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Pere Ubu
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (March 17, 1998)
  • Original Release Date: March 31, 1998
  • Label: Tim Kerr Records
  • ASIN: B000005ZFS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #257,780 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Pere Ubu began life as an art-punk outfit from Ohio that were able to perfectly pull off their artistic pretensions because they never forgot how to rock. Eventually, they got caught breathing their own fumes and dissipated their attack. Sometime in the late '80s they reformed and pulled it back together with all the elements in tight focus: synthesizer blips and bleeps, guitar noise, and David Thomas's tweedy-bird whine discussing the destruction of America one parking lot and shopping mall at a time. Pennsylvania is their 11th album and sounds like what you'd expect a late '90s Pere Ubu album to sound like. The occasional hook, an overriding sense of doom and plenty of artsy-fartsy noise. --Rob O'Connor


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Cleveland's masters of beautiful dissonance are back with a potent vets-and-rookies lineup, pitting David Thomas' gulping falsetto against a rhythm section that rocks and lyrics that do their best to disorient you from the rhythm.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Quiet integrity, April 21, 2002
By Alex Bennett (Redwood City, California, United States) - See all my reviews
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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.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as anything and better than most, June 22, 1998
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..."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pere Ubu forever!, June 24, 2003
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Pere Ubu lovers will especially appreciate this cd, as it is yet another new concept that nonetheless contains the quintessentially odd PU sound and experimentation. Perhaps this album has the most innovative electronica flourishes of all their recordings. It perfectly evokes doomsday through the absurd existential master lyricist/singer/performer David Thomas, yet somehow ultimately comforts, as it's hard not to smile at these songs.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best album of 1998 bar none...
"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... Read more

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