Smegma is an American

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group formed in

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, United States, in 1973. Author

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became their vocalist in the late 1990s. The group was included in the Nurse with Wound list and was featured on the cover of the August 2006 edition of ''

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''.

Partial discography

* ''Sing Popular Songs'' (includes guest vocalists such as

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) (1974) * ''Can't Look Straight/Flashcards'', single (1979) * ''Glamour Girl 1941'' (1979) * ''Soundtracks 1–5'' EP,

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/Smegma (1980) * ''Pigs for Lepers'' (1982) * ''Nattering Naybobs of Negativity'' (1987) * ''Smell the Remains'' (1988) * ''Ism'' (1994) * ''The Goodship Poleshiner'' (1995) * ''Songs from the motion picture Theodore Rex'' (1995) * ''The Mad Excitement, The Barbaric Pulsations, The Incomparable Rhythms Of...'' (1996) * ''Smegma Plays Merzbow Plays Smegma'' (collaboration with

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) (1996) * ''Glamour Girl 1941'' (1997) * ''Rumblings'' (compilation 1997–2003)
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) * ''The Beast'' (collaboration with

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) * ''Thirty Years of Service'' * ''Live at No Fun Fest'' * ''One/Don't Tell Roberto'' (Split with Sissy Spacek (

John Wiese John Wiese (born April 18, 1977) is an American noise musician and visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Wiese has released much of his material on his own Helicopter label. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2 ...

) &

Kommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together wit ...

Mama Baer Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist at Flensburg. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the wo ...

) * ''The Good Fight/Blues for M./Self-Hypnosis'' (Split with

)

References

External links

* Allmusic entry
Official Smegma
MySpace page
Smegma

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