Harmless Records Complete Discography

1993 – 2004

Notes:

· Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

· The descriptions are more detailed for the later releases when we were doing things with a bit more of a “DIY” feel, so you can assume it was the usual printed jacket/jewel case/whatever for releases without much detail in the description.

· When the pressing is listed as a round number (500, 1000), particularly with the older releases, it was probably a few more. No one bothered to count ever copy back then, and vinyl companies tend to overrun orders (still do!), sometimes by as much as 20%.

· We didn’t do anything packaging-wise with our test pressings until the later records. For most of the older releases, there were 6-8 tests, always black vinyl, and always with white or factory labels. We did write release numbers on them, but only on the paper sleeves. In 2000, all of the remaining test pressings still in the label’s possession were stamped with a Harmless logo to make them easier to identify. Anything we did actual packaging for is noted in the description for that record.

HR040 Kung Fu Rick “Grinding To A Halt: Live At the Fireside Bowl” LP

Released March 2004

27 Test Pressings w/photocopied cover

One pressing of 500

106 red vinyl

402 black

We ordered 25 test pressings but unexpectedly got two more when the pressing plant returned the plates and extra labels. The 106 red vinyl copies also came with a photocopy of the flyer for the last show as an added insert.

HR039 He Who Corrupts “Master of Profits” 7”

Released December 2002

Split release with Forge Again and Anthem for a Doomed Youth Records.

3 Test Pressings

One pressing of 500 on purple opaque vinyl

50 record release show cover

450 “shareholders report” packaging

The cover for the record release show version is a black and white photocopy of the CD art with “record release show” on the back and on the insert. The insert says that the record release show version is limited to 50 copies, but the actual number of copies sold with this sleeve is closer to 70.

HR038 Seven Days Of Samsara “Never Stop Attacking CD

Released August 2002

CD only

200 promotional copies have “promotional use only” printed on the CD face.

HR037 Lying In States “The Bewildered Herd” CDEP

Released October 2002

A manufacturing error caused tracks 5 & 6 to skip on every copy of the original pressing. Some of these were given away with full artwork at the band’s record release show and along the route of their fall 2002 tour. None of the defective ones were sold. Most of the remaining defective copies were issued as promotional copies with photocopied covers in plastic sleeves.

HR036 Harmless Records 7” Boxed Set

Released June 2004

5 numbered test pressings for the exclusive split 7” contained in the boxed set.

50 one-sided 7”s of each side of the exclusive split, packaged together as a double 7”. The A-side 7” on is clear vinyl, and the b-side 7” is on orange.

100 numbered boxed sets.

Each boxed set contains an original release version of:

Walker S/T 7”

The Connie Dungs “Missy & Johnny” 7”

Thirty Seconds Deep “Hot Carl” 7”

The Bollweevils/Walker split 7”

The Letterbombs “S/T” 7” (Boxed sets #s 1-40 bottle glass green vinyl)

Apocalypse Hoboken/Oblivion split 7”

The Letterbombs “What The Hell Just Happened?!” 7” (blue vinyl)

Lynyrd’s Innards “Houston, We Have A Problem” 7” (green vinyl)

The Wayouts “Cheap Merlot & Luckies/Autonomy” 7”

And:

The ’84 Mariners/Boy Named Sue split 7”, two-sided ltd. to 100 version on dark orange/red vinyl that is exclusive to the boxed set.

+ stickers and buttons

The boxed set covers for numbers 1-50 & numbers 51-100 are slightly different. Both have the same block lettering, but the band names in the background are different for each version. On numbers 1-50, Walker is the first band listed at the top, and on numbers 51-100 Oblivion is the first. All 100 sets came with a Letterbombs sticker, a Wayouts sticker, and all but the first few came with a Harmless Records button. The first 50 also came with a Letterbombs button, and the first 40 had the colored vinyl version of the first Letterbombs 7”.

As mentioned above, there was also separately packaged 2x7” version of the ’84 Mariners/Boy Named Sue split that was limited to 50 copies. We did this so that the members of the two bands on the exclusive split would be able to have a few copies that weren’t tied to the entire boxed set. To make this version of the record clearly different from the boxed set version, we pressed each side of the split as its own 1-sided record on different colors of vinyl and made a simple cover using some leftover old My Foolish Halo 7” covers. The test pressings for the split were black vinyl double-sided records with a red/blue spray-painted cover design that really doesn’t have anything to do with the look of the rest of the set.

