Some Disenchanted Evening Explained

Some Disenchanted Evening
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Verlaines
Cover:	V-some_dis.jpg
Released:	1990
Label:	Flying Nun Records^[1]
Prev Title:	Juvenilia
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Ready To Fly
Next Year:	1991

Some Disenchanted Evening is an album by The Verlaines.^{[2] [3]} It was released in 1990 on Flying Nun Records.^[4]

Critical reception

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."^[5] 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."^[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Graeme Downes, except where noted.

1. "Jesus What a Jerk" - 2:37
2. "The Funniest Thing" - 3:14
3. "Whatever You Run Into" - 3:18
4. "Faithfully Yours" - 3:43
5. "Damn Shame" - 5:02
6. "This Train" - 4:20
7. "Down The Road" - 3:13
8. "We're All Gonna Die" - 3:06
9. "Anniversary" - 4:20
10. "Come Sunday" - 4:01
11. "It Was" - 2:27

Notes and References

1. Web site: FN129 The Verlaines - Some Disenchanted Evening (1990). Flying Nun.
2. Web site: The Verlaines | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Web site: The World Through a Whiskey Glass. SPIN. February 28, 1990. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.
4. Web site: The Verlaines - AudioCulture. www.audioculture.co.nz.
5. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Verlaines. www.trouserpress.com.
6. News: RECORDINGS; Rock From New Zealand Inhabits Its Own Hemisphere. Karen. Schoemer. The New York Times . May 13, 1990. NYTimes.com.