Some Disenchanted Evening

Some Disenchanted Evening is an album by The Verlaines. It was released in 1990 on Flying Nun Records.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the album’s coda, a piano ballad styled after Randy Newman, is actually the collection’s crowning achievement; harnessing a dapper melody to a bitterly sardonic lyric about failure, it reveals new-found subtlety and clarity in [Graeme] Downes’ writing." The New York Times called the album "full of complex melodic variations, crescendos and elegant tempo shifts; the music has the theatrical grandeur of a symphony within the confines of rock."

Track listing

All songs written by Graeme Downes, except where noted.

1. "Jesus What a Jerk" - 2:37
2. "The Funniest Thing" - 3:14
3. "Whatever You Run Into" - 3:18
4. "Faithfully Yours" - 3:43
5. "Damn Shame" - 5:02
6. "This Train" - 4:20
7. "Down The Road" - 3:13
8. "We're All Gonna Die" - 3:06
9. "Anniversary" - 4:20
10. "Come Sunday" - 4:01
11. "It Was" - 2:27

References