They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top

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They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 30, 2001
RecordedJune 30–July 1, 2001
Genre
Length51:32
Label Gern Blandsten, Blast First
Liars chronology
They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
(2001)
Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like
(2002)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press 8/10 [3]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 8/10 [7]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [11]

They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top is the first album by dance-punk band Liars. The album was first released on October 30, 2001, by Gern Blandsten Records and later re-released in 2002 by English label Blast First. It displays the band in its original line-up with singer Angus Andrew, guitarist Aaron Hemphill, bassist Pat Noecker (currently in These Are Powers), and drummer Ron Albertson.

Underworld's album Beaucoup Fish (1999) was credited by Angus Andrew as the foremost influential album on They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top. [12]

The album received positive reviews from publications such as AllMusic and Pitchfork Media , which cemented the band's place in recent American music. [2] [8] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a two-star honorable mention rating and remarked: "Not a bad trick—tension-and-release that never lets go." [13] The Yeah Yeah Yeahs covered the song "Mr. Your on Fire Mr.", which was released as a B-side of their single "Pin".

Track listing

  1. "Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That" – 3:03
  2. "Mr. Your on Fire Mr." [2] [14] – 2:27
  3. "Loose Nuts on the Veladrome" – 2:19
  4. "The Garden Was Crowded and Outside" – 2:44
  5. "Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Debris with ESG" – 4:05 (vocal cover of an ESG song)
  6. "Nothing Is Ever Lost or Can Be Lost My Science Friend" – 3:03
  7. "We Live NE of Compton" – 3:01
  8. "Why Midnight Walked But Didn't Ring Her Bell" – 0:51
  9. "This Dust Makes That Mud" – 30:07

The LP version of "This Dust Makes That Mud" is approximately 8:30 and ends in a locked groove; the CD version goes to 8:05, digitally loops the same two-bar phrase until 30:00, and then simulates slowing to a stop.

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