Gretchen Phillips Discography

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Meat JoyMeat Joy

Band: Gretchen Phillips, Jamie Lee Hendrix, Melissa Cobb, John Boy Perkins, & Tim Pierre Mateer

Meat Joy - "Meat Joy" (Flesh and Blood Records, 1984)
[all written by Meat Joy (MJ) unless otherwise indicated]

1 Prelude in C-Flat (The Storm)
2 Another Pair
3 Brothers and Sisters (by MJ, Caleb, G. Phillips)
4 Call Black (by MJ, Southpaw Slim & Frog Boy Fitch)
5 My Heart Crawls Off (Gretchen Phillips & Sara Hickman)
6 Proud to Be Stupid
7 Caleb in the Tub (Caleb & Mark Curtis)
8 Pleasure Time (MJ, Teresa Nervosa, Loren Order & Fitch)
9 Slenderella (MJ, Amy Righter)
10 The Last Round Up (MJ, Shelley & Ben Dover)
11 Mathew 10:36
12 Godpleaser (MJ, Teresa Nervosa)
13 I'm Sorry But I Do (Gretchen Phillips)
14 For When Love Is Irrelevance (MJ, Fitch, Jean Jordan, Geoff Cordner)
15 Ich Bin Nur Ein Shauspieler (MJ, Red Mole, CK, Stuart, Casey, others)
16 Final Curtain (MJ & Caleb)
Two Nice Girls
2 Nice Girls
Two Nice Girls - "2 Nice Girls" (Rough Trade 59, 1989)

1 The Sweet Postcard (Gretchen Phillips, Barbara Hofrenning)
2 Follow Me (Jane Silberry)
3 Goons (Gretchen Phillips)
4 Money (Laurie Freelove)
5 I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control & Beer (Gretchen Phillips)
6 Sweet Jane (With Affection) (Lou Reed, Joan Armatrading)
7 My Heart Crawls Off (Gretchen Phillips, Sara Hickman)
8 Looking Out (Laurie Freelove)
9 Heaven on Earth (Laurie Freelove)
10 Kick (Laurie Freelove)

Band: Gretchen Phillips, Laurie Freelove, Kathy Korniloff

In 2007 Gretchen reissued for the first time the remastered version of the above album, with three additional tracks, a 24 page booklet, unpublished photos and commentary. The added tracks are: The Holland Song, Getting Close, and Cristi's Song.

Two Nice GirlsChristi's Song

Two Nice Girls - UK 45rpm (Rough Trade K893, 1989)

1 Sweet Jane (With Affection) (Lou Reed, Joan Armatrading)

2 Christi's Song (Christi Deleado, Gretchen Phillips)

The "B-side" of this 7" 45 was not released in the U.S., and was only available here and on a Japanese import of the "2 Nice Girls" CD

Girls In The Nose
GITN

Girls In The Nose - "Girls In The Nose" (self-produced, 1990)

1 Where Girls Go (Carl Perkins, K. Turner, G. Phillips, B. Peterson)
2 Two Lovers/Two Altars (W. Robinson, J. Labow, K. Turner, P. Schoor)
3 Meat (Turner, Phillips, Barger, Douglas)
4 What Were You Saying (Kay Turner, Betsy Peterson)
5 Menstrual Hut (Kay Turner, Betsy Peterson)
6 Funky Slide (Turner, Phillips, Barger, Douglas)
7 Bite Me (Kay Turner, Betsy Peterson)
8 Come and Die (Kay Turner, Gretchen Phillips)
9 Prisoners of Pantyhose (Joanna Labow)
10 Honorary Heterosexual Lesbian (Kay Turner, Gretchen Phillips)
11 Starpower (Sonic Youth, intro by Williams & Nichols)

Band: Kay Turner (lead vocals), Gretchen Phillips (electric guitar, vocals), Betsy Peterson (electric guitar), Joanna Labow (percussion, keyboard, vocals), Darcee Douglas (electric bass), Pam Barger (drums)

Two Nice GirlsLike a Version

Two Nice Girls - "Like a Version" (Rough Trade 78-2, 1990)

