We've tried to make this a complete discography, with every permutation and piece of minutiae. Please let us know if you find any additions or corrections.
Jimmy's Corner
Released in the USA May 15, 2015 on the Confidential Recordings label. CLICK HERE to download Thirty instrumental songs, each under two minutes long The songs: Leftovers
Released in the USA April 2012 on the Confidential Recordings label. A limited edition collection on non-lp cuts, cover songs, live songs, alternate versions, home demos and other previously unreleased oddball tracks. CLICK HERE to download CLICK HERE to download the free 17 page liner notes for "Leftovers". The songs:
Goodbye CheaterReleased in the USA April 2005 on the Confidential Recordings label and in Spain April 2006 on the Rock Indiana label. CLICK HERE to download songs:
Recorded mostly live by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Evan Dando, Apples In Stereo, Spacehog, etc.) at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY. Featuring the talents of: Dave Amels (The Stepford Husbands, Husky Team) – Keyboards, Steve Goulding (Mekons, Graham Parker) - Drums, Jon Graboff (Amy Rigby, Laura Cantrell, Beat Rodeo) – Pedal Steel, Guitars, Six String Bass, Mandolin & Mandocello, John Lee (Mercybuckets) – Bass, Dan Miller (They Might Be Giants) – Keyboards, Guitars, Glockenspiel, Drew Glackin (Silos, Tandy) – Lap Steel, Six String Bass, Guitars, Weissenborn and Jay Sherman-Godfrey (World Famous Blue Jays, Laura Cantrell) – Guitars. With special guests Jim Campilonngo – electric guitar & Laura Cantrell – vocals. The Illustrations are by Brooklynite Joel Edwards. CLICK HERE to see one of Joel's rough sketches. CLICK HERE to see some photos of the recording sessions. | |||||||||||||||||||
I Blame You Released in Japan, on the Nippon Crown label, October 25, 2000 and in the USA on the BAR/NONE label in March 2001. CLICK HERE to download songs:
This album features the solid rhythm section of Dennis Diken on the drums, and John Lee on bass and features some fine contributions from Dave Amels (tons of keyboards), Lief Artzen (trumpet), Mark Bacino (vocals), Frank Bango (accordian & vocals), Andy Burton (electric piano), Laura Cantrell (sings a duet), Jon Graboff (pedal steel & guitars), Jon Niefeld (sings), Jordon Peugh (percussion) and includes songs cowritten with Stevie Jackson, Francis Macdonald and Jay Sherman-Godfrey. Most of the overdubs were recorded in Michael's Brooklyn apartment. The Nippon Crown version has the song "Little Monkey" (another
instrumental) instead of "Rollo". Too Many Movies![]() Released in the U.S.A. 7/21/98 on BIG DEAL, and 12/16/00 in Japan on The Nippon Crown label and January 2001 on SHOESHINE. CLICK HERE to download songs:
This album features a wider variety of musicians then "Half Empty". About half the songs were recorded in Glasgow (while Michael was there to play a few UK shows), two songs in Los Angeles one was recorded with the band Baby Lemonade backing him up. The remaining tracks recorded with his NY band in Brooklyn and Connecticut. The album features lots of great keyboards (Chris Geddes from Belle And Sebastian and Dave Amels) other electric guitarists (Jay Sherman-Godfrey from the World Famous Blue Jays, Stevie Jackson from Bell & Sebastian), lots of harmonies and singing (from all of the above and Laura Cantrell (wfmu dj and performer), and Francis Macdonald (who plays about 10 instruments on this record). Keep your ears peeled for pedal steel, fiddle, clarinet, saxophone, upright bass, string section, toy piano, conga drum, etc. The Nippon Crown Version has four bonus tracks, three of them are alternate versions of songs on the album ("Baby's In A Bad Mood", "Too Many Movies" and "Summer I Pissed You Away"), and one is an instrumental, "No Smoking", which was recorded during the sessions for the "I Blame You" album. The SHOESHINE release of the album features the alternate version of "Summer I Pissed You Away" instead of the album version. It was recorded in 1999 in Brooklyn with Dave & Mike from Baby Lemonade, and finished up at Jay's house. Great cover art by Ward Sutton Click here to read the reviews! Half Empty![]() Released 7/97 in the U.S. on BIG DEAL, 4/99 in the U.K. on SHOESHINE and 11/22/00 in Japan on Nippon Crown. Click here to look for it over at amazon.com! CLICK HERE to download songs: This album features the drumming of Brendan O'Malley, bass playing of Paul Koenigsberg, organ playing by Dave Amels, and an amazing guitar solo (on Think With Your Heart) by Jay Sherman-Godfrey. Cover painting by Takashi Tadatsu. The Nippon Crown version has three bonus tracks, "Don't" (a full band version recorded in Glasgow during the "Too Many Movies" sessions) "Rollo" (an instrumental that can be found on the U.S. version of "I Blame You") and "Ridin' In My Car" (an NRBQ cover, previously available only on the Hit The Hay compilation from Sweden) There was a neat green cassette tape promo version. Click here to read the reviews!! Cheeky Monkey "Four Arms To Hold You"
Click here for the Cheeky Monkey story! ![]() ![]() Released on Big Deal in the U.S., Tone Vendor in Japan and Shoeshine Records in the U.K. songs:
This album was recorded at Riverside studios, in Busby, Scotland (just outside of Glasgow) in three days. Francis Macdonald and Michael cowrote most of the songs, and do all the playing and singing. This album also was released in an excellent looking limited edition lp record on SHOESHINE. The Japanese version had one bonus track "Free Again" (a cover of an Alex Chilton song) and the following message printed on the spine: 7" & 8" Records
Michael Shelley
"Baby's In A Bad Mood"/"Dont" (non album version) ![]() "Little Things" EP Cheeky Monkey
The B side is an Alex Chilton song, not available on the Cheeky Monkey album.
The Sloppy Joes
"The Girl With The Light In Her Eyes"/"Keep On
Truckin'"
Compilation Contributions
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Michael's cool version of the classic NRBQ song "Ridin' In My Car" is out on the compilation HIT THE HAY VOL.3 on the Swedish label Sound Alsleep which also features tunes by Ben Vaughn, The Skeletons, The Incredible Casuals, the Minus 5, Mike Ireland, Robbie Fulks & more!! |
There are three of Michael's album tracks on "A Shoeshine Celebration", released on the Nippon Crown label in Japan. This twenty track album includes "Think With Your Heart", Dear Mr. Webster" and "Seeet Little One" as well as contributions from Nice Man, Kim Fowley, the Scruffs and much more! |
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In 1999 There was a BIG DEAL sampler released in Japan on the Victor Entertainment label. It has a nice cover (with SPAM-like can, and a blue smurf-like character) and "Baby's In A Bad Mood". |
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The Swedish label Sound Alsleep released a compilation called "Fireworks" which has "Think With Your Heart" and The Sloppy Joe's version of "The Girl With The Light In Her Eyes", and 22 other tracks. |
Michael's version of the Gene Pitney song "Walk" was included on the album "He's A Rebel: The Gene Pitney Story Retold" on the To Ma' Lou label. |
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BIG DEAL released a free sampler in 1999 called "Big Deal Annual Volume II" with sixteen tracks. They gave away 20,000 of them! It contains "Think With Your Heart" and Cheeky Monkey's "I Wanna Live With You" and 14 other songs from the BIG DEAL catalog, click the image to the left for a full list. |
There are a few other releases out there, good luck finding them! |