History of Stomock: Hang Out Yer Stomock

The first Stomock songs were recorded in the winter of 1986-87, during a break from my freshman year in college. The sequence is a little blurry for me now, but we recorded a short tape called "Distended" and another whose name I can't remember. We declared them to be "EPs" since they only had a few songs. All of those recordings are lost, but, alas, plenty more are not. This is one of those. It's from the third tape, which we declared to be an album since it had more songs. It was called "Noxious Effluvia" and the first track, "Hang Out Yer Stomock" was a song about... Stomock, naturally, which provided advice to our many fans. This has all of the essential Stomock elements: a gut metaphor extended as far as it will go, faux arrogance, faux philosophy, and a weak pun that's only noticeable if you have a copy of the written lyrics. The line "but now the rumbling has rhythm" alludes to the drummer who was there for part of the album... but not for this version of this song. Somehow, that makes it just right.