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Caught the Blast by Party Of One
Caught the Blast is an album by Party Of One, released in 2003. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Shotgun Funeral”, on 1 list with a best position of #24.
Caught the Blast, Party of One's first full-length, came out on FatCat Records on May 27, 2003, and it's a sour little firecracker out of Minneapolis. Singer, guitarist and songwriter Eric Fifteen leads the trio through confrontational, gloomy, oddly naive songs that are punk more by ancestry than by sound, scrappy and lo-fi and cheerfully miserable about it. "Shotgun Funeral" came out as a single ahead of the album, and "Snap You Like a Twig" kicks it off.
Reviews ran mostly warm. Robert Christgau, writing in the Village Voice, liked how much fun the band had with its own negativity, and PopMatters' Terry Sawyer rated it among the best records he'd heard that year, later calling Fifteen a sulky, people-hating presence on stage. Drowned in Sound's reviewer went for "Snap You Like a Twig" too, hearing Pavement and Ween in it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Caught the Blast on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shotgun Funeral | 1 | #24 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.