Track Listing
1. Jaywalkin'
2. Break, The
3. Need Some Air
4. Somebody Else's Body
5. Honesty Files
6. This Is No Place
7. Mistake, The
8. Take Me
9. View of the Rain
10. Last Night / Tomorrow
11. Tin Foil
12. Monopoly
13. And You'll Say
14. Digital Black Epilogue
| Details | | Producer: | Butcher Brothers | | Distributor: | Bayside Record Dist. | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Urge Overkill: Nash Kato (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Eddie "King" Roeser (vocals, guitar, bass); Blackie O. (vocals, drums, percussion).
Engineers: Phil Nicolo, Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo.
Recorded at Studio 4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
All songs written by Urge Overkill.
Urge Overkill's star-blinded climb up to rock's polyester throne culminates with EXIT THE DRAGON, another wide-collar, big-guitar lunge at the pop market. This band embodies the fast-car '70s of radio-ready rock and roll, not the drive-by grunge shoot-outs of '90s MTV. Urge Overkill are stuck in their very own time warp, and we love them for it.
Their Partridge Family gone bad riffs and sermonizing delivery on "Somebody Else's Body" are the AM boogie next to the tight, thug rock of "This Is The Place." The garagier, early-era Urge make an appearance on "Tin Foil," full of dripping distorted guitar; and the duet on "Digital Black Epilogue" embodies everything that makes them able to cover a Neil Diamond song (last year's soundtrack smash, "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon") with a straight face.
The album further proves that Urge Overkill are the lords of their long American car and three-martini lunch domain; EXIT THE DRAGON is, of course, their drive-in movie on that subject.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #38 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's 'Albums Of The Year.'
Melody Maker
Ranked #21 in NME's 'Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.
NME
7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...They're more Josie and the Pussycats than Spinal Tap--cartoon rock scouring the U.S.A. in their convertible searching for the perfect martini....EXIT THE DRAGON is a well-executed spin of the dial on a radio time machine...
Spin (08/01/1995)
...among the few [bands] to parlay its retrophilia into fresh and forward-thinking sound....EXIT is an album in the contemporary tradition of buoyant pop with serious, often dark lyrics....in general, Urge avoids getting mired in gloomy Generation X ennui...
Musician (11/01/1995)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...no-one could doubt its infectious aplomb and unmistakable majesty. Few albums have that lyrical twist and economic use of rhythm that make them instantly replayable, anthemic and easily defendable in a million pub arguments. EXIT THE DRAGON has it all...
Q (09/01/1995)
Recommended - ...For a while there, it seemed like their hearts were so well hidden behind an irony-clad facade....With EXIT THE DRAGON, the Urge have peeled off that psychic armour. Remorse and regret, bewilderment and loss loom large....It's the best thing they've ever done...
Melody Maker (08/19/1995)
9 (out of 10) - ...EXIT THE DRAGON marks the point where they cease being a cartoon band....Soul and psychedelic influences which have always underpinned their riffola are explicit this time....limping, strung out soul searchers...hit home...
NME (08/19/1995)
On their fifth album, Urge Overkill completely drop any alternative-rock pretenses and become what they've always aspired to be--successors to Grand Funk, the Guess Who, and other wonderfully cheese-ball AM-radio classic-rock bands... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (10/06/1995)
Recommended - ...For a while there, it seemed like their hearts were so well hidden behind an irony-clad facade....With EXIT THE DRAGON, the Urge have peeled off that psychic armour. Remorse and regret, bewilderment and loss loom large....It's the best thing they've ever done...
Melody Maker (08/19/1995)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...no-one could doubt its infectious aplomb and unmistakable majesty. Few albums have that lyrical twist and economic use of rhythm that make them instantly replayable, anthemic and easily defendable in a million pub arguments. EXIT THE DRAGON has it all...
Q (09/01/1995)
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