- In A Sweet Song
- The Arabian Song
- The Sun's Bells
- Jack Smith
- That I May Never Forget And Stay
- Garden Of Your Past
- Jack-O-Lantern
- River Song
- The Fallout Song
- Azure Dome
- The Forest Song (or Especially When The October Wind With Frosty Fingers, Punishes My Hair)
- Hyacinth Girls
- Ten Past Eleven
- Woody Would've Wanted It That Way
- Strange Song
- Ranada's Demon
- The Language You Learnt
- All That Returns
- In The Whippoorwill's Sad Orchard
- Blue Elephant
- The Pear Thripe
- Flaming Day Of The Locusts
- Andy Herman Song
- For Now
- Descension Song
- The Pusher
- Hyacinth Girls
- Arise! Life Giving Seagull
- Talking Moby Dick Blues
- Shroud-Like Remains
- The Baal Shem
- The Searcher
- Night At The Opera
- Chateaux Banana! parts XIII-XVI
- Viva La Speedy Orgone
- Synaesthesia
- CuChulain (Blackbirds Loom)
- Columnated Ruins/Seeing Distant Chimneys
- Along a Bearded Glade
- Swell Song
- Showered
- A Donkey's Burial in a Tower on a Mirage
- Adoration de l'Agneau Mystique
- Porridge for the Calydonian Boar
- Siberian Penal Colony (Ode to Joel Stanley)
- Green Wings Fly Adventure (Showered Reprise)
- Invasion from Mars
- Untitled
- Summertime (Childhood's Impossible Now)
- The Hunchback
- Mark's Phonecall from Orgoneland
- Leaning on the Everlasting Arm
- Harmonic Convergence (live at L'Oasis 1987)
- Last Jam
- Country of Nuns
- Sky Puddle
- Huckleberry Fetal Pain
- Cows of Light
- Careful with that Axe, Steve
Supreme Dicks put out one single in their career. It was a double B-side. Maybe they had a sense of humor, but in hindsight it’s hard to tell.Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in the lineage of musicians who’ve found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, Supreme Dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late ’80s and early ’90s lo-fi college rock. They may have inhabited the same sonic and physical space as colleagues like Dinosaur jr. (Lou Barlow was an occasional Dick, and at least one early Dinosaur jr show was actually played by Dicks in disguise), but they stripped away all youthful yearning and anticipation in favor of a bleak and unblinking certainty. Honest, frank, and free of ironic distance. Obtuse and yet so essential that it can’t help but feel familiar to anyone who’s ever spent a sleepless night wondering whether there’s any point to all of this. And, on occasion, warm, intimate and lovely.The Supreme Dicks formed while students at Massachusetts’ Hampshire College in the twilight of the Reagan era. The campus was a fractured post-hippie free-for-all that many students theorized was a right-wing think tank experiment in pitting progressives against each other. The constantly revolving lineup centered around Daniel Oxenberg, Jon Shere, Steve Shavel, Mark Hanson, Jim Spring, and whoever else was around and willing to torture an instrument. They advocated the teachings of Wilhelm Reich and were vocal about focusing their creative energy via celibacy. This may do much to explain the constant, unrelenting tension that provides the driving force behind the most powerful moments in their music. Regardless of tempo or arrangement, Supreme Dicks songs play like soundtracks to autoerotic asphyxiation, haunting tones that ring in the ears at the moment consciousness is lost and not guaranteed to return.Jagjaguwar is proud to reintroduce the complete recordings of Supreme Dicks in the form of Breathing and Not Breathing, a four CD set that includes both of the band’s studio albums, The Unexamined Life from 1993 and The Emotional Plague from 1996, along with 1994’s Workingman’s Dick, a collection of early archival recordings, and the 1996 EP This Is Not A Dick, which has been fleshed out with rare and unreleased tracks. Also available are 2xLP editions of The Unexamined Life and The Emotional Plague, neither of which has been previously released on vinyl.
