Some Disenchanted Evening
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Label | Flying Nun Records[1] | |||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Some Disenchanted Evening is an album by The Verlaines.[4][5] It was released in 1990 on Flying Nun Records.[6]
Critical reception
[edit]Trouser Press wrote that "the album’s coda, a piano ballad styled after Randy Newman, is actually the collection’s crowning achievement; harnessing a dapper melody to a bitterly sardonic lyric about failure, it reveals new-found subtlety and clarity in [Graeme] Downes’ writing."[7] The New York Times called the album "full of complex melodic variations, crescendos and elegant tempo shifts; the music has the theatrical grandeur of a symphony within the confines of rock."[8]
Track listing
[edit]All songs written by Graeme Downes, except where noted.
- "Jesus What a Jerk" - 2:37
- "The Funniest Thing" - 3:14
- "Whatever You Run Into" - 3:18
- "Faithfully Yours" - 3:43
- "Damn Shame" - 5:02
- "This Train" - 4:20
- "Down The Road" - 3:13
- "We're All Gonna Die" - 3:06
- "Anniversary" - 4:20
- "Come Sunday" - 4:01
- "It Was" - 2:27
References
[edit]- ^ "FN129 The Verlaines - Some Disenchanted Evening (1990)". Flying Nun.
- ^ Some Disenchanted Evening at AllMusic
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 423.
- ^ "The Verlaines | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "The World Through a Whiskey Glass". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. 28 February 1990 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Verlaines - AudioCulture". www.audioculture.co.nz.
- ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Verlaines". www.trouserpress.com.
- ^ Schoemer, Karen (13 May 1990). "RECORDINGS; Rock From New Zealand Inhabits Its Own Hemisphere". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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