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Menomena Discography of CDs
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Friend And Foe CD (2007)
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By the end of the piece, there's a kind of intentional and practiced chaos in the interplay between the voices and the instruments, but it's never loud or out-of-control. It's a nice contrast, the lighter keyboards and almost nasally indie rock vocals (which all three members share) against the pounding drums and ominous saxophone. Though Menomena often peg themselves as an experimental band, and to some extent very much are an experimental band -- they create most of their songs using a homemade computer program that loops their instrumental riffs until they come up with something whole -- especially in the rhythm section, where the bass and drums play off one another intricately, blending punk- and funk-inspired beats with more straightforward rock emphases, they also have a delicate sense of melody and composition that balances these heavier underpinnings and makes the band rather poppy at times. "Air Aid" begins with a "Kashmir"-inspired bassline, accented by xylophones and electric guitars and programmed percussion, but it's headed by softer, introspective vocals that, strangely enough, closely resemble Trey Anastasio's. Musically, there's a lot happening on Friend and Foe, their first release with Barsuk -- different bits entering and exiting -- but it's not overwhelming or pretentious, because the band knows what it takes to create a song, and so they can then deconstruct its more typical notions and rebuild it into something that, while it may have recognizable and approachable parts, is more unconventional. Instead, it's exciting and complex but still absolutely accessible, still catchy and poppy.
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I Am The Fun Blame Monster! CD (2004)
$12.15 
The Portland trio that comprises Menomena calls its first album I Am the Fun Blame Monster!, which is an anagram for "the first Menomena album." That kind of joke is typical of a band that packages the disc in a
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Under An Hour CD (2006)
$11.75
Under an Hour was originally composed as one-time accompaniment for a modern dance performance at Portland, OR's Time-Based Art Festival in September, 2004. But after working on the composition for up to eight months, Menomena's three members decided to commit
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Wet And Rusting CD (2007) Extended Play
$8.09
As the Muppet-themed reference in their name suggests, Portland, Oregon's Menomena have always had a smiley face at the core of their computer-derived experimentalism. Marrying odd rhythmic loops to vocal whimsies has long been their stock in trade.
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Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Menomena Songs
Popular or famous Menomena music songs: Air Aid, Boyscout'n, Evil Bee, Ghostship, My My, Pelican, Rotten Hell, Running, Weird, West, Muscle 'N Flow. More music songs Wet & Rusting, Gay A, Polo, Walking, Wet and Rusting, Cough Coughing, E Is Stable, Late Great Libido, Monkey's Back.
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