"Like Iggy Pop’s great lost Nashville record or the legendary demos for the Strokes masterpiece that never was, this recording is full of catchy courage, significant low notes, bedroom rhythms, hooks, and so on, all of which make for an impossible amount of pleasure. This Swearing At effort towers heads and squirrels above whatever that was you were just listening to. I see why Rolling Stone gave it five stars."
- Camden Joy

"...While Laughing...demontrates Doughman's unerring abilitity to turn autobiographical minutiae and emotional turmoil into exquisitely heartfelt rock'n'roll poetry. From the warmly familiar powerpop chug of Groundhog Day (Damn The Piper) and Great Actress, to the tearjerker wistfulness of Wrote You A Letter and acoustic closer It's Love That Chooses You, this is classic Swearing At Motorists throughout...." - Andrew Carden/ MOJO

SWEARING AT MOTORISTS has come a long way since it's birth as a poster for a fake band in 1994. A few months after the posters mysteriously appeared in record stores & music venues around Dayton, Ohio, Dave Doughman jokingly scrawled the name on a cassette of home recordings that he gave to friends, and in 1995 the band was officially born.

The late '90s found S@M releasing a slew of 7" EPs on different labels, and after getting repeated plays from John Peel and favorable press worldwide, the band landed a contract with the then new label Secretly Canadian.

They released 2 EPs & 4 LPs on SC, including 2000's Number Seven Uptown & 2002's This Flag Signals Goodbye, both of which were named MOJO Magazine's "Underground Album of the Year" the years they were released.

Swearing At Motorists relocated to Berlin, Germany in 2005, releasing their last LP for Secretly Canadian, Last Night Becomes This Morning the following year before quietly disappearing into the never-ending Berlin night...

8 years later, the band resurfaced in Hamburg, Germany, with a new album titled While Laughing, The Joker Tells The Truth, released Sept. 29, 2014 on Anton Newcombe's label A Recordings Ltd. But as this disappeared much like Swearing At Motorists once more and soon, we felt it’s time to reissue this, prior a brand new album which is due in late Fall 2025. What...they are back? Indeed, they are. The consistancy in S@M are their times off. Everything else is bonus, but that's the best part, of course. 

01. / A1. I Don't Need Anyone
02. / A2. Groundhog Day (Damn The Piper)
03. / A3. Forever
04. / A4. Academy Award For The Best Actor In Supporting Role
05. / A5. Friend Of Mine
06. / A6. Famous Orange Sweatshirt
07. / A7. Time And Distance
08. / A8. 17th Last Cigarette (thinkin' bout drinkin')
09. / A9. Wrote You A Letter

10. / B1. The Darkest September
11. / B2. Great Actress
12. / B3. I Love You (Liar)
13. / B4. Adjectives
14. / B5. Don't Want To Dream (about you)
15. / B6. Likes Your Style
16. / B7. Wasting Your Time
17. / B8. It's Love That Chooses You

all songs by Dave Doughman, except “Friends Of Mine” written by Liz Hysen, originally released on the Picastro album “Whore Luck”

Dave Doughman - vocals, guitars, etc.
Martin Boeters - drums
with:
Davis Kettering - cello (Don't Want To Dream)
Christof Jessen - lead guitar (Wasting Your Time)



Produced by Dave Doughman & Rick McPhail
Recorded by Rick McPhail at the Upper Room, Hamburg and Dave at Cardboard Skyline.
Mastered by Jörg Milling
Cover by William Schaff

all songs © 2014 Swearing At Motorists (BMI)
(c) & (p) 2025, BB*ISLAND under exclusive license from Swearing At Motorists

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