United Kingdom

01/01/1990

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All Music Guide 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

Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • Here They Roll Down
  • 4:12
  • 2
  • Dreamers of the Dream
  • 2:59
  • 3
  • Never Mind
  • 4:05
  • 4
  • United Kingdom
  • 4:20
  • 5
  • Dream Is Gone
  • 3:55
  • 6
  • Heaven of Your Hands
  • 3:01
  • 7
  • Kathleen
  • 2:20
  • 8
  • The Hula Maiden
  • 4:59
  • 9
  • Animal Pen
  • 3:20
  • 10
  • Firefly (*)
  • 2:49
  • 11
  • Somewhere (*)
  • 3:01
  • 12
  • Laughing Stock (*)
  • 4:17
  • 13
  • Lonely (*)
  • 2:42
  • 14
  • Pale and Skinny Girl (*)
  • 3:33
  • 15
  • Blue and Grey Shirt (*)
  • 3:33
  • 16
  • Bad Liquor (*)
  • 1:57
  • 17
  • Now You're Defeated (*)
  • 2:28
  • 18
  • Jenny (*)
  • 2:38
  • 19
  • Western Sky (*)
  • 3:28
  • 20
  • Highway 5 (*)
  • 3:49
  • 21
  • Last Harbor (*)
  • 4:35

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    Credits

    • Vudi
    • Guitar, Vocals, Accordion


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