Sole discography
Studio albums27
Compilation albums3
EPs14
Singles12
Mixtapes2
Remix albums3
Audio books1
DVDs1
Guest appearances31

Sole is an American alternative hip hop artist based in Denver, Colorado. His discography consists of eighteen studio albums, four collaboration albums, ten EPs, two mixtapes, three remix albums, three compilations, twelve singles, one audiobook, one DVD, and many guest appearances on other artists' tracks.

Discography

Studio albums

Year Title Notes
2000 Bottle of Humans
  • Released: 2000
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Anticon
  • Debut solo album.
2001 uck rt
  • Released: 2001
  • Format: CDr
  • Label: Self-released
  • CDr of demos sold on tour in 2001. Includes early versions of several tracks that would later appear on Selling Live Water.
  • The title is a play on the phrase "Fuck Art" and is alternately rendered "uck rt", "_uck _rt" or "uckrt" in various listing on the internet.
2003 Selling Live Water
  • Released: 2003
  • Format: CD, vinyl
  • Label: Anticon
    Mansbestfriend Pt. 2: No Thanks
    • Released: 2003
    • Format: CD
    • Label: Self-released (2004 re-release on Morr Music)
    • Entirely self-produced.
    • Inititially self-released, the album was repackaged and remastered with additional tracks in 2004 and released by Morr Music under the title The New Human Is Illegal, with Sole using "Man'sbestfriend" (with an apostrophe) as an alternate moniker rather than as a title for the first time, as he would again (without an apostrophe) for his 2007 instrumental project Poly.Sci.187.
    2005 Songs That Went Tin
    • Released: February 21, 2005
    • Format: CD
    • Label: Self-released
    • A collection of rare or previously unreleased tracks recorded for Bottle of Humans, Selling Live Water, Live from Rome and the Mansbestfriend series.
    Live from Rome
    • Released: February 22, 2005
    • Format: CD, vinyl
    • Label: Anticon
      Mansbestfriend Pt. 3: My Own Worst Enemy
      • Released: June 6, 2005
      • Format: CD
      • Label: Self-released
      • Entirely self-produced.
      2007 Poly.Sci.187
      • Released: 2007
      • Format: CD
      • Label: Anticon
      • Instrumental project.
      • Entirely self-produced.
      • Sole adopted the "Mansbestfriend" moniker for this album (as he had first done for the Volume 2 re-release), intending upon releasing instrumental work under that name.
        However, "Mansbestfriend" has since reverted to the title of a series of self-produced albums (as it began) with the release of fifth and sixth entries in the series in 2011. Poly.Sci.187 thereby retroactively became Mansbestfriend 4.
      Sole and the Skyrider Band (with Skyrider)
      • Released: 2007
      • Format: CD, vinyl
      • Label: Anticon
      • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
      Desert Eagle Volume One
      • Released: 2007
      • Format: CDr, CD
      • Label: Self-released
      • Entirely self-produced.
      • Initially sold as a CDr on tour in 2007. Re-released on CD in 2008 without the "Volume One" subtitle.
      2009 Plastique (with Skyrider)
      • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
      2011 Hello Cruel World (with Skyrider)
      • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
      2012 A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
      • Released: November 13, 2012
      • Format: CD, download
      • Label: Black Canyon Records
        2013 No Wising Up No Settling Down
        • Released: May 1, 2013
        • Format: CD, download
        • Label: Black Canyon Records
          No More Dystopias (with Yasamin Holland, as Whitenoise)
          • Released: September 17, 2013
          • Format: Cassette, download
          • Label: Black Canyon Records
          • Instrumental project.
          • Whitenoise started out as a moniker for Sole's new instrumental music, but he collaborated closely with his wife Yasamin on this album, and in the process Whitenoise became their name as a duo.
          Crimes Against Totality
          • Released: November 5, 2013
          • Format: CD, download
          • Label: Black Canyon Records
            2014 Death Drive (with DJ Pain 1)
            • Released: May 6, 2014[1]
            • Format: CD, download
            • Label: Black Canyon Records
            2015 Ruins (with Yasamin Holland, as Whitenoise)
            • Released: March 24, 2015
            • Format: Cassette, download
            • Label: Black Box Tapes
              Mansbestfriend 7
              • Released: September 4, 2015
              • Format: CD, download
              • Label: Black Box Tapes
              • Entirely self-produced.
              2016 Nihilismo (with DJ Pain 1)
              • Released: April 22, 2016
              • Format: CD, vinyl, download
              • Label: Black Box Tapes
              • Entirely produced by DJ Pain 1.
              2018 Let Them Eat Sand
              • Released: February 2, 2018
              • Format: CD, download
              • Label: Black Box Tapes
              • Entirely self-produced.
              2019 Destituent
              • Released: February 22, 2019
              • Format: Vinyl, download
              • Label: Black Box Tapes
              • Entirely self-produced.
              No God nor Country (with DJ Pain 1)
              • Released: November 18, 2019
              • Format: CD, vinyl, download
              • Label:
              • Entirely produced by DJ Pain 1.
              2021 MBFX
              • Released: March 5, 2021
              • Format: Vinyl, download
              • Label: Black Box Tapes
              • Entirely self-produced.
              • The tenth entry in the Mansbestfriend series, retroactively positioning Let Them Eat Sand and Destituent as the eighth and ninth entries respectively.
              2022 Post American Studies (with DJ Pain 1)
              • Released: February 4, 2022
              • Format: TBA
              • Label: eMERGENCY heARTS
              • Entirely produced by DJ Pain 1.

