# Throwing Muses discography

This is the discography for the work of rock band Throwing Muses.

## Albums
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US Heat | US Ind. | NL | NZ | UK |
| Throwing Muses | Released: September 1986 Label: 4AD | — | — | — | — | — |
| House Tornado | Released: March 21, 1988 Label: 4AD/Sire Records | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hunkpapa | Released: January 23, 1989 Label: 4AD/Sire Records | — | — | — | — | 59 |
| The Real Ramona | Released: February 18, 1991 Label: 4AD/Warner Bros. Records | — | — | — | — | 26 |
| Red Heaven | Released: August 10, 1992 Label: 4AD/Warner Bros. Records | — | — | 63 | — | 13 |
| University | Released: January 16, 1995 Label: 4AD/Sire Records/Reprise Records | 10 | — | 70 | 44 | 10 |
| Limbo | Released: August 13, 1996 Label: 4AD/Rykodisc/Throwing Music | 34 | — | 87 | — | 36 |
| Throwing Muses | Released: March 17, 2003 Label: 4AD | — | 26 | — | — | 75 |
| Purgatory/Paradise | Released: November 11, 2013 Label: Throwing Music | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun Racket | Released: September 2020 Label: Fire Records | — | — | — | — | — |
| Moonlight Concessions | Released: March 14, 2025 Label: Fire Records | — | — | — | — | — |

### Live albums

| Title | Album details |
| The Curse | Released: 1992 Label: 4AD |
| Live In Providence | Released: 2001 Label: Throwing Music |

### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details |
| Doctor Death's Volume I - Cette Enfant Me Fia Mourir | Released: 1986 Label: C'est la Mort |
| Lonely Is an Eyesore | Released: 1987 Label: 4AD |
| Just Say Yes | Released: 1987 Label: Sire |
| Just Say Anything | Released: 1991 Label: Sire |
| This Is Fort Apache | Released: 1995 Label: MCA Records |
| Huh 6 | Released: 1995 Label: huH (magazine) |
| Indie Rock Blueprint | Released: 10 Aug 1996 Label: Go Compact Disks |
| WRAS 88.5fm Present: Radio ODDyssey | Released: 1996 Label: Ichiban International |
| In a Doghouse | Released: September 15, 1998 Label: 4AD |
| 1980 Forward - Celebrating 25 Years | Released: 2005 Label: 4AD |
| Anthology | Released: September 20, 2011 Label: 4AD |

## EPs

| Title | EP details |
| Stand Up | Released: 1984 Self-released |
| Chains Changed | Released: 1987 Label: 4AD |
| The Fat Skier | Released: 1987 Label: 4AD |
| Counting Backwards | Released: 1991 Label: 4AD |
| Live To Tape | Released: 1997 Label: Rykodisc/Throwing Music |

## Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album | B-sides |
| Title | Year | US Alt. | UK | Album | B-sides |
| "Saving Grace" | 1988 | — | — | House Tornado | |
| "The River" | 1988 | — | — | House Tornado | |
| "Dizzy" | 1989 | 8 | 85 | Hunkpapa | "Mania (live)" and "Downtown (live)" |
| "Counting Backwards" | 1991 | 11 | 70 | The Real Ramona | "Same Sun", "Cottonmouth" and "Amazing Grace" |
| "Not Too Soon" | 1991 | — | 88 | The Real Ramona | "Cry Baby Cry", "Him Dancing (remix)" and "Dizzy (remix)" |
| "Firepile" | 1992 | — | 46 | Red Heaven | "Manic Depression", "City of the Dead", "Jak," "Ride Into The Sun" and "Handsome Woman" |
| "Bright Yellow Gun" | 1994 | 20 | 51 | University | "Crayon Sun", "Red Eyes" and "Like A Dog" |
| "Shimmer" | 1995 | — | — | University | |
| "Snakeface" | 1995 | — | — | University | |
| "Ruthie's Knocking" | 1996 | — | — | Limbo | "Tar Moochers", "Serene Swing" and "Limbobo" |
| "Shark" | 1996 | — | 53 | Limbo | |
| "Freeloader" | 1996 | — | — | Limbo | "If...", "Take (live)" and "Heel Toe" |
| "Mercury" | 2003 | — | — | Throwing Muses | |
| "Portia" | 2003 | — | — | Throwing Muses | |
| "Dark Blue" | 2020 | — | — | Sun Racket | |
| "Bo Diddley Bridge" | 2020 | — | — | Sun Racket | |
| "Frosting" | 2020 | — | — | Sun Racket | |