People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World

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People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2007
Studio Audioconfusion in Mesa, Arizona [1]
Genre
Length25:17
Label Asian Man Records
Andrew Jackson Jihad chronology
Candy Cigarettes & Cap Guns
(2005)
People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World
(2007)
Only God Can Judge Me
(2008)

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People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World [lower-alpha 1] is the second studio album by American folk punk band Andrew Jackson Jihad. The album was released by Asian Man Records on September 11, 2007.

Contents

Production

The title is derived from a line in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Hocus Pocus [3] which itself is a reference to Barbra Streisand's song "People." [4] Sean Bonnette, AJJ's frontman and co-founder, told the Phoenix New Times the band was "heavily into Kurt Vonnegut Jr. at the time of the recording." [3]

The album was recorded and mixed by Jalipaz Nelson at Audioconfusion in Mesa, Arizona. [1] This was a change for the band which had primarily done home recordings previously. [3]

Ten years after its release, Ben Gallaty, AJJ's bassist and co-founder, observed the album's tempo was "really fucking fast" and that they "rarely had a spare moment in a song," especially when compared to the band's subsequent music. [3]

The album artwork was illustrated by Ryan Piscitelli. [4]

"People Ii: The Reckoning" features an interpolation of Simon and Garfunkel's song "Mrs. Robinson," and "Survival Song" features lyrics from Woody Guthrie’s "Do Re Mi."

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty; all music is composed by Andrew Jackson Jihad

No.TitleLength
1."Rejoice"3:15
2."Brave as a Noun"1:14
3."Survival Song"2:28
4."Bad Bad Things"1:59
5."No More Tears"1:02
6."Bells & Whistles"1:28
7."Randy's House"1:23
8."A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit"3:04
9."People Ii: The Reckoning"4:08
10."Personal Space Invader"2:59
11."People"2:17
Total length:25:17

Personnel

Andrew Jackson Jihad

Additional Personnel

Notes

  1. Though the title is incorrectly listed as People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World on the original cover art, the album's subsequent pressings actually use Who, not That.

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References

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  2. "Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World". April 25, 2008. Retrieved January 13, 2021 via punknews.org.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Young, Amy (August 16, 2017). "10 Years Later, A Look Back at AJJ's People Who Eat People..." Phoenix New Times . Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Aguilera, Selena (September 12, 2017). "AJJ's Sean Bonnette talks sophomore record's ten year anniversary tour". Detroit Metro Times . Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2020.