13-Point Program to Destroy America

13-Point Program to Destroy America is the debut album by the American post-hardcore band Nation of Ulysses.^[6][7] 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."^[8] The title of track #13 was inspired by Frank Sinatra's album Love is a Kick.

13-Point Program to Destroy America
Studio album by Nation of Ulysses
Released	July 1, 1991
Recorded	January 1991, Inner Ear, Washington, D.C.
Genre	Post-hardcore[1] hardcore punk
Length	39:06
Label	Dischord[2]
Producer	Ian MacKaye[3]
Nation of Ulysses chronology
13-Point Program to Destroy America (1991) Plays Pretty for Baby (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]

Tracks 14-16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from their 1991 self-titled 7" debut.

Critical reception

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
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