Americruiser Explained

Americruiser
Type:	studio
Artist:	Urge Overkill
Cover:	Urge Overkill - Americruiser.jpg
Released:	1990
Genre:	Indie rock
Length:	26:53
Label:	Touch and Go^[1]
Producer:	Butch Vig^[2]
Prev Title:	Jesus Urge Superstar
Prev Year:	1989
Next Title:	The Supersonic Storybook
Next Year:	1991

Americruiser is the second album by American alternative rock group Urge Overkill, released in 1990.^{[3] [4]}

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."^[5] Spin called the album "relentlessly hard and fast, but ... never murky."^[6] The Rough Guide to Rock wrote that "the songs had improved ... perhaps because they seemed less desperate to impress as comic narratives."^[7]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Americruiser | Urge Overkill | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records. www.touchandgorecords.com.
2. Web site: Urge Overkill. www.furious.com.
3. Web site: Urge Overkill | Biography & History. AllMusic.
4. Web site: URGE OVERKILL. chicagotribune.com.
5. Web site: Urge Overkill . Trouser Press . 24 February 2021.
6. Web site: Spins. SPIN. November 24, 1990. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.
7. Book: The Rough Guide to Rock . 1999 . Rough Guides Ltd . 1047 . 2nd.