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

He reels around the nightclub
Like the hubcaps off of a car
That just crashed into a sign that said
This way to the nightclub.
He says you aint worth a dime
To his life support systems
They still keep him talking
On the chance that hell say something
Dont you feel the decks rolling
I think that were on a stormy sea
Im having trouble keeping down the light that Ive stolen
He said, come on and do the crabwalk with me.
Hes just trying to breathe some new life into the jukebox
But it doesnt take his crap it just keeps on staring back
And the quarters that he pours down its throat
Well theyre just starting to get his goat
The song plays,
I gave you everything and I never got anything back.
Dont you feel the decks rolling
I think that were on a stormy sea
Im having trouble keeping down the light that Ive stolen
He said, come on and do the crabwalk with me.
He went fishing in the ocean
And all he got was a couple of tires
And they came up dripping with emotion
And you know how fisherman are liars
The five hundred thousand dollar country guitar
Sits at home sad and lonely
No one has any pity for the life of the party
Dont you feel the decks rolling
I think that were on a stormy sea
Hes having trouble keeping down the light
That hes stolen
He said, come on and do the crabwalk with me.