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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]
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]
The album contains live renditions of one non-album track; one from the first Pere Ubu album, The Modern Dance (incidentally a version of this track, ‘Street Waves’, also appears on 390° of Simulated Stereo); six songs from Dub Housing; one from New Picnic Time and four from The Art of Walking.
At the end of 1978, NME named Dub Housing the year's eighth best album, [13] while Sounds ranked it at number 13 on its year-end list. [14] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice wrote in 1979, "not only is it abrasive and visionary and eccentric and hard-rocking itself, but it sent me back to The Modern Dance, which I liked fine originally and like more now". [15]
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[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 ...
Long Live Père Ubu! is an album by the American band Pere Ubu, released in 2009. [2] It is a soundtrack to a musical adaptation of the play from which the band took its name. [3] The band performed its adaptation at (Le) Poisson Rouge. [4] David Thomas referred to Long Live Père Ubu! as the first "true" punk album to be released in 30 years. [5]