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To define their music, Pere Ubu coined the term avant-garage to reflect interest in both experimental avant-garde music, especially musique concrète, and raw, direct blues-influenced garage rock. Thomas has stated the term is "a joke invented to have something to give journalists when they yelp for a neat sound bite or pigeonhole". [ 31 ]
[12] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called Song of the Bailing Man "more of a bouncy pop record, though Thomas is as gone as ever." [ 7 ] In its review of the Architecture of Language 1979-1982 boxset, The Quietus wrote that "Tony Maimone's basslines play a bigger part on this record, making this LP more overtly poppy sounding than its ...
390° of Simulated Stereo is a live album featuring recordings from Pere Ubu's first few years of existence. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In general, the recordings featured are lo-fi in nature. The album was out of print for decades, but was reissued for Record Store Day 2021.
"30 Seconds Over Tokyo" is the debut single by American post-punk band Pere Ubu. Written by band members David Thomas, Peter Laughner, and Gene O'Connor during their stint with Pere Ubu's predecessor Rocket from the Tombs, it was released on Thomas' independent Hearthan Records in 1975. The song received very little airplay at the time but has ...
Critics were mixed as to the quality and value of One Man Drives While Another Man Screams.Robert Lloyd wrote in the LA Weekly:. The record is, as it would have to be, first-rate, being a document of a first-rate band in the pink of performance, and offers the usual blips and beeps, burbs and chirps, splatches and screeches and indecipherable mutterings, but more of them, and of demeanour more ...
The Modern Dance is the debut album by the American rock band Pere Ubu. It was released in February 1978 through the label Blank Records. [1] A 5.1 surround sound version was released as the DVD-Audio side of a DualDisc in 2005.
Pennsylvania is an album by the American band Pere Ubu, released in 1998. [6] [7] The album marked Tom Herman's return to Pere Ubu's studio work after a twenty-year absence. [5] It is a loose concept album about geography, travel, and road trips. [8] [9] Guitarist Wayne Kramer joined the band's tour in support of the album. [10]
Dub Housing is the second album by American rock band Pere Ubu.Released in 1978 by Chrysalis Records, the album is now regarded as one of their best, described by Trouser Press as "simply one of the most important post-punk recordings."