The Doink Years is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 released by The Grifters in 1996

1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...

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The Grifters, on the verge of releasing their first major label album on Sub Pop

Sub Pop

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 1996, Shangri-La Records

Shangri-La Records

Shangri-La Projects is a record label in Memphis, Tennessee that grew out of and split off from the Shangri-la Record store in Memphis, Tennessee, and released several of the seminal records of the early 90's Memphis indie scene...

 re-issued the first two self-released Grifters 7" singles as a 10", with a single per side and featuring a bonus track recorded in the same era. Though the vinyl version only Disfigurehead & the Kingdom of Jones, but known as The Doink Years because the original singles were released under the same Doink Records banner as their A Band Called Bud debut, Dad

Dad (cassette)

Dad is a 1989 studio album by the indie rock act A Band Called Bud, later known as the Grifters.-Background:One year before taking on a real drummer and the name the Grifters, Tripp Lamkins, David Shouse and Scott Taylor played and performed under the name A Band Called Bud...

. The song "Snake Oil" features the debut of Stan Gallimore on drums, establishing the Grifters as four-piece for the rest of their career.

10" track listing

Side A: Disfigurehead 7"

1. "Disfigurehead" - 3:18 (vocals Shouse)
2. "Need You" - 3:48 (vocals Taylor)
3. "Reason Enough" - 1:36 (vocals Shouse)
4. "How Long?" - 3:49 (vocals Taylor)
5. "Kicking"* - 5:22 (vocals Shouse)

Side b: The Kingdom Of Jones 7"

1. "Encrusted" - 3:38 (vocals Shouse)
2. "Another Song" - 3:45 (vocals Taylor)
3. "Snake Oil" - 5:16 (vocals Taylor)
4. "Daydream Riot" - 3:37 (vocals Shouse)

The Disfigurehead

Disfigurehead

Disfigurehead is the first 7" EP by Memphis indie rock band The Grifters. The band was still a trio and the dynamics were not dissimilar from their A Band Called Bud incarnation, except that the production was more polished and the effects were toned down so that the guitars had a rougher...

 side features a rough bonus track titled "Kicking" and features the words "Long Live Doink" etched in the dead vinyl. The Kingdom of Jones

The Kingdom of Jones

The Kingdom Of Jones is the second 7" EP by Memphis indie rock band The Grifters. Shangri-La Records re-released the first two Grifters singles in 1996 as the The Doink Years 10" and again on CD in 2006...

side reads, "When You Least Expect It, Expect It", and the original 7" art is reproduced on either side of the sleeve.

CD track listing

1. "Disfigurehead" - 3:18 (vocals Shouse)
2. "Need You" - 3:48 (vocals Taylor)
3. "Reason Enough" - 1:36 (vocals Shouse)
4. "How Long?" - 3:49 (vocals Taylor)
5. "Encrusted" - 3:38 (vocals Shouse)
6. "Another Song" - 3:45 (vocals Taylor)
7. "Snake Oil" - 5:16 (vocals Taylor)
8. "Daydream Riot" - 3:37 (vocals Shouse)
9. "Kicking"* - 5:22 (vocals Shouse)

Additional credits

• The Kingdom of Jones artwork by Greg Harwell
• Disfigurehead photo and design by David Shouse