The Mr. T Experience discography

The discography of The Mr. T Experience, a Berkeley, California-based punk rock band formed in 1985, consists of ten studio albums, five EPs, and nine singles.

The Mr. T Experience discography
The Mr. T Experience performing in San Francisco in January 2008.
Studio albums10
EPs5
Singles9
Reissues4
Other appearances17

The Mr. T Experience formed in 1985 with an initial lineup of singer/guitarists "Dr. Frank" Portman and Jon Von Zelowitz, bassist Byron Stamatatos, and drummer Alex Laipeneiks. Their debut album Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion was released in 1986 on local label Disorder Records. Night Shift at the Thrill Factory followed in 1988 through Rough Trade Records, who also released their EP Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood in 1989. Stamatatos left the band and was replaced by Aaron Rubin, and when Rough Trade went out of business the band moved to Lookout! Records, where they would remain for the rest of their career. They released Making Things with Light in 1990, and both the Milk Milk Lemonade album and Strum ünd Bang, Live!? EP in 1992. Zelowitz left the band, leading to a brief breakup, but Portman, Rubin, and Laipeneiks decided to carry on as a trio and released the Gun Crazy EP and Our Bodies Our Selves album in 1993. Laipeneiks then left the band, leading to another breakup, but they reformed with new drummer Jim "Jym" Pittman for the EP ...And the Women Who Love Them in 1994. Rubin then left the group and was replaced by Joel Reader.

The lineup of Portman, Pittman, and Reader remained stable and released an album each year over a four-year period: Love is Dead (1996), Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You (1997), a cover version of the Ramones' Road to Ruin (1998), and Alcatraz (1999). Lookout! also released an expanded version of Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood in 1997 with 24 additional tracks culled from the band's EPs, singles, and various compilation albums. Reader then left the band and Portman released a solo album. With new bassist Gabe Meline The Mr. T Experience released the EP The Miracle of Shame in 2000, which also included temporary Hammond organ player Erik Noyes. Meline left the band in 2002 and was replaced by "Bobby J" Jordan, while Ted Angel also joined as second guitarist. A "Special Addition" version of ...And the Women Who Love Them was released in 2002. Similar to the re-release of Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood, this version included 18 additional tracks. The new four-piece Mr. T Experience lineup released Yesterday Rules in 2004.

Studio albums
Year Album details
1986 Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion[I]
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Disorder (DSR #001)
  • Format: LP
1988 Night Shift at the Thrill Factory[II]
1990 Making Things with Light
1992 Milk Milk Lemonade
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #49)
  • Format: LP, CS, CD
1993 Our Bodies Our Selves
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #80)
  • Format: LP, CS, CD
1996 Love is Dead
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #134)
  • Format: LP, CD
1997 Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #180)
  • Format: CD
1998 Road to Ruin[III]
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Clearview
  • Format: LP
1999 Alcatraz
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #232)
  • Format: CD
2004 Yesterday Rules
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #299)
  • Format: CD

^ I Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion was reissued on CD by Lookout! Records in 1990 and 1995.

^ II Night Shift at the Thrill Factory was re-released by Lookout! on CD in 1995 with 5 additional tracks.

^ III Road to Ruin is a cover version of the Ramones' 1978 album.

Extended plays
Year Album details
1989 Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood[I]
1992 Strum ünd Bang, Live!?[II]
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Munster
  • Format: EP
1993 Gun Crazy
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: EP
1994 ...And the Women Who Love Them[III]
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #106)
  • Format: EP, CD
2000 The Miracle of Shame
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Lookout! (LK #254)
  • Format: CD

^ I Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood was reissued on CD by Lookout! Records in 1997 with 24 additional tracks.

^ II Strum ünd Bang, Live!? is out of print, however all of its tracks were included on the CD reissue of Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood.

^ III A "Special Addition" of ...And the Women Who Love Them was released in 2002 with 18 additional tracks.

