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{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Pop Will Eat Itself
| image            = Pop Will Eat Itself - Thekla May 2015 (18224165865).jpg
| image_upright    = 1.2
| caption          = Pop Will Eat Itself in 2015
| alias            = {{hlist|PWEI|The Poppies}}
| origin           = [[Stourbridge]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], England
| genre            = [[Grebo (music)|Grebo]] (earlier); [[industrial rock]] (later)
| years_active     = 1986&ndash;1996, 2005, 2010&ndash;present
| label            = [[RCA Records|RCA]], [[Infectious Records|Infectious]], [[Nothing Records|Nothing]]
| website          = 
| current_members  =
* [[Graham Crabb]]
* [[Mary Byker]]
* Davey Bennett
* Adam Mole
* Cliff Hewitt
| past_members     =
* [[Clint Mansell]]
* Richard March
* [[Fuzz Townshend]]
* Kerry "The Buzzard" Hammond
* Tim Muddiman
* [[Jason Bowld]]
}}

'''Pop Will Eat Itself''' are an English [[alternative rock]] band formed in 1986 in [[Stourbridge]] in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] of England with members from [[Birmingham]], [[Coventry]] and the [[Black Country]]. Initially known as a [[Grebo (music)|grebo]] act, they changed style to incorporate [[sampling (music)|sample]]-driven [[indie rock|indie]] and [[industrial rock]].<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/><ref name="Guinness Rockopedia">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 1998
| title= Guinness Rockopedia
| edition= 1st
| publisher= Guinness Publishing Ltd.
| location= London
| page= [https://archive.org/details/guinnessrockoped0000unse/page/326 326]
| isbn= 0-85112-072-5
| url-access= registration
| url= https://archive.org/details/guinnessrockoped0000unse/page/326
}}</ref> [[Graham Crabb]] describes their sound as "electronic, punk, alternative hip-hop, hybrid music for fucking, fighting & smoking cigars". Their highest-charting single was the 1993 top-ten hit "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!".<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> After initially disbanding in 1996, and having a brief reformation in 2005, they issued their first release in more than five years in 2010.

==Career==
===Early years: 1981–1988===
An early permutation of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden.<ref name="Larkinindie">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-579-4|pages=216/7}}</ref> Members included [[Clint Mansell]], Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece and [[Miles Hunt]] (Treece and Hunt went on to form [[The Wonder Stuff]]). From Eden recruited [[Graham Crabb]] from 'Kit-Form Colossus' to replace Hunt on drums before splitting up.

Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their band name to Wild and Wandering (known locally as Blind and Blundering because they always performed in an intoxicated state).<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> The name came from a [[Wasted Youth (British band)|Wasted Youth]] album under which one E.P. was released (''2,000 Light Ales from Home'' on Iguana Records) before eventually becoming Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986.<ref name="Larkinindie"/>  The new name was taken from a quotation in an ''[[NME]]'' article on [[Jamie Wednesday]] by [[David Quantick]].<ref name="Guinness Rockopedia"/>

====First single: "Poppies Say Grrr!" and tour====
In 1986, the band released the "Poppies Say Grrr!" [[single (music)|single]], which became Single of the Week in the ''NME'',<ref name="Larkinindie"/> and played by [[Janice Long]] on [[BBC Radio 1]]<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> and in the Midlands by John Slater on [[BRMB]]. The single was sold in a [[brown paper bag]] and was made available for sale at Martin [[Newsagent's shop|Newsagents]] in [[Stourbridge]] High Street as well as from the home of one of the band.

With their new-found popularity, the band set off on a six-week tour of Europe, often encountering hostility at the set length being less than half an hour, even though this comprised around 16 tracks: all the band had.

====Influences====
During this time the band was listening to more [[hip hop]] ([[Run DMC]], [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]] and the [[Beastie Boys]]) as well as music from a new emerging movement of sample-heavy dance records ([[The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu]], [[MARRS]], [[S'Express]] and [[Bomb the Bass]]).

After hearing Robert Gordon's remix of their cover of [[Sigue Sigue Sputnik]]'s "[[Love Missile F1-11]]" and [[Age of Chance]]'s mini-LP ''Crush Collision'' (also engineered by Gordon), the band glimpsed their future as hip-hop/dance/rock music pioneers and decided to record their debut album ''[[Box Frenzy]]'' with Gordon at Sheffield's FON studios in June/July 1987. It was here the band met [[The Designers Republic]], which was to be the start of a successful partnership. The album came out on manager Craig Jennings' Chapter 22 label. 'CJ' still manages the band to the present day, along with the roster at his firm, Raw Power Management.

