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Groupie
Join Date: Feb 2021
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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 |
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one-balled nipple jockey
Join Date: Dec 2010
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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
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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.
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jun 2021
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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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