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David Byrne discography

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{{See also|Talking Heads discography}}

{{Infobox artist discography

|Artist = David Byrne

|Image = David Byrne 2006.jpg

|Caption = David Byrne speaking at the 2006 Future of Music Policy Summit hosted by the McGill University Schulich School of Music in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

|Studio = 10

|Live = 5

|Compilation =

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|Tribute =

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|Singles = 14

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|B-sides =

|Soundtrack = 12

|Option = 1

|Option name = Remix albums

}}This article catalogs the ongoing discography of Scottish-American recording artist, composer, musician, and producer David Byrne, former singer for Talking Heads.

Albums

=Studio albums=

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scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | US
{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/david-byrne/chart-history/tlp/ |title=David Byrne Chart History: Billboard 200 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=2023-09-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230915011353/https://www.billboard.com/artist/david-byrne/chart-history/tlp/ |archive-date=2023-09-15 }}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | AUS
Australian chart positions:

  • {{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=52}}
  • Everything That Happens Will Happen Today: {{cite periodical |url=https://www.aria.com.au/issue989.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20090219130000/https://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20090220-0000/issue989.pdf |archive-date=February 19, 2009 |title=The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 9 February 2010 |date=February 20, 2009 |periodical=ARIA Charts |via=Trove |issue=989 |access-date=January 5, 2015 |url-status=live }}
  • American Utopia: {{cite web|url=https://www.auspop.com.au/2018/3/aria-chart-watch-464/|title=ARIA Chart Watch #464|publisher=auspOp|date=March 17, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2018|archive-date=December 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224133141/https://www.auspop.com.au/2018/3/aria-chart-watch-464/|url-status=dead}}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | BEL
(Fl.)
{{cite web|title=Discografie David Byrne |url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=David+Byrne |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Ultratop Flanders |language=Dutch}}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | ITA
{{cite web|title=Discography David Byrne |url=https://italiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=David+Byrne |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Italian Charts }}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | NLD
{{cite web|title=Discografie David Byrne |url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=David+Byrne |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Dutch Charts |language=Dutch}}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | NZ
{{cite web|title=Discography David Byrne |url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=David+Byrne |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=New Zealand Charts}}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | SWE
{{cite web|title=Discography David Byrne |url=https://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=David+Byrne |website=Swedish Charts |access-date=2023-09-15 }}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | UK
{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/3376/david-byrne/ |title=David Byrne |website=Official Charts |access-date=2023-09-15 }}

scope="row" | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
{{small|(with Brian Eno)}}

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  • Released: February 1981
  • Rereleased: March 27, 2006
  • Label: Sire

| 44

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|62

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scope="row" | Rei Momo

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  • Released: October 3, 1989
  • Label: Luaka Bop, Sire

| 71

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|88

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|28

| 52

scope="row" | Uh-Oh

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| 125

| 67

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|52

|39

|26

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scope="row" | David Byrne

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  • Released: May 24, 1994
  • Label: Luaka Bop, Warner Bros.

| 139

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|20

| 43

scope="row" | Feelings

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  • Released: June 17, 1997
  • Label: Luaka Bop, Warner Bros.

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|42

| 91

scope="row" | Look into the Eyeball

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  • Released: May 8, 2001
  • Label: Virgin

| 120

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|15

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| 58

scope="row" | Grown Backwards

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  • Released: March 16, 2004
  • Label: Nonesuch, Warner Bros.

| 178

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|55

|29

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| 88

scope="row" | Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
{{small|(with Brian Eno)}}

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  • Released: August 18, 2008
  • Label: Todo Mundo

| 174

| 66

|58

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|31

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scope="row" | Love This Giant
{{small|(with St. Vincent)}}

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  • Released: September 10, 2012
  • Label: 4AD, Todo Mundo

| 23

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|51

|52

|83

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| 40

scope="row" | American Utopia

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  • Released: March 9, 2018
  • Label: Nonesuch

|3

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|19

|32

|43

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| 16

colspan="10" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

=Soundtracks and music for theater=

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! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | BEL
(Fl.)

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | NLD

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scope="row" | The Catherine Wheel

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  • Released: December 1981
  • Label: Sire

| 104

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|32

|40

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scope="row" | Music for "The Knee Plays"

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  • Released: May 1985
  • Label: ECM

| 141

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scope="row" | Sounds from True Stories

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  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Sire

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scope="row" | The Last Emperor
{{small|(with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su)}}

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  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Virgin

| 152

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scope="row" | Your Action World{{efn|Music for Byrne's art presentation of the same name.}}

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  • Released: January 1, 1999
  • Self-released

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scope="row" | In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

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  • Released: 1999
  • Self-released

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scope="row" | E.E.E.I. (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information){{efn|Music for Byrne's speaking tour and PowerPoint presentation of the same name.}}

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  • Released: July 2, 2003
  • Self-released

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scope="row" | Lead Us Not into Temptation

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scope="row" | Big Love: Hymnal

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  • Released: August 19, 2008
  • Label: Todo Mundo, HBO, Play Tone

