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1990 studio album by The Verlaines
Some Disenchanted Evening
Studio album by The Verlaines
Released1990
LabelFlying Nun Records
The Verlaines chronology
Juvenilia
(1987) 		Some Disenchanted Evening
(1990) 		Ready To Fly
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Some Disenchanted Evening is an album by The Verlaines. It was released in 1990 on Flying Nun Records.

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 Downes’ writing." 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."

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

References

  1. "FN129 The Verlaines - Some Disenchanted Evening (1990)". Flying Nun.
  2. Some Disenchanted Evening at AllMusic
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 423.
  4. "The Verlaines | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. "The World Through a Whiskey Glass". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. 28 February 1990 – via Google Books.
  6. "The Verlaines - AudioCulture". www.audioculture.co.nz.
  7. "TrouserPress.com :: Verlaines". www.trouserpress.com.
  8. 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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