Supreme Dicks: supreme or dicks?

Here's the homepage, don't know if it's helpful. ihttp://www.kapelovitz.com/dicks.htm

They were on the Northampton, MA scene back when I was around those parts in the early 90s. I saw them live a couple times and they were magnificent, sort of drunken, backwoods, slow core. I remember a lot of beer-bottle slide in one transfixing performance. Now I have to figure out where my copy of Emotional Plague has gotten to...

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I remember reading about them in the zine "Mommy and I Are One" - I think they recorded constantly and were really into overdubs to the extreme.

Other than that, I can just recommend the music.

i really, seriously have a feeling there's a bit of a supreme dicks revival around the corner. now, anyone care for some strapping fieldhands?

the kapelovitz stuff is kinda weird and surreal. dan oxenberg is the real boss of the s.dicks, i recall.

Still haven't heard any Fieldhands! Need to go and rectify myself post-haste methinks.

I'm kinda confused and disgusted with the weird hijacking of the band circa 1997 or so.. unless it was just this big Kaufman-esque thing.

it tells much about the early history of the group and is a wild, wild ride of hilarity and premium verbage.

In 1998 I put out an LP and the insert read "Supreme Dicks Forever." I stand by that to this day.

i just discovered the supreme dicks myself and they're slowly turning into my favourite band, any info on them is much appreciated!

greetings
monika

And don't tell me that doesn't roll off the tongue.

What the hell at six years since this thread was revived. Anyway, Emotional Plague, you are as great as ever.

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Supreme Dicks Complete Catalog Reissue Coming in October
4 CD Box Set "Breathing and Not Breathing"

Jagjaguwar is pleased to announce the reissue of the complete Supreme Dicks catalog on October 18 (October 17 UK). Rising out of the Amherst, MA scene that produced Dinosaur Jr, the Dicks were vital contributors to the lo-fi and avant garde genres. The band's constantly revolving lineup (Lou Barlow was a Dick now and again) centered around songwriters Daniel Oxenberg and Jon Shere who, among other things, advocated the teachings of Wilhelm Reich and were vocal about focusing their creative energy via celibacy. They were what one might call "deeply weird."

The Dicks' tense, psychedelic-yet-twangy brand of rock'n'roll came out of the band's roots at Hampshire College in the Reagan era and their influence can be heard in bands as far ranging as Mogwai and SALEM. The Unexamined Life and The Emotional Plague were originally released on Homestead Recordings which supported the likes of Big Black, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. All Music points out, "next to nobody was sounding anywhere near so fractured, offbeat and interesting in indie rock at that time..."

The first two MP3s "In A Sweet Song" and "Jack-O-Lantern" from the album The Unexamined Life are available now at RCRD LBL and Altered Zones, respectively.

Jagjaguwar is reissuing the complete recordings as a 4 CD box set called "Breathing and Not Breathing." This will include both of the band’s studio albums, The Unexamined Life and The Emotional Plague; Workingman’s Dick, a collection of early archival recordings; and the 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. Workingman’s Dick and This is Not a Dick were previously only available as import CDs, and the 2xLP releases of The Unexamined Life and The Emotional Plague represent the first time these albums have ever been available on vinyl.

Guess my summer listening to them all again was anticipatory...

Just got that in the mail today! Will be digging in over the weekend.

Gotta say, the package is a steal for $15.

Ridiculously good value.

So great to be reunited with The Unexamined Life. Someone should have reissued this during the New Weird America (ugh) days, it would have gone over like gangbusters. Kudos to Jagjaguwar for putting that Bon Iver dough to good use.

Loving the disc with the EP and one-offs; that was what I hadn't heard yet and it's as entrancing as everything else they did.

Will buy

This stuff is beautiful. Definitely one of the best reissues of 2011.

Just discovering this stuff. It is lovely.
Feeling Souled American and Strapping Fieldhands vibes, or something.
Could just be the nineties.