Urge Overkill - Exit the Dragon
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Artist: Urge OverkillEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-11-04
Music Label: Geffen Gold Line Sp.
Soundtracks:
- Jaywalkin'
- The Break
- Need Some Air
- Somebody Else's Body
- Honesty Files
- This Is No Place
- The Mistake
- Take Me
- View Of The Rain
- Last Night/Tomorrow
- Tin Foil
- Monopoly
- And You'll Say
- Digital Black Epilogue
Free Music Notes for Exit the Dragon
Free Music Review: The Rolling Stones of the 1990s
Hit: 5 Stars
Maybe it was because the members of Urge Overkill chose to sing about the perils of a hard-partying lifestyle instead of reveling in it that music publications like Rolling Stone ineptly panned this CD upon its arrival in stores in 1995. Whatever the reason this album wasn't properly celebrated as a growing of Urge Overkill, the fact remains that "Exit the Dragon" remains the band's best, most mature release in an impressive canon of albums. If you love rock and roll, it's simply pointless to complain about the juicy guitar crunch on such great songs as the opener, "Jaywalkin,'" and "Need Some Air." Along the same lines, just as UO did on the great Saturation album from 1993, the band flavored many of the songs on "Exit the Dragon" with an irresistable barroom swagger, topped off with a wide array of despondent lyrics. Though sonically and lyrically this album is great, it would be a disservice not to mention the bleakness of such darker-tinged songs as "The Break," "Honesty Files," "This is No Place" and "View of the Rain." Clearly, UO were a road-weary band during the making of this record.
Still, despite whatever problems they may have been going through during the mid '90s, there's a real chemistry and sense of soul on "Exit the Dragon," an album miles above the murk of UO's first two non-major-label efforts. As always, there's a great trade off between the vocals of Nash Kato and Eddie "King" Roesser, and some of the best UO songs seem to feature a subtle musical tension that makes for exciting music. One such song on "Exit the Dragon" is the utterly radio-ready "Take Me," which, in a perfect world, would have been this band's biggest hit. Sadly enough, I don't recall any of these songs getting radio airplay, but if any song from this album deserved it, "Take Me" was the one.
Other cool tracks include the one-two-three punch of "Last Night" (mid-tempo swaggering song with hopeless lyrics)/"Tomorrow" (confident punk tune complete with hand claps) and "Tin Foil" (just a great, sorrowful love song). Like other albums from Urge Overkill, "Exit the Dragon" might slightly overstay its welcome by two or three songs, but considering the band has been on a (permanent?) hiatus for so long, at least in terms of putting out new material, this transgression actually turns out to be a welcome turn of events.
Bands like Urge Overkill don't come along every day. Pick this one up if you want some great music at a great price.
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