- Richard Thompson( Richard & Linda Thompson )【 20 albums 317 lyrics 】
- Richard John Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
He made his début as a recording artist as a member of Fairport Convention in September 1967. He continues to write and record new material regularly and frequently performs live at venues throughout the world.
Thompson was awarded the Orville H. Gibson Award for best acoustic guitar player in 1991. Similarly, his songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio. Many and varied musicians have recorded Thompson's compositions.
Thompson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music. On 5 July 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen.
Brief discography
Main article: Richard Thompson discography
Only albums under Thompson's own name, and comprising only or mostly newly released material are included here. These are the albums that represent the solid corpus of his work as a songwriter and recording artist.
Henry the Human Fly (1972)
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
Hokey Pokey (1975)
Pour Down Like Silver (1975)
First Light (1978)
Sunnyvista (1979)
Strict Tempo! (1981)
Shoot Out the Lights (1982)
Hand of Kindness (1983)
Across a Crowded Room (1985)
Daring Adventures (1986)
Amnesia (1988)
Rumor and Sigh (1991)
Mirror Blue (1994)
You? Me? Us? (1996)
Mock Tudor (1999)
The Old Kit Bag (2003)
Front Parlour Ballads (2005)
1000 Years of Popular Music (2006)
Sweet Warrior (2007)
Dream Attic (2010)
Cabaret of Souls (2012)
Electric (2013)
Acoustic Classics (2014)
Still (2015)
Acoustic Classics II (2017)
Acoustic Rarities (2017) - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
-
Still
2015
1.She Never Could Resist A Winding Road
2.Dungeons For Eyes
3.No Peace, No End
4.Where's Your Heart
5.Pony In The Stable
6.Long John Silver7.Josephine
8.All Buttoned Up
9.Broken Doll
10.Patty Don't You Put Me Down
11.Beatnik Walking
12.Guitar Heroes -
Acoustic Classics
2014
1.I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight2.Shoot Out The Lights -
Electric
2013-02
1.Stony Ground
2.Will You Dance, Charlie Boy
3.I Found A Stray
4.Salford Sunday
5.Sally B
6.The Rival
7.Stuck On The Treadmill
8.The Tic-Tac Man
9.Auldie Riggs10.My Enemy
11.Auldie Riggs Dance (Provided)
12.Good Things Happen To Bad People
13.So Ben Mi Ch'a Bon Tempo
14.Where's Home?
15.Another Small Thing In Her Favour
16.Straight And Narrow
17.The Snow Goose
18.Saving The Good Stuff For You -
Sweet Warrior
2007
1.Needle And Thread
2.I'll Never Give It Up
3.Take Care The Road You Choose
4.Mr. Stupid
5.Dad's Gonna Kill Me
6.Poppy-Red
7.Bad Monkey8.Francesca
9.Too Late To Come Fishing
10.Sneaky Boy
11.She Sang Angels To Rest
12.Johnny's Far Away
13.Guns Are The Tongues
14.Sunset Song -
Across A Crowded Room
2003-03
1.Fire In The Engine Room
2.Ghosts In The Wind
3.I Ain't Going To Drag My Feet No More
4.Little Blue Number
5.Love In A Faithless Country6.She Twists The Knife Again
7.Walking Through A Wasted Land
8.When The Spell Is Broken
9.You Don't Say -
Daring Adventures
2002-02
1.A Bone Through Her Nose
2.Al Bowlly's In Heaven
3.Baby Talk
4.Cash Down Never Never
5.Dead Man's Handle
6.How Will I Ever Be Simple Again7.Jennie
8.Long Dead Love
9.Lovers' Lane
10.Missie How You Let Me Down
11.Nearly In Love
12.Valerie -
Rumor And Sigh
2002
1.1952 Vincent Black Lightning
2.Backlash Love Affair
3.Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands
4.God Loves A Drunk
5.Grey Walls
6.I Misunderstood
7.Keep Your Distance8.Mother Knows Best
9.Mystery Wind
10.Psycho Street
11.Read About Love
12.Why Must I Plead
13.You Dream Too Much
14.I Feel So Good -
Amnesia
1996-07
1.Can't Win
2.Don't Tempt Me
3.Gypsy Love Songs
4.I Still Dream
5.Jerusalem On The Jukebox6.Pharaoh
7.Reckless Kind
8.Turning Of The Tide
9.Waltzing's For Dreamers
10.Yankee Go Home -
Pour Down Like Silver
1975
1.Dimming Of The Day, Dargai -
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
1974
1.Down Where The Drunkards Roll
2.Has He Got A Friend For Me?
