Worlds In Collision

by Pere Ubu

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The ultimate genius fuck-you SO not pop band jumps into the nascent 80s college rock pool, gets chest-deep in poppiness... And of course, still so delightfully odd! Absolute gem. A blast. LONG LIVE PERE UBU!!! Favorite track: I Hear They Smoke They Barbecue.

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	1.	Oh Catherine 02:52
	2.	I Hear They Smoke They Barbecue 03:58
	3.	Turpentine! 02:39
	4.	Goodnite Irene 04:08
	5.	Mirror Man 03:27
	6.	Don't Look Back 04:04
	7.	Worlds In Collision 03:40
	8.	Life Of Riley 02:34
	9.	Over The Moon 03:06
	10.	Cry Cry Cry 02:43
	11.	Playback 03:26
	12.	Nobody Knows 02:33
	13.	Winter In The Firelands 03:06

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With Pere Ubu on hiatus since 1982’s excellent ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’, David Thomas had recorded a` much-praised solo album and the band had now signed to a major label. In a period of rampant world commercialism, what would happen next?

Another crucial era for the band unraveled, Pere Ubu’s journey charted new undulating territory and so began a three-album escapade that retooled our understanding of what pop music is.

“Solid as the band can be, it's also likely to dissolve songs from the bottom up. For all Pere Ubu's uncertainty, the band isn't arbitrary; its music has the off-the-wall unity of a Marx Brothers routine,” said Jon Pareles of The New York Times.

in 1991, ‘Worlds In Collision’ became “the most atmospheric, carefully sculpted recording in the band's 13-album catalog.” (Tom Moon, Spin).

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released August 17, 2018

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The Pere Ubu project was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. Assembled in August 1975 to be the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of the Cleveland music underground, the plan was to record one, maybe two singles and exist no more. Within months, however, those first self-produced records were being snapped up in worldwide. ... more

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