1 I Feel (Like Makin') Love (G. Moroder, D. Summer, P. Bellotte)
2 Bang Bang (Isnard/Controlled Composition)
3 Top of the World (D. Bettis, R. Carpenter)
4 Speed Racer (K. Nobuyoshi, T. Yoshida)
5 Cotton Crown (Sonic Youth)
6 I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control & Beer (Gretchen Phillips)

Band: Gretchen Phillips, Kathy Korniloff, Meg Hentges, Pam Barger

Two Nice Girls
Chloe Liked Olivia

Two Nice Girls - "Chloe Liked Olivia" (Rough Trade 2628-2, 1991)

1 Let's Go Bonding (Gretchen Phillips)
2 Eleven (Kathy Korniloff)
3 For the Inauguration (Gretchen Phillips)
4 Princess of Power (Gretchen Phillips)
5 Throw It All Away (Meg Hentges)
6 Rational Heart (Kathy Korniloff)
7 The Queer Song (Gretchen Phillips)
8 Only Today (Pam Barger)
9 Noona's Revenge (Meg Hentges, Judith Ferguson)
10 Swimming in Circles (Pam Barger)

Band: Gretchen Phillips, Kathy Korniloff, Meg Hentges, Pam Barger

Gretchen Phillips
Welcome To My World

Gretchen Phillips - Welcome To My World (self-produced, 1993)

1 Treacly Brit Pop
2 A Downer
3 How Lesbians Get That Way
4 The Penetration Solution
5 The Abortion/Black Sperm
6 My Sister
7 Rock On! Circularly!
8 Who Would You Rather Have Sex With?

All written, performed and recorded by Gretchen Phillips. The cassette covers, (over a thousand of them) were hand decorated and all different.

Gretchen Phillips
Welcome To My World

Gretchen Phillips - Welcome To My World (self-produced, 1995)

1 Treacly Brit Pop
2 A Downer
3 How Lesbians Get That Way
4 The Penetration Solution
5 The Abortion/Black Sperm
6 My Sister
7 Rock On! Circularly!
8 Who Would You Rather Have Sex With?
9 Burning Inside
10 Lesson
11 Peola
12 Swimming

All written, performed and recorded by Gretchen Phillips. The CD release had four additional tracks, and has been called "Welcome To My World and a Half"

Gretchen Phillips Xperience
Do You Ever Wish For More?
Gretchen Phillips Xperience- Do You Ever Wish For More? (1995)

1 Lesson
2 There But For Fortune (Phil Ochs)
3 Gretchen Phillips Says "Yes" (Waskey Elwood Walls, Jr. & Gretchen)
4 Burning Inside (Sonic Youth)
5 Pease Park
6 Superstar (Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell)
7 I Can't Feel It
8 Swimming
9 One Proposition After Another
10 Peola (Peola by Ann Cvetkovich & Gretchen)
11 Pease Park EZ

Band: Gretchen Phillips, Jo Walston, Andy Loomis
All written by Gretchen unless otherwise noted.

Gretchen Phillips
Songs To Save Your Soul
Gretchen Phillips - Songs To Save Your Soul (Seasick Sailor 1, 1998)

1 Om Shanti
2 Hello, Darling (Conway Twitty)
3 Satan's Jewel Crown (Edgar Eden)
4 Peace on Earth
5 Together Again (Buck Owens)
6 I Can Hear the Angels Singing
7 I Can Hear the Angels Singing (Instrumental, hidden track)

Band: Gretchen Phillips, Terri Lord, Darcee Douglas
with guest vocals by Jo Walston on track 3
all written by Gretchen unless otherwise noted

Lord Douglas Phillips
A Taste of LDP
Lord Douglas Phillips - A Taste of LDP
(Seasick Sailor & Kissy Suziki Records, 2001)

1) From a Couple to a Few (Lord Douglas Phillips)
2) G.I. Joe (Terri Lord)
3) Go For the Gold (Lord Douglas Phillips)
4) Yesterday (When I Was Young) (Herbert Kretzmer, Charles Aznavour)

