Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass

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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.

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