HR035 The Littleman Complex S/T 12” EP/CDEP

Released March 2002

One pressing of 350

50 record release show

300 gray opaque vinyl with printed jackets

The record release show version was 50 hand-numbered black vinyl test pressings with black labels. For covers we bought blank black jackets with die cut centers and spray-painted the band’s name in orange and white with a stencil. The numbering was done in silver on the back of the jacket. We attempted to stamp some text on the labels of the records but the ink didn’t dry right and they aren’t really readable. The regular release of this was intended to be 300 copies on gray opaque vinyl with a printed jacket, but it was never completed. We got far enough that the vinyl was actually pressed, but the jackets were never printed. Maybe we’ll finish it Someday.

HR034 Winepress “Complete Recordings” CD

Released October 2001

CD only

200 promotional copies have “promotional use only” printed on the CD face.

HR033 Lynyrd’s Innards “Black Flag Covers” One-Sided LP

Released October 2001

5 Test pressings

One pressing of 200

52 clear vinyl

150 black vinyl

We ordered 50 clear vinyl copies and 150 black, but ended up with 46 clear vinyl copies, 152 black vinyl copies, and 6 copies that were a bit of both. All of them have the Black Flag bars spray-painted on the blank B-side. We intended to use primer gray paint on the black vinyl and black paint on the clear vinyl, but it didn’t quite work out that way. The insert for the record jokes about the paint fumes getting to us, but we really just started to run out of paint and had to use whatever we could find lying around to finish. It wasn’t intended to get this ridiculous, but here’s what we ended up with:

117 black vinyl, gray paint

12 black vinyl, orange and gray paint

12 black vinyl, orange paint

10 black vinyl, black paint

1 black vinyl, black paint with labels on both sides

26 clear vinyl, black paint

10 clear vinyl, gray paint

5 clear vinyl, orange and gray paint

3 clear vinyl, orange and black paint

1 clear vinyl, orange paint

1 clear vinyl, black paint with labels on both sides.

6 half clear vinyl, half black vinyl, orange and gray paint.

The covers are Walker LP jackets flipped inside out and hand screened. There are no track separators in between the songs. The test pressings are on black vinyl with white labels. The B-sides of the tests are also blank, but they were never painted. The test pressings also came in flipped Walker jackets with “HR033” in gold in the top left corner, as well as the Harmless logo stamp on the back center, and “*Test Pressing*” in gold at the bottom right. The A-side white labels were stamped with the Harmless logo, so that it would overlap onto the white sleeve.

HR032 Bhopal Stiffs “1985-1989” CD

Released October 2001

CD only

500 promotional copies have “promotional use only” printed on the CD face.

We were originally going to start with 200 promotional copies, but getting an extra 300, as long as they were the promo non-jewel case version, was literally an extra $10. So they are a lot of promo copies out there for this release.

HR031 Dance & Destroy S/T 7”

Released October 2001

5 white label test pressings

One pressing of 303

52 black vinyl

251 red opaque vinyl

This record was a hand-numbered edition of 303, with the first 52 on black vinyl and the remaining 251 on red opaque vinyl. The labels are black and the records are numbered out of 303 on the A-side in silver. A lot of people have mistakenly thought they had copy #31 since the release number is written on every copy under the Harmless Records logo stamped on the inside of the cover. The covers we used are leftover Traitors 7” covers painted with black house paint. The plastic sleeves are spray-painted with a stencil of the band’s name. The 52 on black vinyl are painted in orange, and the 251 on red vinyl are painted in gray. Some of the red marble ones, approx. 10-20, towards the middle of the pressing are just clear red vinyl. The 5 test pressings are big hole (the regular pressing is small hole), white label, and black vinyl, and they were packaged in the same black painted covers and numbered out of 5 in silver on the back of the cover. They were also stamped on the inside with a Harmless logo, but have the release number written on the A-side label (in silver) instead of under the logo. The plastic sleeves were not painted with the band’s name.

HR030 Seven Days Of Samsara/Since By Man split LP

Released January 2001

One pressing of 1210

110 tour edition. White label test pressings, hand numbered with screened covers.

350 orange & black mix opaque vinyl, with printed covers and labels.

685 black vinyl, with printed covers and labels (originally 750, but 65 became the “flood edition”).

65 flood edition.