Band: Terri Lord (drums and vocals), Darcee Douglas (bass, keyboards and vocals), Gretchen Phillips (guitars and vocals)

Gretchen Phillips Ministries
Seitan Is Real

[Note: Seitan, (pronounced say-tahn) is the Japanese term for cooked wheat gluten]

Gretchen Phillips Ministries - Seitan Is Real (Seasick Sailor Records, 2002)

1 Gospel Ship
2 The Christian Life (Ira & Charlie Louvin)
3 Hello, Darlin' (Conway Twitty)
4 The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea (Carter Family)
5 Together Again (Buck Owens)
6 I Can Hear The Angels Singing (Gretchen Phillips)
7 Let's Invite Them Over
8 Rank Stranger
9 Everyone Wants to Go to Heaven (Loretta Lynn)
10 Dreaming My Dreams of You (Allen Reynolds)
11 Hot Stuff (Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey)
12 Dues (Ronnee Blakley)
13 Old Camp Meeting Time

Band: Gretchen Phillips (guitar, vocals), Jo Walston (keyboard, vocals), Andy Loomis (keys, bass, vocals), Shaan Shirazi (pedal steel, bass)

Phillips & Driver
Togetherness
Phillips & Driver - Togetherness (Bar None CD 135, 2003)

1 Grudge (Joe Pernice)
2 Joan of Arc (Leonard Cohen)
3 Day After Day (W.D. Collins, T. Evans, M. Givvins, P. Ham, J.C. Molland)
4 Lesson (Gretchen Phillips)
5 Secretly (Al Hoffman, Dick Manning)
6 Could It Be Magic? (Barry Manilow)
7 Oh, Starsky (David Driver, Marty Beller, Mike Stanzilis)
8 I Loved You Once In Silence (Lerner, Lowe)
9 Ready for Love (Michael Ralphs)
10 Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Carel Werber, Vince Guarldi)

Band: Gretchen Phillips & David Driver, with John Paul Keenon (drums), Tony Lauria (piano, organ), Marni Pickens (bass), Don Piper (lap steel guitar)

Gretchen Phillips Gretchen Phillips - A Gretchen Phillips Sampler (Seasick Sailor Records, 2007)

1 Lesson
2 From a Couple to a Few
3 YOY?
4 For When Love Is Irrelevance
5 My Heart Crawls Off
6 Princess of Power
7 I Spent My Last $10 (on Birth Control & Beer)
8 Grudge
9 For the Inauguration
10 How Lesbians Get That Way
11 Let's Go Bonding
12 I Can Hear the Angels Singing
13 Swimming
14 Yesterday When I Was Young

Spanning a number of albums, indeed a sampler...get an instant full course of Gretchen.

Gretchen Phillips
Gretchen Phillips - I Was Just Comforting Her (Seasick Sailor Records, 2009)

1 Red State / Blue State
2 Burning Inside
3 Honey, I Feel So Good
4 Peola
5 Your Drinking
6 Lylas
7 Swimming
8 Yoy?
9 In Case of Rapture
10 To the Lady C

Produced by Rob Halverson & Gretchen Phillips. Various Guest Musicians: Melissa York, Steve Bernal, Andy Loomis, David Driver, Tom Pittman, Stewart Cochran, David Boyle, Raul Vallejo, Thor harris, Rob Halverson, Rachael Shannon.       

Compilations & Guest Appearances
Meat Joy

on "Metal Moo Cow"
(Matako Mazurka Records)
(varous artists, 1984)
song: "Party"

on "Bands on the Block"
(Matako Mazurka Records)
(various artists, 1985)
song: "Dreaming Children"

Metal Moo CowBands on the Block

Two Nice Girls

on "Local Licks Live"
(KLBJ-FM, various artists, 1989)
song: "Money" (live)


on "SXSW Volume 5"
(various artists, 1998)
song: "For the Inauguration" (live)

 


on "20 More Explosive Fantastic
Rockin' Mega Smash Hit Explosivions!"
(Pravda CD 6342, various artists, 1992)
song: "Rock Me, Baby" by Poi Dog Pondering
with backups by Gretchen Phillips &
Kathy Korniloff

on "Volo Volo" by Poi Dog Pondering
(Columbia CD 46960, 1992)
song: "The Hardest Thing"
with backups by Gretchen Phillips &
Kathy Korniloff

