Americruiser

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Field	Value
name	Americruiser
type	studio
artist	Urge Overkill
cover	Urge Overkill - Americruiser.jpg
released	1990
genre	Indie rock
length	26:53
label	Touch and Go
producer	Butch Vig
prev_title	Jesus Urge Superstar
prev_year	1989
next_title	The Supersonic Storybook
next_year	1991
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| name = Americruiser | type = studio | artist = Urge Overkill | cover = Urge Overkill - Americruiser.jpg | alt = | released = 1990 | recorded = | studio = | genre = Indie rock | length = 26:53 | label = Touch and Go | producer = Butch Vig | prev_title = Jesus Urge Superstar | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = The Supersonic Storybook | next_year = 1991 |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = |rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |rev2score = |rev3 = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |rev3score = |rev4 = Spin Alternative Record Guide |rev4score = 5/10 Americruiser is the second album by American alternative rock group Urge Overkill, released in 1990.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Butch Vig's production of Americruiser ... cleans the sound up enough to reveal the thin strings, clunky tempos and weak hooks holding the songs together." Spin called the album "relentlessly hard and fast, but ... never murky." The Rough Guide to Rock wrote that "the songs had improved ... perhaps because they seemed less desperate to impress as comic narratives."

Track listing

All songs written by Nash Kato and Eddie "King" Roeser.

1. "Ticket to L.A." – 2:16
2. "Blow Chopper" – 3:11
3. "76 Ball" – 2:59
4. "Empire Builder" – 4:11
5. "Faroutski" – 3:20
6. "Viceroyce" – 2:59
7. "Out on the Airstrip" – 4:08
8. "Smoke House" – 3:49

Personnel

• Eddie "King" Roeser – lead vocals, bass guitar, guitars
• Nash Kato – guitars, vocals (lead: tracks 4 and 7)
• Jack "Jaguar" Watt – drums

References

References

1. "Americruiser | Urge Overkill | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records".
2. "Urge Overkill".
3. "Americruiser – Urge Overkill | Songs, Reviews, Credits".
4. (2006). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". MUZE.
5. (2004). "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide". Simon & Schuster.
6. (1995). "Spin Alternative Record Guide". Vintage Books.
7. "Urge Overkill | Biography & History".
8. "URGE OVERKILL".
9. "Urge Overkill".
10. (November 24, 1990). "Spins". SPIN Media LLC.
11. (1999). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides Ltd.

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