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Lightning Bolt discography

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Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. The group's discography consists of seven full-length studio albums and a number of 7-inch singles and splits. Lightning Bolt have also appeared on numerous compilations, starred in the 2003 tour-DVD The Power of Salad, and performed in DVD compilations such as Pick a Winner (Load Records, 2004) and Sleep When You are Dead by performance artists Mighty Robot (Contact Records, 2007).

Albums

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1999

| Lightning Bolt

  • Label: Load (Load #26)
  • Limited edition vinyl of 750 pressings.{{cite web

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  • 50-minute companion cassette titled "Zone" also released.
  • Re-issued on CD with "Zone" included.{{cite web

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| first = Ned

| title = Lightning Bolt - Review

| website = Allmusic

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| accessdate = September 8, 2007}}

2001

| Ride the Skies

  • Label: Load (Load #31)
  • Released: February 28, 2001
2003

| Wonderful Rainbow

  • Label: Load Records (Load #41)
  • Released: March 4, 2003
2005

| Hypermagic Mountain

  • Label: Load (Load #78)
  • Released: October 18, 2005
2009

| Earthly Delights

  • Label: Load (Load #126)
  • Released: October 13, 2009
2015

| Fantasy Empire

2019

| Sonic Citadel

Extended plays

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2012

| Oblivion Hunter

  • Label: Load (Load#142)
  • Released: September 25, 2012

= 7-inch records =

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align="center" | 1997

|Split

align="center" | 2000

|Conan

  • Label: Load Records (Load #29)
  • Also known as Tour 7"
align="center" | 2006

|Ultra Cross Vol. 1

  • Label: Ki/oon Records, Sony Japan
  • Split CD with Guitar Wolf
  • Released in Japan only{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37421/Interview_Interview_Brian_Chippendale|title=Interview: Brian Chippendale|last=Stosuy|first=Brandon|date=December 5, 2006|publisher=Pitchfork Media|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306212826/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37421/Interview_Interview_Brian_Chippendale|archivedate=March 6, 2007|url-status=dead|accessdate=March 21, 2007}}

= Collaborative extended plays =

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rospawn="1" |2011

|The Flaming Lips 2011 #7: The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt (4-song 12" vinyl EP)

| 4-songs co-written and performed with The Flaming Lips

| Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death

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Singles

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2013

| "Barbarian Boy"

DVD / video

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align="center"| 2003

| The Power of Salad

  • Label: Load Records (Load #40)
  • Directed by Peter Glantz and Nick Noe

Appearances on compilations

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1996

| Repopulation Program

| "Revenge"

|Load Records

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rowspan="2"|1999

| Fruited Other Surfaces

| "LB.3.K6K3GU3.GO"

| Vermiform Records

|

You're Soaking in It

| "Diet of Grapes and Nuts"

| Load Records

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rowspan="2"|2000

| Bad Music for Bad People

| "Rotata-ville"

| Trash Art!

|

Mish Mash Mush Mega Mix Vol. 3

| "Race Back to Earth"

| Fort Thunder

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rowspan="7" |2001

| U.S. Pop Life Vol. 7: Random Access Music Machine

| "Untitled"

| Contact Records

|

U.S Pop Life Vol. 12: Tribute to Fort Thunder

|"Pee Filled Longstockings"

|Contact Records

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  • Early version of "Longstockings" on Wonderful Rainbow
KFJC Live from the Devil's Triangle Vol. III

| "Untitled"

| KFJC

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  • First 2 minutes of Wee Ones Parade, but is a live recording
Real Slow Radio

| "Jam at the Parlor"

| Fort Thunder

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  • Early version of "2 Towers" on Wonderful Rainbow
Old Tyme Lemonade

| "Swarm"

| Hospital Productions

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  • Chippendale side-project Mindflayer also appears.
Troubleman Mix-Tape

| "Waiting for the Snake Assassin"

| Troubleman Unlimited Records

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  • Song eventually became "Assassins" on Wonderful Rainbow
Mish Mash Mush Vol. 7

| "Luxery Tomb"

| Fort Thunder

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rowspan="3"|2002

| Don't Shoot the Toy Piano Player

| "13 Monsters"

| WFMU

If The Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist,
It Would Be Necessary To Invent It

| "Ride The Friendly Skies"

| 5RC

|

U.S. Pop Life Vol. 12: Random Slice of
Life at Ft. Thunder – Bands Who Played At

| "Untitled"

| Contact Records

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rospawn="1"|2004

| Pick a Winner (DVD and CD)

| Live performance

| Load Records

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rowspan="2"|2005

| I Love Guitar Wolf...Very Much

| "Planet of the Wolves"

| Narnack Records

|

A Benefit For Our Friends
(DMBQ Tribute CD)

| "Excitebike"

| none

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rospawn="1"|2006

| Rough Trade Shops: Rock and Roll 1

| "Riffwraiths"

| V2 Records

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rowspan="4"|2007

| Ex Drummer

| "2 Morro Morro Land"

| Play It Again Sam

|

The Supermassive Selection CD by Muse

| "Magic Mountain"

| New Musical Express

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  • CD accompanying NME Magazine, June 16, 2007.
Sleep When You are Dead
by Mighty Robot (DVD){{cite web

|last=Thompson

|first=Paul

|title=Liars, Lightning Bolt, Oneida on Mighty Robot DVD

|publisher=Pitchfork Media

|date=May 31, 2007

|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43089-liars-lightning-bolt-oneida-on-mighty-robot-dvd

|accessdate=August 2, 2007

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703153803/http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43089-liars-lightning-bolt-oneida-on-mighty-robot-dvd

|archivedate=July 3, 2007

}}

| Live performance

| Contact Records

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Cue the Bugle Turbulent
(The 2007 Believer Music Issue CD){{cite magazine

| last = Stosuy

| first = Brandon

| title = Cue the Bugle Turbulent

| magazine = The Believer

| url = http://www.believermag.com/issues/200706/?read=notes_stosuy

| accessdate = August 2, 2007}}

| "Deceiver"

|The Believer

Music videos

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scope="row" |"The Metal East"{{Citation|last=Thrill Jockey Records|title=Lightning Bolt - The Metal East (Official Music Video)|date=2015-04-07|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9T0ICrAzqU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/h9T0ICrAzqU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=2019-05-08}}{{cbignore}}

|2015

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scope="row" |"Blow To The Head"

|2019

|Caleb Wood

See also

References

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  • {{Cite web

| url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p480902|pure_url=yes}}

| publisher = Allmusic. Macrovision

| accessdate = July 10, 2008

| title = Lightning Bolt > Discography}}

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External links

  • {{discogs artist|artist=Lightning Bolt|name=Lightning Bolt}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120225060818/http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/bolt.html Discography on Load Records]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070511222057/http://www.bowdoin.edu/~alorch/bolt.shtml Discography on Bowdoin.edu]

Lightning Bolt

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