Johnny Hobo And The Freight Trains

Johnny Hobo And The Freight Trains was a folk punk project helmed by Pat The Bunny (Pat Schneeweis) that were active from 2000 to 2007. They were mostly based out of Brattleboro, Vermont. I know I've covered two of Pat's other major projects, Wingnut Dishwashers Union and Ramshackle Glory, so while revisiting Love Songs For The Apocalypse, I figured it only fitting to include his first major project on here as well. Anybody familiar with Pat's other work is most likely familiar with this band, and if not they've got a pretty good idea of what to expect going into it. Songs about politics, religion, anarchism, alcoholism, drug abuse, isolation, homelessness, DIY and punk rock are his go-to topics, all of which are present in Johnny Hobo. He's got a penchant for writing quick-witted yet honest and vulnerable songs, all with four chords and vocals that demand to be shouted along to. On some recorded material, they utilized a variety of instruments, including drums, trumpets, and harmonicas, but when touring, it was mostly just Pat and an acoustic guitar.

There's a good chunk of material here, some with overlapping tracks, various compilations and live stuff, etc. so I've included some notes beneath a few of them as a guide to what's what. If you're just starting out though, their side of Love Songs For The Apocalypse is probably the best batch of songs. It's also included on the compilation Fight Like Hell, which also includes the majority of the tracks from various EPs. Caught In The Act Of Not Being Awesome and Live At Bandit H.Q. are probably their most popular live releases, both of which are worth your time. Enjoy.

Fire Hazard Demo (2003)

1. Skimming Bakunin

2. Church Hymn For The Condemned

3. Fuck The Dictionary

4. FLESREYLLIK

5. Only Two Of My Best Friends Are Actual People

6. Untitled

7. If By "Emo" You Mean "Drugs"

8. I'm So Punk I Hate Punk

9. Below Good And Evil

10. D.I.Y. Orgasms

11. Put Arsenic In The Frosting Next Time

Anarchy Means I Hate You (2003)

1. Only Two Of My Best Friends Are Actual People

2. Church Hymn For The Condemned

3. Fuck The Dictionary

4. D.I.Y. Orgasms

5. Below Good And Evil

6. I'm So Punk I Hate Punk

7. Put Arsenic In The Frosting Next Time

8. Untitled

9. PUNKROCKANARCHY

Easter Sunday Hangover EP (2005)

1. New Mexico Song

2. Fuck Cops

3. Not My Revolution (Oi! Oi! Oi!)

"All Power To The Wingnuts!" (2005)

1. "No Trespassing!" Waltz

2. Spraypaint And Alleyways

3. Crackhouse Song

Caught In The Act Of Not Being Awesome (2005)

1. New Mexico Song

2. Put Arsenic In The Frosting Next Time

3. Harmony Parking Lot

4. Election Song

5. Acid

6. Church Hymn For the Condemned

7. Whiskey Is My Kind Of Lullaby

8. D.I.Y. Orgasms

Note: Live album

Live At Bandit H.Q. (2005)

1. Captain Chaos - I Figured Out How I Feel About You

2. Captain Chaos - Figure 8

3. Captain Chaos - The Devil And My Grandpa

4. Captain Chaos - A Song For Tomorrow

5. Captain Chaos - I Dare You To Live Forever

6. Captain Chaos - Oh Sister

7. Captain Chaos - Up The Punks

8. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - New Mexico Song

9. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Election Song

10. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Church Hymn For The Condemned

11. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - D.I.Y. Orgasms

12. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - The Politics Of "Holy Shit I Just Cut My Hand On A Broken Bottle"

Love Songs For The Apocalypse (2005)

1. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - New Mexico Song

2. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Church Hymn For The Condemned

3. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Whiskey Is My Kind Of Lullaby

4. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Acid Song

5. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Election Song

6. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - I Want Cancer For Christmas

7. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Harmony Parking Lot Song

8. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - Untitled

9. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - D.I.Y. Orgasms

10. Mantits - The Extinction Of The Human Race

11. Mantits - Kicking Your Shins

12. Mantits - Fear Makes The World Go 'Round

13. Mantits - World War 3

14. Mantits - Righteous Indignation Saved The World

15. Mantits - Ode To Freedom

16. Mantits - Kill Me In My Sleep

17. Mantits - So Long To The Ice Cream Bars

18. Mantits - Bitter Hole In The Wall

Chaos Infiltration Squad (2006)

1. Free As The Rent We Don't Pay

2. Johnny Hobo Is Dead

3. Skaggy

4. Crackhouse Song

5. Tampa Bay Song

6. No Trespassing Waltz

7. Where Is My Coffee (Where Is It?)

Live 1-26-07 Cortland, NY (2007)

1. New Mexico Song (Part)

2. Free As The Rent We Don't Pay (Part)

3. Whiskey Is My Kind Of Lullaby

4. DIY Orgasms

5. Where Is My Coffee

6. Green St.

7. Wagon Wheel

8. Harmony Parking Lot Wheel

9. Acid Song

10. Color In Your Cheeks

11. Going To Georgia

12. This Year

13. Tampa Bay Song

14. Fuck Cops Intro, Into Skaggy

15. No Trespassing Waltz

16. Crackhouse Song

17. Sellout Song

Live At Double-A's (2007)

1. Free As The Rent We Don't Pay

2. (You Gotta Fight) For Your Right (To Party)

3. Harmony Parking Lot

4. Whiskey Is My Kind Of Lullaby

5. Acid Song

6. New Mexico Song

7. DIY Orgasms

8. Where Is My Coffee (Where Is It?)

Is Dead! (2007)

