Train" | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Whispers" [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Pleasure Boys" | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection | ||
| "Love Glove" | 1984 | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Beat Boy | |
| "Beat Boy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fade to Grey" (Bassheads '93 remix) | 1993 | 39 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage | |
| "Shameless Fashion" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hearts and Knives | |
| "Dreamer I Know" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Never Enough" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hidden Sign" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "She's Electric (Coming Around)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fade to Grey" (Orchestral) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Orchestral | ||
| "Lost in Static" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hearts and Knives | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Promotional singles
Videos
Video albums
Music videos
| Title | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| "Fade to Grey" | 1980 | Godley & Creme |
| "Mind of a Toy" | 1981 | |
| "Visage" | Midge Ure | |
| "The Damned Don't Cry" | 1982 | |
| "Night Train" | Jean-Claude Luyat | |
| "Pleasure Boys" | Tim Pope | |
| "Love Glove" | 1984 | Nick Morris[24] |
| "The Horseman" | 1985 | Jean-Claude Luyat |
| "Yesterday's Shadow" | ||
| "Love Glove" | ||
| "Wild Life" | ||
| "Beat Boy" | ||
| "Dreamer I Know" | 2013 | Armando[25] |
Notes
- Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage is in fact a re-release of Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection with two extra tracks and a new catalogue number.
- "Moon Over Moscow" and "Whispers" were only released as singles in Japan.
- A remix of "The Anvil" was released as the B-side of the "Pleasure Boys" single, but became a popular dancefloor track in 1982. A single-sided 7" single was pressed (believed to be either a promo or a test pressing, as it had the same catalogue number as "Pleasure Boys" (POSP 523), and a German-language version, "Der Amboss", was released as a 12" promo (POSPV 523).
- There is debate over the actual validity of these promotional releases, as they may be counterfeit.