The American in Me

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The American in Me
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Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 20, 2004
Recorded197879
Genre Punk rock
Length39:22
Label DBK Works
Avengers chronology
Zero Hour
(2003)
The American in Me
(2004)
Live at Winterland 1978
(2010)

The American in Me is a compilation album by the Avengers. It was released on April 20, 2004, on DBK Works. The album is composed of four studio recordings from 1978 and a live concert recorded at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, CA on June 13, 1979. The concert was previously released on Zero Hour one year earlier.

Track listing

  1. "We Are the One" 2:39
  2. "The American in Me" 2:07
  3. "White Nigger" 3:29
  4. "Uh-Oh" 3:07
  5. "Cheap Tragedies" 3:30
  6. "Zero Hour" 3:23
  7. "Corpus Christi" 3:04
  8. "Release Me" 4:33
  9. "Uh-Oh" 3:23
  10. "Misery (Finger on the Trigger)" 3:05
  11. "Time To Die" 5:05
  12. "The American In Me" 2:10

Personnel


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