Of Thick Tum is the first album by Trumans Water.[2] BBC disc jockey John Peel heard this album and was so impressed by it that he played it in its entirety on his show.[3] The band initially self-released a small pressing (300 copies) of this album on vinyl in 1992, with each copy in a handmade and unique jacket with inserts varying from locks of hair to photographs of their relatives.[3][4] In his review of the follow-up, Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass in Melody Maker, Everett True stated that his copy had included "a Far Side birthday card, the foreword to a book on setting up private hospital rooms, an advice sheet on insurance, some small intestines, and a cloth sleeve which is too small for the LP to fit inside".[5] The album was re-released in the United States by Homestead Records on CD and LP. Subsequent British and Japanese issues of the album contained considerable (and different) bonus material.
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Released | 1992 | |||
Genre | Noise rock | |||
Label | Justice My Eye | |||
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Track listing
editOriginal 1992 US release
- "Deep Grub Yonder" - 4:27
- "665" - 2:19
- "Yakboy=Nurturer" - 9:37
- "Nick Long Ding Barn" - 1:05
- "Tooth Ferry" - 3:09
- "Disindependence" - 3:31
- "Well Nigh Dusk" - 1:17
- "Wings Spred Wide I Thot 'Ignition'" - 3:09
- "Janellopy" 3:27
- "Spurning of Angel Peg" - 3:15
- "Sorry About the Blood" - 1:02
- "Fong" - 3:07
- "Girler Too" - 5:04
1993 UK Rough Trade re-issue bonus tracks
- "Secret Bloodthirst" - 14:19
- "Large Organs" - 3:01
- "Johnny Pissoff & the Red Angel Meets" (Fugs cover) - 5:00
- "Yakboy=Enabler (Alternate Mix") - 3:27
Track listing notes: "Yakboy=Enabler" is not an alternate mix of the album version of "Yakboy=Nurturer"; it is an entirely different recording of the first section of the song.
1994 Japanese King Records re-issue bonus tracks
- "Ordnance (Cont'd)" - 21:09
- "Apolotix" - 3:32
- "Mind Yer Altar" - 0:25
- "Another Movement" - 1:41
- "Sad Sailor Story" - 5:07
Track listing notes: "Ordnance (Cont'd)" is from (and all of) Side 2 of the vinyl-only LP, Godspeed the Hemorrhage (1993). (Side 1 of this album was included in bonus tracks of the concurrent Japanese re-issue of the Godspeed the Punchline album.) The remaining bonus tracks are from Our Scars Like Badges, the first Trumans Water seven-inch EP (Homestead Records, 1992).
References
edit- ^ Jansen, Skip "Of Thick Tum Review", AllMusic, Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 21 November 2009
- ^ Peterson, Karla (Oct 15, 1992). "Loud Water seeks its own level". Entertainment. The San Diego Union Tribune. p. 5.
- ^ a b Ross, Alex (2003) "Review/Pop; A Blend of Influences, With Dissonance", The New York Times, 24 July 1993, retrieved 21 November 2009
- ^ Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0231-3, p. 448
- ^ True, Everett (1993) "Weird Eau", Melody Maker, 1993