Some Disenchanted Evening
Studio album by
The Verlaines
Released1990
LabelFlying Nun Records[1]
The Verlaines chronology
Juvenilia
(1987)		 Some Disenchanted Evening
(1990)		 Ready To Fly
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Some Disenchanted Evening is an album by The Verlaines.[4][5] It was released in 1990 on Flying Nun Records.[6]

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."[7] 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."[8]

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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