“Long Live Père Ubu!”, released 14th September, is inspired by the proto-Absurdist stage play that gave the band its name – Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi” (King Ubu). Its premiere in Paris in 1896 provoked riots in the theatre and a national scandal. A vicious and satiric re-telling of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, Jarry’s work lambastes do-gooder monsters [...]
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Pere Ubu is about as Punk as you can get. I wanted to put "The Fevered Dream of Hernando DeSoto" from their St. Arkansas album. But I could work the title into a war theme without referring to a plague and pestilence.So now I am fuzzy and warm and very approachable. This track serves my purposes just fine. This track is off their album "The Modern Dance" recorded in '77 (album was released in ...
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I've never encountered an album that so alters listeners' perceptions of the world around them so much as this record. I can say with a straight face that it is actually slightly dangerous to listen to while driving. There is alot of talk about how artists in performance either enhance or destroy the space between them and their audience that is, by default, present due to the stage. On their...
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I'm not really very good at describing music. There's a jangly punky sound about these guys that I really like.
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I was listening to my MP3 player today when I was out & the song 'Bus Called Happiness' started playing. I was reminded of the sheer brilliance that was Pere Ubu. What can you say for a band that's been around for decades & no one ever mentions them(or knows who they are? except Blair or Neill )That's the definition of underground! Perhaps because of their undefinable sound & punk indie origins...
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Pere Ubu is about as Punk as you can get. I wanted to put "The Fevered Dream of Hernando DeSoto" from their St. Arkansas album. But I could work the title into a war theme without referring to a plague and pestilence.So now I am fuzzy and warm and very approachable. This track serves my purposes just fine. This track is off their album "The Modern Dance" recorded in '77 (album was released in ...
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I was listening to my MP3 player today when I was out & the song 'Bus Called Happiness' started playing. I was reminded of the sheer brilliance that was Pere Ubu. What can you say for a band that's been around for decades & no one ever mentions them(or knows who they are? except Blair or Neill )That's the definition of underground! Perhaps because of their undefinable sound & punk indie origins...
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This came up in blogspot conversation with Jenny, and although she's no longer on Mog this seems a good place to post as well. And yeah, I have a bunch of good 2008 albums, I just keep finding more. With 1978, I'm probably pretty close to set.oh, and the song included for play here isn't on either of the ubu albums on this list, it's an early single. enjoy.It takes me awhile to put these lists ...
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I'm not really very good at describing music. There's a jangly punky sound about these guys that I really like.
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You know, growing up as a "rocker" (read: sammy hagar, van halen, montrose, etc), there's quite a lot of music out there that I have had little or no experience with.In the past 10 years, I've broadened my musical taste quite a bit, but I still find myself finding out about stuff that's come around quite a while ago that I wish I'd heard about long before. I suppose that's one "benefit" of bei...
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| 2 On the Surface |
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| 3 Ubu Dance Party |
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| 4 Codex |
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| 5 Thriller! |
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