13-Point Program to Destroy America

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13-Point Program to Destroy America
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1, 1991
RecordedJanuary 1991, Inner Ear, Arlington, Virginia
Genre
Length39:06
LabelDischord[2]
ProducerIan 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.

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

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStar[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

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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

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  1. ^ Jeff Terich. August 30, 2012. 10 Essential ’90s Post-Hardcore Albums. treblezine.com
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  7. ^ Gentry, Brandon. 13-Point Program to Destroy America allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-06.
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