U-Men
U-MenLPA
- Blight
- Flowers DGIH
- Shoot 'em Down
- Gila
- Trouble Under Water
LPB
- Mystery Pain
- Last Lunch
- Clubs
- The Fumes
- Cow Rock
LPC
- Green Trumpet
- A Year and a Day
- Ten After One
- They!
- U-Men Stomp
LPD
- Solid Action
- Dig It a Hole
- Whistlin'Pete
- 2 X 4
- A Three Year Old Could Do That
LPE
- Juice Party
- Flea Circus
- Too Good to Be Food
- Willie Dong Hurts Dogs
- Papa Doesn't Love His Children Anymore
LPF
- Pay the Bubba
- Freezebomb
- That's Wild About Jack
- Bad Little Woman
- Selfish
This set collects the entire studio-recorded output of the U-Men, remastered, plus 5 unreleased songs, with 16 pages of photos, liner notes and interviews with the band. The set has been remastered and executive-produced by Jack Endino. From 1983 to 1987, the U-Men were the undisputed kings of the Seattle Underground. No one else came close. They ruled a bleak backwater landscape populated by maybe 200 people. They were the only band that could unify the disparate sub-subcultures and get all 200 of those people to fill a room. Sub Pop co-founder, Bruce Pavitt released the first record by the U-Men, a 4-song 12” EP on Bombshelter Records. By the time they had recorded songs for another record, Bruce was too broke to release it on his proto-Sub Pop label, so he hooked them up with Gerard Cosloy at Homestead Records. They also recorded their one full-length album, Step on a Bug, for Black Label which was run out of Fallout Records. The U-Men effortlessly blended The Sonics, Link Wray, Pere Ubu, and Captain Beefheart. Their shows were loose-limbed, drunken dance parties and no two shows were alike. The U-Men were avant garage explorers. Words by Mark Arm.