Horror Stories (album)

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Horror Stories
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Released1986
RecordedWilly Wells Studio, Champaign, Illinois in 1985
Genre Garage punk
Length25:46
Label Voxx
Producer Dave Groins
Dwarves chronology
Horror Stories
(1986)
Toolin' For A Warm Teabag
(1988)
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Horror Stories is the debut album released by garage punk band Dwarves. It was released in June 1986 on the Voxx label in the US, [2] and was stylistically similar to their earlier Sonics/Frank Zappa-inspired output under the name The Suburban Nightmare. [1] [3]

Contents

The album was issued on compact disc in the UK in 1990, and again in 1992. [2]

Track listing

Original release

  1. "In And Out" – 2:11
  2. "Oozle" – 1:47
  3. "Don't Love Me" – 1:10
  4. "Monday Blues" – 1:17
  5. "Mined Expanders" – 1:16
  6. "I'm A Living Sickness" – 2:59
  7. "College Town" – 2:15
  8. "Be A Caveman" – 1:13
  9. "Get Outta My Life" – 1:39
  10. "Eat My dinner" (LP only)
  11. "Sometimes Gay Boys Don't Wear Pink" – 1:08
  12. "Stop and Listen" (LP only)
  13. "Love Gestapo" – 3:00

Bonus tracks on later reissues

  1. "Lick It" – 1:23
  2. "Underwater"
  3. "Lick It" (alt. take)
  4. "Nothing"

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References

  1. 1 2 Carlson, Matt "Horror Stories Review", Allmusic, retrieved 2010-02-07
  2. 1 2 3 Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN   1-84195-335-0, p. 312
  3. Sprague, David "Dwarves", Trouser Press , retrieved 2010-02-07