Exit the Dragon

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Exit the Dragon
Studio album by Urge Overkill
Released	September 26, 1995
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	61:03
Label	Geffen [1]
Producer	Butcher Bros.
Urge Overkill chronology
Saturation (1993) Exit the Dragon (1995) Rock & Roll Submarine (2011)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+ [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[1]
NME	9/10 [5]
Q	[6]
Rolling Stone	[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 the release of Rock & Roll Submarine in 2011. Exit the Dragon peaked at number 129 on the Billboard 200, making it their highest charting album in the United States.

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

Personnel

• Eddie "King" Roeser – vocals, bass guitar, guitars
• Nash Kato – vocals, guitars, keyboards
• Blackie Onassis – drums, vocals

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. 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.
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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.
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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.