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People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

AJJ

2007
People Who 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 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. The title is derived from a line in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Hocus Pocus[6] which itself is a reference to Barbra Streisand's song "People." 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." The album was recorded and mixed by Jalipaz Nelson at Audioconfusion in Mesa, Arizona. This was a change for the band which had primarily done home recordings previously. 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. The album artwork was illustrated by Ryan Piscitelli.

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Aug 13 2025
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I like punky folk-rock bands with well written lyrics. I think this niche in musical history started with bands like Violent Femmes and proceeded with Mountain Goats and Cat Power. They produce songs with a certain urgence that it only limited by the acoustic instruments. A feeling that can not be reproduced by a distorted electric guitar, because that sounds all too easy. This particular folk-rock album is also a great one with interesting lyrics. Best songs are "Rejoice", "Bad Bad Things" and "People". The only mistake is the unnecessary "Mrs. Robinson" part in "People II: The Reckoning" (while the rest of that song is not too bad).

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Aug 13 2025
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I really enjoyed this - had a very strong early-days Modest Mouse feel to me that clicked. And I’m a sucker for a glockenspiel. Good choice!

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Aug 14 2025
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This felt like if Neutral Milk Hotel made a punk album. The array of instruments, the singer with the average voice and long drawn out notes and the depth in lyricism all match. Except NMH were a bit more conceptual and AJJ was more song to song. It was okay but if I wanted to hear the tambourine and organ with a guitar this wouldn’t be my first choice. 6.0/10

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Aug 15 2025
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Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Bad bad things, Bells and whistles, Personal space invader

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Aug 13 2025
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Don't know what to say about this one. Silly?

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