Pennsylvania

Pere Ubu | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: March 31, 1998
• Label: Tim Kerr Records
• ASIN: B000005ZFS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,329 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Woolie Bullie

2. Highwaterville

3. Sad. TXT

4. Urban Lifestyle

5. Drive

6. Indiangiver

7. Monday Morning

8. Perfume

9. Silent Spring

10. Mr. Wheeler

11. Muddy Waters

12. Slow

13. Fly's Eye

14. The Duke's Saharan Ambitions

15. Wheelhouse

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Quiet integrity, April 21, 2002

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Alex Bennett (Redwood City, California, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pennsylvania (Audio CD)

I have been a fan of this group since their second album. I have seen them twice and David Thomas (leader and vocalist) a few times on top of that. I have 8-10 PU and DT albums. (I have even corresponded with DT.) This is a strong effort. Of course I like their first two albums, but Tenement Year and Sound of Sand are later efforts you should buy before buying this (if you can find them!). But it was a tremendous relief to buy this latest Ubu album and smile with contentment and delight. These are musicians with vision and control who know how to work together. In other words, they know how to rock, but choose to make their mark on the fringes of your consciousness. And David Thomas is exploring relatively new territory. What an amazing artist to keep fresh like this! All that said, I put on this album when I am doing housework or bills or other tedious work. Then its infectiousness comes out. But I think it has limits worth recognizing. It is ambient in nature. As such, it is extremely good, and on certain banal days cannot help but cheer you up, or at least realize life isn't so bad after all with people like Pere Ubu around to celebrate it with.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as anything and better than most, June 22, 1998

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This review is from: Pennsylvania (Audio CD)

Ignore the critical drudges who inevitably take the occasion of a new UBU to talk about how much they dig MODERN DANCE and DUB HOUSING. PU's last two records are as good as anything they've ever done and that's to say they're pretty great. So be ahead of the pack and love them now. Then, if you're a critical drudge in 20 years you can say "as I said at the time..."

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best album of 1998 bar none..., August 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pennsylvania (Audio CD)

"Pennsylvania is the place you have to go through to get where you're going"

Pere Ubu have been blazing their own trail through the vast wateland of american pop music and culture for over 20 years...This CD epitomizes everything that is so great, fantastic, sadly tragic, visionary, awe-inspiring, and important about both the group, about our lives, and about the birthright that consumer culture and the media have stolen from us. That we are trapped in an era when real message and meaning has been displaced by glib soudbites and a subliminal corporate takeover of america that has turned most of us into passive spectators desperately searching for meaning....

This album is 10 times more relevant,revolutionary and satisfying than pretty much any other recent rock album I've heard. Maybe someday they'll actually receive some of the financial success they so richly deserve..

"Mr Wheeler ? I got an old lightbulb...been in my family 75 years...75 years&q! uot;