| 13-Point Program to Destroy America | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Nation of Ulysses |
| Cover: | 13 Point Program.jpg |
| Released: | July 1, 1991 |
| Recorded: | January 1991, Inner Ear, Washington, D.C. |
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| Length: | 39:06 |
| Label: | Dischord[2] |
| Producer: | Ian MacKaye[3] |
| Next Title: | Plays Pretty for Baby |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
13-Point Program to Destroy America is the debut album by the American post-hardcore band Nation of Ulysses.[4] [5] The album's title is in reference to the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program and J. Edgar Hoover's propaganda pamphlet "Red China's Secret Plan to Destroy America."[6] The title of track #13 was inspired by Frank Sinatra's album Love is a Kick.
Tracks 14-16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from their 1991 self-titled 7" debut.
Trouser Press wrote that "singer Ian Svenonius (who doubles on occasional bleating trumpet) has a deeper, throaty quality to his delivery than most DC-style barkers — not quite a Stax/Volt Rollins but a striking combination of ardor and menace that elevates his breathless rage above mere harangue."[7] The Washington Post called the album "so brattily self-conscious that only the ferocity of its attack keeps it from curdling."[8]