3.I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
4.The Calvary Cross
5.The End Of The Rainbow6.The Great Valerio
7.The Little Beggar Girl
8.We Sing Hallelujah
9.When I Get To The Border
10.Withered And Died -
Henry The Human Fly
1972
1.Cold Feet
2.Mary And Joseph
3.Nobody's Wedding
4.Painted Ladies
5.Roll Over Vaughan Williams
6.Shaky Nancy7.The Angels Took My Racehorse Away
8.The New St George
9.The Old Changing Way
10.The Poor Ditching Boy
11.Twisted
12.Wheely Down -
Shoot Out the Lights
1.Don't Renege on Our Love
2.Back Street Slide (Live version)
3.Pavanne (Live version)
4.Borrowed Time (Live version)5.Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed? (Live version)
6.Shoot Out the LIghts (Live version)
7.For Shame of Doing Wrong (Live version)
8.Dimming of the Day (Live version) -
Mirror Blue
1.Beeswing
2.Easy There, Steady Now
3.Fast Food
4.For The Sake Of Mary
5.I Can't Wake Up To Save My Life
6.I Ride In Your Slipstream
7.King Of Bohemia8.Mascara Tears
9.Mgb-Gt
10.Mingus Eyes
11.Shane And Dixie
12.Taking My Business Elsewhere
13.The Way That It Shows -
Live at Rockpalast
1.The Wrong Heartbeat (Live) - 1983, Hamburg
2.A Poisoned Heart And a Twisted Memory (Live) - 1984, Cannes
3.Tear Stained Letter (Live) - 1984, Cannes
4.Night Comes In (Live) - 1984, Cannes
5.Shoot out the Lights (Live) - 1984, Cannes
6.Hand of Kindness (Live) - 1984, Cannes
7.Wall of Death (Live) - 1984, Cannes8.How I Wanted To (Live) - 1984, Cannes
9.Man In Need (Live) - 1984, Cannes
10.Danny Boy (Live) - 1983, Hamburg
11.Both Ends Burning (Live) - 1983, Hamburg
12.Back Street Slide (Live) - 1983, Hamburg
13.Two Left Feet (Live) - 1983, Hamburg -
Live At the BBC
1.The Angels Took My Racehorse Away (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986)
2.It's Just the Motion
3.I'll Regret It All in the Morning
4.Georgie on a Spree
5.Nearly In Love (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986)6.Wall of Death (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986)
7.Fire In the Engine Room (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986)
8.You Don't Say (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986)
9.Jennie (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986)
10.Valerie (Live At The Hammersmith Palais, 20/11/1986) -
Dream Attic
1.The Money Shuffle
2.Among The Gorse, Among The Grey
3.Haul Me Up
4.Burning Man
5.Here Comes Geordie
6.Demons In Her Dancing Shoes
7.Crimescene8.Big Sun Falling In The River
9.Stumble On
10.Sidney Wells
11.A Brother Slips Away
12.Bad Again
13.If Love Whispers Your Name -
Action Packed:The Best Of The Capitol Years
1.Turning Of The Tide - 2001 Digital Remaster
2.Mr. Rebound - 2001 Digital Remaster
3.Walking The Long Miles Home - 2001 Digital Remaster
4.Uninhabited Man - 2001 Digital Remaster
5.Cooksferry Queen - 24-Bit Digitally Remastered 01
6.Bathsheba Smiles - 2001 Digital Remaster
7.Cold Kisses - 2001 Digital Remaster
8.Razor Dance (Electric) - 2001 Digital Remaster
9.The Ghost Of You Walks - 2001 Digital Remaster10.Beeswing - 2001 Digital Remaster
11.I Can't Wake Up To Save My Life - 2001 Digital Remaster
12.King Of Bohemia - 2001 Digital Remaster
13.Keep Your Distance - 2001 Digital Remaster
14.I Feel So Good - 2001 Digital Remaster
15.I Misunderstood - 2001 Digital Remaster
16.1952 Vincent Black Lightning - 2001 Digital Remaster
17.Waltzing's For Dreamers - 2001 Digital Remaster
18.Fully Qualified To Be Your Man - 2001 Digital Remaster -
1000 Years Of Popular Music
1.The Fool
2.Tempted
3.It Won't Be Long4.Drinking Wine Spo-dee-o-dee
5.Kiss -
Miscellaneous 1
1.The Hand of Kindness
2.She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair
3.Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed
4.Hide It Away (Voltage Enhanced)
5.G Ethsemane
6.Beat The Retreat
7.Honky-Tonk Blues
8.Coyotes
9.Mr. Rebound
10.Time To Ring Some Changes
11.Miss Patsy
12.Cressida
13.Meet On The Ledge
14.Precious One
15.Should I Betray?
