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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.