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01. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - I Don't Need Anyone
02. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Groundhog Day (Damn the Piper)
03. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Forever
04. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
05. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Friend of Mine
06. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Famous Orange Sweatshirt
07. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Time and Distance
08. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - 17th Last Cigarette (Thinkin' Bout Drinkin')
09. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Wrote You a Letter
10. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - The Darkest September
11. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Great Actress
12. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - I Love You (Liar)
13. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Adjectives
14. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Don't Want to Dream (About You)
15. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - I Likes Your Style
16. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - Wasting Your Time
17. SWEARING AT MOTORISTS - It's Love That Chooses You
ARTIST
TITLE
While Laughing, The Joker Tells the Truth
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
AUK 113CD AUK 113CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/6/2015

"Like Iggy Pop's great lost Nashville record or the legendary demos for the Strokes masterpiece that never was, this recording is full of catchy courage, significant low notes, bedroom rhythms, hooks, and so on, all of which make for an impossible amount of pleasure. This Swearing At effort towers heads and squirrels above whatever that was you were just listening to." --Camden Joy; Swearing At Motorists has come a long way since its birth as a poster for a fake band in 1994. A few months after the posters mysteriously appeared in record stores & music venues around Dayton, Ohio, Dave Doughman jokingly scrawled the name on a cassette of home recordings that he gave to friends, and the band was officially born. The late '90s found S@M releasing a slew of 7" EPs on different labels, and after getting repeated plays from John Peel and favorable press worldwide, the band landed a contract with the then new label Secretly Canadian. They released two EPs & four LPs on SC, including 2000's Number Seven Uptown & 2002's This Flag Signals Goodbye, both of which were named MOJO Magazine's "Underground Album of the Year" the years they were released. Swearing At Motorists relocated to Berlin, Germany in 2005, releasing their last LP for Secretly Canadian, Last Night Becomes This Morning the following year before quietly disappearing into the never-ending Berlin night. Eight years later, the band has resurfaced in Hamburg, Germany with a new album titled While Laughing, The Joker Tells the Truth. Co-produced by Dave and Rick McPhail (of the legendary German band Tocotronic), the album tells the tales of those "lost" 8 years in classic Motorists style.