Exit the Dragon

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Exit the Dragon
Exit the dragon.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 26, 1995
Genre Alternative rock
Length61:03
Label Geffen [1]
Producer Butcher Bros.
Urge Overkill chronology
Saturation
(1993)
Exit the Dragon
(1995)
Rock & Roll Submarine
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
NME 9/10 [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Spin 7/10 [8]

Exit the Dragon is the fifth album by American alternative rock group Urge Overkill, released in 1995. [9] Exit the Dragon is characterized as being a darker album than their previous album, Saturation . [10] [11] It was their final album until 2011 saw the release of Rock & Roll Submarine', sixteen years after Exit the Dragon. "Exit the Dragon" is Urge Overkill's biggest charting album reaching number 129 on the Billboard 200 and reached number 6 in Australia.

Contents

Production

The album was produced by the Butcher Bros. [12]

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times wrote that the album's "fab pop tunes are as cheesily amusing as a dubbed karate movie. But when the kitsch clears, you have to wonder whether the band ... has anything of its own to offer." [13] The Chicago Tribune praised "the kind of understated, seemingly casual performances that bespeak a band less interested in dazzle than emotional immediacy, with sturdy melodies, raggedly poignant vocals and brooding lyrics." [14]

Track listing

No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Jaywalkin'"Eddie "King" Roeser3:31
2."The Break"Roeser3:44
3."Need Some Air"Nash Kato3:07
4."Somebody Else's Body"Kato3:48
5."Honesty Files"Roeser3:55
6."This Is No Place"Roeser4:20
7."The Mistake"Blackie Onassis4:30
8."Take Me"Roeser with Kato2:58
9."View of the Rain"Kato4:46
10."Last Night / Tomorrow"Roeser / Kato5:21
11."Tin Foil"Roeser4:28
12."Monopoly"Kato3:29
13."And You'll Say"Roeser3:39
14."Digital Black Epilogue"Kato9:27

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1995)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [15] 6
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [16] 37
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [17] 48
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [18] 50
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [19] 24
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 88
US Billboard 200 [21] 129

References

  1. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1183.
  2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Exit the Dragon – Urge Overkill". AllMusic . Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. Muze. p. 359.
  4. Browne, David (October 6, 1995). "Exit the Dragon". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  5. "Urge Overkill: Exit the Dragon". NME . August 19, 1995. p. 46.
  6. "Urge Overkill: Exit the Dragon". Q . No. 108. September 1995. p. 122.
  7. Mundy, Chris (September 7, 1995). "Urge Overkill: Exit The Dragon". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on May 9, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  8. Strauss, Neil (August 1995). "Urge Overkill: Exit the Dragon". Spin . Vol. 11, no. 5. p. 91. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  9. "Urge Overkill | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  10. McDonald, Sam (November 3, 1995). "Facing Their Demons". dailypress.com.
  11. "Urge Overkill". www.furious.com.
  12. "Urge Overkill". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  13. "Album Review : * * 1/2 Urge Overkill; "Exit the Dragon"; Geffen". Los Angeles Times. October 1, 1995.
  14. Kot, Greg (October 8, 1995). "Urge Overkill's 'Exit the Dragon' Sneaks Up on You". chicagotribune.com.
  15. "Australiancharts.com – Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  16. "Austriancharts.at – Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  17. "Offiziellecharts.de – Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  18. "Charts.nz – Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  19. "Norwegiancharts.com – Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  20. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  21. "Urge Overkill – Chart history: Billboard 200". Billboard . Archived from the original on December 23, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2020.