The transition from punky guitar music to incorporating state-of-the-art production and new musical territories was not dissimilar to a path previously trodden by one of the band's musical heroes [[The Clash]] and subsequently [[Big Audio Dynamite]]. The album surprised the band's fans and perplexed the music critics. Crabb, now more immersed in sample-finding and songwriting, moved from behind the drum kit to being a co-vocalist with Mansell and was replaced by a [[drum machine]] called Dr. Nightmare.<ref name="Guinness Rockopedia"/> March took on programming duties and became the band expert on all things Atari and Akai. "Beaver Patrol", a cover of the Wilde Knights song, (suggested to the band by [[Bobby Gillespie]] of Primal Scream), caused some controversy for its offensive lyrics but "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" made the lower reaches of the UK chart and as a result, PWEI were signed to the record label  [[RCA Records|RCA]].<ref name="Larkinindie"/> Whilst much confusion ensued around the dramatic change of direction, PWEI secured a first by being the first Western independent band to be invited to play the then-[[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Guinness Rockopedia" /><ref name="NME Rock N Roll Years">{{cite book
| first= John
| last= Tobler
| year= 1992
| title= NME Rock N Roll Years
| edition= 1st
| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd 
| location= London
| page= 449
| id= CN 5585}}</ref>

====Chart success====
The band achieved [[Top 40]] [[hit record|hits]] with "[[Can U Dig It?]]" and "[[Wise Up! Sucker]]" from their [[album]], ''[[This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!]]''<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> In late 1988 PWEI were invited by Rush Management to support [[Run DMC]] on their European tour. Main support act [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] were becoming increasingly popular and had a large and militant following who booed off all support acts, in particular, PWEI, who agreed to leave the tour when the situation deteriorated in [[Amsterdam]].

===The RCA years: 1989–1993===
They released three albums on RCA. The first two (''…This is This!'' and ''Cure for Sanity'') were recorded with the aid of [[Flood (producer)|Flood]], known for his work with [[Nine Inch Nails]], [[U2]] and [[Depeche Mode]]. The band toured extensively in the UK, Europe, and US, including appearances at Reading Festival. Their singles charted progressively higher, with every single release charting inside the UK Top Forty from 1990 until their final single release in 1994.

On 1992's ''[[The Looks or the Lifestyle?]]'' the band recruited [[Fuzz Townshend|John "Fuzz" Townshend]] as their drummer to complement their pre-programmed drums.<ref name="Larkinindie"/> The band had discussed adding a live drummer in 1990, but touring commitments made it impractical to do so until the band were able to break touring activity in late 1991 to commence recording.  The album peaked at UK No. 15 and featured the Top 30 hit singles "Karmadrome" and "Bulletproof!"<ref name="The Great Rock Discography">{{cite book
| first= Martin C.
| last= Strong
| year= 2000
| title= The Great Rock Discography
| edition= 5th
| publisher= Mojo Books
| location= Edinburgh
| pages= 758–759
| isbn= 1-84195-017-3}}</ref><ref name="Guinness Rockopedia"/> Despite healthy sales and widescale touring the band's biggest supporters at RCA had left the company by January 1993 and the remaining executives did not understand the band or their music, suggesting at one meeting that EMF 'write a hit' for them.<ref>[http://pweination.org/info/media/features/pweipr52.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217065812/http://pweination.org/info/media/features/pweipr52.html|date=17 February 2007}}</ref>  The band was dropped from the label before the "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" single was released.  It went on to peak at number 9 in the [[UK Singles Chart]], becoming the band's biggest hit and making the band at that time the highest charting act to appear on ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' without a record deal. In an attempt to recoup their investment, the label released a live album ''Live at Weird's Bar and Grill'' recorded in London in October 1992.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/>

