Put simply, Everclear is American Music Club's masterpiece. Benefiting immensely from improved production values, the album crystallizes the band's often erratic vision into a unified, endlessly complex whole. While the arrangements are typically diffuse -- "Crabwalk" is shambling ockabilly, "Royal Cafe" is sweet country-pop, and "Rise" is anthemic alt-rock -- there is a consistency of tone and a sense of place that runs through these songs that is absent from the band's other records. Similarly, Mark Eitzel's compositions achieve an uncommon emotional balance, never once slipping into pathos or melodrama; the atmospheric "Miracle on 8th Street" and "The Confidential Agent" offer cinéma vérité evocations of relationships at the breaking point, while the brute force of alcoholic laments like "Sick of Food" or the funereal "Why Won't You Stay" is staggering -- never before or since has this loser been quite so beautiful.
American Music Club - Everclear CDThe difficult fifth album. Recorded for another label and well overbudget, Everclear both suffers and excels for its production shortcomings. A thick wash of reverb has been thrown over the proceedings and songs are either hopelessly buried in the ambient sludge ("The Confidential Agent") or enhanced to supersonic glory ("Sick of Food"). Singer Mark Eitzel's l...
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American Music Club are one of the great San Francisco bands. They were indie before anyone really used that term.This track, "Rise," is very powerful, and is off Everclear.
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American Music Club - Everclear CDThe difficult fifth album. Recorded for another label and well overbudget, Everclear both suffers and excels for its production shortcomings. A thick wash of reverb has been thrown over the proceedings and songs are either hopelessly buried in the ambient sludge ("The Confidential Agent") or enhanced to supersonic glory ("Sick of Food"). Singer Mark Eitzel's l...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Why Won't You Stay |
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| 2 Rise |
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| 3 Miracle on 8th Street |
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| 4 Ex-Girlfriend |
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| 5 Crabwalk |
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| 6 The Confidential Agent |
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| 7 Sick of Food |
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| 8 The Dead Part of You |
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| 9 Royal Cafe |
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| 10 What the Pillar of Salt Held Up |
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| 11 Jesus' Hands |
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