M.I.A. - Discography 1981-1987   [PREORDER]

Release date: November 11, 2026

Limited Edition of 100 2xCD housed in a handcrafted package that includes an outstanding and unreleased 1985 photo by Alison Braun, some spray paint and a few hours of tedious manual work!

Darla and Modern City are bringing you a complete chronological collection of everything
M.I.A. recorded and/or released throughout the 80s, as re-issued by both labels over the
past decade.

In 2017, Darla Records reissued the band’s last two records, Notes From the Underground
(1985) and After the Fact (1987) on CD. Modern City picked up the ball in 2023 and started
re-issueing the band’s entire catalog on vinyl, including the seminal Murder In a Foreign
Place album (1984), in conjunction with Alternative Tentacles.

This double CD set includes:

- Tracks from the Last Rites for Genocide and M.I.A. LP (Smoke Seven 1982) and the Not
so Quiet on the Western Front compilation LP (Alternative Tentacles 1982), as released
on We Must Fight! (Modern City 2025)
- The 1983 Green Carton demo, released on the Murder in a Foreign Place: 40th
Anniversary Edition (Alternative Tentacles / Modern City 2024)
- Murder in a Foreign Place LP (Alternative Tentacles 1984)
- Notes from the Underground (National Trust 1985)
- After the Fact (Flipside 1987)
- compilation tracks from the Half Skull 7” (Insane Industries 1984) and Flipside Vinyl
Fanzine Volume 2 (Flipside 1984)

DISC 1:

1. Tell Me Why
2. Gas Crisis
3. Cold Sweat
4. New Left
5. I Hate Hippies
6. Angry Youth
7. All the President’s Skin
8. Fucking Zones / (I Can’t Take it) No More
9. Help Me Up
10. Reality is Killing Me
11. Hatin’ Life
12. Modern Way
13. Murder in a Foreign Place
14. Boredom is the Reason
15. Modern Way
16. Small Man in a Big World
17. All I Know
18. What’s Your Problem?
19. Boredom is the Reason
20. Who Will Survive
21. Used to Know Me
22. Murder in a Foreign Place
23. Las Vegas
24. Reality is Killing Me
25. There is No Love
26. Turning into What You Hate
27. Just a Dream 

DISC 2:

1. Shadows of My Life
2. Voices in the Dark
3. Show Me the Way
4. Scotty Rew
5. Never Again
6. Write Myself a Letter
7. Light of Yesterday
8. Make a Choice
9. Haven’t You Heard
10. Another Day
11. Edge of Forever
12. What I See
13. Whisper in the Wind
14. Beautiful World
15. California Dreamin’
16. When it’s Over
17. Time to Change
18. It Follows Me
19. Whatever Happened
20. Hard to Say You’re Wrong
21. Broken
22. Out of Control

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