Horror Stories (album) explained

Horror Stories
Type:Album
Artist:Dwarves
Cover:Horrorstories.jpg
Released:1986
Recorded:Willy Wells Studio, Champaign, Illinois in 1985
Genre:Garage punk
Length:25:46
Label:Voxx
Producer:Dave Groins
Next Title:Toolin' For A Warm Teabag
Next Year:1988

Horror Stories is the debut album released by garage punk band Dwarves. It was released in June 1986 on the Voxx label in the US,[1] and was stylistically similar to their earlier Sonics/Frank Zappa-inspired output under the name The Suburban Nightmare.[2]

The album was issued on compact disc in the UK in 1990, and again in 1992.

Track listing

Original release

  1. "In And Out" – 2:11
  2. "Oozle" – 1:47
  3. "Don't Love Me" – 1:10
  4. "Monday Blues" – 1:17
  5. "Mined Expanders" – 1:16
  6. "I'm A Living Sickness" – 2:59
  7. "College Town" – 2:15
  8. "Be A Caveman" – 1:13
  9. "Get Outta My Life" – 1:39
  10. "Eat My dinner" (LP only)
  11. "Sometimes Gay Boys Don't Wear Pink" – 1:08
  12. "Stop and Listen" (LP only)
  13. "Love Gestapo" – 3:00

Bonus tracks on later reissues

  1. "Lick It" – 1:23
  2. "Underwater"
  3. "Lick It" (alt. take)
  4. "Nothing"

Notes and References

  1. Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate,, p. 312
  2. Sprague, David "Dwarves", Trouser Press, retrieved 2010-02-07