American Music Club(often abbreviated AMC) is a San Francisco-based band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. They've been recording and playing in SF clubs since the mid 1980's, showing a remarkable longevity for a band that has been far more critically acclaimed than financially successful. Although commonly lumped with other bands from the " slowcore" and " sadcore" movements, like the Red House Painters, AMC is better known for mastering the disparate strands of American music into a wholly unique synthesis all their own. Although born in California, frontman Mark Eitzel spent his formative years in Great Britain and Ohio before returning to the Bay Area in 1980. After a brief stint with the punk band he founded American Music Club in 1983 with guitarist Vudi, bassist , keyboardist Brad Johnson, and drummer .
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American Music Club

Giving up thats the easy part
Turn your pockets out
Tear your room apart
But you cant find anything
To help you on your way
Run, try to catch the bus
And reach it just as it pulls away
For the black hole and the beautiful crab nebulae
Time running out
Time running dry
Frozen peas and carrots
And pickled animal parts
Sweet anticipation
For the well-preserved at heart
One more walk around the animal pen
Keeping to the sun
But Ill end up in the shade again
Just one more walk
Underneath the big starry-ass sky
I wasnt born good enough
That I wasnt born good enough for
Doctor dont you worry
Doctor I feel fine
Doctor I just swallowed
Every grape on the vine
Hey look here it comes
My great big luxury ufo
Now drive this thing and go fast
Why are we moving so slow
Just one more walk
Around the animal pen
Im running happily in the sun
Ill end up in the shade again
Just one more walk
Underneath the big empty sky
That I wasnt born good enough for
Doctor dont you worry
Doctor I feel fine
As long as I can fill that form
Ill sign any dotted line