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The Chameleons are an English rock band, formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1981. The band's classic line-up consisted of lead vocalist and bassist Mark Burgess, guitarists Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever. The band released their debut studio album, Script of the Bridge, in 1983. They followed it with What Does Anything Mean? Basically and Strange Times in 1985 and 1986, respectively, before abruptly breaking-up in 1987 due to the sudden death of the band's manager. After the break-up, Burgess and Lever formed the Sun and the Moon, while Fielding and Smithies formed the Reegs. Burgess also had a short solo career with backing band the Sons of God. The Chameleons reformed in 2000, releasing their fourth studio album Why Call It Anything (2001) as well as the acoustic albums Strip (2000) and This Never Ending Now (2002). Renewed tensions caused the group to break-up again in 2003. Burgess and Lever continued to play Chameleons songs live with their new project ChameleonsVox, although Lever later left that group and died in 2017. Burgess and Smithies reformed the Chameleons in 2021 with two members of Burgess' ChameleonsVox group. Known for their atmospheric, guitar-based sound, the Chameleons are regarded as one of the most underrated Manchester bands of the 1980s. They did not attain the commercial success of other groups from the Manchester scene but developed a cult following.
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Live at the Hacienda [Colored Vinyl] [2017]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers | |
Pleasure and Pain | |
In Shreds | |
Don't Fall | |
Second Skin |
Live from London [2007]
Song | Duration |
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Don't Fall | 0:45 |
Monkeyland | 3:45 |
Second Skin | 4:29 |
Pleasure and Pain | 3:42 |
Return of the Roughnecks | 4:05 |
A In Shreds | 4:51 |
Here Today | 6:00 |
Paper Tigers | 3:52 |
Ascension [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Swamp Thing [DVD] | |
Second Skin [DVD] |
Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Don't Fall | 4:04 |
LateNightTales [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Up the Down Escalator | 3:57 |
Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Swamp Thing | 5:56 |
Sing Rule Britannia: The Chameleons Live [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Don't Fall | |
Intrigue In Tangiers | |
Monkeyland | |
Second Skin | |
Pleasure And Pain | |
Return Of The Roughnecks | |
In Shreds | |
Here Today | |
Singing Rule Britannia | |
Home Is Where The Heart Is |
Hardest Hits [Box] [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Swamp Thing | 5:57 |
This Never Ending Now [2003]
Song | Duration |
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The Fan and the Bellows | 3:32 |
Tears | 5:36 |
Intrigue in Tangiers | 5:26 |
Seriocity | 3:13 |
Swamp Thing | 5:24 |
Second Skin | 7:47 |
Home Is Where the Heart Is | 5:05 |
View from a Hill | 7:00 |
Live at the Academy [2002]
Song | Duration |
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A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days | 5:41 |
Pleasure and Pain | 4:36 |
Perfume Garden | 4:15 |
Caution | 8:16 |
Up the Down Escalator | 4:07 |
Second Skin | 8:03 |
Swamp Thing | 6:26 |
Monkeyland | 5:05 |
Tears [Live][*] | 5:18 |
Seriocity [Live][*] | 3:25 |
Soul in Isolation [Live][*] | 8:39 |
Strip [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Less Than Human | |
Here Today | |
Soul in Isolation | |
Pleasure and Pain | |
Paradiso | |
Caution | |
On the Beach |
Postpunk Chronicles: Left of the Dial [1999]
Song | Duration |
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In Shreds | 4:09 |
Live at the Gallery Club, Manchester 1982 [Video/DVD] [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers | |
Don't Fall | |
Pleasure and Pain | |
Here Today | |
In Shreds | |
Second Skin | |
Monkeyland | |
As High as You Can Go | |
View from a Hill |
Return of the Roughnecks: The Best of Chameleons UK [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Swamp Thing | |
In Shreds | |
Home Is Where the Heart Is | |
A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days | |
Mad Jack | |
Don't Fall | |
Caution | |
Second Skin | |
Perfume Garden | |
Tears | |
Monkeyland | |
Nostalgia | |
View from a Hill |
Goths Undead [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers [Live] | 4:12 |
Live Shreds [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers | 4:27 |
Pleasure and Pain | 4:29 |
In Shreds | 3:57 |
Don't Fall | 3:46 |
Second Skin | 5:42 |
Up the Down Escalator | 3:45 |
Monkeyland | 5:04 |
As High as You Can Go | 3:20 |
Live at the Gallery Club & The Hacienda, Manchester [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers | |
Don't Fall | |
Pleasure and Pain | |
Here Today | |
In Shreds | |
Up the Down Escalator | |
Second Skin | |
Monkeyland | |
As High as You Can Go | |
