Track Listing 1. Ticket to L.A. 2. Blow Chopper 3. 76 Ball 4. Empire Builder 5. Faroutski 6. Viceroyce 7. Out on the Airstrip 8. Smokehouse 9. God Flintstone 10. Very Sad Trousers 11. Your Friend Is Insane 12. Dump Dump Dump 13. Last Train to Heaven 14. Polaroid Doll, The 15. Head On 16. Crown of Laffs 17. Dubbledead 18. Easter '88 19. Wichita Lineman - (bonus track) 20. Eggs
| Details | | Producer: | Butch Vig | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The CD version of AMERICRUISER also contains the JESUS URGE SUPERSTAR LP and the "Wichita Lineman" single. The cassette version contains only the AMERICRUISER LP. Urge Overkill: National Kato, King Roeser, Jack "Jaguar" Watt. Recorded at Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin. All songs written by King Roeser and National Kato except "Wichita Lineman" (Jim Webb). Before they were the wide-collared embodiment of the '70s rock super-id in the post-grunge nation, Urge Overkill were as garagey as most of their '80s neighbors in the indie-mill. The CD issue of AMERICRUISER/JESUS URGE SUPERSTAR, their first two full-length releases, shows off this hard-rocking side of the band. For those who only jumped on the Urge bandwagon with the inclusion of "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon" on the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack, it might prove to be a shock. The start-stop riffing on even the most bombastic track of the collection, "Empire Builder," exudes a low-brow, malt liquor feel that was Urge's norm, before the leisure-suit-and-martini image the band began exhibiting in the nineties took hold. The backwoods stomp behind "Smoke House" is also indicative of early-era Urge, giving a gnarlier, sweatier feel to their punch of power chords. But the Chicago trio's flair for rock and roll melodrama already emerges. The emotive wailing behind "Head On" and "Out On The Airstrip" proves that once their chops solidified, and once the distortion came to be known as production (provided by alterna-uber-producer, Butch Vig), Urge Overkill's flamboyance would shine through.
Editorial Reviews ...relentlessly hard and fast but never murky....a punk-rock ELIMINATOR...reasserts the paradigm of album-as-racing-car... Spin (11/01/1990)
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