#mark eitzel

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[thekylemeredith]

“People would say, ‘Why don’t you just rock?’”

Mark Eitzel joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the rise and fall (and rise again) of American Music Club

https://www.lpm.org/music/2019-02-18/mark-eitzel-goes-back-to-american-music-clubs-united-kingdom-san-francisco

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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

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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

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[thekylemeredith]

Tonight: Mark Eitzel stops by to talk about some of American Music Club’s most iconic albums—melancholy has never sounded so good.

Plus, visits from Velvet Crush and Chris Casper, a Rocky Horror favorite, and the story behind the I Dream of Jeannie theme. 6p ET on WFPK—tune in, or blink and miss it.

[bostonfly]

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

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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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Top 10 Spotify: American Music Club

Top 10 Spotify: Mark Eitzel

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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