Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass

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Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass
Studio album by Trumans Water
Released March 1993
Genre Post-hardcore
Noise rock
Experimental rock
Label Homestead
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Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass is the second album by Trumans Water. It is their first (and only) double-album and was released in 1993 on Homestead Records in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK. There is also a Japanese re-release of the album with a radically different track listing. Everett True, in a 1993 review of the album, described it "Imagine Pavement if they were five Gary Youngs with the songwriting ability of two Steve Malkmuses". [3] Chris Sharp, writing in Lime Lizard stated "there are 20 tracks here, but each one feels like at least three songs grafted together in some bizarre musico-genetic experiment". [2]

Trumans Water is an indie rock band from San Diego, California formed in 1991. They have released over a dozen albums over their career, on which they collaborated with acts in genre, including Azalia Snail, Chan Marshall and Thurston Moore.

Homestead Records record label

Homestead Records was a Long Island, New York-based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading. It was founded in 1984 by Sam Berger, who was the American independent buyer for Dutch East India Trading. Berger was finding that many bands who had perhaps released their own first 45 were having difficulty coming up with the finances to press followups. He was able to convince Barry Tennenbaum, the owner of the company, to press and distribute records for bands that already had recorded an album, and have the bands supply the artwork. It is considered instrumental in launching the post-hardcore and noise rock genres. When Berger left to work with Midnight Records, he recommended 18-year-old Gerard Cosloy, whom he knew from Boston and who published a fanzine that Homestead distributed. Cosloy went on to sign many of the notable acts. Cosloy was succeeded by Ken Katkin and later by Steven Joerg. The label's last release was Ivo Perelman's Cama de terra in 1996.

Everett True British journalist

For the cartoon character, see The Outbursts of Everett True.

Track listing

US and UK standard release

  1. "Aroma of Gina Arnold" - 8:17
  2. "Speeds Exceeding" - 3:26
  3. "Good Blood After Bad" - 2:44
  4. "Rations" - 2:21
  5. "Death to Dead Things" - 3:07
  6. "Sun Go Out" - 2:11
  7. "Bludgeon Elites & Stagger" - 3:51
  8. "Limbs" - 4:43
  9. "Athlete Who Is Suck" - 4:08
  10. "Top of Morning" - 4:39
  11. "Lo Priest" - 5:03
  12. "Soar Ossinaxx at Long Last" - 2:15
  13. "Our Doctors Think We're Blind" - 4:09
  14. "Finger 6 Steps Ahead of Our Minds" - 1:15
  15. "La Jolla My Armpit" - 3:58
  16. "K-Song" - 4:45
  17. "Mindstab Forklift" - 2:48
  18. "To Milktruck" - 4:09
  19. "Bladderstomp: Krautrock" - 7:04
  20. "The Sad Skinhead" (Faust cover) - 2:20

1995 Japanese King Records version

  1. "La Jolla My Armpit" - 3:58
  2. "All the Ancients" - 0:48
  3. "Rations" - 2:21
  4. "It Slew Me" - 1:56
  5. "To Milktruck" - 4:09
  6. "Old Brockbank" - 2:15
  7. "Soar Ossinaxx at Long Last" - 2:15
  8. "Tenderfoot" - 1:34
  9. "Aroma of Gina Arnold" - 8:17
  10. "Spitvalve Opus" - 0:53
  11. "Good Blood After Bad" - 2:44
  12. "Unicorn the Girl" - 1:16
  13. "Our Doctors Think We're Blind" - 4:09
  14. "Up the Head" - 0:56
  15. "Lo Priest" - 5:03
  16. "Bent Time Hand" - 1:53
  17. "Death to Dead Things" - 3:07
  18. "Vacation Starts Great" - 2:07
  19. "Limbs" - 4:43
  20. "Hurting Eye Flower" - 2:11
  21. "Sun Go Out" - 2:11
  22. "One Traditional Wound" - 1:19
  23. "Athlete Who Is Suck" - 4:08
  24. "Derailleur" - 1:54
  25. "K-Song" - 4:45

Track listing notes: This version of the album contains only thirteen of the twenty songs included on the original album (same recordings and mixes as the standard issue of the album); these alternate with twelve new tracks that resemble the improvised music contained on the bands' series of Godspeed albums and on their cassette releases.

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References

  1. Cramer, Stephen "Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass Review", Allmusic , Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 21 November 2009
  2. 1 2 Sharp, Chris (1993) "Trumans water spasm smash xxx ox ox ox & ass", Lime Lizard, May 1993, p. 58
  3. 1 2 True, Everett (1993) "Weird Eau", Melody Maker , 1993