===Industrial influence: 1994–1995===
PWEI's political stance became more explicit with the release of the single "[[Ich Bin Ein Auslander]]". A collaboration with Asian group [[Fun-Da-Mental]], the song had anti-Nazi styled [[lyrics]] and reached the UK Top 30.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> A different version of this song later appeared as the opening track on the 1994 album, ''[[Dos Dedos Mis Amigos]]''. The album peaked at No. 11 in the [[UK Albums Chart]] and spawned their then final single release, "[[Everything's Cool (song)|Everything's Cool]]", which became their ninth Top 30 UK hit.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> The band also collaborated with [[The Prodigy]] on the track "[[Their Law (song)|Their Law]]", featured in their breakthrough second album ''[[Music for the Jilted Generation|Music For The Jilted Generation]]''. This track also had political content, serving as a protest against Great Britain's [[Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994|Criminal Justice And Public order Act 1994]], which had criminalised rave culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/2bvr/|title=BBC - Music - Review of The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation|last=Pattison|first=Louis|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref>

The band found some new popularity after signing with [[Trent Reznor]]'s [[Nothing Records]] in the US, and touring with [[Nine Inch Nails]], as well as having their songs used on the [[PlayStation]] game ''[[Loaded (video game)|Loaded]]''. In March 1995 the band released the ''Dos Dedos Mis Amigos'' [[remix]] album ''Two Fingers My Friends!'' which featured remixes by [[The Orb]], [[Apollo 440]] and [[Renegade Soundwave]].  Crabb left the band in 1995 - originally proposing to contribute in a non-touring capacity due to fatherhood - but the band replaced him with Kerry Hammond on guitar and backing vocals, with Mansell taking over full vocal duties. The band decided to split in May 1996 (with 12 songs recorded and mixed in a state of near completion), and toured the UK briefly in June 1996 with a final live show at Roskilde. At this point, their set contained several unreleased songs from the unfinished album. Two tracks from this period were released at the time, a [[cover version]] of [[Gary Numan]]'s "Friends", released on the 1997 tribute album ''[[Random (album)|Random]]'', and an instrumental track called "Zero Return" on a magazine sampler.  In 2013, the songs from the unfinished album were assembled into a bonus disc with the reissue of "Dos Dedos Mis Amigos", comprising the 'unreleased 1996 album', now titled ''[[A Lick of the Old Cassette Box]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shop.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4293 |title=Cherry Red Records - Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos/A Lick of the Old Cassette Box |website=Shop.cherryred.co.uk |date=2013-06-17 |access-date=2016-06-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617065643/http://shop.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4293 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===Disbanded: 1996===
Crabb concentrated on his [[Ambient music|ambient]] side project [[Golden Claw Musics]]. After the rest of the band split in 1996, March and Townshend went on to form the [[big beat]] band [[Bentley Rhythm Ace]].<ref name="Guinness Rockopedia"/> Townshend also released two solo albums and Mansell wrote [[film]] scores, including ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'', ''[[Pi (film)|π]]'', ''[[Doom (film)|Doom]]'',  ''[[The Fountain (film)|The Fountain]]'', ''[[The Wrestler (2008 film)|The Wrestler]]'', ''[[Moon (2009 film)|Moon]]'', and ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]''.

===Reformation: 2005===
The band reformed to play their first gigs in eight years, in Nottingham, Birmingham, and London in January 2005. These gigs were notable for their [[Instant Live]] albums, whereby ten minutes after the completion of each gig, [[double album|double]] [[live album]]s of the performance could be purchased.

The band released a preview of new material called ''Sonic Noise Byte'' on 4 November 2005, as a torrent download for members of their official website pweination. However, an announcement on the official website in March 2006 confirmed that Mansell and March would no longer be involved in the project due to other work commitments, effectively ending the PWEI reformation. The remaining band members continued as [[Vileevils]], and released the tracks "Retro Dreaming" and "Street Fightin" for download via the pweination website.

A secret, one-night PWEI reunion was scheduled to happen at the Vileevils show at Stourbridge Rock Cafe on 9 June 2007, but was foiled when Mansell was unable to obtain a visa in time to fly back to the UK.<ref>[http://pweination.co.uk/newnation/comms/index.php?showtopic=5385&st=180&p=43451&#entry43451] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610211012/http://pweination.co.uk/newnation/comms/index.php?showtopic=5385&st=180&p=43451&#entry43451|date=10 June 2015}}</ref>  March still appeared at the show, and after the Vileevils set they played the planned PWEI songs, without Mansell.

Vileevils performed their final live date in December 2008 supporting [[Ned's Atomic Dustbin]], before recording an unreleased album, which was cancelled prior to release in 2010. Some songs from this record were re-recorded for the 2011 Pop Will Eat Itself album ''New Noise Designed By A Sadist''.

