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░ █ ▀█ TiTLE...[ Live in Berlin █▀ █ ░
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█ █▓░█ Recorded March 4th 2008, Columbia Club Berlin. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ 1. Hello Amsterdam █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 2. Blue And Grey Shirt █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 3. The Revolving Door █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 4. All My Love █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 5. Another Morning █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 6. Home █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 7. The Sleeping Beauty █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 8. The Stars █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 9. The Decibels And The Little Pills █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 10. Windows On The World █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 11. Western Sky █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 12. Johnny MathisÆ Feet █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 13. All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 14. JesusÆ Hands █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 15. Wish The World Away █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Biography by Jason Ankeny █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Although chosen for its deliberately nondescript █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ qualities, in retrospect the name American Music Club █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ was the perfect moniker for the lauded San █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Francisco-based band led by singer/songwriter Mark █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Eitzel: over the course of nine acclaimed albums, the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ group tied together the disparate strands of the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ American musical fabric -- rock, folk, country, punk, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ even lounge schmaltz -- into a remarkably distinct █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and riveting whole, creating a brilliant and cohesive █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ body of work dappled by moments of haunting beauty █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and impenetrable darkness. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Although born in California, Eitzel spent his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ formative years in Great Britain and Ohio before █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ returning to the Bay Area in 1980 with the punk band █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the Naked Skinnies. After the band's breakup, he █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ founded American Music Club in 1983 with guitarist █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Vudi (born Mark Pankler), bassist Dan Pearson, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ keyboardist Brad Johnson, and drummer Matt Norelli. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Despite the skill and diversity of the other members, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Eitzel quickly became the group's focal point: an █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ evocative vocalist and gutter poet capable of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ composing songs of disquieting honesty and intensity, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ he was also frequently the band's worst enemy -- a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ heavy drinker since the age of 16, AMC shows often █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ disintegrated into surreal backdrops for Eitzel's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ alcoholic rants and self-destructive showmanship, and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ throughout the group's tumultuous career, his erratic █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ behavior led him to briefly exit their ranks on █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ numerous occasions. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Still, Eitzel quelled his demons long enough for AMC █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to record their 1985 debut, The Restless Stranger; █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ later disowned by the group, the album does offer a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ rough outline of their increasingly eclectic sound, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and firmly established Eitzel's world view, a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ harrowing vision of life as seen through the bottom █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of a shot glass. 1987's Engine honed the formula: the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ addition of producer Tom Mallon as a full-time member █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ expanded the group's sonic palette, while Eitzel's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ songs achieved new levels of intimacy as compositions █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ like "Outside This Bar" and "Gary's Song" grappled █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ with the realities of the drinking life. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ While American Music Club languished in obscurity in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ their native country, they earned a solid European █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ cult following on the strength of 1988's California, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ a frequently brilliant collection highlighted by the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ shimmering country and folk accouterments which █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ couched fractured love songs like "Firefly" and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ "Western Sky"; "Blue and Grey Shirt," Eitzel's most █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ heartfelt and powerful composition to date, was the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ first in a series of devastating chronicles of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ friends lost to the AIDS epidemic. Still, the album █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ garnered little notice, and their next LP, 1989's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ United Kingdom, appeared only in the nation which █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ lent the record its name: another superb collection █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ drawing on leftover material and live tracks, it █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ featured "The Hula Maiden," the first recorded fruits █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of Eitzel's growing fascination with lounge crooning. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ After a solo acoustic Eitzel release, 1991's Songs of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Love, American Music Club emerged with its █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ masterpiece, Everclear, a remarkable song cycle █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ released to phenomenal critical acclaim (and the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ usual negligible commercial interest). Still, the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ lavish praise heaped on Everclear (named in honor of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ a vicious, 180-proof transparent liquor) finally made █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the major labels take notice, and a bidding war █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ ensued. After months of negotiations, AMC -- now █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ consisting of Eitzel, Vudi, Pearson, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ multi-instrumentalist Bruce Kaphan, and drummer Tim █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Mooney -- signed with Reprise in the U.S. and Virgin █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ throughout the rest of the world, and entered the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ studio with acclaimed producer Mitchell Froom. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ The result, 1993's Mercury, was a typically █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ iconoclastic effort featuring unwieldy song titles █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ like "What Godzilla Said to God When His Name Wasn't █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Found in the Book of Life" and "The Hopes and Dreams █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of Heaven's 10,000 Whores" resting uneasily against █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ lush, obtuse gems like "If I Had a Hammer," "Apology █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ for an Accident," and "Johnny Mathis' Feet." Despite █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ glowing reviews, Mercury fared poorly on the charts, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and earned virtually no recognition from radio or █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ MTV. In 1994, AMC issued San Francisco, an erratic █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ collection which precariously balanced stark, moving █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ confessions like "Fearless" and "The Thorn in My Side █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Is Gone" alongside slick pop constructs such as "Wish █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the World Away" and "Can You Help Me." When San █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Francisco failed to connect, American Music Club █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ finally dissolved; in 1996, Eitzel issued his proper █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ solo debut, 60 Watt Silver Lining, a collection of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ torch songs. At the end of the year, he and producer █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Peter Buck of R.E.M. returned to the studio to record █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 1997's West. In 2003, Eitzel and Vudi announced that █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ American Music Club were reuniting, and following █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ short tours of Europe and the United States, the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ group's new album, Love Songs for Patriots, was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ released in the fall of 2004, with more live shows █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ scheduled in support. The group then relocated to Los █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Angeles, although Pearson and Mooney opted to stay █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ behind in San Francisco. L.A. locals Sean Hoffman █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ (bass) and Steve Didelo (drums) were enlisted to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ replace the two departing members, and the revised █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ lineup set to work on The Golden Age, which was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ released in February 2008. █░▓█ █
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