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Track Listings
| 1. Grown Men Don't Fall In The River, Just Like That |
| 2. Mr Your On Fire Mr |
| 3. Loose Nuts On The Veladrome |
| 4. The Garden Was Crowded And Outside |
| 5. Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris |
| 6. Nothing Is Ever Lost Or Can Be Lost My Science Friend |
| 7. We Live NE Of Compton |
| 8. Why Midnight Walked But Didn't Ring Her Bell |
| 9. This Dust Makes That Mud |
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They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, the debut album from New York punk-funk bohemians the Liars, is an excellently scrappy document of the Big Apple as seen from the gutter: a hip-shaking DIY no-wave document that could have been made 20 years ago, but sounds totally modern today. "Can you hear us? Can you hear us?" yelps frontman Angus Andrew on the opening "Grown Men Don’t Just Fall in the River Like That", "We’ve got our finger on the pulse of Americaaaa!" And from thereon in, They Threw Us All in a Trench... throws up questions with a dizzying fervour. Why use two chords when one chord will do? Why not revist the undocumented ruins of post-punk and build new, fantastic compositions--tracks like "Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Desert With ESG" and "Loose Nuts on the Veladrome"--on the ashes? Why not conclude your album with a thirty-minute closer, the sinister PiL-esque groove of "This Dust Makes That Mud", that takes up over half of the album’s total running length? An occasional urge towards atonality may dissuade anyone not on good terms with the back catalogue of Sonic Youth, but the fact remains that the Liars are up there with the best of New York’s new-wave. --Louis Pattison
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CD .. Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Liars have stood out to be one of the best live bands around. The most different thing about is their music. Song titles like 'Grown Men don't fall in the river just like that' and 'Loose nuts on the velodrome' stand out like their vocalist, Angus Andrew, who screams, whispers and shouts throughout this great album.
The line up is, Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill on guitar, Pat Noeker on bass and Ron Albertson on drums.
Nine tracks featuring the 30min 40sec long track, 'This Dust Makes That Mud', which is a very surial track with great sound effects. 'Grown men dont fall in the river, just like that' is a great opening track with Angus shouting 'We caught our finger on the pulse of America', you can't beat a bit of hardcore punk! And then 'Mr. your on fire Mr.', the most popular song as they have made a video for it. Its very funky (like most of the album) and has got a punk 'kick' giving it attitude.
They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top takes a bit of time to get into it but I think you will find the end result a gem in your record collection.
By mister joe
Format:Audio CD
Out of all those bands that emerged in the noughties Liars are easily the best.They always release consistely inventive records different to the previous.A band that has stuck to its principals.Sadly whilst thousands of reviews are posted incessantly about Greenday,Muse or Strokes collectively Liars recieve around 20.For their whole catalogue,i suppose this keeps them a well kept secret.A special band whose influence will grow and grow.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Liars are indeed a post-punk band; a genre that has existed in its current form for well over twenty years now. However, 'They threw us all..." is far from the recycling of spent ideas that has become so prevalent in the massive wave of New York based imports. Their taught, angular ryhthms are the most obvious reference points; think mid-eighties the fall, and the frenetic yelps of their frontman also echo those of the venerable Mark E. Smith. Nevertheless, the band have a much more avant-garde bent that say... The Strokes, and one that makes them only more easy to move to; fractured beats abound, colliding and tangling in throbbing sprawls, while remaining utterly coherent. These tracks hence suceed on a very fundamental basis, while the use of loops and samples all make the album one that screams out to be danced to.
In the end though, it is the bands willingness to go out on an experimental-wing is what really sets them apart from what-came-before. One only needs to listen to the closer; 'This Dust that makes Mud', to comprehend; the song settles into a series of fractured loops before stretching off into infinity (or at least, long enough to double the running time of the record). Writing the Liars off on the basis of unoriginality would be a gross mistake. What really matters is whether you consider their leftfield meandering something that pushes the envelope, or just acts as pretentious noodling. Up to you.
In the end though, it is the bands willingness to go out on an experimental-wing is what really sets them apart from what-came-before. One only needs to listen to the closer; 'This Dust that makes Mud', to comprehend; the song settles into a series of fractured loops before stretching off into infinity (or at least, long enough to double the running time of the record). Writing the Liars off on the basis of unoriginality would be a gross mistake. What really matters is whether you consider their leftfield meandering something that pushes the envelope, or just acts as pretentious noodling. Up to you.
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