They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (October 2001) is the first album released by dance-punk

Dance-punk

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 band Liars

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. It was then released in 2002 by English label Blast First Records. It displays the band in their original line-up and having a more "classic" band set-up of singer (Angus Andrew), guitarist (Aaron Hemphill), bassist (Pat Noecker, currently in These Are Powers

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) and drummer Ron Alberton). It also showcases their original sound, which is a noisy, atonal version of dance-punk. They abandoned this style soon after, in favour of a more experimental and arty sound. The title of the album expresses their frustration of being lumped in with the other dance-punk bands and so called scene of the time. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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 covered the song "Mr. You're on Fire Mr.", which was released as a B-side of their single "Pin

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".

Track listing

1. "Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That" – 3:03
2. "Mr. You're on Fire Mr." – 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
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   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