United Kingdom

• Artist: American Music Club
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1990
• Total Time: 72:01
• Type: Live, Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

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

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Here They Roll Down	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(4:12)
Dreamers of the Dream	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(2:59)
Never Mind	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(4:05)
United Kingdom	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(4:20)
Dream Is Gone	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:55)
Heaven of Your Hands	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:01)
Kathleen	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(2:20)
The Hula Maiden	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(4:59)
Animal Pen	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:20)
Firefly [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(2:49)
Somewhere [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:01)
Laughing Stock [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(4:17)
Lonely [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(2:42)
Pale and Skinny Girl [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:33)
Blue and Grey Shirt [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:33)
Bad Liquor [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(1:57)
Now You're Defeated [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(2:28)
Jenny [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(2:38)
Western Sky [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:28)
Highway 5 [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(3:49)
Last Harbor [*]	Mark Eitzel	American Music Club	(4:35)

Credits

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

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