16.Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)
17.Genesis Hall
18.Bathsheba Smiles
19.A Solitary Life
20.For Whose Sake?
21.Old Thames Side
22.Cooksferry Queen
23.The Ghost of You Walks
24.Fully Qualified to Be Your Man
25.Sibella
26.Outside Of The Inside
27.Never Again
28.Baby Don't Know What To Do With Herself
29.Dimming Of The Day
30.Razor Dance
31.Walking On A Wire
32.Hard on Me
33.A Heart Needs A Home
34.My Soul, My Soul
35.Richard Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
36.Burns Supper
37.The Boys Of Mutton Street
38.Hope You Like the New Me
39.Persuasion
40.Cold Kisses
41.Night Comes In
42.I'll Regret It All In The Morning
43.Dimming Of The Day/Dargai
44.Sunnyvista
45.Crazy Man Michael
46.Lotteryland
47.Sloth
48.Sisters
49.Am I Wasting My Love On You?
50.First Breath51.She Said It Was Destiny
52.A Love You Can't Survive
53.Drowned Dog Black Night
54.A Poisoned Heart And A Twisted Memory
55.Sam Jones
56.Where The Wind Don't Whine
57.Two Left Feet
58.How I Wanted To
59.One Door Opens
60.Two-Faced Love
61.Train Don't Leave
62.When We Were Boys At School
63.Wall Of Death
64.Put It There Pal
65.Small Town Romance
66.Strange Affair
67.Tear Stained Letter
68.Dark Hand Over My Heart
69.No's Not A Word
70.That's All, Amen, Close The Door
71.Bone Through Her Nose
72.A Man In Need
73.Devonside
74.Gethsemane
75.Pearly Jim
76.Sights And Sounds Of London Town
77.Back Street Slide
78.Both Ends Burning
79.Killerman Gold Posse
80.Row, Boys, Row
81.Borrowed Time
82.Let It Blow
83.Uninhabited Man
84.The New St. George
85.From Galway To Graceland
86.Shine On Love
87.Walking The Long Miles Home
88.Crawl Back (Under My Stone)
89.Madonna's Wedding
90.I'll Tag Along
91.Roll Over Vaughn Williams
92.She Steers By Lightning
93.Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
94.Jealous Words
95.Old Man Inside A Young Man
96.False Or True
97.Last Shift
98.Bank Vault In Heaven
99.Sweetheart On The Barricade -
Miscellaneous
1.Drifting Through The Days
2.Big Chimney
3.Saboteur
4.The Dark End Of The Street
5.Put Your Trust In Me
6.Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman
7.Woman Or A Man?
8.Boom Town
9.A Blind Step Away
10.Love Is Bad For Business
11.Hand Of Kindness
12.Legal Matter - Live13.Dry My Tears and Move On - Live
14.I'll Keep It With Mine
15.Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
16.Oops!...I Did It Again
17.Hokey Pokey
18.For Shame Of Doing Wrong
19.Just The Motion
20.Hokey Pokey (Live at The Roundhouse)
21.Man In Need
22.She Moves Through the Fair
23.Mingulay Boat Song
24.I Want to See the Bright Lights
【Correction of errors in the album information】