Singles
Year Release details Tracks
1989 "So Long, Sucker"
  1. "So Long, Sucker"[I]
  2. "Zero"[I]
1990 "Sex Offender"
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Vital Music
  • Format: 7" single
  1. "Sex Offender"[I] (cover of Blondie's "X-Offender")
  2. "Last Time I Listened to You"[I]
1991 "Love American Style"
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: 7" single
  1. "Love American Style"[I]
  2. "Somebody Wants to Love You"[I]
  3. "Spider-Man"[I]
1992 The Mr. T Experience / Sicko
  • Released: 1992[II]
  • Label: Top Drawer
  • Format: 7" single
  1. "Together Tonight"[I]
1994 "Tapin' Up My Heart"
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: 7" single
  1. "Tapin' Up My Heart"[III]
  2. "My Stupid Life"[III]
  3. "How'd the Date End?"[III]
1995 "Alternative is Here to Stay"
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: 7" single, CD
  1. "Alternative is Here to Stay"[III]
  2. "New Girlfriend"[III]
  3. "You Today"[III] (CD version only)
  4. "Alternative is Here to Stay" (alternative version) (CD version only)
The Mr. T Experience / Goober Patrol
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Punk as Duck
  • Format: 7" single, CD
  1. "Semi-OK"[III]
  2. "God Bless America"
  3. "Itching Powder in Sleeping Bags" (live) (CD version only)
1997 "...And I Will Be with You"[IV]
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: CD
  1. "...And I Will Be with You"
  2. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"[III]
  3. "You Alone"[III]
1999 The Mr. T Experience / Gigantor
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: G-Force
  • Format: 7" single
  1. "King Dork"[III]

^ I Denotes tracks that were re-released on the CD version of Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood.

^ II The split single with Sicko was re-released in 1998.

^ III Denotes tracks that were re-released on the "Special Addition" of ...And the Women Who Love Them.

^ IV "...And I Will Be with You" is a single from the album Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You (1997).

Reissues
Year Album details
1990 Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion[I]
1995 Night Shift at the Thrill Factory
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Formats: CD
1997 Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Formats: CD
2002 ...And the Women Who Love Them: Special Addition
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: CD

^ I Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion was reissued by Lookout! a second time in 1995.

Other appearances

The following Mr. T Experience songs were released on compilation albums, soundtracks, and other releases. Some songs were later re-released on the CD version of Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood, the "Special Addition" version of ...And the Women Who Love Them, and other releases, as noted below. This is not an exhaustive list: songs that were first released on the band's albums, EPs, or singles are not included.

Year Release details Track(s)
1988 The Thing That Ate Floyd
  • "Boredom Zone"[I]
1989 Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Vital Music
  • Format: CD
Make the Collector Nerd Sweat
The Big One
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Flipside
  • Format: CD
  • "Fill in the Blank"[II]
1991 Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M.
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Staplegun
  • Format: CD
1992 Blame and Burn
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Flush
  • Format: CD
  • "God Bless America"[II]
Can of Pork
  • Released: 1992
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
  • "T-Shirt Commercial"[II]
  • "Viva la France"[II]
1993 Banana Pad Riot
  • Released: 1993
  • Label:
  • Format: CD
Soda Punx
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Top Drawer
  • Format: CD
  • "Hello Kitty Menendez"[II]
1995 A Slice of Lemon
1997 Generations I: A Punk Look at Human Rights
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Ark 21
  • Format: CD
  • "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"[III]
Before You Were Punk
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Vagrant
  • Format: CD
More Bounce to the Ounce
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: CD
  • "We Are the Future People of Tomorrow"[III]
  • "Whistle Bait"[III] (originally performed by Joe Collins)
The Duran Duran Tribute Album
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Mojo
  • Format: CD
1998 No Pants!
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Let's Go
  • Format: CD
  • "Sonic Reducer" (originally performed by the Dead Boys)
1999 Forward Til Death
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Lookout!
  • Format: CD
Short Music for Short People
  • "Told You Once"

^ I "Boredom Zone" was reissued on the CD re-release of Night Shift at the Thrill Factory.

^ II Denotes tracks that were reissued on the CD re-release of Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood.

^ III Denotes tracks that were reissued on the "Special Addition" version of ...And the Women Who Love Them.

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