AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB California LP DEMON 1988 UK orig FIEND 134 MARK EITZEL
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AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
DAN PEARSON, MATT NORELLI, VUDI, TOM MALLON, MARK EITZEL, plus LISA DAVIS, BRUCE KAPHAN
Undervalued but critically acclaimed American group with brilliant, often downbeat melodies, and clever lyrics.Although chosen for its deliberately nondescript qualities, in retrospect the name American Music Club was the perfect moniker for the lauded San Francisco-based band led by singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel: over the course of nine acclaimed albums, the group tied together the disparate strands of the American musical fabric, rock, folk, country, punk, even lounge schmaltz, into a remarkably distinct and riveting whole, creating a brilliant and cohesive body of work dappled by moments of haunting beauty and impenetrable darkness.Although born in California, Eitzel spent his formative years in Great Britain and Ohio before returning to the Bay Area in 1980 with the punk band the Naked Skinnies. After the band's breakup, he founded American Music Club in 1983
"CALIFORNIA"tracklisting
Side A: FIREFLY - SOMWHERE - LAUGHINGSTOCK - LONELY
PALE SKINNY GIRL - BLUE AND GREY SHIRT
Side B: BAD LIQUOR - NOW YOU'RE DEFEATED - JENNY
WESTERN SKY - HIGHWAY - LAST HARBOR
1988 LP DEMON RECORDS FIEND 134MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER
THIS VERSION: Two pressing circles visible on labels around center hole.
Also exists a very similar release with only one ring around center hole.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 5 014757 031342
LABEL: DEMON - GREY LABEL w/RED RIM & LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Label Code: none
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) FIEND 134
Catalog on label: FIEND 134 (FIEND 134-A) / FIEND 134 (FIEND 134-B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): FIEND 134 A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): FIEND 134-B1
On labels: rim text reads "All rights......Made in England"
Produced & Recorded by Tom Mallon
Warner Bros Music Ltd/Bug Music
Issued under licence from Frontier Records, USA
? 1988 Frontier Records/Grifter Records
© 1988 Demon Records Ltd.
On Back Cover: Demon Records.......Manufactured in England ? & © 1988 Grifter Records............California
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With the erratic California, Mark Eitzel's songwriting skills blossom into full maturity. From the pedal steel-inflected opener "Firefly" to the luminous "Western Sky," the best of his compositions reveal uncommon depth and emotional heft: "Somewhere" cuts with the savage humor of a master storyteller, while "Blue and Grey Shirt," a memoir of a friend's AIDS-related death, is simply devastating. A number of the cuts don't work at all -- the muddy "Bad Liquor" is an indecipherable rant, while "Laughing Stock" is by-the-numbers melodrama -- but those that do are nothing short of transcendent...(AllMusic)
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