Right for all you trainspotters out there here is perhaps the most definitive discography I have ever seen . If you actually have all this then 1) You like Rudi very much 2) You have too much money and 3) You need to get out more !!!

 SINGLES            :

 BIG TIME / NUMBER ONE
(Good Vibrations Records GOT 1)  
Released April 1978..original sleeve Karloff  mummy/lipstick design  – several colours of sleeve exist – depending on what colour of paper it was printed on.Re released in October 1979 in a completely different sleeve. 7” format only.

OVERCOME BY FUMES  
(Good Vibrations Records GOT 7)  
Released February 1979 as part of the BATTLE OF THE BANDS EP – a double single packaged in a fold out sleeve. A later sleeve also exists without the printed inner – rushed off when sleeves ran out? 7” format only.

I – SPY EP  
I – SPY / GENUINE REPLY / SOMETIMES / RIPPED IN TWO  
(Good Vibrations Records GOT 12)  
Released in July 1979 in a fold out sleeve (orange or white )  On 7” only.

WHEN I WAS DEAD / BEWEREWOLF! / THE PRESSURE’S ON  
(Jamming! Records CREATE 1)  
Rush released August 1981 in colour sleeve w/lyric insert. 7” format only.

CRIMSON / 14 STEPS  
(Jamming! Records CREATE 3)  
Released February 1982 in colour pic sleeve. Again 7” format only.

THE PRESSURE’S ON / WHO? YOU!  
(Bad Vibrations Records – Last Year’s Youth Records LAST 2)
Quasi bootleg 45 issued in summer 2000. This 45 was originally to have been issued by Good Vibrations Records to coincide with the Belfast edition of the highly rated BBC TV show ‘Something Else’ on which RUDI played both songs! Amazingly it remained unreleased until last year! Comes in a snappy ‘Good Vibes’ style wraparound pic sleeve – 5 colours. Limited pressing of 500 all numbered. 7” only.

14 STEPS EP  
14 STEPS TO DEATH / CRIMSON / RADIO ON / THE PRINCE OF PLEASURE  
(Last Year’s Youth Records LAST 5-2001)  
Released July 2001 by an enterprising German label in suave colour pic sleeve. Contains unreleased cuts from 1981! Limited pressing of 500 are all hand numbered. 7” format only.

 CD’s/LP’s :

BIG TIME – THE BEST OF RUDI  
BIG TIME / NUMBER ONE / OVERCOME BY FUMES / I – SPY / GENUINE REPLY / SOMETIMES / RIPPED IN TWO / WHO? YOU! / TIME TO BE PROUD / WITHOUT YOU / THE PRESSURE’S ON / YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY / TIGERLAND / WHEN I WAS DEAD / BEWEREWOLF! / THE PRESSURE’S ON / THE PRINCE OF PLEASURE / LOVE GOES ON / CRIMSON / 14 STEPS / COPS (LIVE) / EXCITEMENT / FROZEN BY YOUR TOUCH (LIVE)

(Anagram Records CDPUNK 77)  
Released  September 1996 as part of the ‘Punk Collectors’ series. Contains all the official singles released by RUDI and a host of demos/out takes/ live cuts. Compiled by ex RUDI frontman Brian Young – who was fed up with people issuing RUDI material without permission and decided to do it properly! He also wrote the fully  comprehensive sleeve notes. CD only format.

COMPILATIONS :

 LABELS UNLIMITED  
(Cherry Red Records A RED 4)  
Features BIG TIME as first track ..released December 1979 and played incessantly by Mike Read prompting yet another push/reissue of the 7”…yawn! 12” vinyl format only.

RODNEY ON THE ROQ. VOLUME III  
(Posh Boy Records PBS 140)  
CRIMSON was remixed in Gold Star Studios , Los Angeles by Posh Boy for inclusion on this American comp - at the time Posh Boy were trying to get RUDI to sign with them. Issued in mid 1982 and initial copies came with a free copy of Flipside 35 zine. Also released on cassette (PBC 140).

SEEDS  III : ROCK 
(Cherry Red Records BRED 78)  
BIG TIME again on yet another punk sampler. Released June 1987 on 12” vinyl.Also issued later the same year as a doubleplay cassette (C BRED 80) which contained both SEEDS III : ROCK and SEEDS IV : PUNK.

THE INDIE SCENE 1978  
(Connoisseur Collection IBM LP 78)  
BIG TIME yet again! This surprisingly good double album featured the best small label 45’s from 1978 and was also issued on CD ( IBM CD 78) and cassette format (IBM MC 78).                 

THE GOOD VIBRATIONS STORY  
(Dojo Records DOJO CD 180)  
BIG TIME / OVERCOME BY FUMES / I – SPY  
CD only release from 1994 gathering up some of Good Vibrations finest 45’s.The sleeve notes by Terri Hooley are a hoot – but none of members of the bands featured even knew this was coming out!!

GOOD VIBRATIONS – THE PUNK SINGLES COLLECTION  
(Anagram Records CD PUNK 36)  
BIG TIME / OVERCOME BY FUMES / I – SPY  
Same RUDI cuts on this CD only release which surfaced to everyone’s surprise mere months after the Dojo comp in 1994. Again this one arrived out of the blue – without any of the bands being consulted!

AGGRO AND ATTITUDE  
(Summit Records SUD CD 4502)  
 Cheapo double CD of various punky waver tunes including I – SPY. Released to total apathy sometime in 1996 - and can be found in supermarket browser racks everywhere to this day!.

