13-Point Program to Destroy America
1991 studio album by Nation of Ulysses
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13-Point Program to Destroy America is the debut album by the American post-hardcore band Nation of Ulysses.[4][5] The album's title is in reference to the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program and J. Edgar Hoover's propaganda pamphlet "Red China's Secret Plan to Destroy America."[6] The title of track No. 13 was inspired by Frank Sinatra's album Love Is a Kick.
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| Released | July 1, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | January 1991, Inner Ear, Arlington, Virginia | |||
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| Length | 39:06 | |||
| Label | Dischord[2] | |||
| Producer | Ian MacKaye[3] | |||
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Tracks 14–16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from their 1991 self-titled 7" debut.
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [8] |
Trouser Press wrote that "singer Ian Svenonius (who doubles on occasional bleating trumpet) has a deeper, throaty quality to his delivery than most DC-style barkers — not quite a Stax/Volt Rollins but a striking combination of ardor and menace that elevates his breathless rage above mere harangue."[9] The Washington Post called the album "so brattily self-conscious that only the ferocity of its attack keeps it from curdling."[10]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Spectra Sonic Sound" | 2:34 |
| 2. | "Look Out! Soul Is Back!" | 1:38 |
| 3. | "Today I Met the Girl I'm Going to Marry" | 1:47 |
| 4. | "Ulythium" | 2:02 |
| 5. | "Cool Senior High School Fight" | 1:40 |
| 6. | "A Kid Who Tells On Another Kid Is a Dead Kid" | 1:43 |
| 7. | "Diphtheria" | 4:15 |
| 8. | "Aspirin Kid" | 5:13 |
| 9. | "Hot Chocolate City(Yeah!)" | 1:43 |
| 10. | "P. Power" | 1:47 |
| 11. | "You're My Miss Washington, D.C." | 2:22 |
| 12. | "Target: U.S.A." | 1:44 |
| 13. | "Love Is a Bull Market" | 2:50 |
| 14. | "The Sound of Young America" | 2:31 |
| 15. | "Channel One Ulysses" | 3:22 |
| 16. | "Atom Bomb" | 2:00 |
| Total length: | 31:25 | |
