I Am the Fun Blame Monster!

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I Am the Fun Blame Monster!
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 20, 2003 (Self release) & October 23, 2003 (Through FILMguerrero)
Recorded2003 Hot Water Bottle in Cornelius, Oregon
Genre
Length44:26
Label
Producer Menomena
Menomena chronology
I Am the Fun Blame Monster!
(2003)
Under an Hour
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 8.7/10 [3]
PopMatters [6]
Stylus Magazine B+ [2]
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I Am the Fun Blame Monster! is the debut album of the band Menomena. It was self-released on May 20, 2003 and made available exclusively through online retailer CD Baby. The CD was re-released by FILMguerrero in 2004, and then again by Barsuk/FILMguerrero in 2007. A white vinyl LP was released by FILMguerrero in 2005 that featured an origami design by band member Brent Knopf and hand screen printing/assembly by band member Danny Seim. The original run was limited to 500 copies, which sold out. FILMguerrero re-released the LP in 2007 on 180 gram vinyl, but without the intricate packaging. The title is an anagram for "The First Menomena Album."

Contents

On May 24, 2011, the album was reissued as a double album alongside a bonus DVD. The bonus material features 9 bonus tracks and rare footage of the band's appearances on Portland cable public-access television program The Sista Social Show, a live performance at Portland's Meow-Meow and music videos for the album tracks "Trigga Hiccups" and "Cough Coughing". [7]

Track listing

  1. "Cough Coughing" – 3:20
  2. "The Late Great Libido" – 4:59
  3. "E. Is Stable" – 5:17
  4. "Twenty Cell Revolt" – 4:05
  5. "Strongest Man in the World" – 5:35
  6. "Oahu" – 5:18
  7. "Trigga Hiccups" – 4:02
  8. "Rose" – 2:58
  9. "The Monkey's Back" – 8:52

Deluxe reissue

  1. "Shirt"
  2. "Crunka"
  3. "Let's All Unite!"
  4. "The Ladder"
  5. "Sepia"
  6. "Nebali"
  7. "Divad"
  8. "Tung Track"
  9. "Posh Isolation"

Accolades

PublicationListRankRef.
Pitchfork Top 50 Albums of 2003
32
[8]

Personnel

Menomena [3]

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