Flipside/Deeply Dazzled/Blink Agog
12" vinyl single
UK: Resurgence
Released in 1996
Limited edition promotional single, 400 copies pressed
Available to subscribers of the Nelsonian Navigator magazine
Inner groove message: HERE COMES THE SPACE BUDDA
Bill Nelson Discography - Solo Singles and EPs
Flipside/Deeply Dazzled/Blink Agog
12" vinyl single
UK: Resurgence
Released in 1996
Limited edition promotional single, 400 copies pressed
Available to subscribers of the Nelsonian Navigator magazine
Inner groove message: HERE COMES THE SPACE BUDDA
Promotional - Four songs from After The Satellite Sings
US: Gyroscope GYR CD PRO 3
Released in 1996
The Dead We Wake With Upstairs Drums/Boat To Forever/So It Goes
12" single, CD5 format
UK: Venture/Virgin VEND2
Released in 1992
This single is extremely rare. Virgin pulled it immediately upon release.
Life In Your Hands/Do You Dream In Colour?/Get Out Of That Hole/My
Dream Demon
12" single
UK: Cocteau COQT22
Released in 1989
Life In Your Hands/Do You Dream In Colour?
7" single in a green sleeve with the Cocteau drawing on the front. Possibly only
issued as a promo copy.
UK: Cocteau COQ22
Released in 1989
Ecclesia Gnostica
7" vinyl EP
Released on Cocteau COQ22 with Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights vinyl
edition as a bonus:
The Cote D'Azur EP
A Dream Fulfilled/Familiar Spirit/Palais Des Marine/Letter to Jacques
Maritain/Villefranche Interior
7" 45, Cocteau COQ20
Released in 1986
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
Contemplation (5:34)/Contemplation (3:10)
12" single, Portrait RAS 02399
Released in 1986
Wildest Dreams/Self Impersonation
7" single, Portrait A6928
Released in 1986
Wildest Dreams (Wild Mix)/Self Impersonation/Wildest Dreams (Single
Version)/The Yo-Yo Dyne
12" single, Portrait TA6928
Released in 1986
Because of You (Popstand remix)/Because of You (LP version)/Because
of You (radio remix edit)
12" single, Portrait RAS 02568 (Radio version)
Released in 1986
Because of You (Nailed To The Club version)/Because of You (Dubbed
To The Drums version)/Because of You (Popstand remix)
12" single, Portrait RAS 02574 (Club version)
Released in 1986
Living For The Spangled Moment EP
UK vinyl release on CBS UK BN1 in 1986
(CBS/Portrait 40-26602)
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.
Heart and Soul/Living for the Spangled Moment/Feast of Lanterns/Illusions of You/Word for Word/Finks & Stooges of the Spirit/Nightbirds
Sex-Psyche-Etcetera/Several Famous Orchestras/Who He Is
Released under the name Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana because of his contract with
CBS at the time.
12" single, Cocteau COQT19
Released in 1986
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future on CD.
Acceleration
7" acetate "flexi-disc", Trouser Press Magazine
Released in 1984
Hard Facts From the Fiction Department/Daily Bells/Rhythm
Unit/Junc-Sculpture
7" 45, Cocteau COQ14
Released in 1984
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
Giants of the Perpetual Wurlitzer
The Strangest Things, The Strangest Times/Phantom Gardens/French Promenade/Golden
Mile/West Deep/Threnolia
7" EP, Cocteau COQ17
Released in 1984
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
Chimera
Released on Mercury (UK), six song EP, in 1983
Rereleased with Savage Gestures For Charm's Sake EP as one package in 1986
This EP can be found in entirety on the US-only Vistamix album, released in 1984
Originally entitled "Sextet" but was changed to avoid similiarity with the
then-released Ultravox album "Quartet"
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.
The Real Adventure/Acceleration/Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug/Tender Is The Night/Glow World/Another Day, Another Ray Of Hope
Savage Gestures for Charm's Sake
Released on JCM3 UK in 1983
US CD release on Enigma/Cocteau 7 73373-2 in 1989
US cassette release on Cocteau/Enigma 7 73373-4 in 1989
Rereleased with Chimera in UK as one package in 1986
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.
