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Discography

Year EP/Single Tracklist Notes
2007 How am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns?
  1. "Jake Summers"
  2. "Lend Me Your Face"
  3. "You Are the Hat"
  4. "Battlestations"
2007 David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch
  1. "Do You Karate?"
  2. "Canhead"
  3. "Accidental Wrong Hole"
  4. "Snore Bore Whore"
A Limited Edition 12" EP containing both EPs was also released.
2008 "Something Global"
  1. "Something Global"
  2. "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" (Cover of a Mclusky song)
  3. "Knucklehead"
Irish only single release.
2008 "Lend Me Your Face" Re-recorded Version.
UK single release.
19 September 2008 "Jake Summers"
  1. "Jake Summers"
  2. "Corey Pop"
  3. "Snore Bore Whore (Spherical Mix)
Irish only single release. However, it reached number fourteen (UK Indie Chart)
26 September 2008 Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
  1. "Something Global"
  2. "Jake Summers"
  3. "Tie Me Up with Jackets"
  4. "Digifucker"
  5. "Lend Me Your Face"
  6. "Battlestations"
  7. "Do You Karate?"
  8. "Megameanie"
  9. "I'm Beginning to Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 to Me"
  10. "Lumpy Dough"
  11. "Recyclable Ass"
  12. "Snore Bore Whore"
Charted in Ireland at number nine. Fight Like Apes's debut album. Vinyl version contains bonus track of "You Are The Hat"
2009 "Tie Me Up with Jackets"
  1. "Tie Me Up with Jackets"
  2. "Telephone the Real Ham Jackson"
  3. "Canhead"
Ireland and UK single release.
2009 "Something Global"
  1. "Something Global"
International single release.

Influences

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Their musical influences include Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Mclusky, Spoon, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Built to Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Devo, Sonic Youth, Roxy Music, Talking Heads. --candlewicke 17:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Phantom FM, a radio station based in Dublin, and now defunct music show, The Night Shift, broadcast on Channel 6, have championed the band from their early days, particularly DJ Sinister Pete. They have also recorded sessions for Marc Riley on BBC Radio 6. --candlewicke 01:59, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]