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scope="row" | Here Lies Love
{{small|(with Fatboy Slim)}}

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  • Released: April 6, 2010
  • Label: Todomundo, Nonesuch

| 96

|96

|83

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| 76

scope="row" | American Utopia on Broadway Original Cast Recording

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  • Released: October 25, 2019
  • Label: Nonesuch

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colspan="8" style="font-size:90%" |"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

In addition to the scores and soundtracks that Byrne recorded have been released as albums, Byrne has written music for several other productions:

=Live albums=

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World
{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/david-byrne/chart-history/wlp/ |title=David Byrne Chart History: World Albums |magazine=Billboard |access-date=2023-09-15 }}

! scope="col" style="font-size:90%;" | PRT
{{cite web|title=Discography David Byrne |url=https://portuguesecharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=David+Byrne |website=Portuguese Charts |access-date=2023-09-15 }}

scope="row" | Between the Teeth

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  • Released: 1993
  • Format: VHS

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scope="row" | David Byrne Live at Union Chapel

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  • Released: October 26, 2004
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Format: DVD

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scope="row" | Live from Austin, Texas

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  • Released: October 2, 2007
  • Label: New West
  • Format: CD, DVD

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scope="row" | Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour – David Byrne on Tour: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno

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  • Released: May 11, 2009
  • Label: Todo Mundo
  • Format: CD, digital download

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scope="row" | Live at Carnegie Hall
{{small|(with Caetano Veloso)}}

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  • Released: March 12, 2012
  • Label: Nonesuch

|8

|28

scope="row" | "...The Best Live Show of All Time" —NME

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  • Released: December 11, 2018
  • Label: Nonesuch, Todo Mundo

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colspan="4" style="font-size:90%" |"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

=Remix albums=

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!scope="col"| Album details

scope="row" | The Visible Man

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  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Luaka Bop

Singles

  • "Regiment" b/w "America Is Waiting" (with Brian Eno) – 1981
  • "The Jezebel Spirit" (with Brian Eno) – 1981
  • "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)" – 1981
  • "The Last Emperor" (with Ryuichi Sakamoto)  – 1987
  • "Make Believe Mambo" – 1989
  • "Dirty Old Town" – 1989
  • "The Forestry" – 1991
  • "Hanging Upside Down" – 1992
  • "She's Mad" – 1992
  • "Girls on My Mind" – 1992
  • "Angels" – 1994
  • "Back in the Box" – 1994
  • "Miss America" – 1997
  • "Like Humans Do" – 2001
  • "U.B. Jesus" – 2001
  • "Strange Overtones" (with Brian Eno) – 2008
  • "Who" (with St. Vincent) – 2012
  • "Everybody's Coming to My House" – 2018
  • "David Byrne Does Hard Times" – 2024

= Compilation appearances =

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!Year

!|Release

!|Track(s)

1989

|Like a Girl I Want You to Keep Coming

|"Song for the Trees (or) I Know Sometimes the World Is Wrong"

1990

|Red Hot + Blue

|"Don't Fence Me In"

1993

|Caged/Uncaged: A Rock/Experimental Homage to John Cage

|"Cage and the Long Island Expressway" and "Enlightened Whistler"

1994

|Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson

|"Just the Motion", originally by Richard Thompson

1995

|Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru

|"Maria Lando"

rowspan="2" |1996

|Red Hot + Rio

|"Waters of March" with Marisa Monte

Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip

|"It Goes Back"

1997

|Red Hot + Latin

|"Yolonda Niguas" with Café Tacuba

1998

|Red Hot + Lisbon

|"Dreamworld: Marco de Canavezes" with Caetano Veloso

2000

|Mantra Mix

|"Ain't Got So Far to Go"

2002

|The Only Blip Hop Record You Will Ever Need, Vol. 1

|"Pocket Monster"

2004

|The Wired CD

|"My Fair Lady"

rowspan="2" |2007

|Plum

|"Ex-Guru", originally by The Fiery Furnaces

The Simpsons: Testify

|"Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" medley

2009

|Dark Was the Night

|"Knotty Pine", with Dirty Projectors

2022

|Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono{{Cite web |title=Various Artists: Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-ocean-child-songs-of-yoko-ono/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}

|"Who Has Seen the Wind?"

Session work

{{Dynamic list|date=August 2019}}

= As musician =

class="wikitable"

!Year

!|Artist

!|Release

!|Notes

1978

|Dinosaur

|"Kiss Me Again" single

|Guitar

rowspan="2"|1980

|Love of Life Orchestra

|"Extended Nicities" single

|Guitar

Robert Fripp

|God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners

|Vocals on "Under Heavy Manners"; credited as Absalam el Habib

1984

|The Staple Singers

|"Slippery People" single

|Guitar, Talking Heads cover version

1986

|Philip Glass

|Song from Liquid Days

|Lyrics on "Liquid Days" and "Open the Kingdom"

rowspan="2"|1988

|rowspan="2"|Tom Tom Club

|Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom

|Vocals on "Femme Fatale"