===New PWEI: 2011–present===
[[File:PWEI2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The 2012 incarnation of Pop Will Eat Itself performing live in Birmingham.  Left to right: Davey Bennett (bass), Jason Bowld (drums), Graham Crabb (vocals), Mary Byker (vocals)]]
In July 2011, a new line-up was announced, featuring Graham Crabb (as the only original member), fellow vocalist Mary Byker ([[Gaye Bykers on Acid]], [[Apollo 440]], [[Pigface]]), guitarist Tim Muddiman ([[Gary Numan]]), drummer [[Jason Bowld]] ([[Pitchshifter]], [[Killing Joke]]) and bassist Davey Bennett (This Burning Age). 
That October the album ''[[New Noise Designed by a Sadist]]'' was released on Cooking Vinyl, produced by Monti & Rob Holliday (Sulpher, [[The Prodigy]]) and was followed by a UK tour. The band further toured in March and December 2012. 
The single "Disguise" was featured as Radio 6 Breakfast Show 'Single of the Week' and an instrumental "Back to Business" was used on [[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|Top Gear]]. Crabb & Byker also guested on [[Soccer AM]]. The band began working on a remix album to complement ''New Noise Designed by a Sadist'', but this project was discontinued in favour of the ''Watch the Bitch Blow'' EP. They toured the UK in December 2013 as one third of a triple bill featuring [[The Wonder Stuff]] and [[Jesus Jones]].

The ''Watch the Bitch Blow'' EP was released in March 2014, through [[PledgeMusic]], and the "Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)" single featuring Brazilian rapper BNegão ([[Planet Hemp]]) followed in June 2014 for the [[2014 FIFA World Cup]], as a protest song against FIFA. The album ''[[Anti-Nasty League]]'' was planned for release in September–October, but was delayed to fit in with the band's live schedule in 2015. It was released exclusively and independently through the band's shop: shop.popwilleatitself.net in April 2015. A 9-date UK tour was undertaken in May. In May, the band signed a publishing administration deal with Bucks Music Group for the ANL album only.

On 26 August 2016, PWEI headlined the opening day of [[Infest (festival)|Infest]], with Fuzz Townshend rejoining on drums. Over the following years, they continued playing occasional concerts in the UK, with line-ups varying between shows to agree with the availability of the band members. In addition to Townshend, former band members Richard March and Adam Mole rejoined the band, resulting in a near original line-up by 2018.

Seven years after its original release, ''Anti-Nasty League'' was made available digitally on the band's official store and major music streaming and download services. Two months later, in June 2022, a new single, "The Poppies Strike Back", was released. A second, "Chihuahua", followed in September. It was the first new music to be released by the band since 2015's ''Anti-Nasty League'' aside from a 2018 box set compilation which included several unreleased remixes and a rough demo.

By 2025, the line-up had settled, now including new drummer Cliff Hewitt, and following the single "Bruiser" in May, a new album, ''Delete Everything'', was announced, with a release date of October 2025. Pre-orders for the album were made available in July. The album was accompanied by an 18-date UK tour.

==Vestan Pance==
All PWEI songs were credited to Vestan Pance, a play on "Vest and Pants".  It was a [[pseudonym]] for the band as a whole. Although the songs were mainly Crabb or Mansell compositions, using a pseudonym was considered more interesting than just "All songs by Pop Will Eat Itself". When Townshend joined the band, an attempt to change the name to 'Vestan Pance and Socks' was denied by RCA.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jason Ankeny |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pop-will-eat-itself-mn0000852810/biography |title=Pop Will Eat Itself &#124; Biography |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2014-04-19}}</ref>

==Band members==
===Current===
* [[Graham Crabb]] - vocals, drums, keyboards, programming, guitar (1986–1995, 2005, 2010–present)
* Adam Mole - guitars, keyboards, programming, piano (1986–1996, 2005, 2018–present)
* [[Mary Byker]] - vocals, keyboards, programming (2010–present)
* Davey Bennett - bass, guitars (2010–present)
* Cliff Hewitt - drums (2022–present)

===Former===
* Richard March - bass, guitars, keyboards, programming (1986–1996, 2005, 2017–2024)
* [[Clint Mansell]] - vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards, programming, samples, turntables, drums (1986–1996, 2005)
* [[Fuzz Townshend|John "Fuzz" Townshend]] - drums, keyboards, programming (1992–1996, 2005, 2016–2024)
* Kerry "The Buzzard" Hammond - guitars, backing vocals (1995–1996)
* Tim Muddiman - guitars, bass, keyboards (2010–2018)
* [[Jason Bowld]] - drums (2010–2016)

