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Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass is the second album by Trumans Water
Trumans Water
Trumans Water is an indie rock band from San Diego, California formed in 1991. They have released over a dozen full length recordings over their career, wherein they collaborated with acts in genre, including Azalia Snail, Chan Marshall and Thurston Moore....

. It is their first (and only) double-album and was released in 1993 on Homestead Records
Homestead Records
Homestead Records was a Long Island, NY 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...

 in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK. There is also a Japanese re-release of the album with a radically different tracklisting. Everett True
Everett True
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, in a 1993 review of the album, described it "Imagine Pavement
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 if they were five Gary Young
Gary Young
Gary Young was the first drummer of the 1990s alternative rock band Pavement.-Early life:Gary Young was born in Mamaroneck, New York. His father worked in the plastics business.-Work with Pavement:...

s with the songwriting ability of two Steve Malkmuses". 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".

Tracklisting

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
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    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


Tracklisting 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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