Working Man's Dick

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Working Man's Dick
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Compilation album by Supreme Dicks
Released September 13, 1994
Recorded 1987 (1987)–1989 (1989)
Genre Experimental rock, indie rock, psychedelic rock
Length67:06
Label Freek
Supreme Dicks chronology
The Unexamined Life
(1993) The Unexamined Life1993
Working Man's Dick
(1994)
The Emotional Plague
(1996) The Emotional Plague1996
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Working Man's Dick is a compilation album by the band Supreme Dicks, released through September 13, 1994 on Freek Records. [2]

Supreme Dicks is an experimental rock group formed in 1984 by Jon Shere and Stuart Morris while students at Hampshire College. The band produced songs that combined dissonant lo-fi noise, avant-garde, and psychedelic sounds to realize dilapitated and warped song structures.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Supreme Dicks.

No.TitleLength
1."Ranada's Demon"3:06
2."The Language You Learnt"3:31
3."All That Returns"3:25
4."In the Whippoorwill's Sad Orchard"2:52
5."Blue Elephant"3:08
6."The Pear Thripe"5:55
7."Flaming Day of the Locusts"5:33
8."Andy Herman Song"3:42
9."For Now"2:13
10."Descension Song"5:18
11."The Pusher"1:26
12."Hyacinth Girls"2:30
13."Arise! Life Giving Seagull"1:38
14."Talking Mody Dick Blues"3:35
15."Sround-Like Remains"2:57
16."The Baal Shem"4:18
17."The Searcher"2:28
18."Night at the Opera"0:52
19."Chateaux Banana!" (parts XIII-XVI)6:54
20."Viva la Speedy Orgone"1:45

Personnel

Supreme Dicks
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References

  1. Raggett, Ned. "Working Man's Dick". Allmusic. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  2. Supreme Dicks at Discogs