Supreme Dicks
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Supreme Dicks was an experimental indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 group formed in 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County . The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts...

.
Their albums combine dissonant lo-fi
Lo-fi music
Lo-fi is lower quality of sound recordings than the usual standard for music. The qualities of lo-fi are usually achieved by either degrading the quality of the recorded audio, or using certain equipment. Recent uses of the phrase have led to it becoming a genre, although it still remains as an...

 noise, avantgarde
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 and psychedelia
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 sounds to realized dilated and warped structures songs.
The bands members are Dan Oxenberg, Jon Shere, Mark Hanson and Steve Shavel.
The latest release of the band was a major retrospective, which was released by the Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an indie rock record label based in Bloomington, Indiana.-History:In 1996, in Charlottesville, Virginia, friends of Darius Van Arman who performed in a band under the moniker The Curious Digit had just recorded a new album, but they were signed to no label...

 label October 18th, 2011. All of the band's recordings were made available on the record, as well as some unreleased recordings from the band's most critically acclaimed period, 1990-1994. The band is expected to regroup and play a limited number of shows that will coincide with the release.

Studio Albums

  • The Unexamined Life
    The Unexamined Life
    The Unexamined Life is an album by the band Supreme Dicks, released in 1993. - Track listing :# 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...

    - Homestead Records (1993)
  • Working Man's Dick
    Working Man's Dick
    Working Man's Dick is an album by the band Supreme Dicks, released in 1994.- Track listing :#Ranada's Demon#The Language You Learnt#All That Returns#In The Whippoorwills Sad Orchard#Blue Elephant#The Pear Thripe#Flaming Day Of The Locusts...

    - Freek Records (1994)
  • The Emotional Plague
    The Emotional Plague
    The Emotional Plague is the last album by the band Supreme Dicks, released in 1996 .- Track listing :# "Synaesthesia"# "Cuchulain "# "Columnated Ruins / Seeing Distant Chimneys"# "Along A Bearded Glade"# "Swell Song"# "Showered"...

    - Homestead Records (1996)

Singles and EPs

  • Sky Puddle (7") - Funky Mushroom Records (1992)
  • One Day West (7") - Infinite Chug [split with One Small Good Thing]
  • This Is Not a Dick
    This Is Not a Dick
    This Is Not a Dick is the last release EP by the band Supreme Dicks, released in 1996.All songs recorded in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1987 to 1994.-Track listing:#"Invasion From Mars"#"Untitled"#"Summertime "...

    - (1996)
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