"Femme Fatale" (Marshall Jefferson remix)

|Vocals

rowspan="2"|1990

|Margareth Menezes

|Elegibô

|Vocals and production on "Canto pra Subir" and "Abra a Boca"

Bernie Worrell

|Funk of Ages

|Co-writing and vocals on "Sing"

rowspan="3"|1992

|Richard Thompson

|An Acoustic Evening

|Recorded live at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity, Brooklyn Heights, March 24, 1992. (Red Phantom: RPCD 1100)

Balanescu Quartet

|Byrne/Moran/Lurie/Torke

|Composition on "High Life for Strings"

Tom Zé

|Brazil Classics, Vol. 5: The Hips of Tradition

|Vocals and guitar on "Jingle do Disco", released on Luaka Bop

1994

|Ryuichi Sakamoto

|Sweet Revenge

|Lyrics on "Psychedelic Afternoon"

1995

|Selena

|Dreaming of You

|Vocals, co-writing, and production on "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)"

1996

|Café Tacuba

|Avalanche de Exitos

|Vocals on "No Controles"

2000

|Peret and Carol C

|Tributo a Peret

|Vocals on "Si Fulano"

2001

|Vinicius Cantuária

|Vinicius

|Lyrics and vocals on "Rio"

2002

|X-Press 2

|Muzikizum

|Co-writing and vocals on "Lazy", later rearranged and released on Grown Backwards

rowspan="2"|2004

|10,000 Maniacs

|Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings

|Vocals "Let the Mystery Be", originally recorded for 1993's MTV Unplugged, along with cover versions of "Dallas" and "Jolene"

Thievery Corporation

|The Cosmic Game

|Lyrics and vocals on "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter"

2005

|Fischerspooner

|Odyssey

|Lyrics on "Get Confused"

rowspan="2"|2006

|Forro in the Dark

|Bonfires of São João

|Vocals on "Asa Branca" and "I Wish (Bundle of Contradictions)"

La Portuaria

|La Portuaria

|Lyrics and vocals on "Hoy no le temo a la muerte"

rowspan="4"|2007

|Baby Elephant

|Turn My Teeth Up!

|Vocals on "How Does the Brainwave?"

Marisa Monte

|Universo Ao Meu Redor

|Vocals on "State of Liberty"

David Shrigley

|Worried Noodles

|Vocals on "For You"

Paul Van Dyk

|In Between

|Vocals on "Fall with Me"

2008

|The BPA and Dizzee Rascal

|I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

|Vocals on "Toe Jam"

rowspan="2"|2009

|N.A.S.A.

|The Spirit of Apollo

|Vocals on "The People Tree" and "Money"

Brazilian Girls

|"I'm Losing Myself"

|Vocals

rowspan="2"|2010

|If By Yes

|"Salt on Sea Glass"

|Vocals on "Eliza"

Maximum Balloon

|Maximum Balloon

|Vocals on "Apartment Wrestling"

2011

|Arcade Fire

|The Suburbs (Deluxe Edition)

|Vocals on "Speaking in Tongues"

rowspan="2"|2013

|Jun Miyake

|Lost Memory Theatre - act-1

|Vocals on "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes"

Ryuichi Sakamoto

|"Psychedelic Afternoon"

|Re-recording of a 1994 collaboration; new lyrics and vocals

2014

|Anna Calvi

|Strange Weather

|Vocals on "I'm the Man, That Will Find You (Connan Mockasin)" and "Strange Weather (Keren Ann)"

2016

|De La Soul

|And the Anonymous Nobody...

|Co-writing and vocals on "Snoopies"

rowspan="2" |2022

| rowspan="2" |Montaigne

|"Always Be You" single

|Vocals

"Gravity" single

|Vocals

2022

|Son Lux

|Everything Everywhere All At Once soundtrack

|Co-writing and vocals on "This Is a Life"

=As producer=

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!Year

!Artist

!Release

!Notes

1982

|The B-52's

|Mesopotamia

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1983

|Fun Boy Three

|Waiting

| —

1986

|Various artists

|Something Wild

|Co-produced, also co-write and sang on "Loco de Amor"

1990

|Margareth Menezes

|Elegibô

|"Canto pra Subir" and "Abra a Boca" also performs vocals

1995

|Selena

|Dreaming of You

|"God's Child (Baila Conmigo)" also performs vocals and co-wrote

Compositions

  • The Forest (1991) – orchestral music for the 1988 Robert Wilson theatre piece of the same name, released as an album.

Other projects

Byrne has released a handful of books, including Arboretum, a collection of sketches of some of his favorite trees, and The New Sins, a work about sin in the 21st century. He has also made several public art installations, speaking engagements on art and technology, and PowerPoint presentations. In addition to a recording career as a solo artist, he also founded the record Label Luaka Bop and Todo Mundo.

Notes

{{Notelist}}

References

{{Reflist}}

  • [http://www.davidbyrne.com/music/david_byrne_discogr_.php Discography from DavidByrne.com]
  • [http://www.discogs.com/artist/David+Byrne Discography from Discogs]
  • further reading: Sytze Steenstra: Song and Circumstance. The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present. New York and London: Continuum, 2010.

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