Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass

Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass
Studio album by
Trumans Water
ReleasedMarch 1993
GenrePost-hardcore
Noise rock
Experimental rock
LabelHomestead
Trumans Water chronology
Of Thick Tum
(1992) 		Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass
(1993) 		Godspeed the Punchline
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Lime Lizard(favorable)[2]
Melody Maker(favorable)[3]

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]

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.

References

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