Tom Robinson discography
Studio albums14
Live albums7
Compilation albums11
Video albums2
EPs3
Singles33
Other albums13

This is the discography of British singer-songwriter Tom Robinson. He has released one studio album as part of Café Society, two as part of the Tom Robinson Band, one as part of Sector 27, one as part of Faith, Folk and Anarchy, one with King Crimson lead singer Jakko Jakszyk and eight solo albums. He has also released fan club-only bootlegs known as the Castaway Club series.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
UK Indie
[2]
AUS
[3]
FIN
[4]
NOR
[5]
SWE
[6]
US
[7]
Café Society
(as Café Society)
  • Released: October 1975
  • Label: Konk
  • Formats: LP
Power in the Darkness
(as Tom Robinson Band)
4 52 5 4 5 144
TRB Two
(as Tom Robinson Band)
  • Released: 16 March 1979
  • Label: EMI, Harvest
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
18 25 8 17 163
Sector 27
(as Sector 27)
  • Released: 7 November 1980[8]
  • Label: Fontana
  • Formats: LP, MC
North by Northwest
  • Released: May 1982
  • Label: Panic, I.R.S.
  • Formats: LP, MC
Hope and Glory
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: Castaway, Geffen
  • Formats: LP, MC
21
Still Loving You
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: Castaway
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
We Never Had It So Good
(with Jakko Jakszyk)
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Musidisc
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Living in a Boom Time
Love over Rage
  • Released: 2 May 1994
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, MC
Having It Both Ways
  • Released: 27 May 1996
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Formats: CD, MC
Smelling Dogs
  • Released: 11 September 2001
  • Label: Castaway Northwest
  • Formats: CD
  • Spoken word album
  • US-only release
Faith, Folk and Anarchy
(as Faith, Folk and Anarchy)
  • Released: January 2002
  • Label: Hands On Music
  • Formats: CD
Only the Now
  • Released: 16 October 2015
  • Label: Castaway Northwest
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
20
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details
Cabaret ‘79
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Panic
  • Formats: LP
Live – Midnight at the Fringe
  • Released: March 1987
  • Label: Dojo
  • Formats: CD, LP
Blond & Blue
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • Italy-only release
  • Features tracks from Live – Midnight at the Fringe
The Winter of 1992
(as Tom Robinson Band)
Holidays in the Sun
  • Released: 23 July 1998
  • Label: Victor
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
Faith, Folk and Anarchy Live
(as Faith, Folk and Anarchy, with Martyn Joseph and Steve Knightley)
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Pipe
  • Formats: 2xCD
Power in the Darkness – Live at the 100 Club
  • Released: 21 September 2018
  • Label: The state51 Conspiracy
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download

Compilation albums

Title Album details
Tom Robinson Band
(as Tom Robinson Band)
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP, MC
The Collection 1977–'87
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Last Tango
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Line
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Germany-only release
Tom Robinson
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Pop Fire
  • Formats: CD
The Gold Collection
  • Released: March 1996
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Sector 27 Complete
(as Section 27)
  • Released: June 1996
  • Label: Fontana
  • Formats: CD, MC
Rising Free – The Very Best of TRB
(as Tom Robinson Band)
  • Released: June 1997
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
The Undiscovered
  • Released: April 1998
  • Label: Recall 2cd
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Cafe Society Archives
(as Café Society)
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Secret Society
  • Formats: CD
War Baby
  • Released: 24 November 2000
  • Label: Armoury
  • Formats: CD
  • Germany-only release
The Anthology 1977–79
(as Tom Robinson Band)
  • Released: 28 June 2013
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 3xCD+DVD, digital download

Video albums

Title Album details
Back in the Old Country
Tom Robinson Band
(as Tom Robinson Band)
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Magna Pacific
  • Formats: DVD
  • Australia-only release

