United Empire Loyalists

By: Evaporators

Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Side 1

10 tracks

United Empire Loyalists

#1 Side 1 02:52
Busy Body (Robert Johnson)

#2 Side 1 01:33
Brainwashed (David Clayton-Thomas)

#3 Side 1 02:00
Les yeux fermes

#4 Side 1 02:45
Pillars in the Room

#5 Side 1 01:32
Oh Baby

#6 Side 1 01:32
Dan Quayle vs. Nardwuar

#7 Side 1 01:20
Baby Send For Me

#8 Side 1 02:04
Maneaters

#9 Side 1 02:32
I'm Going to France

#10 Side 1 01:16

Side 2

9 tracks

It's My Pride (Randy Bachman)

#1 Side 2 01:59
Welcome to My Castle

#2 Side 2 01:39
Baby You Got Me

#3 Side 2 01:19
Your Instrument Does Not Affect Me

#4 Side 2 02:13
Pregnant

#5 Side 2 01:48
Yo No Soy Rebelde

#6 Side 2 01:13
Vampire Blues

#7 Side 2 04:36
Woah!

#8 Side 2 02:18
Nardwuar Vs. Alice Cooper

#9 Side 2 03:37

About This Title

Up on the colder side of the border lives a man they call Nardwuar. Nardwuar the Human Serviette.

Nardwuar is Canada's leading exponent of Ambush Journalism, though with a typically zany Canadian slant (more Monty Python than Jenny Jones). Nardwuar also moonlights as lead singer for the bar-none, hands-down best band to emerge from the Northland since, dare I say it, BTO.

They're called The Evaporators, and this is their first-ever album. Besides a full-color, two-foot-square fold-out poster of the lads in action, along with a bunch of stickers and postcards, it contains wicked covers of some of the finest nuggets of circa-Sixties garage-rock ever - Canuck or otherwise (ie: a pre-BS&T David Clayton Thomas' "Brainwashed" and a pre-sappy Guess Who classic called "It's My Pride"), plus the theme from Nardwuar's very own television series "Welcome To My Castle" and several other Evap-originals (their "I'm Going To France" sounds muddier than the River Wishkah EVER will).

And, as a "bonus", there's some snippets of Nardwuar, uhh, "interviewing" Dan Quayle and an equally-square Alice Cooper. All-in-all then, a fun-filled, something-for-everyone package the likes of which I for one haven't encountered since the long-gone glory daze of K-Tel's "20 Explosive Hits" extravaganzas. Your home should NOT be without one.

Nardwuar: vocals, organ
David Carswell: guitar, vocals
John Collins: bass
Scott Livingstone: drums

Mastered at Greg Lee Processing

Photography by William R. Janz