Attack of the One-Man Bands! (2007)

Attack of the One-Man Bands is exactly that, 58 different one-man bands spread over two discs of raw, crude, and fascinatingly brilliant blasts of sonic madness, most of it so ragged and urgent that it makes vintage punk sound like Air Supply. So unhinged that it's probably a serious health risk, this set delivers cut after cut of glorious bedlam with all the subtlety of an amplified jackhammer set loose in a glass house, and anyone sane should probably hate it, but like a child's tantrum, it's impossible to ignore, and like the child that throws that tantrum, it's impossible not to love. Each of these one-man bands is currently active, and while most are decidedly lo-fi, even the ones who wandered into real studios seem to treat them like giant boom boxes, creating a clatter and din that shoves the needle into the red from note one. While a good deal of what is here is vicious punk rockabilly like Phillip Roebuck's crude, spare, and dangerously kinetic "Jackass Blues" or Pete Yorko & the One Man Music Band's "Like Me" assault, some of it, like Royer's One Man Band's version of the fiddle classic "Train on the Island" or 1Man Banjo's deconstruction of "Mole in the Ground" (simply called "Mole" here), is seriously bent and skewed bluegrass mountain music. Trainwreck Washington's banjo piece called "Walked All Night" sounds like an old wax cylinder field recording, and feels like it was recorded a hundred years ago. Uncle Butcher's "No Judge, No Trial" is as raw and frightening as a running chain saw thrown on a feather bed, chickens flying everywhere, as they say. Then there's the Amazing Elephant Man's primal "Can't Go Outside," which is literally a child's frustrated rant given rhythm and electricity. Scary, unsettling, fascinating, delightful, vital, urgent and insistent, these 58 tracks are somehow -- for all their abrasiveness -- oddly comforting. Just like that one vigilant dog barking away relentlessly down the street late at night, it means someone is watching after all, and they ain't gonna keep quiet about it, even if the rest of the world is trying its best to sleep.

~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

tracklist:
1. Al Foul - I Know I'm Gonna Die Tonight 2:31
2. Bloodshot Bill - Been Tellin' Lies 2:47
3. Phillip Roebuck - Jackass Blues 2:37
4. Rollie Tussing - Milwaukee Blues 2:25
5. Lonesome Joseph - If You Love Me 4:58
6. Slim Sandy - You Can't Fool Me 2:23
7. King Louie - Walkin' and A-Steppin' in the Fire 2:06
8. Haunted George - Howlin' 1:49
9. Sachtrash - Stay Out and Down 2:49
10. Fredovitch One Man Band - Troublin' Time 2:38
11. 1Man Banjo - Mole 3:40
12. Toothless George - I F**kin' Suck (in G maj.) 3:13
13. Royer's One Man Band - Train On The Island 2:02
14. Dead Elvis & The One Man Grave - Long Gone, Dead and Done 1:17
15. Mr. Bonz One Man Band - Wild Party 1:47
16. Chuck Violence - Introducing Chuck Violence 2:10
17. Dennis Hopper Choppers - Lust 2:55
18. Bram Riddlebarger and His Lonesome Band - Rhythm & Soul 1:38
19. Trainwreck Washington - Walked All Night 2:43
20. Ghostwriter - Preacher's Daughter 3:40
21. Esmerelda Strange - Que Viva La Chava 3:52
22. J. Marinelli - Lying In State 2:03
23. Big One Man Band - Too Much Bad In My Blood 3:08
24. Long Boy Larsen - When You're Far Away 2:32
25. Mississippi Grover - I'm Buried Alive 2:50
26. Twang Tango - Drinking Every Night 2:30
27. The Slow Poisoner - Purgatory Rock 2:26
28. Stringybark McDowell - Kyleeee 2:58
29. BBQ - Hang On 1:44
30. Jeffrey Novak - Nothing To Do 1:22
31. El Paso Hot Button - Snake Boy Lives in the Mississippi 2:51
32. Skip Jensen & His Shakin' Feet - Abscond 2:21
33. Guitar Fucker - F**k Me I'm Poor 2:43
34. Reverend Beat-Man - Bloddy F**king C**t 2:26
35. John Schooley - Rock'N'Roll Party With the One Man Band 1:39
36. The Fabulous Go-Go Boy from Alabama - You Got To Love 1:53
37. King Automatic - I Don't Give a F**k 2:16
38. Ottoboy the One Man Trash Band - Lo Ride 2:45
39. Reverend J. Brennan - The Lord Told Me You Got Fat 1:13
40. The Feeling of Love - Revenge 3:33
41. Urban Junior - Music for the Asses 3:16
42. The Limbs - Bad Anna 3:29
43. The Uncle Butcher - No Judge, No Trial 4:43
44. Junior Disorder - Angry Heart 1:35
45. Sheriff Perkins - Black Bowtie 1:39
46. Scott H. Biram - Plow You Under 3:03
47. Margaret Doll Rod - Who's Gonna Rub Me 1:47
48. Almighty Do Me A Favor - You're Wrong 1:46
49. Lone Bird - Business 2:15
50. Pete Yorko - Like Me 2:11
51. Johnny Lowebow - Little Darling 2:59
52. Reverend Deadeye - Hellfire Down 1:40
53. Rocket Craig - Alien Novelty Song 3:13
54. Mosquito Bandito - Laser Beams 2:10
55. O Lendario Chucrobillyman - Guitarra Missil 2:57
56. Amazing Elephant Man - Can't Go Outside 1:59
57. One Man Hand - So Alone 3:08
58. Johnny Cancer - Do Your Own Thing 3:51

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