All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today
{{Infobox album
| name = All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today
| type = Studio
| artist = Chocolate USA
| cover = Chocousajets.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1992
| recorded = 1990
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Pop
| length = 50:15
| label = Bar/None{{cite web|url=http://www.bar-none.com/chocolate-usa |title=Chocolate U.S.A. — Bar/None Records |publisher=Bar-none.com |date= |accessdate=2020-06-10}}
| producer = Chocolate USA
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Smoke Machine
| next_year = 1994
}}
All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today is the debut full-length album by the American band Chocolate USA.{{cite magazine |title=All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today by Chocolate USA |magazine=Billboard |date=May 15, 1993 |volume=105 |issue=20 |page=54}}{{cite book |last1=Clair |first1=Adam |title=Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery |date=2022 |publisher=Hachette Books}} Released in 1992, it was their first album for Bar/None Records.{{cite web |title=Chocolate U.S.A. Biography by Mike DaRonco |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chocolate-usa-mn0000103525 |website=AllMusic |access-date=8 November 2023}} The band started working on it in 1990.{{cite news |last1=Perez |first1=Steven |title=These kids are alright |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=November 23, 1990 |department=Tampa Bay Times |page=23}} It was recorded under Chocolate USA's former name, Miss America.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/07/21/the-man-behind-miss-america/|title=The man behind Miss America|website=Tampa Bay Times}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r174642|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
}}
Trouser Press wrote that "Chocolate USA is nothing if not eclectic; although most of the album is acoustic slacker pop, 'Skyphilis/Air Raid' kicks off as a pastiche of Tommy Dorsey’s big band sound and glides into an extended free-jazz fantasy."{{cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/chocolate-usa/ |title=Chocolate USA |publisher=Trouser Press |date= |accessdate=2020-06-10}} The Tampa Bay Times called the album "rife with fragmented genius, nervous energy and a creative vibe so powerful, it could send shivers down a spine of stainless steel."{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1992/05/01/local-music-takes-off-in-the-soaring-all-jets/|title=Local music takes off in the soaring "All Jets'|website=Tampa Bay Times}} The Times Union considered it a "wonderfully wild pastiche of pop."{{cite news |last1=Haymes |first1=Greg |title=If the Florida group Chocolate USA... |work=Times Union |date=July 22, 1993 |page=P4}} The Tampa Tribune deemed the album "a montage of silly love songs, jazz fusion, guitar-distortion noise and snippets of a taped correspondence."{{cite news |last1=Booth |first1=Philip |title=Classical and Pop Music |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=27 Mar 1992 |department=Friday Extra! |page=3}}
Track listing
- Test (Julian Koster) :40
- All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today (Koster) – 3:14
- Doogie Love Theme/Wysotsky's Tea (Koster) – 2:25
- My Little Two Eyes (Koster) – 3:04
- 100 Feet Tall (Koster) – 2:36
- The Feelies Show (Eric Morrison) – 3:02
- Skyphilis/Air Raid (Koster) – 3:46
- The Shower Song (Koster) – 3:57
- Wash My Face (Koster) – 4:32
- Two Dogs (Koster) – 1:58
- Vocal Exercise No. 1 (Koster) :32
- The Crashing Song (Koster) – 2:33
- Luniks Furniture (Koster) – 2:39
- Kriss Ford (Koster) – 2:43
- Kathy (Koster) – 1:38
- Nervous Aged Catalunian (Koster) – 3:07
- Loud (Koster) – 4:22
- Smile (Koster) – 3:27
- She's an Aeroplane (Koster) – 4:21
Personnel
- Julian Koster - vocals, guitar, bass
- Liza Wakeman - violin