 

on "Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us"
(Rhino CD 72915, various artists, 1997)
songs: "I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control & Beer" and, by Gretchen, "Swimming"


on "Positively" by Phranc
(Island CD 848282, 1991)
songs: "I'm Not Romantic" and "'64 Ford"
Gretchen, Kathy, Meg & Pam played and contributed vocals on these two tracks from the album

 

on "Rough Trade US Sampler"
(Rough Trade PC12, 1990)
a double cassette release featuring the Two Nice Girls track, "Speed Racer," which was on "Like a Version."

Local Licks LiveSXSW

20 More...Poi Dog Pondering - "Volo Volo"

check it out...Positively Phranc

Rough Trade comp

Gretchen Phillips guest appearance

on Girls In The Nose - "Origin of the World" (self-produced, 1992)

1 Medusa (Kay Turner, Becky Escamilla)
2 Sodomy (Kay Turner, Gretchen Phillips)
3 These Hips (Lucille Chilton, Kay Turner, MJ Torrance, Jean DuSablon)
4 Sappho's Song (Sappho, Kay Turner, MJ Torrance)
5 Hey, Chastity (The Come Out Song) (Kay Turner)
6 Breast Exam (Kay Turner, Lisa Wickware)
7 More Madonna, Less Jesus (K. Turner, D. Klowyck, MJ Torrance, L. Wickware)
8 Incongruity (Meg Brady, David Stanley, Kathlyn Stockton, Kay Turner, Elizabeth Peterson, Matt Walters)
9 Pink Guitar (Rachael B. DuPlessis, Kay Turner, Lisa Wickware

Band: Kay Turner (lead vocals), Joanna Labow (percussion, vocals), Darby Smotherman (drums), Jean DuSablon (bass), MJ Torrance (guitar, piano), Lisa Wickware (guitar).

This was a guest appearance only by Gretchen Phillips, playing mandolin on "Pink Guitar" and contributing backups on "Hey, Chasity."

Origin of the World
Gretchen Phillips

on the compilation "Outloud: for the Human Rights of Lesbians & Gays"
(Knitting Factory CD 5650, V.A., 1995)
Gretchen Phillips Xperience - "Pease Park" (live, 1994)
plus
Girls In The Nose - "Wedding Are Icky" (Kay Turner, Betsy Peterson)
band members on this track: Kay Turner, Gretchen Phillips, Betsy Peterson, Joanna Labow, Darcee Douglas, Pam Barger

on the compilation "Calling All Kings & Queens" (Mr. Lady CD 15, V. A., 2001)
Gretchen Phillips - "Eau de Lesbianism"

on the various artists tribute album
"Across the Great Divide: Songs of Jo Carol Pierce"
(Deja Disc 3203, 1992)
Kathy McCarty & Gretchen Phillips - "Blue Norther"

check it out...Calling All Kings & Queens

Across the Great DivideKathy McCarty

Gretchen Phillips

on "Tattoo Urge" by Meg Hentges
(Tim Kerr Cassette 92, 1992, all songs written by Meg Hentges)
1 This Kind of Love
2 Heaven Sent
3 Boredom Ward
4 Flick of the Switch
5 Dirty Looks

Backing Band: Gretchen Phillips, Darcee Douglas, Joel Duhon, Pam Barger, Doug Corzine, Judith Ferguson, Ruth Werst-Partridge
Note: this was the first recording of "This Kind of Love."

Tattoo Urge
Lord Douglas Phillips

on the various artists CD "Forever Dusty"
(R&D Records 3101, Dusty Springfield tribute, 2000)
song: "Yesterday When I Was Young" (Aznavour, Kretzmer)

on "Girl By Girl: the Best of Gaby & Mo's"
(Kissy Suziki Records , 2002, tribute to the closing of a long-time women's bar in Austin)
song: "From a Couple to a Few" (LDP)

Forever DustyGirl By Girl: The Best fo Gaby & Mo's