Artist	Song
Stump	Orgasm Way
	Ice the Levant
	Grab Hands
	55-0-55
	Big End
	Tupperware Stripper
	Our Fathers
	Kitchen Table
	Buffalo
	Everything in its Place
	Bit Part Actor
	Living It Down
	In the Green
	Roll the Bodies Over
	Bone
	Eager Bereaver
	Chaos
	Alcohol
	Charlton Heston
	Heartache
	Doctor (A Visit to the)
	A Fierce Pancake
	Boggy Home

Comment:

Of all the quirky, Captain Beefheart-indebted groups to reside at Manchester's Ron Johnson label,
Stump were not only the most distinctive, hut also the most endearing. Unlike their manic stablemates,
mad-eyed Mick Lynch (vocals), Chris Salmon (guitar), Kev Hopper (bass) and Rob McKahey (drums)
avoided an aggressive, staccato-guitar onslaught, opting instead for awkward chord and rhythm changes
and a wacky, humorous lyrical content, first heard on the charming EP "Mud On A Colon" in March 1986.
BBC disc jockey John Peel was an early admirer and while Stump's Peel session of that year would
eventualiy surface on vinyl the following January, the band were caught up in the C86 program
organized by the New Musical Express, and appeared on The Tube television show with the offbeat video
for their contribution 'Buffalo'. A debut album, "Quirk Out", was issued on the Stuff label as Ron Johnson ran into financial problems, and it was not long before Ensign Records lured the band into major territory. `Chaos' preceded a second album, "A Fierce Pancake", revealing a Stump that had lost none of their individuality, but it was 'Charlton Heston', with its 'lights camel action' line and frog-dominated video, that attracted most attention. A full-scale single release of 'Buffalo' looked set to break the charts, but after it failed, the band all but disappeared. Except for the C-86 demo version of "Buffalo" and the 4 tracks they recorded for the John Peel Sessions (all of which are included in their original versions here), this is their complete output. For DJ Hoover.

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