13-Point Program to Destroy America

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13-Point Program to Destroy America
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Studio album by
Nation of Ulysses
ReleasedJuly 1, 1991
RecordedJanuary 1991, Inner Ear, Arlington, Virginia
Genre
Length39:06
Label Dischord [2]
Producer Ian MacKaye [3]
Nation of Ulysses chronology
13-Point Program to Destroy America
(1991)		 Plays Pretty for Baby
(1992)

13-Point Program to Destroy America is the debut album by the American post-hardcore band Nation of Ulysses. [4] [5] The album's title is in reference to the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program and J. Edgar Hoover's propaganda pamphlet "Red China's Secret Plan to Destroy America." [6] The title of track No. 13 was inspired by Frank Sinatra's album Love Is a Kick.

Contents

Tracks 14–16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from their 1991 self-titled 7" debut.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Trouser Press wrote that "singer Ian Svenonius (who doubles on occasional bleating trumpet) has a deeper, throaty quality to his delivery than most DC-style barkers — not quite a Stax/Volt Rollins but a striking combination of ardor and menace that elevates his breathless rage above mere harangue." [9] The Washington Post called the album "so brattily self-conscious that only the ferocity of its attack keeps it from curdling." [10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Spectra Sonic Sound"2:34
2."Look Out! Soul Is Back!"1:38
3."Today I Met the Girl I'm Going to Marry"1:47
4."Ulythium"2:02
5."Cool Senior High School Fight"1:40
6."A Kid Who Tells On Another Kid Is a Dead Kid"1:43
7."Diphtheria"4:15
8."Aspirin Kid"5:13
9."Hot Chocolate City(Yeah!)"1:43
10."P. Power"1:47
11."You're My Miss Washington, D.C."2:22
12."Target: U.S.A."1:44
13."Love Is a Bull Market"2:50
14."The Sound of Young America"2:31
15."Channel One Ulysses"3:22
16."Atom Bomb"2:00
Total length:31:25

References

  1. ↑ Jeff Terich. August 30, 2012. 10 Essential ’90s Post-Hardcore Albums. treblezine.com
  2. ↑ "Nation Of Ulysses - 13 Point Program to Destroy America (057)". Dischord Records.
  3. ↑ Arthur, Nicole (July 29, 1992). "Nation of Ulysses". The Washington Post.
  4. ↑ "The Nation of Ulysses | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ "22 years later, Nation Of Ulysses is still a band built for today's tumultuous times". Music.
  6. ↑ Danger Mike, Jesse Rockoff (DJ Mark Foley), Ian Svenonius (October 3, 2006). "10-3-06 Ian Svenonius / The Make-Up". Dissonance. Washington, D.C. Radio CPR. 97.5 FM.
  7. ↑ Gentry, Brandon. 13-Point Program to Destroy America allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-06.
  8. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. p. 125.
  9. ↑ "Nation of Ulysses". Trouser Press. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  10. ↑ Jenkins, Mark (January 15, 1992). "RECORDINGS". The Washington Post.


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