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

Why dont you be good for something
And draw down the shade
On a sign that sat up all night shivering
On a sign that sat up all night afraid
Well now chains on the oasis that
Leads a man to drink
Drunk on the kind of applause
That gets louder the lower you sink
Gratitude walks on sixth street
Pull it from the air
And they throw it in the blue
And youre spinning under their wheels
Trapped in your room
Youre jumpy, you dont want to see
You dont want to see them have their fun
Slap her face if she should laugh
Push him down if he should try and run
Gratitude walks on sixth street
Take a number for your big woman
They sold the rules of dream land
In cotton, wool, and cement
Well its never what you want
Its just the kind of thing that always happens here
Yeah you watch the good old days pass you by
Leaving your cupboards bare
Gratitude walks on sixth street