| Artist | the Verlaines |
|---|---|
| Cover | V-some_dis.jpg |
| Released | 1990 |
| Label | Flying Nun[1] |
| Prev year | 1987 |
| 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.
- "Jesus What a Jerk" - 2:37
- "The Funniest Thing" - 3:14
- "Whatever You Run Into" - 3:18
- "Faithfully Yours" - 3:43
- "Damn Shame" - 5:02
- "This Train" - 4:20
- "Down the Road" - 3:13
- "We're All Gonna Die" - 3:06
- "Anniversary" - 4:20
- "Come Sunday" - 4:01
- "It Was" - 2:27
References
- ^ "FN129 The Verlaines Some Disenchanted Evening (1990)". Flying Nun
- ^ "The Verlaines Biography & History". AllMusic
- ^ "The World Through a Whiskey Glass". Spin. Spin Media LLC. February 28, 1990.
- ^ "The Verlaines". AudioCulture
- ^ "Verlaines". Trouser Press
- ^ Schoemer, Karen (May 13, 1990). "Rock from New Zealand Inhabits Its Own Hemisphere". The New York Times