              Collaboration albums

              Year Title Notes
              1996 What's It All About (with Moodswing9, as Live Poets)
              • Released: 1996
              • Format: , CD, cassette
              • Label: 45 Below
                1999 The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? (with Alias, Doseone & Slug, as Deep Puddle Dynamics)
                • Released: 1999
                • Format: CD
                • Label: Anticon
                  2001 Paint by Number Songs (with Alias & DJ Mayonnaise, as So-Called Artists)

                    EPs

                    Year Title Notes
                    1994 Madd Skills & Unpaid Bills (with Moodswing9, as Northern Exposure)
                    • Released: 1994
                    • Format: Cassette
                    • Label: 45 Below
                      1998 Music Without a Face
                      • Released: 1998
                      • Format: Cassette
                      • Label: 45 Below
                        2002 Mansbestfriend
                        • Released: May 2002
                        • Format: CDr, CD
                        • Label: Self-released
                          We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) (with Anticon & Deep Puddle Dynamics)
                          • Released: 1999
                          • Format: CD
                          • Label: Anticon
                          • "More from June" is a song by Deep Puddle Dynamics, featuring Eyedea. "We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes)" and "Pitty Party People" are posse cuts by Anticon.
                          2007 Exhile
                          • Released: May 21, 2007
                          • Format: CD
                          • Label: Anticon
                            2009 Battlefields (with Skyrider)
                            • Released: October 13, 2009
                            • Format: CD, vinyl, download
                            • Label: Fake Four Inc.
                            • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
                            2011 Mansbestfriend Vol. 5
                            • Released: February 14, 2011
                            • Format: CD, download
                            • Label: Black Canyon Records
                              Mansbestfriend V. 6: Radioactive Rain
                              • Released: May 26, 2011
                              • Format: CD, download
                              • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                The Challenger EP (with Skyrider)
                                • Released: December 13, 2011
                                • Format: CD, download
                                • Label: Fake Four Inc.
                                • Entirely produced by Skyrider.
                                2012 Yung Planetz EP (with Bleubird & K-the-I???, as Waco Boyz)
                                • Released: June 19, 2012
                                • Format: Download
                                • Label: Fake Four Inc.
                                  Songs That Went Void
                                  • Released: August 3, 2012
                                  • Format: Download
                                  • Label:
                                  • EP of previously unreleased tracks, made available exclusively to backers of Sole's Kickstarter campaign for A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (2012). The majority of these songs later appeared on Crimes Against Totality (2013).
                                  2014 Warfare (with DJ Pain 1)
                                  • Released: April 11, 2014
                                  • Format: Download
                                  • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                    Pattern of Life (with DJ Pain 1)
                                    • Released: August 26, 2014
                                    • Format: Download
                                    • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                      2019 Destituted
                                      • Released: March 20, 2019
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label:
                                      • Patreon-exclusive companion EP to the album Destituent.
                                      2020 Worlds Not Yet Gone
                                      • Released: February 4, 2020
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label:

