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The Brian Jonestown Massacre discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7719990 ↗
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The discography of The Brian Jonestown Massacre (a San Francisco, California based, Revivalist band) consists of 20 studio albums, 14 EPs, five live albums, six compilation albums and 24 singles, as well as appearing on various artist releases and soundtracks. They have one rockumentary (Dig!) to their credit and a DVD release of their music videos titled Book of Days. Their music has been released by Bomp!, TVT and Tee Pee Records, among others.

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Live albums

Multiple-band compilations

The BJM have been featured on the following multiple-band compilations:

Pure Spun Sugar, Track 12 – "Good Morning Girl" (CD, American Pop Project & Candy Floss, CF-017, AmPop 201CD, 1998)

Delphonic Sounds Today!, Track 1 – "I Fought the Law (The Bobby Fuller Four)" (CD, DEL-FI Records, DFCD 2114, 1999)

In 1993 Bomp! and Tangible Records co-released a box set of six singles, each by a different San Francisco "psych" band. The bands were apparently handpicked by Anton Newcombe himself, and it is rumored that he also produced the music. Besides The Brian Jonestown Massacre, other bands featured included Orange, Nebtwister, and Hollowbody.

The other two singles (as credited to Acid and Reverb) are 4-track demos. Acid is by Newcombe and Travis Threlkel (who designed the box-cover and record sleeves), while Reverb is Threlkel and Geoffrey Bankowski, then a member of Hollowbody, currently recording as Good and Angry in New York City.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Brian Jonestown Massacre discography” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.