Other albums

Title Album details
The T.R.B. Pre-Album
  • Released: February 1978
  • Label: Harvest
  • Formats: 12"
  • US promo-only mini-album
Castaway Club Vol 1
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Castaway Club Vol 2
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Castaway Club Vol 3
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
  • Features demos from Section 27
Castaway Club Vol 4
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Live at Abbey Road – Castaway Club Vol 5
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Castaway Club Vol 6
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Home from Home
  • Released: February 1999
  • Label: Oyster
  • Formats: 2xCD
  • Belgium-only release
  • First CD features songs recorded in Belgium; the second is the same as the Japanese Holidays in the Sun album
Castaway Club Vol 7
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Castaway Club Vol 8
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
  • Commercially released as Smelling Dogs
Castaway Club Vol 9
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Castaway Club Vol 10
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Fan club-only release
Castaway CD 60
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD
  • Exclusive limited release

EPs

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
FIN
[4]
SWE
[9]
Rising Free...
("Don't Take No for an Answer"/"Sing If You're Glad to Be Gay")
  • Released: January 1978
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 7"
18 24 15
Atmospherics
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Panic
  • Formats: 12"
Feel So Good
(with Kiki Dee)
  • Released: January 1987
  • Label: Castaway
  • Formats: 7", 12"
93
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
UK Indie
[10]
AUS
[3]
BE (FL)
[11]
FIN
[4]
IRE
[12]
NL
[13]
NOR
[14]
NZ
[15]
SWE
[16]
"(The) Whitby Two-Step" (as Café Society) 1975 Café Society
"2-4-6-8 Motorway" (as Tom Robinson Band) 1977 5 13 28 3 14 [upper-alpha 1] 6 36 1 Non-album singles
"Right On Sister" (as Tom Robinson Band; US and Canada-only release) 1978
"Up Against the Wall" (as Tom Robinson Band) 33 16 Power in the Darkness
"Too Good to Be True" (as Tom Robinson Band)
"Black Angel" (as Tom Robinson Band; Japan-only release) 1979 TRB Two
"Bully for You" (as Tom Robinson Band) 68
"Alright All Night" (as Tom Robinson Band)
"Never Gonna Fall in Love (Again)" (with the Voice Squad) 99 Non-album single
"Not Ready" (as Sector 27) 1980 4 Sector 27
"Invitation: What Have We Got to Lose?" (as Sector 27)
"Total Recall" (as Sector 27) 1981
"Martin's Gone" (as Sector 27) Non-album singles
"Tango an der Wand" (Germany-only release)
"Now Martin's Gone" 1982 North by Northwest
"Stand Together" (Germany-only release) Cabaret '79
"War Baby" 1983 6 1 73 16 Hope and Glory
"Listen to the Radio (Atmospherics)" 39 4 6 17
"Back in the Old Country" 1984 79 Non-album single
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" 58 Hope and Glory
"Prison" 1985
"(It Ain't Nothing Like) The Real Thing" 1986 Still Loving You
"Still Loving You" 88
"Spain" 1987
"Hard Cases" 1988 Non-album single
"Blood Brother" (with Jakko Jakszyk) 1990 We Never Had It So Good
"War Baby" (re-recording) 1992 Living in a Boom Time
"Hard" 1994 43 Love Over Rage
"Loved"
"Days (That Changed the World)"
"Thin Green Line" (with TV Smith) 1995 Immortal Rich (by TV Smith)
"Connecticut"/"Disrespect" 1996 Having It Both Ways
"The Mighty Sword of Justice" (promo-only release)[19] 2015 Only the Now
"One Big Con" (as the Gaslight Troubadours featuring Tom Robinson) 2018 Stranger Swings (by the Gaslight Troubadours)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. "2-4-6-8 Motorway" didn't enter the Dutch Single Top 30, but did peak at number 9 on the Single Tip chart and number 28 on the Dutch Top 40.[17][18]

References

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  3. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 254. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. 1 2 3 "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit REM - ROB". Sisältää hitin. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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  8. "New Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 8 November 1980. p. 29. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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  10. Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989'. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
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