1. New Mexico Song

2. Put Arsenic In The Frosting Next Time

3. Harmony Parking Lot Song

4. Election Song

5. Acid Song

6. Church Hymn For The Condemned

7. Whiskey is My Kind Of Lullaby

8. D.I.Y. Orgasms

9. As Free As The Rent We Don't Pay

10. Sellout Song

11. Skaggy

12. Crackhouse Song

13. Tampa Bay Song

14. No Trespassing! Waltz

15. Where Is My Coffee? (Where Is It?)

Note: Includes Love Songs For The Apocalypse and Chaos Infiltration Squad

Fight Like Hell • Recordings From 2004-2007 (2019)

1. New Mexico Song

2. Church Hymn For The Condemned

3. Whiskey Is My Kind Of Lullaby

4. Acid Song

5. Election Song

6. I Want Cancer For Christmas

7. Harmony Parking Lot Song

8. Untitled

9. DIY Orgasms

10. **Previously Unreleased Demo**

11. No Trespassing Waltz

12. Spray Paint & Alleyways (Crackhouse Song)

13. Homebum Song

14. Fuck Cops

15. Not My Revolution (Oi! Oi! Oi!)

16. As Free As The Rent We Don't Pay

17. Skaggy

13. Tampa Bay Song

14. Where Is My Coffee? (Where Is It?)

15. Sellout Song

16. No Trespassing Waltz - alternate

17. **Fuck Cops-alternate version (digital only)

18. **New Mexico Song-demo (digital only)

19. ** New Mexico Song-demo #2 (digital only)

20. **Church Hymn For The Condemned-demo (digital only)

21. **Election Song-demo (digital only)

22. **Harmony Parking Lot Song-demo (digital only)

23. **D.I.Y. Orgasms-demo (digital only)

24. *​*​I Want Cancer For Christmas​-​demo (digital only)

25. **The Politics Of Holy Shit I Just Cut My Hand On A Broken Bottle

26. **No Trespassing Walts-demo (digital only)

Note: Includes Love Songs For The Apocalypse, All Power To The Wingnuts!, Easter Sunday Hangover EP, Chaos Infiltration Squad, and various demos

Wingnut Dishwashers Union

Wingnut Dishwashers Union was a folk-punk project started by Pat The Bunny in 2007 and disbanded in 2009. Pat The Bunny is a Brattleboro, Vermont-based (later on Tucson, Arizona) musician who known for his numerous projects, most notably Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains, Ramshackle Glory, some solo stuff, and of course, Wingnut Dishwashers Union, among other projects he's been involved in but not the central member of.

This band in particular was formed just after his first major (and arguably most well-known) project Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains. Though his first project featured numerous collaborators, Wingnut Dishwashers Union was a mostly solo effort, with occasional collaborations. Thus, most songs are just Pat's voice and acoustic guitar, or in other words, shouted words and slammed strings. His songs pretty much all revolve around being a burned out, strung out anarchist, but somehow still manage to be personable and relatable. Simply put, this is one of Pat's best projects, and the one that introduced me to him. I've meaning to upload some of his stuff for years at this point, so I'll make an effort to add more soon. Enjoy.

Towards A World Without Dishwashers! (2007)

1. Picking Sides

2. No Future

3. Stop Being So Cool And Get Silly

4. Jesus Does The Dishes

5. For A Girl I Met in Rhinelander, WI

6. Love Song

7. Sellout Song

8. Come On, Feel The Noise!

9. Ain't Nobody's Business (But My Own)

10. Smoke Bongs/Sing Songs, Lost At Sea!

Live In Plattsburgh, NY (2007)

1. Picking Sides

2. Reason To Breathe

3. Free And Alone

4. Jesus Does The Dishes

5. For A Girl In Rhinelander, WI

6. Pop Jam

7. Stop Being So Cool

8. Ain't Nobodies Business (But My Own)

Wingnut Dishwashers Union/James K. Polk And The Family Of Friends (2008)

1. Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Reason To Breathe

2. Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Free And Alone

3. Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Fuck Shit Up (Wa-na-na)

4. James K. Polk And The Family Of Friends - Pumble Bears Cloud Maker

5. James K. Polk And The Family Of Friends - Rusty Nave Blankly

Kalamazoo, MI 4/6/08 (2008)

1. Picking Sides

2. Reason To Breathe

3. Free And Alone

4. Jesus Does The Dishes

5. For A Girl In Rhinelander, WI

6. FM Bands

7. Just Because I Don't Say Anything (Doesn't Mean I Got Nothing to Say)

8. Ain't Nobodies Business (But My Own)

Never Trust A Man Who Plays Guitar! (2008)

1. Never Trust A Man (Who Plays Guitar)

2. Free And Alone

3. Fuck Shit Up! (Whananana)

4. Reason To Breathe

5. Do You Wanna Go To Party Town?

6. Alley Cat

7. Trash Rules Everything

8. Picking Sides

9. Love Song

10. Jesus Does The Dishes

11. No Future (Road Song)

12. For A Girl In Rhinelander, WI

13. Stop Being So Cool

14. Ain't Nobody's Business

15. Lost At Sea (Live w/ Saw)

Burn the Earth! Leave It Behind! (2009)

1. Proudhon In Manhattan

2. Never Trust A Man (Who Plays Guitar)

3. Fuck Shit Up! (Whanananananana)

4. Fuck Every Cop (Who Ever Did His Job)

5. Urine Speaks Louder Than Words

6. Picking Sides

7. Jesus Does the Dishes

8. Just Because I Don't Say Anything (Doesn't Mean I Got Nothing to Say)

9. For a Girl in Rhinelander, WI

10. My Idea of Fun