Self-Titled (World of Fire album)

Self-Titled is the sixth album by World of Fire and the only one released as a duo.

Writing
The album mainly consists of scrapped Infection and Sounds of the Wildebeest songs (some songs being written over thirty years ago) and some remakes of older Infection songs.

Many of the songs were written by Patrick Star.

The one original song on the album is the first track.

Recording
During the recording, SpongeBob would often become physically ill after pushing his vocal chords too far, on one occasion, SpongeBob vomiting was caught on recording and Patrick kept it in, to SpongeBob's dismay.

Most of the songs were finished in one take, with a few exceptions (noted on tracklist.) and a few songs were sung by Star, mainly on the back-end of the album.

Production
Patrick wanted to keep the album as raw as possible without sounding "like a shit college punk band that I totally wasn't in. [sic]" and as a result, much of the background noise was kept in, and some of the background noise was mistaken to be samples by SpongeBob. Critics have compared Star's production to Steve Albini and Ross Robinson.

Tracklist

 * 1) The Vulgar Trade (intro, 1:45)
 * 2) Nosferatu (4:29, five takes, scrapped infection song)
 * 3) The Beekeeper's Fate (10:28, scrapped sotwb song)
 * 4) Drumstick (3:54, old infection song)
 * 5) Heartcooksbrainbraincooksheartcooksbrainbraincooksheartheartcooksbrainbraincooksheart (7:00, scrapped SOTWB song)
 * 6) Just One Fix (3:21, ministry cover, scrapped infection song)
 * 7) The Family-Friendly Song (joke, 1:05, scrapped sotwb song, Patrick Star on vocals)
 * 8) Apolitical (3:09, Patrick Star on vocals, scrapped infection song)
 * 9) The Big Man Up In That Little Funny Cloud (5:05, scrapped SOTWB song, Patrick Star on vocals)
 * 10) Man (45:05, three separate songs, scrapped SOTWB songs, Patrick Star on vocals)

Reviews
"1/5 - Worldoffire is a mess of an album, but it has heart throb SquarePants on it, so it deserves a star. Patrick should be MURDERED for making him sound that bad on the final four tracks" - Generic Teenage Girl Magazine (page 45, why Patrick Star isn't worthy of being a friend of SpongeBob's)

"4/5 - Although a bit too raw in places, Worldoffire manages to accomplish what all of its predecessors failed to do : it managed to capture the sensation of seeing the band live, and it has some brilliant lyrics too, for a bunch of throwaway songs" - Allmusic

"6.3/10 - Fairly average record with one or two standout tracks" - Pitchfork

"5/5 - World of Fire's magnum opus, I can't see them making anything better than this in the future" - Sputnikmusic

"0/5 - no classic rock, me no likey" - Patrick's older brother.