                                      Mixtapes

                                      Year Title Notes
                                      2001 Red Dawn: A Baybridge Epic (with Pedestrian, as Da Babylonianz)
                                      • Released: 2001
                                      • Format: CD-R
                                      • Label:
                                      • Gangsta rap parody album. Sole and Pedestrian adopted the names Blazefest and Whitefolks (respectively) for this album.
                                      2009 Nuclear Winter Volume 1
                                      • Released: October 30, 2009
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label:
                                      • Topical political songs recorded over commercial hip hop beats.
                                      2011 Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel
                                      • Released: June 21, 2011
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                      • Topical political songs recorded over commercial hip hop beats.

                                      Remix albums

                                      Year Title Notes
                                      2008 The Secret History of Underground Rap
                                      • Released: 2008
                                      • Format: CD, download
                                      • Label:
                                      • Remixes of classic hip hop songs from the 1990s.
                                      2009 Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP
                                      • Released: February 3, 2009
                                      • Format: CD, download
                                      • Label:
                                      • Remixes of songs from the album Sole and the Skyrider Band by a variety of artists.
                                      2010 Spring Offensive Volume 1: Nuclear Winter Remixes
                                      • Released: August 10, 2010
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                      • Remixes of songs from the mixtape Nuclear Winter Volume One by a variety of artists.
                                      2015 Death Drive: First as Tragedy, Then as Remix
                                      • Released: January 6, 2015
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                      • An EP of remixes of songs from the album Death Drive by a variety of artists.

                                      Compilation albums

                                      Year Title Notes
                                      2002 Learning to Walk
                                      • Released: April 9, 2002
                                      • Format: CD
                                      • Label: 6 Months
                                      • A selection of Sole's early material, compiled from the years 1994-1998.
                                      2011 Dispatches from the American Fall
                                      • Released: 2011
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label: Black Canyon Music
                                      • A selection of Sole's political songs, compiled from the years 2003-2011.

                                      Live albums

                                      Year Title Notes
                                      2008 Live at The Middle East (with Skyrider)
                                      • Released: November 18, 2008
                                      • Format: Download
                                      • Label:
                                        2010 Live in Europe (with Skyrider)
                                        • Released: 2010
                                        • Format: CD-R
                                        • Label:

                                          Singles

                                          Year Title Notes
                                          1995 "Sole" (with Live Poets)
                                          • Released: 1995
                                          • Format: 7" vinyl
                                          • Label: 45 Below
                                            1997 "Respect" (with Live Poets)
                                            • Released: 1997
                                            • Format: 7" vinyl
                                            • Label: 45 Below
                                              1998 "Respect"
                                              • Released: 1998
                                              • Format: 7" vinyl
                                              • Label: 45 Below
                                                1999 "Rainmen" (with Deep Puddle Dynamics)
                                                • Released: 1999
                                                • Format: 10" vinyl
                                                • Label: Anticon
                                                  "Bottle of Humans"
                                                  • Released: 1999
                                                  • Format: 10" vinyl
                                                  • Label: Anticon
                                                    2001 "Sideshow" (with So-Called Artists)
                                                    • Released: 2001
                                                    • Format: 10" vinyl
                                                    • Label: Mush Records
                                                      2002 "Salt on Everything"
                                                      • Released: 2002
                                                      • Format: 10" vinyl
                                                      • Label: Anticon
                                                        2003 "Plutonium"
                                                        • Released: 2003
                                                        • Format: 10" vinyl
                                                        • Label: Anticon
                                                          2005 "New Single"
                                                          • Released: 2005
                                                          • Format: 10" vinyl
                                                          • Label: Anticon
                                                            2011 "Hello Cruel World" (with Skyrider)
                                                            • Released: 2011
                                                            • Format: Digital download
                                                            • Label: Fake Four Inc.
                                                              2012 "Young Sole"
                                                              • Released: 2012
                                                              • Format: Digital download
                                                              • Label: Black Canyon Records
                                                                "The Untouchables"
                                                                • Released: 2012
                                                                • Format: Digital download
                                                                • Label: Black Canyon Records

