Notes
The 2006 re-release of Worm Quartet's 2000 debut album, 'Sumophobia,' including a whopping 19 bonus tracks! Features the Dr. Demento hits 'Inner Voice' (featuring Sudden Death,) 'I Bit William Shatner,' and 'Coffee,' as well as fan favorites 'I Don't Give A Shit About Your Website,' 'Hair On The Soap,' 'R2D2,' 'Map Light' (featuring the great Luke Ski,) and 'Vampire Penguins.' Why does this exist? Well, 'Sumophobia' (the first full Worm Quartet CD) and the CD re-issue of 'Urine Sampler' (the 1996 Worm Quartet demo tape) were both released through mp3.com as DAM-CDs, which were CD-Rs that mp3.com made on demand. They were ugly, but they worked. When mp3.com unexpectedly went kaput, both discs went rather suddenly out of print. Since then, I thought about re-releasing them on a single CD several times, but ultimately decided I didn't want to do so unless I could make things sound a bit better, because I've personally found the original Sumophobia rather hard to listen to in recent years. I didn't want to re-record the whole album, just make the songs more listenable, while staying as true to the originals as possible. And in the interest of making it a worthwhile purchase for the die-hards, I also wanted to include a buttload of bonus tracks. So here you go. Song notes (The story behind the songs, and what I did to them for this release:) The Sumophobia tracks: 1. Bunny Bunny Wop Wop - Remixed from the original 4-track tape. I originally recorded this when I was figuring out how to use my 4-track, and left it on a friend's voicemail at a major defense company. He, in turn, forwarded it to other people, and it made it's way around the company for a while, bringing joy and confusion to all it touched. The first time my Mom heard 'Sumophobia,' it got a few seconds into this song and she turned to me and said 'THIS is how your CD begins?!?' 2. Coffee - I just did a major revision of this song on FTASM, so this is just a remixed version of the original. This should bring glee to the handful of morons who prefer this version to the FTASM one. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the raw vocal tracks, so you're stuck with the same crappy echo-y thing I did on the original Sumophobia. Sorry. This was the first song that I felt really defined the sound I was going for with the 'new' one-man WQ back in 2000. It was written when I still had a band of some sort, and I had intended it to be full-on punk. Once I found myself bandless, I had to adapt and squeeze the song into my new electronic style. This became my standard writing method for a while. Dr. Demento spun this song a few times. 3. I Don't Give A Shit About Your Website - I remixed this and took the effects off the vocals. This was the first song I completed for 'Sumophobia' that was recorded digitally, totally sans 4-track. It was a minor hit on mp3.com back in the day (beaten down in the comedy charts repeatedly by Tom Green's 'Lonely Swedish' and Tony Goldmark's 'Kill the Backstreet Boys,') and remains a live favorite. 4. Death of a Walrus - Untouched. You expected what? 5. I Bit William Shatner - Remixed from the original 4-track tape. Again, playing around with my new ability to record multiple versions of myself...I wanted to see if I could sing one-man barbershop quartet. The answer: Sort of. This made Dr. Demento's funny five a few times, which at the time was my greatest achievement. 6. Hair on the Soap - I had to re-record this...it's one of my favorites, and the original was done in a key I quite obviously couldn't sing in with some serious mistakes in the mix. It sounds immensely better now. This is one of the few cases where I wrote the music and lyrics to a song separately - the music was written while I was pissed, and the lyrics were written while I was bored. Dedicated to a former roommate and his mullet. 7. Violin Solo - Untouched. I actually did take a few years of violin lessons a longass time ago, but I made sure not to use any of those skills when recordin
