Moving At Breakneck Speed
Ugly Duckling
2011
Moving At Breakneck Speed is a concept album by Ugly Duckling about a band on the run from a shady, hilarious cast of misfits who want to curtail their adventures.
It is an exciting and musically exotic adventure story that has our desperate heroes circling the globe to outrun an evil gang of super-criminals determined to put an end to UD once and for all.
“We’ve been a group since 1993, and we’ve always felt that touring and doing shows was the most important thing for us. As well as making records, we knew we had to have a great live show in order to be able to put out music, because the live groups that started around the same time that we did fell off after about three or four years because their performance lacked.”
“We were a little bit ahead of the game, or ahead of the curve, because we knew that one day, technology was gonna catch up, music was gonna be free, and it was all gonna come back to how punk rock started: you’re gonna have to get on the road and tour, shake hands with fans. Being that we’ve been on tour forever, it feels like we’re running, trying to catch up with something constantly. So that’s the name of the album, and that’s the concept behind it.
We started talking about having bad guys, and naturally, you have to have Germans! We started thinking, what kind of villains are traditionally in Western pop movies. So we had the Latin guy, and we had the sultry villainess, the incapable Germans… one guy has a little Igor henchman… it’s an ensemble cast. We wanted all that silliness.” – Ugly Duckling
Stand-Out Tracks
Momentum
I Wonder Where She Is Now
Sprint
