Urge overkill

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Urge overkill
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General information
origin Chicago , Illinois , United States
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1986
Website www.urgeoverkill.com

Urge Overkill is an American rock band that in 1986 in Chicago was founded.

Band history

The band was founded in 1986 in Chicago by guitarist and bassist Eddie "King" Roeser, singer Nash Kato and drummer Jack "The Jaguar" Watt. The band was named after a song by the American funk band Parliament . In the year it was founded, the band released their first EP Strange, I… . It was produced by Steve Albini , Nash's roommate and head of the influential noise rock band Big Black .

The debut album Jesus Urge Superstar followed in 1989 , again produced by Albini and, like the EP, a typical noise rock album. A drastic change in style was the follow-up album Americruiser , released in 1990 , on which the band's style shifted to what the band itself described as a mixture of arena rock and punk .

Jack Watt's place on drums was taken over in 1991 by Johnny "Blackie Onassis" Rowan, with whom the third album The Supersonic Storybook was recorded that same year . With this release, which received consistently good reviews and was a considerable success in the underground , the band completed the style change they had started with Americruiser .

After the band in 1992 as the opening act for Nirvana the "Nevermind" tour accompanied, she took the EP Stull on which the title Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon and Goodbye to Guyville contained. In the same year, the band made the change from their previous indie label Touch and Go Records to the major label Geffen Records , for which the band received some criticism from the underground.

The band became known to a wider audience in 1994 after their cover version of the Neil Diamond song Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon was selected by director Quentin Tarantino as the score for his box office hit Pulp Fiction . The title made it into the top 50 spots on the Billboard Top 100.

Despite the commercial success, the band remained true to their alternative style with the 1995 album Exit the Dragon . The album and the single -Auskopplung The Break flopped, and the subsequent tour had to be cut short due to lack of public interest. In addition, drug and alcohol problems made the band to create, so that the band announced their official breakup in 1996.

In 2004 Roeser and Kato tried - although without a record deal - with new bass player Mike "Hadji" Hodgkiss ( Gaza Strippers ) and drummer Bon Quest a second attempt and started a world tour.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1993 Saturation - - - - US146 (9 weeks)
US
First published: June 8, 1993
1995 Exit the Dragon DE48 (8 weeks)
DE 		AT37 (4 weeks)
AT 		- UK88 (1 week)
UK 		US129 (1 week)
US
First published: September 26, 1995

more publishments

  • 1986: Strange, I ... (EP)
  • 1989: Jesus Urge Superstar
  • 1990: Americruiser
  • 1991: The Supersonic Storybook
  • 1992: Stull (EP)
  • 1993: The Urge Overkill Story
  • 2004: Live at Maxwells 2/5/04
  • 2011: Rock & Roll Submarine
  • 2012: Icon

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1993 Sister Havana
Saturation 		- - - UK67 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: August 1993
Positive bleeding
saturation 		- - - UK61 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: October 1993
1994 Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon
Pulp Fiction (OST) 		- AT22 (3 weeks)
AT 		- UK37 (4 weeks)
UK 		US59 (11 weeks)
US
First published: November 1994

More singles

  • 1987: Lineman
  • 1990: Ticket to LA
  • 1991: (Now That's) The Barclords
  • 1993: Dropout
  • 1993: Bottle of Fur
  • 1995: The Break
  • 1995: View of the Rain
  • 1995: Somebody Else's Body

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT UK US

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