The Mr. T Experience discography
Year Release details Track ( s )
1988 The Thing That Ate Floyd Released : 1988 Label : Lookout ! Format : LP Boredom Zone
1989 Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them Released : 1989 Label : Vital Music Format : CD Flying Jelly Attack ( originally performed by Shonen Knife )
1989 Make the Collector Nerd Sweat Released : 1989 Label : Very Small Format : EP Psycho Girl
1989 The Big One Released : 1989 Label : Flipside Format : CD Fill in the Blank
1991 Surprise Your Pig : A Tribute to R.E.M . Released : 1991 Label : Staplegun Format : CD Ca n't Get There from Here ( originally performed by R.E.M . )
1992 Blame and Burn Released : 1992 Label : Flush Format : CD God Bless America
1992 Can of Pork Released : 1992 Label : Format : CD T-Shirt Commercial Viva la France
1993 Banana Pad Riot Released : 1993 Label : Format : CD Do n't Go Away Go Go Girl ( originally performed by The Banana Splits )
1993 Soda Punx Released : 1993 Label : Top Drawer Format : CD Hello Kitty Menendez
1995 A Slice of Lemon Released : 1995 Label : Lookout ! / Kill Rock Stars Format : CD Unpack Your Adjectives ( originally performed by Schoolhouse Rock ! )
1997 Generations I : A Punk Look at Human Rights Released : 1997 Label : Ark 21 Format : CD Yeah , Yeah , Yeah , Yeah
1997 Before You Were Punk Released : 1997 Label : Vagrant Format : CD Crash ( originally performed by The Primitives )
1997 More Bounce to the Ounce Released : 1997 Label : Lookout ! Format : CD We Are the Future People of Tomorrow Whistle Bait ( originally performed by Joe Collins )
1997 The Duran Duran Tribute Album Released : 1997 Label : Mojo Format : CD Is There Something I Should Know ? ( originally performed by Duran Duran )
1998 No Pants ! Released : 1998 Label : Let 's Go Format : CD Sonic Reducer ( originally performed by the Dead Boys )
1999 Forward Til Death Released : 1999 Label : Lookout ! Format : CD King Dork
1999 Short Music for Short People Released : June 1 , 1999 Label : Fat Wreck Chords ( FAT 591-2 ) Format : CD Told You Once
Other appearances
The discography of The Mr. T Experience, a Berkeley, California-based punk rock band formed in 1985, consists of ten studio albums, five EPs, and nine singles. The Mr. T Experience formed in 1985 with an initial lineup of singer/guitarists Dr. Frank Portman and Jon Von Zelowitz, bassist Byron Stamatatos, and drummer Alex Laipeneiks. Their debut album Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion was released in 1986 on local label Disorder Records. Night Shift at the Thrill Factory followed in 1988 through Rough Trade Records, who also released their EP Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood in 1989. Stamatatos left the band and was replaced by Aaron Rubin, and when Rough Trade went out of business the band moved to Lookout! Records, where they would remain for the rest of their career. They released Making Things with Light in 1990, and both the Milk Milk Lemonade album and Strum ünd Bang, Live!? EP in 1992. Zelowitz left the band, leading to a brief breakup, but Portman, Rubin, and Laipeneiks decided to carry on as a trio and released the Gun Crazy EP and Our Bodies Our Selves album in 1993. Laipeneiks then left the band, leading to another breakup, but they reformed with new drummer Jim Jym Pittman for the EP .And the Women Who Love Them in 1994. Rubin then left the group and was replaced by Joel Reader. The lineup of Portman, Pittman, and Reader remained stable and released an album each year over a four-year period: Love is Dead (1996), Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You (1997), a cover version of the Ramones' Road to Ruin (1998), and Alcatraz (1999).