Urge Overkill-Saturation (1993)
Artist: Urge Overkill
Title: Saturation
Year of Release: 1993
Country and Year of Edition: US 1993 BMG Music Club Edition
Sell Price: $3.09
Sell Date: 12/23/24
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 12/9/24 VG/VG $0.45
Low: $0.45
Median: $1.00
Average: $1.23
High: $3.09
Current low price: $0.64
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16
Have/Want: 192/15
Where Sold: Sallisaw, OK
Time It Took To Sell: 12 years
Where and When Bought: discarded collection
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
One memory I have regarding Urge Overkill's major label debut album after a run of great albums on Touch 'n Go was Fort Apache engineer Tim O'Heir extolling the virtues of the leadoff single "Sister Havana." The hook, he insisted, was that they pronounced Havana HAWANA." Somehow until that point, I never even noticed the subliminal. In fact, at one point it seems like they are trading off lead Hawana's with chorus Havana's. The single was a US radio hit #6 Alternative and #10 Mainstream Rock on Billboard. Although getting all the way up to #16 on the Australian album charts, that was only enough to get the album to #146 on the Billboard 200. The flop Exit The Dragon charted higher and, in more countries after Pulp Fiction made a minor hit in 1994 out of the Neil Diamond cover "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" that came on the Stull EP a year before this came out.
The rest of Saturation was chock full of great songs. "Woman 2 Woman" asks "Baby what's your sign?" Sagittarius! "Bottle of Fur" misses the smell of her. "Crackbabies" are out of time." Backs are turned and people are born under a tequila sun. You even get a nick of Bleach-era Nirvana with "The Stalker," riff grunge punctuated by feedback.
One of the high points of the post-Nirvana major label raid of the indie cabinet.
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