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Alternative-Rock Punk-Pop act from Downpatrick, NORTHERN IRELAND and originally consisted of singer + guitarist Tim Wheeler, bass player Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray; they started playing together in the first half of the '90s.

Their first single, "Jack Names The Planets", came out in 1994 appearing in advance of their debut album, "Trailer".

In late 1995 "Girl From Mars" entered the top 10 of the Official U.K. Singles chart, two more British hit singles "Goldfinger" and "Oh Yeah" propelled the band's second effort, "1977", to the top of the U.K. Albums chart and helped pump album sales to nearly one million copies worldwide.

Over the course of 1997, having expanded the line-up to include the new guitarist Charlotte Hatherley the group toured the world, sharing the stage with such acts as Moby and Our Lady Peace.
The next year saw the release of "Nu-Clear Sounds", the album failed to replicate its predecessor's commercial performance and stalled at #7 on the British Sales chart, because, under pressure to deliver a follow-up to the success of "1977", Wheeler suffered writer's block.

The band resurfaced in early 2001 with the U.K. top 10 hit single "Shining Light" which preceded the full-length "Free All Angels"; soon after the album release, the second single, "Burn Baby Burn", peaked at #13 on the British Top 100 chart. Their fourth album topped the U.K. charts and generated two more hit singles: "Sometimes" and "Candy".
"Free All Angels" appeared in the U.S. in June 2002 and conquered the top 20 of the Billboard Magazine's Heatseekers list.
That same year, Ash, released a double-CD compilation of all their singles and B-sides called "Intergalactic Sonic 7"s" which also included the previously unreleased track "Envy", released as a single, it fell just shy of reaching the British Top 20 and has since remained one of 100 XR's fave track.

Ash's next offering, "Meltdown", was issued in mid-2004 going straight into the top 5 of the British Albums chart and spawning the top 10 hit single "Orpheus".

In early 2006 Charlotte Hatherley announced her departure from the band after almost a decade with the Northern Irish alt-Rock outfit; the decision was completely amicable. Around this time the core members relocated to New York City, where they set up their own recording studio, Atomic Heart.
One and a half year later, again as a three-piece, Ash released its sixth studio album, "Twilight Of The Innocents", the 12-song set failed to rise above #32 on the U.K. Albums chart.

Following the commercial flop of the 2007's effort, band members swore never to release another full-length studio effort, but instead put out singles and accompanying compilation sets.
Their first project after this is “The A-Z Series”, 26 singles in one year, from October 2009 to September 2010, named alphabetically from A to Z. April 2010 saw the release of "A-Z Vol.1", the first half of the project, singles from A to M.
In June, 100 XR decided to put the single titled "Insects" on the Hot New playlist.

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Trailer

(1994)

1. Season
2. Message From Oscar Wilde And Patrick The Brewer / Jack Names The Planets
3. Intense Thing
4. Uncle Pat
5. Message From Mr Water Man / Get Out
6. Petrol
7. Obscure Thing

 

1977

(1996)

1. Lose Control
2. Goldfinger
3. Girl From Mars
4. I'd Give You Anything
5. Gone The Dream
6. Kung Fu
7. Oh Yeah
8. Let It Flow
9. Innocent Smile
10. Angel Interceptor
11. Lost In You
12. Darkside Lightside

 

Nu-Clear Sounds

(1998)

1. Projects
2. Low Ebb
3. Jesus Says
4. Wildsurf
5. Death Trip 21
6. Folk Song
7. Numbskull
8. Burn Out
9. Aphrodite
10. Fortune Teller
11. I'm Gonna Fall

 

Free All Angels

(2001)

1. Walking Barefoot
2. Shining Light
3. Burn Baby Burn
4. Candy
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Submission
7. Someday
8. Pacific Palisades
9. Shark
10. Sometimes
11. Nicole
12. There's A Star
13. World Domination

 

Intergalactic Sonic 7"s

(2002)

DISC #1:
1. Burn Baby Burn
2. Envy [NEW TRACK]
3. Girl From Mars
4. Shining Light
5. A Life Less Ordinary
6. Goldfinger
7. Jesus Says
8. Oh Yeah
9. Jack Names The Planets
10. Sometimes
11. Kung Fu
12. Candy
13. Angel Interceptor
14. Uncle Pat
15. Wildsurf
16. Walking Barefoot
17. Petrol
18. There's A Star
19. Numbskull

DISC #2:
1. No Place To Hide
2. Warmer Than Fire
3. Where Is Our Love Going?
4. Taken Out
5. 13th Floor [live]
6. Stormy Waters
7. Message From Oscar Wilder And Patrick The Brewer
8. Who You Drivin' Now?
9. Stay In Love Forever
10. The Sweetness Of Death By The Obsidian Knife
11. Melon Farmer
12. Nocturne
13. Gabriel
14. Coasting
15. Lose Control
16. I Need Somebody
17. Sneaker
18. Cantina Band
19. Astral Conversations With Toulouse Lautrec
20. Day Of The Triffids
21. Halloween
22. Thinking About You

 

Meltdown

(2004)

1. Meltdown
2. Orpheus
3. Evil Eye
4. Clones
5. Starcrossed
6. Out Of The Blue
7. Renegade Cavalcade
8. Detonator
9. On A Wave
10. Won't Be Saved
11. Vampire Love

 

Twilight Of The Innocents

(2007)

1. I Started A Fire
2. You Can't Have It All
3. Blacklisted
4. Polaris
5. Palace Of Excess
6. End Of The World
7. Ritual
8. Shadows
9. Princess Six
10. Dark And Stormy
11. Shattered Glass
12. Twilight Of The Innocents

 

A-Z Vol. 1

(2010)

1. Return Of White Rabbit
2. True Love 1980
3. Joy Kicks Darkness
4. Arcadia
5. Tracers
6. The Dead Disciples
7. Pripyat
8. Ichiban
9. Space Shot
10. Neon
11. Command
12. Song Of Your Desire
13. Dionysian Urge
14. War With Me
15. Coming Around Again
16. The Creeps
17. CTRL-ALT-DEL
18. Do You Feel It?

 

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