Arrogant Worms: Encyclopedia II - Arrogant Worms - History

Arrogant Worms - History

The Worms came together in 1991 to do a few spots on campus radio station CFRC in Kingston, Ontario, and quickly moved to doing spots on the CBC Radio One. Since 1992 the troupe has released 10 CDs on their own label. They have recently recorded a new album, supposedly titled Beige, which is expected to be released February 2006.

Each album consists mostly of independent tracks paying homage, always humourosly, to different genres. Two exceptions are the 1997 Christmas Turkey CD dedicated to songs about Christmas, and the 2003 Semi-Conducted CD, which is a collection of their best songs done at a concert with symphony backing.

Rock, folk, ballads, country, Celtic folk, and children's music all have come under their satirical guns.

When not spoofing a particular style of music, the Worms' material pokes fun at various aspects of daily life in Canada with songs like "Canada's Really Big", "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate", "Me Like Hockey" and "Proud to Be Canadian".

The Worms are based in Toronto.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "History", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki