Thriller (Lambchop album) songs from the album "Poor Fricky" by East River Pipe also released on Merge Records. The sleeve is a painting by Wayne White, a childhood friend of Wagner who also provided cover art for "Nixon", "Aw Cmon" and "No You Cmon" by the band. Thriller (Lambchop album) Thriller is the third full-length album by Lambchop, released in 1997. The album title was chosen as a reference to the Michael Jackson album of the same name, one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, as an in-joke by frontman Kurt Wagner regarding the low sales of the first two Lambchop albums.
Town Called Malice it was written about his hometown Woking as a result of his teenage experiences there. Released as the first single from the album on 29 January 1982, it entered the chart at number one on the British music charts, staying at the top for three weeks, and preventing "Golden Brown" by the Stranglers from reaching number one. EMI, the Stranglers record company, objected to the sales of both versions of "Town Called Malice" being aggregated, arguing that Jam fans were buying both and thus preventing their band from reaching the top of the chart. "Town Called Malice" was the band's