Label: Sub Pop
Released 2017
The U-Men’s recording history has previously been documented on Solid Action (1999), but that release only featured 18 tracks. U-Men includes their entire recorded output (on 2 CDs or 3 LPs): singles, EPs, compilation tracks, and their sole album, Step on a Bug: The Red Toad Speaks (1988). And most excitingly, there’s also some unreleased material. “Trouble Under Water” and “Mystery Pain” date from 1982 (or 1983; even the band isn’t sure!), while “Last Lunch” and “U-Men Stomp” are from 1984, all of them exuding the rockabilly swing that underscored so much of the band’s music.
Track listing:
- Blight
- Flowers DGIH
- Shoot ‘Em Down
- Gila
- Trouble Under Water
- Mystery Pain
- Last Lunch
- Clubs
- The Fumes
- Cow Rock
- Green Trumpet
- A Year And A Day
- Ten After One
- They!
- U-Men Stomp
- Solid Action
- Dig It A Hole
- Whistlin' Pete
- 2 X 4
- A Three Year Old Could Do That
- Juice Party
- Flea Circus
- Too Good To Be Food
- Willie Dong Hurts Dogs
- Papa Doesn't Love His Children Anymore
- Pay The Bubba
- Freezebomb
- That's Wild About Jack
- Bad Little Woman
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Selfish