Of Thick Tum is the first album by Trumans Water

Trumans Water

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. BBC disc jockey John Peel

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 heard this album and was so impressed by it that he played it in its entirety on his show. The band initially self-released a small pressing (300 copies) of this album on vinyl in 1992, with each copy in a hand-made and unique jacket with inserts varying from locks of hair to photographs of their relatives. In his review of the follow-up, Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass in Melody Maker

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, Everett True

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 stated that his copy had included "a Far Side

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 birthday card, the foreword to a book on setting up private hospital rooms, an advice sheet on insurance, some small intestines, and a cloth sleeve which is too small for the LP to fit inside". The album was re-released in the United States by Homestead Records

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 on CD and LP. Subsequent British and Japanese issues of the album contained considerable (and different) bonus material.

Tracklisting

Original 1992 US release

1. "Deep Grub Yonder" - 4:27
2. "665" - 2:19
3. "Yakboy=Nurturer" - 9:37
4. "Nick Long Ding Barn" - 1:05
5. "Tooth Ferry" - 3:09
6. "Disindependence" - 3:31
7. "Well Nigh Dusk" - 1:17
8. "Wings Spred Wide I Thot 'Ignition'" - 3:09
9. "Janellopy" 3:27
10. "Spurning of Angel Peg" - 3:15
11. "Sorry About the Blood" - 1:02
12. "Fong" - 3:07
13. "Girler Too" - 5:04

1993 UK Rough Trade re-issue bonus tracks

1. "Secret Bloodthirst" - 14:19
2. "Large Organs" - 3:01
3. "Johnny Pissoff & The Red Angel Meets" (Fugs cover) - 5:00
4. "Yakboy=Enabler (Alternate Mix") - 3:27

Tracklisting notes: "Yakboy=Enabler" is not an alternate mix of the album version of "Yakboy=Nurturer"; it is an entirely different recording of the first section of the song.

1994 Japanese King Records re-issue bonus tracks

1. "Ordnance (Cont'd)" - 21:09
2. "Apolotix" - 3:32
3. "Mind Yer Altar" - 0:25
4. "Another Movement" - 1:41
5. "Sad Sailor Story" - 5:07

Tracklisting notes: "Ordnance (Cont'd)" is from (and all of) Side 2 of the vinyl-only LP, Godspeed the Hemorrhage (1993). (Side 1 of this album was included in bonus tracks of the concurrent Japanese re-issue of the Godspeed the Punchline album.) The remaining bonus tracks are from Our Scars Like Badges, the first Trumans Water seven-inch EP (Homestead Records, 1992).