''Throb Throb'' is an album by American punk rock band

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, released on

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in 1985. It was the first of the band's releases to feature the musicianship of

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whose guitar playing distinguished the band's sound during the 1980s. Quarterstick Records reissued the album in 1999, and added an early version of "Libido" as bonus material, which originally appeared on the ''Flammable Solid'' 7".

Release

Naked Raygun had combined resources with other local bands, such as

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and

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, to release records themselves under the name

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. In 1983 they put out the ''

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'' EP and then, after a change of personnel, recorded the LP ''Throb Throb''. Three songs from the album ""Surf Combat", "Gear" and a shorter version of "Libido") saw release on Naked Raygun's first single, ''Flammable Solid'' (a tribute to

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' first album '' Inflammable Material'') With their signing to

, the release of the full LP was delayed into the following year. ''Throb Throb's'' lyric sheet was done up to resemble a

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with white text on a blue background, and on some versions of the LP the lyrics even appeared backwards in the style of an actual blueprint. The LP remained in print through the 1980s and was mastered onto CD. When Quarterstick Records rereleased the band's material in 1999, Homestead's original distributor issued 400 final copies of the LP on green

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. The cover was created by Chicago comic book artist Mike Saenz.

Track listing

# "Rat Patrol" (Haggerty) – 2:13 # "Surf Combat" (Gonzalez) – 1:13 # "Gear" (Pezzati) – 2:47 # "Metastasis" (Gonzalez) – 2:24 # "Leeches" (Pezzati) – 3:17 # "Roller Queen" (Pezzati/Haggerty) – 3:07 # "On" (Gonzalez) - 0:28 # "I Don't Know" (Haggerty/Pezzati) - 3:30 # "Libido" (Colao) - 3:26 # "No Sex" (Pezzati) - 1:52 # "Only in America" (

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/Colao) - 3:04 # "Stupid" (Durango) - 1:10 # "Managua" (Gonzalez) - 2:13

CD bonus track

Personnel

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- vocals *Camilo Gonzalez - bass *

- guitar, saxophone *Jim Colao - drums *Kristin Haggerty - piano (track 9)

References

Naked Raygun albums 1985 albums Homestead Records albums Quarterstick Records albums {{1980s-punk-album-stub