The Supersonic Storybook
Urge Overkill
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | The Kids Are Insane | Urge Overkill | 2:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | The Candidate | Urge Overkill | 5:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | (Today Is) Blackie's Birthday | Urge Overkill | 3:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Emmaline | Urge Overkill | 5:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Bionic Revolution | Urge Overkill | 4:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | What Is Artane? | Urge Overkill | 3:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Vacation In Tokyo | Urge Overkill | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Henhough - The Greatest Story Ever Told | Urge Overkill | 5:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Theme from Navajo | Urge Overkill | 4:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Songs |
Album Review
With the addition of drummer Blackie Onassis, Urge Overkill shapes up into a killer rock & roll combo. It also doesn't hurt that the songs are the finest they have written to date. Although the production is a little flat, there's no denying the force of the best tracks. "The Candidate" boasts a huge, stadium-size riff, "The Kids Are Insane" is a frenzied, frenetic rocker, "Today Is Blackie's Birthday" is gleefully stupid, and the band is surprisingly sexy on the old soul song "Emmaline." Things bog down a bit on the second side, but Urge is starting to sound like the rock stars they always knew they were.
Recent Customer Reviews
One of 1991's best records
by Ben in AustinI bought this in 1991. They were bizarre for the scene at the time. Punk was at end of it's life. Bands like Fugazi were worshipped with their anti-rockstar, star anti-stadium mores. Not a lot of irony in the indie scene. These guys had a full-on ironic 5 year plan to be rock stars in the 70's deadent sense. When it didn't happened, they partied into self destruction. This is a great sounding record: the vocal recordings, the guitar sounds, the drums, amazing. Some great songs although the songs were so obtuse, maybe too ironic for the times, which didn't set well with the over-serious scene. You felt like UO was laughing at you for liking them. Some great sounds and a great record, too. Great to spin every once in a while. The Hot Chocolate cover is better than the original.
Overlooked and underrated
by bonaparte!Wow...UO is a "Sister Havana" one-hit wonder?! Uh, I don't think so. These guys already made some noise recording with Alibini & Vig before this record. Saw them open for Nirvana in '92 and, wow. Listen to "Vacation In Tokyo" and tell me it's not ahead of its time--that controlled surging feedback. "Emmaline" shimmers with a bluesey shuffle that accompanies Nash's smoky voice singing of abandonment. "Blackie's Birthday" chugs along brightly with a couple of chords celebrating UO's drummer. A great rock album
So hot
by gregluv9Really more of a four-star album, but there are at *least* four or five songs on here that make Sister Havana look like weak sauce. Funkier and groovier than UO stuff before it or after, the songs are all epic, spacious, and thundering at the same time. Blackie's not the tightest drummer, but dude can swing. Only thing that topped this album for me was the Barchlords/Generation Sub Pop single. Later stuff was good guitar pop, but this was when they still had some edge.
Biography
Formed: 1985
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '80s, '90s
Top Albums and Songs by Urge Overkill
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon | Stull EP | 3:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | What Is Artane? | The Supersonic Storybook | 3:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Emmaline | The Supersonic Storybook | 5:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Goodbye to Guyville | Stull EP | 4:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Stull (Part 1) | Stull EP | 5:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $8.91
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Adult Alternative
- Released: Mar 15, 1991
- ℗ 1991 Touch and Go Records