PUNK FICTION – 60 PUNK CLASSICS  
(Summit Deluxe Records SUD CDBX 3651)  
Triple CD box set released in 1998 which contains I – SPY yet again.  In fact it’s two cheapo comps AGGRO AND ATTITUDE and SPIKED stuck in a cheesy yellow box with a punked up chichuahua on the front…yaawn)

1- 2 – 3 – 4  PUNK AND NEW WAVE 76 –79  
(Universal Records MCD 60066)  
5 CD box set from 1999 which gathers up a truly stupendous collection of ground breaking punk 45’s – including BIG TIME ! Came originally in a tasty long box format w/informative booklet too! Later editions in smaller cube box. Pity nobody asked any of the bands for their permission to use this stuff!

BLOODSTAINS ACROSS NORTHERN IRELAND  
(No label)  
Long running bootleg series finally gets round to N.I.punk. Fittingly the very  first cut on the first side is TIME TO BE PROUD from the first punk band in Belfast!.Issued sometime in 1999 on 12” black vinyl only.

BLOODSTAINS ACROSS NORTHERN IRELAND 2  
(No label)  
More of the same. THE PRESSURE’S ON (LIVE) from the BBC ‘Something Else’TV programme in 1979 is released here for the first time ever. Issued sometime in 2000 on 12” LP only – but both green and black vinyl editions exist.

ENGLAND BELONGS TO ME VOLUME 4  
(77 Records)  
Yet another bootleg – though this time with OVERCOME BY FUMES from BATTLE OF THE BANDS. 12” black vinyl format only. Released 2000? 

TAPES :

RUDI – THE BAND THAT TIME FORGOT  
WHO? YOU! / THE PRESSURE’S ON / RADIO ON / CLAWS AND CLUTCHES / TIME TO BE PROUD / YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY / THE PRESSURE’S ON / TIME TO BE PROUD / WITHOUT YOU / COPS / ALCOHOL / NUMBER ONE / BIG TIME / SHAKEDOWN / RIPPED IN TWO / SLUT / THE RAPIST / PILLS / GLORIA / COPS

(NHMC  2)  
Mysterious ultra rare bootleg cassette only release that surfaced at Belfast Record Fairs in 1990 – Contained  the unreleased Good Vibes 45, tracks from radio sessions (Downtown ’79 and BBC ’80) and also 11 live tracks from the legendary McMordie Hall Belfast gig - 26.1.78. – when The Buzzcocks didn’t show. 

MARTIAN ATTACK – PARTY TAPES VOL VI  
Long running German tape series. This cassette only comp came out in 1999 and features WHEN I WAS DEAD.

MARTIAN ATTACK – PARTY TAPES VOL VII  
Same series as above – BEWEREWOLF! is on this tape only release from 2000.

GUEST APPEARANCES :

TERRI AND THE TERRORS  – LAUGH AT ME  
(Fresh Records FRESH 4)  
Released in October 1979 RUDI backed up Good Vibrations supremo Terri Hooley on one side of his debut 45 under the name ‘Terri and The Terrors’. Issued in a wraparound sleeve. NB Even though the GOOD VIBRATIONS PUNK SINGLES COLLECTION CD on Anagram credits ‘The Terrors’  - the version on the CD is in fact the flip side – the orchestral version by Terri And The My Ways.

COVER VERSIONS :

TERRI HOOLEY – BIG TIME EP  
BIG TIME / RED CADILLAC AND A BLACK MOUSTACHE /  SINS OF the FAMILY.  
(Immortal Records MWJ 011)  
Hooley bludgeons the RUDI classic and two other much loved covers into submission on this CD only release from July 1999 on Belfast’s Immortal Records label. Alarmingly Ex RUDI person Brian Young not only played guitar on this release – but  also put the band together and worked out the arrangements…has this man no shame!

THE SAWDOCTORS  
With their roots in punk band Blaze X, Tuam’s finest have often loudly proclaimed their love for the early N.I. punk bands and often romp through a handful of Ulster punk classics during their encores.. Out of the blue they asked ex RUDI man Brian Young to get up and sing and play BIG TIME with them in front of a packed house at Belfast’s Limelight a few years back. They seemed to know the song better than he did ! (not surprising as he hadn’t played it since RUDI folded in 1982!) Minutes later they all stumbled through TEENAGE KICKS as well! Bootleg tapes do exist!

THERAPY?  
THERAPY? head honcho the dark lord Andy Cairns once listed his all time favourite gig as ‘RUDI at the Ulster Hall’ in Melody Maker. Still it came as a pleasant surprise to find THERAPY? slashing manfully through  BIG TIME live on primetime TV (RTE / BBC) a while back – citing it as one of their favourite ever songs - no doubt to the consternation of  such yawn inducing artists as The Corrs and Sinead O Connor who were also on the show! Even better THERAPY? have only recently recorded the self same BIG TIME in Seattle for release very very shortly...watch this space!

OTHER CRAP YOU OUGHTA KNOW –  

Kid Jensen once played a new release by A Flock Of Seagulls (Wishing?) and then played CRIMSON straight after – asking his listeners if they noticed the uncanny similarity of the Flock’s new release to the (earlier) RUDI one which he had been playing a lot! Where are lawyers when you need ‘em!

In the early days here SLF motormouth Jake Burns always introduced 78RPM as being ‘stolen from BIG TIME by RUDI’..how true! (Ex RUDI bassist Gordy Blair – who played in hippy metal combo Highway Star with Jake always insisted he wrote the riff and music for Gotta Gettaway...who knows? Better still who cares!)

Not content with ripping off several RUDI songs during the Good Vibrations Tour 1979 (and that’s according to Nigel Hamilton their drummer/songsmith!) The Tearjerkers even ripped off the I-SPY comic style cover (drawn by Brian Young fact fans!) for their Good Vibrations debut 45 Love Affair…sheesh!

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