The Man In The Rexine Suit/Watching My Dream Boat Go Down In Flames/The Meat Room/Narcosis/Another Happy Thought (Carved Forever In Your Cortex)/Portrait Of Jan With Moon And Stars
Permanent Flame
The Beginner's Guide to Bill Nelson
UK: Cocteau JEAN1 in 1983
7" single boxed set, includes blue pin, biography, & discography up until "Flaming
Desire"
all singles feature picture sleeves:
Touch and Glow/Dancing in the Wind/Love Withour Fear
as Red Noise: Revolt Into Style/Stay Young/Furniture Music
as Be Bop Deluxe: Panic in the World/Maid in Heaven/Electrical Language
Rooms With Brittle Views/Dada Guitare
Do You Dream In Colour?/Ideal Homes/Instantly Yours/Atom Man Loves Radium Girl
Acceleration/Hard Facts From The Fiction Department
7" single, Cocteau COQ15
Released in 1983
Hard Facts From The Fiction Department/Acceleration Dub/Acceleration
Long Version/ Acceleration short version
12" single, Cocteau COQT15
Also available as a 12" picture disc, Cocteau COQPT15
Released in 1983
Dancing on a Knife's Edge/Indiscretion/Contemplation
7" EP, Cocteau COQ12
Released in 1983
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
The World And His Wife/Dream Car Romantics (In Death's Garage
Antics)/Dancing Music
7" EP, Cocteau COQ13
Released in 1983
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
Hope For The Heartbeat (3:30) remix/The Passion (3:08)
12" single
US: PVC label EP4 1982
promotional release
Eros Arriving/Haunting In My Head
7" single
UK: Mercury WILL 4
Released in 1982
A "small quantity" of 12" promotional singles were pressed and
"sent to clubs."
Double pack 7" single added He And Sleep Were Brothers and Flesh
Flaming Desire/The Passion
7" single
UK: Mercury WILL 5
Released in 1982
Flaming Desire (Long Version)/The Passion/The Burning Question
12" single
UK: Mercury WILL 512
Released in 1982
Flaming Desire And Other Passions EP
12" EP
US: PVC 5901
Released in 1982
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.
Flaming Desire (Long Version)/Flesh/The Passion/The Burning Question/He and Sleep Were Brothers/Haunting in My Head
Touch and Glow/Dancing In The Wind/Love Without Fear
7" single
UK: Cocteau COQ10, two sleeves: first pressing hard glossy sleeve, second pressing thinner
sleeve
12" EP
US: PVC 5901
UK: Mercury
Released in 1982
Sleepcycle/Konny Buys A Kodak/When The Birds Return/The Beat That
Can't Go Wrong Today
7" EP, Cocteau COQ5
Released in 1982
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
King of the Cowboys/Shadowland/Carnival/Spring
7" EP, Cocteau COQ11
Released in 1982
Acquitted by Mirrors Club EP
Banal (single version)/Mr Magnetism Himself
7" single, Mercury WILL 1
Released in 1981
Banal (single version)/Turn to Fiction/Hers Is A Lush Situation/Mr
Magnetism Himself
12" single, Mercury WILL12
Released in 1981
Youth of Nation on Fire/Be My Dynamo
7" single, Mercury WILL 2
Released in 1981
Youth of Nation on Fire/Be My Dynamo/Rooms With Brittle Views/All My Wives Were Iron
Double-pack 7" single
12" single, Mercury WILL 22
Released in 1981
Living in My Limosine (remix)/Birds of Tin/Love in the Abstract
7" single
UK: Mercury WILL 3
Released in 1981
Living in My Limosine (remix)/White Sounds/Birds of Tin/Love in the
Abstract
12" single
Mercury WILL 312
Released in 1981
Do You Dream In Colour?/Ideal Homes/Instantly Yours/Atom Man Loves Radium Girl
Highest UK Chart position: 52
UK: 7" single on Cocteau COQ1 in March 1981
Video for Do You Dream In Colour? directed by Bill Nelson
Rooms With Brittle Views/Dada Guitare
Belgium: 7" single on Les Disques du Crepuscule TWI-013 in late 1980, two sleeves:
blue title lettering and green title lettering
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