                                                                  Audio books

                                                                  Year Title Notes
                                                                  2010 The Pyre
                                                                  • Released: 2010
                                                                  • Format: CD
                                                                  • Label: Self-released

                                                                    DVDs

                                                                    Year Title Notes
                                                                    2012 Art Is War
                                                                    • Released: 2012
                                                                    • Format: DVD
                                                                    • Label: Self-released

                                                                      Guest appearances

                                                                      • Sixtoo - "Cave People" from The Psyche Intangible (1998)
                                                                      • Themselves - "Lyrical Cougel" from Them (1999)
                                                                      • Sixtoo - "When Freedom Rings" from Songs I Hate (and Other People Moments) (2001)
                                                                      • Sage Francis - "I Apologize" from Sick of Waiting Tables (2001)
                                                                      • Clouddead - "I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again (1)" from Clouddead (2001)
                                                                      • DJ Krush - "Song for John Walker" from The Message at the Depth (2002)
                                                                      • Bleubird - "Another Super Mario Cart Brothers Drive By" from Sloppy Doctor (2003)
                                                                      • Pedestrian - "Arrest the President" from Volume One: UnIndian Songs (2005)
                                                                      • Sage Francis - "My Head" from Still Sickly Business (2005)
                                                                      • Mr. Nogatco - "Live Dissection" from Nogatco Rd. (2006)
                                                                      • Scott Da Ros - "Humans Bury Deep" from One Kind of Dead End (2006)
                                                                      • Noah23 - "Tragic Comedy" from Rock Paper Scissors (2008)
                                                                      • Skyrider - "Infest" from Skyrider (2008)
                                                                      • Themselves - "1 for No Money" from The Free Houdini (2009)
                                                                      • Time - "Trouble with Kids" from Naked Dinner (2010)
                                                                      • Ceschi - "Long Live the Short Lived" from The One Man Band Broke Up (2010)
                                                                      • Factor - "Living in a Vacuum" from Lawson Graham (2010)
                                                                      • Factor - "Don't Jock the Dead" from 13 Stories (2010)
                                                                      • Kay the Aquanaut - "Kill You" from Waterloo (2011)
                                                                      • Noah23 - "Murder City" from Fry Cook on Venus (2011)
                                                                      • The Bins - "Inspiration" from Inspiration (2011)[2]
                                                                      • Kaigen - "Don't Try to Stop It" & "Rust Belt Fellows" from Re: Bloomer (2011)
                                                                      • K-the-I??? - "The Third Planet" from Synthesthesia (2011)
                                                                      • Noah23 & Krem - "Darkside of the Moon" from The Terminal Illness EP (2011)
                                                                      • Sixo - "Government Bonds" from Free Floating Rationales (2012)
                                                                      • Sixo - "Dance with Stars" from Tracking Perception EP (2012)
                                                                      • Bong-Ra - "Monolith", "Inspiration", "Trillion Nemesi" & "Pandora's Box" from Monolith (2012)

                                                                      Tracks appear on

                                                                      • "Rainmen", "Savior?", "Human Races the Tortoise", "Martyr Theme Song" & "Holy Shit!" on Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop (1999)
                                                                      • "Props 2000" on Strictly Indee (2000)
                                                                      • "We Ain't Fessin'", "Silence (Poor Me Pt. 7)" & "A.D.D." on Giga Single (2001)
                                                                      • "Shoot the Messenger", "Bottle of Humans", "Salt on Everything" & "Dumb This Down" on Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004 (2004)
                                                                      • "The Great Deluge" & "Fukushima Tokyo Electric Russian Roulette" on J-A-P-A-N: A Fake Four Inc. Japan Relief Benefit EP (2011)

                                                                      References

                                                                      1. ↑ "sole on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30.
                                                                      2. ↑ Qadir, Jawad (2011-11-08). "New track from hip-hop local act: The Bins". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
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