Americruiser
| Americruiser | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 26:53 | |||
| Label | Touch and Go[1] | |||
| Producer | Butch Vig[2] | |||
| Urge Overkill chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 5/10[6] |
Americruiser is the second album by American alternative rock group Urge Overkill, released in 1990.[7][8]
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote: "Butch Vig's production of Americruiser ... cleans the sound up enough to reveal the thin strings, clunky tempos and weak hooks holding the songs together."[9] Spin called the album "relentlessly hard and fast, but ... never murky."[10] The Rough Guide to Rock wrote that "the songs had improved ... perhaps because they seemed less desperate to impress as comic narratives."[11]
Track listing
All songs written by Nash Kato and Eddie "King" Roeser.
- "Ticket to L.A." – 2:16
- "Blow Chopper" – 3:11
- "76 Ball" – 2:59
- "Empire Builder" – 4:11
- "Faroutski" – 3:20
- "Viceroyce" – 2:59
- "Out on the Airstrip" – 4:08
- "Smoke House" – 3:49
Personnel
- Eddie "King" Roeser – lead vocals, bass guitar, guitars
- Nash Kato – guitars, vocals (lead: tracks 4 and 7)
- Jack "Jaguar" Watt – drums
References
- ^ "Americruiser | Urge Overkill | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records". www.touchandgorecords.com.
- ^ "Urge Overkill". www.furious.com.
- ^ "Americruiser – Urge Overkill | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 359.
- ^ The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 838.
- ^ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 421.
- ^ "Urge Overkill | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "URGE OVERKILL". chicagotribune.com.
- ^ "Urge Overkill". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ "Spins". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. November 24, 1990 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). Rough Guides Ltd. 1999. p. 1047.