4LP Box Set With Poster And Download Post Card
Third, and final, box set includes ‘The Tenement Year’ (1988), ‘Cloudland’ (1989), ‘Worlds In Collison’ (1991) and ‘The Lost Album’ (1989).
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. The third in the four-part boxed set series, ‘Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés 1987-1991’ sits between ‘The Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’ and ‘Drive, He Said 1994-2002’.
“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 on ‘The Tenement Year’.
One year later and things were further obscured with ‘Cloudland’ when they released “their industrial-strength equivalent of a class Beach Boys album from musicians more familiar with factories than surf.” (Greg Kot, Chicago Sun Times). Then, in 1991, ‘Worlds In Collision’ became “the most atmospheric, carefully sculpted recording in the band's 13-album catalog.” (Tom Moon, Spin).
Here we have Pere Ubu between 1987 and 1991 with three phenomenal pop albums, together with the ‘Lost Album’, an 11-track record of demos that sounds like they’d loosened the nut and bolts of the genre even further.
Four of these tracks, ‘Around The Fire’,’ Down By The River’, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ‘Invisible Man’ were recorded as demos for the album originally designed to follow ‘Cloudland’. Referred to by the band as ‘The Lost Album’ they are now joined with songs from ‘Cloudland’ that wouldn’t fit on the original vinyl release due to the length limitations of vinyl. The record also includes a tribute to Van Dyke Parks ‘Wine Dark Sparks’ and ‘Bang The Drum’ inspired by a Van Dyke Parks song. Genius.
Remastered by Paul Hamann at Suma Studio in February 2017 and designed by John Thompson, the four LP box set will be released on 4th April 2018. Pere Ubu will also be on the road across Europe through May and June 2018.
Elitism For The People 1975-1978 – Ltd Edition Bookback 4XCD
£45 GBP
Architecture of Language 1979-1982 – Ltd Edition Bookback 4XCD
£45 GBP
The Art Of Walking – LP
£16 GBP
Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania + St Arkansas LP bundle
£38 GBP
Dub Housing – LP
£16 GBP
St. Arkansas – St Arkansas + Pennsylvania LP bundle
£38 GBP
Raygun Suitcase – Limited Edition White LP (RSD2023)
£24 GBP
New Picnic Time – LP
£16 GBP
Terminal Tower – Record Store Day 180g vinyl
£18 GBP
The Tenement Year – Ltd Edition Clear Vinyl LP
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Elitism For The People 1975-1978 – 4xLP Box
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Carnival Of Souls – 12" Black Vinyl Edition
£16 GBP
The Modern Dance – 'The Modern Dance' & 'Dub Housing' LP bundle
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Drive, He Said 1994 - 2002 – 4LP box set with poster and download postcard
£60 GBP
Cloudland – LP
£16 GBP
Worlds In Collision – LP
£16 GBP
Pennsylvania – Ltd Edition Blue LP
£22 GBP
Carnival Of Souls – Limited Edition Gold Vinyl
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Architecture of Language 1979-1982 – 4 LP Box with poster and download card
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Song Of The Bailing Man – LP
£16 GBP
The Modern Dance – Ltd Edition White Vinyl LP
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390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo – Ltd Edition Yellow LP (RSD21)
£24 GBP
St. Arkansas – Ltd Edition Blue LP
£22 GBP
390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo – Black LP
£22 GBP
The Modern Dance – LP
£18 GBP
Worlds In Collision – CD
£12 GBP
Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania + St Arkansas CD bundle
£20 GBP
St. Arkansas – CD
£12 GBP
New Picnic Time – CD
Sold Out
The Hearpen Singles – CD
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Raygun Suitcase – CD
£12 GBP
Cloudland – CD
£12 GBP
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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.
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