===Timeline===
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==Discography==

===Albums===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
!rowspan="2" style="width:15px;"| Year
!rowspan="2" style="width:225px;"| Album details
!colspan="3"| Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:4em;font-size:85%"|[[UK Album Chart|UK]]<br /><ref name="UK Chart Company">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/23995/pop-will-eat-itself/ | title=Chart Stats - Pop Will Eat Itself | publisher=officialcharts.com| access-date=2011-11-16}}</ref>

!style="width:4em;font-size:85%"|[[ARIA Charts|AUS]]<br /><ref name=aus/>

!style="width:4em;font-size:85%"|[[Billboard 200|US]]<br /><ref name="Billboard">{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=pop will eat itself|chart=all}} | title=Chart Stats - Pop Will Eat Itself | publisher=billboard.com| access-date=2011-11-16}}</ref>
|-
|1987
|''[[Box Frenzy]]'' 
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- <!-- DO NOT ADD "NOW FOR A FEAST" HERE!  IT IS NOT AN ALBUM! -->
|1989
|''[[This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| 128
| style="text-align:center;"| 169
|-
|1990
|''[[Cure for Sanity]]'' 
| style="text-align:center;"| 33
| style="text-align:center;"| 51
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|1992
|''[[The Looks or the Lifestyle?]]'' 
| style="text-align:center;"| 15
| style="text-align:center;"| 165
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|1994
|''[[Dos Dedos Mis Amigos]]'' 
| style="text-align:center;"| 11
| style="text-align:center;"| 132
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|2011
|''[[New Noise Designed by a Sadist]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| 187<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zobbel.de/cluk/111015cluk.txt |title=Chart log UK : Chart Date : 15.10.2011 |publisher=Zobbel.de |access-date=2014-04-19}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|2013
|''[[A Lick of the Old Cassette Box]]'' <br /><small>(recorded 1996, previously unreleased)</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|2015
|''[[Anti-Nasty League]]''
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|2025
|''Delete Everything''
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|}

===Live albums===
* ''Weird's Bar and Grill'' (Live) (1993) UK No. 44
* ''The Radio 1 Sessions 1986-87'' (1997)
* ''Reformation: Nottingham Rock City 20.01.05'' (2005)
* ''Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 22.01.05'' (2005)
* ''Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 23.01.05'' (2005)
* ''Reformation: London Shepherds Bush Empire 24.01.05'' (2005)
* ''Reformation: London Shepherds Bush Empire 25.01.05'' (2005)
* ''On Patrol in the UK 2012'' (2012)

===Compilations===
* ''[[Now for a Feast!]]'' (1988)
* ''16 Different Flavours of Hell'' (Best of) (1993) UK No. 73
* ''Wise Up Suckers'' (BMG best of) (1996)
* ''PWEI Product 1986-1994'' (Anthology) (2002)
* ''The Best Of'' (2008)<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited 
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 431}}</ref>
* ''Def Comms 86-18'' (2018)

===Remix albums===
* ''Two Fingers My Friends!'' (1995) UK No. 25, AUS No. 118<ref name="aus2">{{cite web|url=https://imgur.com/a/xZwKI4x | title=Pop Will Eat Itself Album chart history, received from ARIA in May 2024|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date=5 July 2024}}  N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.</ref>
* ''Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)'' (2014)

===EPs===
* ''2000 Light Ales from Home'' (1986) under the name 'Wild and Wandering'
* ''[[The Poppies Say GRRrrr!]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Poppiecock]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Very Metal Noise Pollution]]'' (1989) [[UK Singles Chart|UK]] No. 45, AUS No. 121<ref name=aus/>
* ''Amalgamation'' (1994)<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/>
* ''Watch the Bitch Blow'' (2014)

