Smegma is an American

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group formed in

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in 1973. Author

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became their vocalist in the late 1990s. The group was included in the Nurse with Wound list and was featured on the cover of the August 2006 edition of ''

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Partial discography

* ''Sing Popular Songs'' (1974; 1998) * ''Can't Look Straight/Flashcards'' (1979) * ''Glamour Girl 1941'' (1979) * ''Soundtracks 1–5'' (1980) * ''Pigs for Lepers'' (1982) * ''Nattering Naybobs of Negativity'' (1987) * ''Smell the Remains'' (1988) * ''Ism'' (1994) * ''The Goodship Poleshiner'' (1995) * ''Songs from the Motion Picture Theodore Rex'' (1995) * ''The Mad Excitement, the Barbaric Pulsations, the Incomparable Rhythms of...'' (1996) * ''Smegma Plays/Merzbow Plays Smegma'' (1996) * ''Glamour Girl 1941'' (1997) * ''Rumblings''http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22343-rumblings?artist_title=22343-rumblings * ''Tiromancy'' * ''The Beast'' * ''Thirty Years of Service'' * ''Live at No Fun Fest'' * ''One/Don't Tell Roberto'' * ''The Good Fight/Blues for M./Self-Hypnosis''

References

External links

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Official Smegma

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