Whipping Boy (album)

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Whipping Boy
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 28, 2000
Genre Indie Rock, Chamber Pop
Label Low Rent
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Heartworm
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''Whipping Boy''
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Whipping Boy is the third and final studio album of the Irish band Whipping Boy. It was released on April 28, 2000, on Low Rent Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "So Much for Love"
  2. "Bad Books"
  3. "Pat the Almighty"
  4. "Mutton"
  5. "Fly"
  6. "That Was Then, This Is Now"
  7. "One to Call My Own"
  8. "Puppets"
  9. "Who am I?"
  10. "Ghost of Elvis"
  11. "No Place to Go"

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