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Godspeed the Punchline

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Godspeed the Punchline
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1994
Recorded1993
GenreIndie rock
LabelHomestead
Trumans Water chronology
Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass
(1993)
Godspeed the Punchline
(1994)
Godspeed the Static
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Washington Post(favorable) [2]

Godspeed the Punchline is an album by Trumans Water. It was released in January 1994 by Homestead Records in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK.[3] This album was preceded by three other "Godspeed" albums--Godspeed the Static, Godspeed the Vortex and Godspeed the Hemorrhage—all of which featured improvised, lo-fi music. Godspeed the Punchline can probably be considered the proper, studio follow-up to Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass. It is the last studio album recorded with Glen Galloway before he left to form Soul-Junk. The album was described as "eighteen short blasts of negasonic tumult" by David Sprague of Trouser Press,[4] while Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post stated that the songs "can wander aimlessly or suddenly turn on the siren and race straight to their destination".[2]

Track listing

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  1. "Destroy 1998" - 0:41
  2. "Long End of a Firearm" - 4:47
  3. "All Wet West of Washington" - 2:29
  4. "Hair Junk Fibre" - 1:22
  5. "Ungalaxy" - 0:38
  6. "Antsmashes Yer Star (Dead Airwaves)" - 3:48
  7. "Enflamed" - 3:40
  8. "Outpatient Lightspeed" - 2:56
  9. "Infinity Times Zero" - 0:13
  10. "Sucker Mystique" - 2:10
  11. Playboy Stabtone Bloodbath Go" - 2:38
  12. "Slander in New Slang" - 2:33
  13. "No Big (Wave) Star" - 2:37
  14. "Theme of Blast" - 0:34
  15. "Fuller Piston Vinegar" - 3:35
  16. "22" - 2:33
  17. "Horsesense" - 1:54
  18. "Spaceship Next Door" - 1:18

References

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  1. ^ Cramer, Stephen "Godspeed the Punchline Review", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 21 November 2009
  2. ^ a b Jenkins, Mark (1994) "Trumans Water: Rants & Rave-Ups", Washington Post, 25 March 1994
  3. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 1039
  4. ^ Sprague, David "Trumans Water", Trouser Press, retrieved 21 November 2009