The tour edition was 100 test pressings for the Seven Days Of Samsara “Total Danger” 2001 winter tour. We knew we couldn’t finish the full version of the record in time for the tour, so we ordered extra tests. We received 110 copies, all on black vinyl with white labels. The jackets for these were hand-numbered and hand-screened. Numbers 001-100 are on Walker LP jackets flipped inside out, and numbers 101-110 are on plain brown cardboard. The inserts for the tour version are photocopied double-sided 11x17 sheets of paper, although a few of the last 10 got the double 11x17 inserts for the colored vinyl version.

The “regular” release has a die cut printed jacket, printed inner sleeve, and printed labels. Of these, 350 are on the orange & black opaque mix vinyl, and 685 are on black. For inserts (all are photocopied), the first 100 of the colored vinyl (and last few of the tour version) have 2 double-sided 11x17 sheets. The remaining 200 colored vinyl have a single double-sided 11x17 sheet that is different from that of the tour insert. The remaining 685 black vinyl have a half sheet double-sided insert.

Finally, 65 copies of the black vinyl version that had their jackets destroyed in a flood (clean water!). The vinyl was salvaged and re-packaged in more Walker LP jackets flipped inside out and hand-screened & hand-numbered. The art is completely different from that of the other editions. Most of the “flood” edition were given away or sold for a buck or two at most since the quality of the vinyl could no longer be assured.

HR029 Lando's 45 "...The End..." CDEP

Released November 1999

CD only

HR028 The Wayouts S/T 7"

Released October 1999

600 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

Instead of issuing this record with a picture sleeve, we made stamps and stamped the white inner sleeve; an idea we got from Unwound’s MK Ultra/Totalitar 7”.

HR027 Nymb "Glass Eye" CDEP

Released April 1999

2000 pressed in three pressings.

200 promotional copies have “promotional use only” printed on the CD face and were issued without artwork.

First pressing: 1000 brown CDs.

Second pressing: 500 blue CDs.

Third pressing: 500 pink CDs.

The cover is the same for all three pressings.

HR026 The Wayouts "Better Days" CD

Released November 1998

CD only

HR025 Walker/Chemical Blue split 5"

Released November 1999

220 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

This was a special limited-edition anniversary release. Most were given away to close friends with a few offered through mailorder and a few select stores. The covers were extra Walker LP jackets flipped inside out and re-glued. The back was stamped with two different harmless logos, some multiple times if the first attempts didn’t come out, and the front had a printout of the artwork glued on.

HR024 Lando's 45 S/T 7"

Released December 1998

One pressing of 531

These were a rush job, and were pressed on whatever colors of vinyl the pressing plant had an overstock of at the time. Below are the approximate counts for each color, keeping in mind that there are a lot of in-betweens. These are more “categories” than solid colors. All are opaque.

100 smoke/tan (all of which went to the band, most of which were sold at the record release show)

95 green

50 tan

90 grey

100 red/pink

75 grey/red

HR023 V Reverse S/T 7"

This record was cancelled due to V Reverse breaking up and deciding not to release it. And as with release #18, the catalog number had been lapped by the time this all happened.

HR022 Lynyrd's Innards "Houston, We Have A Problem" 7"

Released August 1998

1000 pressed on mint green opaque vinyl (another that is probably closer to 1100 with the overrun). One pressing only.

HR021 The Monsignors "Are You There God? It's Us, the Monsignors" CD

Released June 1998

CD only

HR020 Trepan Nation "Banish Gods from Skies and Capitalists from Earth" LP/CD Released April 1998

One pressing of 1000

300 purple opaque vinyl

700 black vinyl

HR019 The Letterbombs "What The hell Just Happened?!" 7"

Released March 1998

One pressing of 1000

300 blue opaque vinyl with red covers

700 black vinyl with brown covers

The colored vinyl with the red cover was available only at live shows and through mailorder.

HR018 Walker/Squirtgun Split 7"

This record was cancelled. Squirtgun dragged their heels with their tracks and Walker broke up, so it made sense to let this catalog number go since it had been lapped by the time this all happened.

HR017 Oblivion/Apocalypse Hoboken Split 7"

Released August 1997

1500 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

HR016 Walker "Actually, Being Lonely Isn't All That Bad" LP/CD

Released April 1997

1000 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

200 promotional CD copies have “promotional use only” printed on the CD face and were issued without artwork. They also have plain blue ink & do not have the white background that the regular copies have.

