#mark eitzel

[jt1674]

[unexpetedloveobjects]

Mark Eitzel singing What holds  the world  Together. 

The wind pulls me around And everything it touches turns weak An antique or an eyelash stuck in your cheek

The paper thin skin of a crowd chasing you Down a lost and dead-end trail With a guilt no alibi can curtail

The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowland's hair

Land ahoy I fill my weak lungs with this joy Dizzy on the deck hopin' that I'd last until we land With an envelope burning a hole in my hand

Bearing the names of the winners who walked away From the games that the slaves love to play To replace the air and the sea, leaving you no way to fly to me

The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowland's hair

Through the window, the warm summer air does a two-step I wish I could think of some way I could keep it And clear away the mission street in my head

That keeps this watery weariness in our bed and Sets up more windmills that all waste my time missing When it should just be your lips that I'm kissing

Don't tell me that you don't wanna hear The clock ticking on the shelf by our bed, oh it's so near Let the light turn green and leave us just like fear There's a light turnin' green leavin' us without a prayer

The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowland's hair

The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowland's hair

[onenakedfarmer]

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THROWBACK THURSDAY #42!- Mark Eitzel – Songs of Love Live (Demon)

Right as Eitzel’s band American Music Club (one of my all-time faves) were really taking off (well, I guess it depends on how you define taking off…for me they sure were) vocalist Mark Eitzel had a chance to a do a gig in London. This happened on 1/17/91 at a club called The Borderline (I’ve read that the last two songs on here were recorded in the Demon Records offices).

It’s just Eitzel and an acoustic guitar (and that uncanny, sharp wit) to, I’m guessing, an audience full of AMC lovers.

He plays a bunch of gorgeous versions of songs that had been on the previous albums Engine, California and United Kingdom (and even one or two from Everclear which had not been released quite yet).Oh and let’s not forget “Room Above the Club” from their debut, The Restless Stranger. 

Classics like opener “Firefly” (where in the middle of the song Eitzel quips “I’m always fucking this part up” with a chuckle), plus the moving “Outside This Bar,” the lovely “Western Sky,”  the haunting “Kathleen,” “the goofy “Crabwalk,”  the hilarious “Gary’s Song” and plenty more.

I played this obsessively when it came out and even now, thirty plus years later, it still gets plenty of play in my home. If you want to hear one of the finest songwriters of the 20th/21’s century then pick up a copy of this and listen to the beauty within.

Side note from back of cd: “Guitars loaned by Sean O’Hagan, Nick Haeffner and Harvey Williams”

www.markeitzel1.bandcamp.com

www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: American Music Club Mercury

After 1991's rapturously received Everclear (1991) made American Music Club critic's darlings, they signed with Reprise Records, and 1993's Mercury was their major label debut. Anyone who imagined the big label suits would buff off their emotional sharp edges turned out to be spectacularly wrong – producer Mitchell Froom only magnified the edgy atmospherics of their music, and Mark Eitzel's booze-fueled tragedies were never as powerful as on "Johnny Mathis's Feet" and "I've Been A Mess."

- Mark Deming

[profstrych9]

Mitchell Froom • Dopamine (Atlantic, 1998) “From Mitchell Froom - one of modern music's most innovative producers (Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega) and musicians (as a member of Latin Playboys) - comes a breathtaking debut album that finds the studio impresario creating an expansive yet intimate collection of cinematic soundscapes with the assistance of some of his most talented friends (Suzanne Vega, Sheryl Crow, Mark Eitzel, Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and Louie Perez, Soul Coughing's M. Doughty and others).” Tower Records #mitchellfroom #davidhidalgo #suzannevega #markeitzel #sherylcrow #mihohatori #mdoughty #stevedonnelly #louieperez #jerrystahl #romsexsmith #markfeldman #tchadblake #mysonicarchive #nowspinning #cdcollection (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4-QNRuJHf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Little bit of American Music Club for your morning

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The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowlands' hair

19 June 1930

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It’s that time of year again // poster by Brian Mello

[jt1674]

[bostonfly]

Since I heard American Music Club, I’ve considered Mark Eitzel to be one of the great songwriters of the last 30 years.

[imwhatiplay]

American Music Club & Mark Eitzel

AMC (1983-1995 e poi 2007, San Francisco, California, USA) Mark Eitzel (1959, Walnut Creek, California, USA)

Mark Eitzel è piuttosto alto, ha la barba, e da solo o con gli American Music Club è stato negli ultimi vent’anni uno dei cantautori più stimati e di culto della scena alternativa rock americana. Ultimamente ha avuto delle sbandate insostenibili anche per i fans più fedeli, come il disco di musica greca o quello affollato di rumori elettronici. Ci si consola con le vecchie canzoni.

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[thatrickmcginnis]

The band were touring their Mercury record and I was assigned to do some live shots by NOW magazine when they were in town. Being a fan, I talked showed up at soundcheck and talked them into a brief portrait session in the alleyway behind the club. If I had any ambitions toward having the band act out the enormous emotional service they were performing for me at the time, it certainly doesn't show in these photos. It would have been absurd to even ask. Mark Eitzel might have had his roots in punk rock, but AMC were a musically sophisticated group across all their lineups, up to the demands of Eitzel's melodramatic and often orchestral songs. I was a particular fan of guitarist Vudi and pedal steel player Bruce Kaphan, but I'm a big guitar geek. The second frame would be a merely serviceable promo handout; the one at the top is a more accurate snapshot of a band going about the wholly joyless ritual of having their photo taken by some local fanboy photog.

More here.   

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Bubblegum Lemonade- 'To Leave Is To Die A Little" single (Matinée)

We've heard a few songs already from Scottish indie pop musician Lawrence "Laz' McCluskey and hey, here's one more in preparation for his forthcoming LP Lawrence of Suburbia.

Once again Laz (and Sandra on backing vocals) creates these uplifting harmonies/melodies while the lyrical contact is fairly downbeat, which always makes for an interesting listen (Mark Eitzel was always really good at this).

This song is pretty ace (I think I hear some tambourines in there) and I love the cheeky album title as well. So I'm guessing that Lawrence of Suburbia is going to be a mighty fine listen all the way through (in addition to the BL album, Matinée also has forthcoming albums from Red Sleeping Beauty and Azure Blue as well...huzzah!).

www.matineerecordings.com