Amerika

Tonio K | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gadfly Records
• ASIN: B000002015
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,277 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #27 in Music > Indie Music > Christian & Gospel > Christian Contemporary Music

Track Listings

1. One Big Happy Family

2. Say Goodbye

3. Sons of the Revolution

4. Go Away

5. Cinderella's Baby

6. Trouble

7. Girl Crazy

8. I'll Buy It

9. The Night Fast Rodney Went Crazy

10. Merzsuite: Let Us Join Together in a Tune/Umore/Futt Futt Futt/Umore

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this album., October 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Amerika (Audio CD)

I love this album. I first bought it in the early eighties. Now I get to get it on CD. Life is cool. "Cinderella's Baby" ought to be the theme song for any woman coming of age. "The Night Fast Rodney Went Crazy" is up there with Queen's "I'm in Love with My Car" as a great song for a bad day. All in all, this album's perfection. It grows with you and keeps you thinking.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired, December 20, 2007

By 

Bongo Daddy-O (Tikiville, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amerika (Audio CD)

Tonio seems to be disparaging the plight of humanity, but it never fails to inspire, amuse and/or be uplifting. This album has been described as the greatest record ever made. If it's not the greatest, it is one of the greatest. It's my fave of his, although I only have his earlier stuff.
His songs are blunt and to the point & he means what he says!

To quote TK:
"Everybody say a prayer for the age of innocence
Everybody say a prayer for the days gone by...
Can't go no further west
Can't do no better than the best"

"Sons of the revolution, you are here to save the day
but it ain't none of your business & you're only in the way
Sons of the revolution, better get out while you can
There ain't no one here that wants a helping hand"

No ifs, ands or buts about it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SAVE YOURSELF BABY!, May 28, 2011

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OLD GUY. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amerika (Audio CD)

Years ago in a review someone said this was "the best album ever recorded." He may have been kidding? It's surely a beauty. Nothing else like it. Prescient even. I Love Love every song he's pounced on here. I even played Say Goodbye in concert once. Other faves are Trouble, Cinderella's Baby, the Night Fast Rodney Went Crazy, Merzuite, Sons of the Revolution--and all the rest of them! In post-hippie-punk-rock this thing trends the crest! What?! "How come this country runs on retrospect?" "I don't know, I don't know--I just don't know!" My wife says dryly, "It's a masterwork." She may have been kidding?