American Music Club - United Kingdom

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Album Details

Title: United Kingdom
Artist: American Music Club
Release Date: 1990
Re-Released On: 4/25/1995
Label: Demon Midprice
Duration: 72:01
Album Type(s): live, lyrics/libretto
UPCs: 014757031514, 5014757071515, 5014757075025, 501475707502
Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Slowcore, Sadcore
Moods: Sardonic, Acerbic, Angst-Ridden, Bittersweet, Brooding, Cerebral, Cynical/Sarcastic, Earnest, Gloomy, Literate, Melancholy, Plaintive, Poignant, Reflective, Sad, Wistful, Witty, Wry, Autumnal, Somber, Cathartic
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 5
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

Here They Roll Down
Dreamers of the Dream
Never Mind
United Kingdom
Dream Is Gone
Heaven of Your Hands
Kathleen
The Hula Maiden
Animal Pen
Firefly [*]
Somewhere [*]
Laughing Stock [*]
Lonely [*]
Pale and Skinny Girl [*]
Blue and Grey Shirt [*]
Bad Liquor [*]
Now You're Defeated [*]
Jenny [*]
Western Sky [*]
Highway 5 [*]
Last Harbor [*]

Additional Releases

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
1995	CD	Demon Midprice	2

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Album Review

American Music Club's first indisputably great album, the import-only United Kingdom is also the band's most spare and unsettling work. Originally conceived as a collection of site-specific songs (hence the opener, "Here They Roll Down," which samples the sounds of a freeway off-ramp), the LP instead cobbles together leftover material and live tracks which fuse together into a remarkably cohesive and balanced whole. Among the highlights: "Heaven in Your Hands" ranks firmly as one of Mark Eitzel's most beautiful and unguarded love songs, while the lounge-flavored "Hula Maiden" finds the singer at his most perversely comic; the solo acoustic "Never Mind" details an emotional free-fall, while on the lush "Dreamers of the Dream," Eitzel clings to one of the record's few rays of hope as though his life depended on it. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Credits

Name	Credits
American Music Club	Arranger
Bruce Kaphan	Pedal Steel
Charlie Gillingham	Piano
Cry Bytof	Engineer
Dan Pearson	Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass
Lisa Davis	Bass
Mark Eitzel	Guitar, Vocals
Mike Simms	Drums
Tom Mallon	Engineer, Producer, Bass, Drums
Vudi	Vocals, Guitar, Accordion