===Singles===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Year
!rowspan="2"|Title
!colspan="3"|Chart positions
!rowspan="2"|Album
|-
! {{center|<small>[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]</small><br /><ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/>}}
! {{center|<small>[[ARIA Charts|AUS]]</small><br /><ref name=aus>Australian ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]]) peaks:
*Top 100 peaks between January 1990 and December 2010: {{cite Ryan|page=221}}
*"Everything's Cool": {{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/q15TpS8.jpg|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 06 Nov 1994|publisher=Australian Record Industry Association Ltd.|via=Imgur.com|access-date=25 February 2016}}
*All ARIA peaks to 28 July 2023: {{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/JSFGofs.jpeg|title=Pop Will Eat Itself chart history, received from ARIA on 23 July 2023|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date=11 July 2024}} N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column indicates the release's peak on the national chart.</ref>}}
! {{center|<small>[[Alternative Airplay|US Alt]]</small>}}
|- 
|rowspan="3"| 1987
| "[[Sweet Sweet Pie]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 100
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="2"| ''Now for a Feast!''
|-  
| "[[Love Missile F1-11 (Pop Will Eat Itself Song)|Love Missile F1-11]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 78
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
| "[[Beaver Patrol]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 76
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="2"| ''Box Frenzy''
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1988
| "[[There Is No Love Between Us Anymore]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 66
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
| "[[Def. Con. One]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 63
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| 30
|rowspan="3"| ''This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!''
|- 
|rowspan="2"| 1989
| "[[Can U Dig It?]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 38
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
| "[[Wise Up! Sucker]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 41
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
|rowspan="2"| 1990
| "[[Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 28
| style="text-align:center;"| 172
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="5"| ''Cure for Sanity''
|- 
| "Dance of the Mad Bastards"
| style="text-align:center;"| 32
| style="text-align:center;"| 159
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
|rowspan="3"| 1991
| "X Y & Zee"
| style="text-align:center;"| 15
| style="text-align:center;"| 88
| style="text-align:center;"| 11
|- 
| "92 Degrees"
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| 187
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
| "Another Man's Rhubarb"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
|rowspan="2"| 1992
| "Karmadrome" / "Eat Me Drink Me Love Me"
| style="text-align:center;"| 17
| style="text-align:center;"| 121
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="3"| ''The Looks or the Lifestyle?''
|- 
| "Bulletproof!"
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
|rowspan="2"| 1993
| "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!"
| style="text-align:center;"| 9
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
| "R.S.V.P." / "Familus Horribilus"
| style="text-align:center;"| 27
| style="text-align:center;"| 129
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="3"| ''Dos Dedos Mis Amigos''
|- 
|rowspan="2"| 1994
| "[[Ich Bin Ein Auslander]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 28
| style="text-align:center;"| 151
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
| "[[Everything's Cool (song)|Everything's Cool]]"
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| 97
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|- 
|2010
| "Axe of Men 2010"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| Non-album single
|-
|2011
| "Chaos & Mayhem"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="2"| ''New Noise Designed by a Sadist''
|-
|2012
| "Disguise"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2014
| "Watch the Bitch Blow"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|''Watch the Bitch Blow EP''
|-
| "Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)"<br /><small>featuring BNegão</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|Non-album single
|-
|2015
| "Digital Meltdown"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|''Anti-Nasty League''
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2022
| "The Poppies Strike Back"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="2" | Non-album singles
|-
| "Chihuaua" 
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2025
|"Bruiser"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|rowspan="4" | ''Delete Everything''
|-
|"Disco Misfits"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|"Their Law (Ain't Our Law)"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|-
|"Built For Fun"
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
| style="text-align:center;"| —
|}

===Video releases===
* ''Unspoilt by Progress'' VHS (1991)
* ''Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 23.01.05'' DVD (2005)

===Music videos===
* "Sweet Sweet Pie" (1987)
* "Love Missile F1-11" (1987)
* "Beaver Patrol" (1987)
* "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" (1988)
* "Def.Con.One" (1989)
* "Can U Dig It?" (1989)
* "Wise Up! Sucker" (1989)
* "Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina" (1990)
* "X Y & Zee" (1990)
* "92°F" (1991)
* "Karmadrome" (1992)
* "Bulletproof!" (1992)
* "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" (1993)
* "R.S.V.P." (1993)
* "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" (1994)
* "Everything's Cool" (1994)
* "Chaos & Mayhem" (2011)
* "Oldskool Cool" (2011)
* "Disguise" (2012)
* "Watch the Bitch Blow" (2014)
* "Babylon RIP" (2014)
* "Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)" (2014)
* "Hollow" (2014)
* "Chaos & Mayhem (Southern Belle Remix)" (2014)
* "21st Century English Civil War" (2015)
* "Angry Man's Deathbed" (2015)
* "Their Law (Ain't Our Law)" (2025)
* "Built For Fun" (2025)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com The Designers Republic]

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