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Samthesham 02-07-2021 10:33 PM

Pere Ubu appreciation thread...
 
Greetings to all...this is a thread to show your appreciation for the wonderful & highly under appreciated ever changing Pere Ubu, this will be a on going thread so let’s start off simple...

Select your top 5 Ubu and/or David Thomas albums & then enlighten us to what draws you to the records...

As thread starter obviously I am at bat 1st, my 5 selections are in no certain order...

1.The Hearpen Singles ...these are the 45 RPMs that started the ball rolling for the most prolific & best of all the Post Punk bands

2.Dub Housing (1978)...just like cover art depicts so perfectly this is a dark claustrophobic masterpiece

3.Live at The Longhorn -1978...a searing live document of the early Ubu’s at their late 70s pinnacle

4.Twenty Years In A Montana Missile Silo (2016) ... a welcome return to Pere Ubu’s harder rock, sits nicely on the shelf next to previous 3 records already posted above

5.David Thomas & two pale boys / Meadville(1997)...recorded in the mid 80s & released exclusively on David Thomas / Monster box set, full of humor & magnificent strange Pop-Art

OccultHawk 02-08-2021 04:11 AM

5) The Song of the Bailing Man - Probably their most realized release. Feels like where they were always trying to go.
4) New Picnic Time - Perhaps their most peculiar release
3) The Tenement Year - a rare success story of a band putting down their swords
2) Dub Housing - Their most influential album
1) The Modern Dance - Never topped their debut

OccultHawk 02-11-2021 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2161922)
The Art of Walking is a really weird album that doesn't get talked about enough

has the Red Krayola guitarist

Honestly everything about both those bands are under appreciated but I would like to know more about how that happened and Mayo Thompson‘s life in general. He’s also on The Song of the Bailing Man.

jadis 06-12-2021 11:46 AM

For me New Picnic Time is one of the great postpunk records. I like plenty of PU stuff off other albums but that one is simply the most original and inspired.

jadis 06-13-2021 01:48 PM

They have fairly recent albums of really impressive quality. I can't think of many punk/postpunk acts whose work in the new millennium stacks up to theirs. David Byrne maybe.


jadis 06-14-2021 02:53 PM

Yeah I think that's accurate.

BUT compared to what other postpunk veterans (at least the British ones) turn out, you see what a momentous achievement it is to still be making listenable music that doesn't give you second-hand embarrassment.


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