View from a Hill |
Live at the Gallery Club, Manchester, 1982 [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers | 4:06 |
Don't Fall | 3:52 |
Pleasure and Pain | 4:20 |
Here Today | 4:12 |
In Shreds | 3:55 |
Up the Down Escalator | 4:18 |
Second Skin | 4:58 |
Monkeyland | 5:40 |
As High as You Can Go | 3:24 |
View from a Hill | 4:56 |
Live at the Gallery Club, Manchester, 1982 [Enhanced] [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Paper Tigers | 4:06 |
Don't Fall | 3:52 |
Pleasure & Pain | 4:20 |
Here Today | 4:12 |
In Shreds | 3:55 |
Up the Down Escalator | 4:18 |
Second Skin | 4:58 |
Monkeyland | 5:40 |
As High as You Can Go | 3:24 |
View from a Hill | 4:58 |
Hardest Hits, Vol. 3 [1994]
Song | Duration |
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Swamp Thing | 5:57 |
Richard Blade's Flashback Favorites, Vol. 6 [1994]
Song | Duration |
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In Shreds | 3:58 |
Dali's Picture [1993]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Monkeyland | 5:11 |
Love Is | 3:59 |
The Fan and the Bellows | 3:32 |
Looking Inwardly | 4:25 |
Nostalgia | 5:29 |
Less Than Human | 2:31 |
Free Trade Hall Rehearsal [1993]
Live in Berlin [1993]
Song | Duration |
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Less Than Human | |
Paper Tigers | |
Monkeyland | |
Second Skin | |
Pleasure and Pain | |
Singing Rule Britannia (While the Walls Close In) | |
Perfume Garden | |
One Flesh | |
In Shreds |
Radio 1 Evening Show Sessions [1993]
Here Today...Gone Tomorrow [1992]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Home Is Where the Heart Is | |
In Answer | |
In Shreds | |
Up the Down Escalator | |
On the Beach |
Live in Toronto [1992]
Manchester: So Much to Answer For [1990]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Second Skin |
Peel Sessions [1990]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
The Fan and The Bellows | 3:27 |
Here Today | 3:44 |
Looking Inwardly | 4:25 |
Don't Fall | 3:52 |
Nostalgia | 3:29 |
Second Skin | 6:06 |
One Flesh | 4:46 |
Intrigue in Tangiers | 4:12 |
Tripping Dogs [1990]
Song | Duration |
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Singing Rule Britannia | 5:33 |
A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days | 5:29 |
Here Today | 5:39 |
Pleasure and Pain | 5:52 |
Less Than Human | 4:01 |
In Answer | 3:47 |
Return of the Roughnecks | 3:39 |
Second Skin | 6:15 |
One Flesh | 4:59 |
Home Is Where the Heart Is | 5:29 |
The Fan & the Bellows [1988]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
The Fan and the Bellows | 3:30 |
Nostalgia | 5:25 |
Less Than Human | 4:33 |
In Shreds | 4:07 |
Turn to the Vices | 3:53 |
Love Is | 4:00 |
Strange Times [1986]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Mad Jack | 3:58 |
Caution | 7:51 |
Tears | 5:08 |
Soul in Isolation | 7:29 |
Swamp Thing | 5:57 |
Seriocity | 3:01 |
In Answer | 4:55 |
Childhood | 4:43 |
I'll Remember | 3:46 |
Tears [*] | 5:09 |
Tears [Bonus Album Version] | 5:07 |
Paradiso [*] | 4:35 |
Paradiso [Bonus Album Version] | 4:35 |
Inside Out [*] | 3:34 |
Inside Out [Bonus Album Version] | 3:33 |
Paradiso | 4:35 |
Inside Out | 3:33 |
Strange Times [Bonus Disc] [1986]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Mad Jack | 3:59 |
Caution | 7:51 |
Tears | 5:07 |
Soul in Isolation | 7:29 |
Swamp Thing | 5:57 |
Seriocity | 3:08 |
In Answer | 4:47 |
Childhood | 4:46 |
I'll Remember | 3:37 |
Tears [*] | 5:10 |
Paradiso [*] | 4:35 |
Inside Out [*] | 3:34 |
Swamp Thing [1986]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Swamp Thing | |
Swamp Thing [Edit] |
What Does Anything Mean? Basically [1985]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Perfume Garden | 4:35 |
Intrigue in Tangiers | 5:16 |
Return of the Roughnecks | 3:26 |
Singing Rule Britannia (While the Walls Close In) | 4:17 |
On the Beach | 4:11 |
Looking Inwardly | 4:28 |
One Flesh | 4:29 |
Home Is Where the Heart Is | 4:53 |
In Shreds | 4:09 |
Nostalgia | 5:26 |
Script of the Bridge [1983]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Don't Fall | 4:06 |
Here Today | 3:57 |
Monkeyland | 5:17 |
Second Skin | 6:51 |
Up the Down Escalator | 3:57 |
Less Than Human | 4:12 |
Pleasure and Pain | 5:11 |
As High as You Can Go | 3:35 |
A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days | 5:43 |
Paper Tigers | 4:17 |
View from a Hill | 6:39 |
Script of the Bridge: 25th Anniversary Edition [1983]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Don't Fall | 4:06 |
Here Today | 3:50 |
Monkeyland | 5:24 |
Second Skin | 6:50 |
Up the Down Escalator | 3:57 |
Less Than Human | 4:12 |
Pleasure and Pain | 5:11 |
As High as You Can Go | 3:35 |
A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days | 5:43 |
Paper Tigers | 4:16 |
View from a Hill | 6:41 |
In Shreds [#][*] | 4:09 |
Paper Tigers [Live][*] | 4:07 |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Swamp Thing | 5:57 |
Soul in Isolation | 7:27 |
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