''Of Thick Tum'' is the first album by

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heard this album and was so impressed by it that he played it in its entirety on his show.Ross, Alex (2003)
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'', 24 July 1993, retrieved 21 November 2009 The band initially self-released a small pressing (300 copies) of this album on vinyl in 1992, with each copy in a handmade and unique jacket with inserts varying from locks of hair to photographs of their relatives.Larkin, Colin (1998) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave'', Virgin Books, , p. 448 In his review of the follow-up, '' Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass'' in

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, 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".True, Everett (1993) "Weird Eau", ''

'', 1993 The album was re-released in the United States by

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

Track listing

Original 1992 US release # "Deep Grub Yonder" - 4:27 # "665" - 2:19 # "Yakboy=Nurturer" - 9:37 # "Nick Long Ding Barn" - 1:05 # "Tooth Ferry" - 3:09 # "Disindependence" - 3:31 # "Well Nigh Dusk" - 1:17 # "Wings Spred Wide I Thot 'Ignition'" - 3:09 # "Janellopy" 3:27 # "Spurning of Angel Peg" - 3:15 # "Sorry About the Blood" - 1:02 # "Fong" - 3:07 # "Girler Too" - 5:04 1993 UK Rough Trade re-issue bonus tracks # "Secret Bloodthirst" - 14:19 # "Large Organs" - 3:01 # "Johnny Pissoff & the Red Angel Meets" (

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cover) - 5:00 # "Yakboy=Enabler (Alternate Mix") - 3:27 Track listing 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 # "Ordnance (Cont'd)" - 21:09 # "Apolotix" - 3:32 # "Mind Yer Altar" - 0:25 # "Another Movement" - 1:41 # "Sad Sailor Story" - 5:07 Track listing 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).

References

{{Authority control 1992 debut albums Trumans Water albums Homestead Records albums