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- Summary: The two-disc collection of songs from the 1980s Seattle punk band led by John Bigley features five previously unreleased tracks.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Grunge, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, American Underground
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Nov 20, 2017Nearly 30 years after the group called it a day, the material on U-Men barely seems to have aged at all; like the best rock & roll outliers, the U-Men created something that was less a product of a specific time and place than music that existed in a world of its own, and that planet is still a wild, fractured, and thoroughly compelling place to visit in the 21st century.
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Nov 20, 2017Their music stands now as both a crucial piece in the roiling Seattle scene and as part of a noise-rock continuum that includes like-minded outfits such as Scratch Acid and Butthole Surfers.
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Nov 20, 2017The band's highly charged music and flamboyant delivery continue to stand out after more than 30 years of fickle indie punk confusion.
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Nov 20, 2017Their songs can sound a bit samey lumped together in one big set, and they seem like a band for whom the live show was an essential part of the story, but seeing as how we've yet to devise a way to travel back in time, this is just about the best evidence available on these mean muggers. It's well worth the investigation.
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MagnetDec 22, 2017This box set definitively captures the shaggy, psychobilly garage-stomp of U-Men during their decade-ling '80s run as the foremost representative of the Emerald City underground. [No. 149, p.61]
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MojoDec 12, 2017This is groundling rock at its finest. [Dec 2017, p.103]
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