HR015 The Letterbombs S/T 7"

Released November 1996

One pressing of 1000

300 “bottle glass green” vinyl

700 black vinyl

HR014 The Monsignors "668, The Neighbor of the Beast" 2x7"

Released October 1996

1000 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

HR013 The Traitors "I'm So Happy When I'm Hating" 7"

Released July 1996

1000 pressed on black vinyl (probably closer to 1100 with the overrun). One pressing only.

HR012 Lynyrd's Innards “Amscray” LP/CD

Released September 1996

One pressing of 1000

500 white vinyl

500 black vinyl

HR011 The Bollweevils/Walker split 7"

Released May 1996

One pressing of 2000

300 orange opaque vinyl

1700 black vinyl

HR010 Thirty Seconds Deep "Hot Carl" 7"

Released February 1996

1000 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

HR009 The ConnieDungs "Missy & Johnny" 7"

Released December 1995

1285 pressed in two pressings.

First pressing: 1000 black, yellow/black/white cover.

Second pressing: 285 blue, black/white cover.

This was out of print for a few years and then re-issued on blue vinyl. 300 were ordered for the repress but we received 285 because that was how many labels we had leftover.

HR008 Walker "If You're Punk Rock I'm Single" 7"

Released August 1995

1106 pressed in two pressings.

First pressing: 1000 black vinyl, blue/white cover.

Second pressing: 106 green vinyl, green/white cover.

This was out of print for years, and then re-issued in a final edition of 106 on green vinyl, with a matching green cover.

HR007 Dad, Are We Punk Yet? LP/CD Compilation

Released December 1995

1000 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

HR006 Kendokwan "Cooking Style" 7"

Released March 1995

300 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

HR005 The Mushuganas "Dropout Girl" 7"

Released April 1995

2106 pressed in four pressings.

First pressing: 1000 black. A-side labels wrong speed, blue/black cover.

Second pressing: 500 black. A-side labels wrong speed, blue/black cover.

Third pressing: 500 black. A-side labels wrong speed, blue/black cover.

Fourth pressing: 106 white. A-Side labels wrong speed, red/black cover.

The first pressing was 1000, and had a solid black background on the cover. The later pressings have more of a grey background, but it is really hard to tell the difference unless you have one of each to compare. The a-side labels have the wrong speed listed on every pressing. This was probably our most popular 7” ever and we never bothered to fix the labels. Go figure. The fourth pressing was a special final edition of 106 on white vinyl with the girl on the cover in red instead of blue. In the late 1990’s we went back and did limited-edition final pressings for a few earlier releases that had never been released in any limited version. This was one of them.

HR004 Walker S/T 7"

Released October 1994

1500 pressed in three pressings.

First pressing: 500 black. Says “Harmless 004-First Pressing” on insert. Later pressings have this blacked out.

Second pressing: 500 black

Third pressing: 500 black

HR003 Winepress "Worth A Thousand Words" 7"

Released December 1994

First pressing: 500 black vinyl

Second pressing: 500 black vinyl

This release was technically two separate pressings of 500, but there is no way to tell them apart. The printer overrun didn’t quite meet the pressing overrun, so the last few were sold without covers.

HR002 My Foolish Halo "Piaphabakrist" 7"

Released September 1994

300 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

HR001 Chemical Blue/The Mushuganas split 7"

Released December 1993

1200 pressed in 3 pressings.

First pressing: 500 hand-numbered. 101 purple opaque vinyl

399 black vinyl

“50's college kids” cover.

Second pressing: 500 black vinyl. “Savage Nomads” cover.

Third pressing: 200 pink opaque vinyl. “Joe Mushugana's Head” cover.

The back cover of the third pressing talks about 5 pressings, but that is misleading. Joe Mushugana wrote that part, and while it’s true that the 500 for the second pressing were ordered and pressed at different times, they are identical, and have the same cover, so it makes more sense to just consider it one pressing. Approximately 20 of the third press are way more red than pink.

The Mushuganas line up on this record features Ebro from Los Crudos/Charles Bronson on drums.

HR000 Chemical Blue S/T 7"

Released October 1993

400 pressed on black vinyl. One pressing only.

Label is listed as Faithful Goat Records (it doesn’t say Harmless anywhere on it. Long story. Most of them came with a sticker.