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	The History of Rock Music. Pere Ubu: history, discography, reviews, links
		The modern dance of Pere Ubu is a funeral rite for humanity after the catastrophe: there is the anguish of an inescapable fate, there is the agony and the delirium, the slow decay into the shapelessness, the immaterial chaos of the soul.
		Pere Ubu here arrive at a point of maturity which enables them to delineate each track with total mastery of means and with a formal elegance that succeeds wonderfully in not jarring with the barbaric impetus.
		Pere Ubu's major contribution to musical history is without doubt that of the "modern dance", a form of dance which borrows from primitive ritual, from funk, from garage-rock and from the music of the avant-garde.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol4/pereubu.html (9312 words)

	Pere Ubu (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pere Ubu have consistently conducted their affairs as they see fit, regardless of convention: They refuse to discuss or explain their sometimes odd music, forgoing the usual banter of newspaper and press interviews.
		Pere Ubu have compiled a list of protocols for touring, live performances and the like, including such statements as, "Lighting should be theatrical rather than rockist.
		Pere Ubu's debut single was "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (inspired by the "Doolittle Raid" and named after a film depicting the raid), backed with "Heart of Darkness"; followed by "Final Solution" in 1976.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pere_Ubu_%28band%29 (1166 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pere Ubu (group) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While Pere Ubu have never been widely popular--usually categorized as "underground rock"--they have a devoted following, have been hugely influential on several generations of forward-thinking musicians and are among the most critically acclaimed American musical groups.
		Pere Ubu's debut single was "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (inspired by and named after the 1942 "Doolittle Raid") backed with "Heart of Darkness"; followed by "Final Solution" in 1976.
		Pere Ubu imagined 1950s and 1960s garage rock and surf music archetypes as seen in a distorting funhouse mirror, emphasising the music's angst, loneliness and lyrical paranoia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pere-Ubu-%28group%29 (1088 words)

	Pere Ubu Biography
		Pere Ubu boards a train that passes through a modern nation as if it were an ancient land, all ruin and portent, prophecy and decay.
		Pere Ubu was either ahead of its time or out of step altogether; the band's earliest music sounds as if it could have been recorded yesterday, and is likely to keep sounding that way for some time.
		Pere Ubu was formed as a studio project that drew on a body of musicians who were involved in a Cleveland underground music scene that by August 1975 seemed to have run its course.
	ubuprojex.net /pereubu.html (1724 words)

	Pere Ubu Biographies
		She is involved in the Pere Ubu Film Group providing live soundtrack music for films.
		He was invited to drum for Pere Ubu in late 1995 ahead of the Raygun Suitcase tour.
		In 2006 he contributed to the Pere Ubu release, Why I Remix Women, and appeared as a member of David Thomas and the pale gagarins.
	ubuprojex.net /bio.html (3069 words)

	Pere Ubu Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unfortunately, most criticism-- of Pere Ubu, of many other folks-- assumes that words have one meaning, that desires point in a single direction, that ideas are logical; it ignores the fact that the world of language, noise and desire is one of lack, insecurity, interruption, struggle, blundering, disguises, ploys, embarrassed grins.
		Pere Ubu boards a train that passes through a modern nation as if it were an ancient land, all ruin and portent, prophecy and decay.
		Pere Ubu was either ahead of its time or out of step altogether; the band's earliest music sounds as if it could have been recorded yesterday, and is likely to keep sounding that way for some time.
	www.projex.demon.co.uk /pu_bio.html (1323 words)

	'UBU ROI'
		Ubu Roi created a scandal when it was first performed in the Theatre de l’Oeuvre in Paris in 1896 and was described by André Gide as "the most extraordinary thing seen in the theatre for a long time".
		The figure of Père Ubu was to be a potent one for Jarry, who became obsessed by his creation, to the point that he began to imitate him, adopting an odd way of speaking, referring to himself as ‘Père Ubu’ and behaving in a highly eccentric, Ubuesque manner.
		Ubu Roi attracted critical acclaim, puzzlement and curiosity."...as exciting a piece of modern book publication as we have ever seen" claimed New Directions Books in their catalogue in January 1952; a "striking example of brains and imagination in book production" commented a writer in Ark, Journal of the Royal College of Art, 1954).
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/wid/exhibits/gaberbocchus-press/uburoi.html (1032 words)

	Review - Pere Ubu
		I picked this show to review for two reasons: (1) I was curious to see Pere Ubu, whose influence has been expressed to me time and time again by members of bands that span the globe and (2) opportunities to see true "originals" are rare and usually enlightening, as was the case this time.
		Once the music started, I realized that the unexpected was happening: the really neat thing about Pere Ubu is their bold willingness to take unusual combinations of instrumentation and styles and whip them together into a concoction that truly defies categorization.
		Pere Ubu has updated their look for the 90's by having a female bass player, Michele Temple.
	www.sonicenvelope.com /ubu.html (761 words)

	Pere Ubu - St. Arkansas. Review by Austen Zuege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pere Ubu are as honest as a nightmare.
		Pere Ubu seems to have begun this journey as explorers, but in the end find themselves at the mercy other powers.
		Pere Ubu are still a most important group of today.
	www.bluedark.com /reviews/Pere_Ubu--St_Arkansas.htm (504 words)

	spinART records : Pere Ubu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pere Ubu's music is a unique blend of midwestern hard, groove rock, "found" sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals.
		Perhaps Pere Ubu's darkest and most dramatic statement yet, St. Arkansas is a work of off-hand brilliance by a band who often seem capable of miracles.
		Pere Ubu is David Thomas (vocals), Tom Herman (guitar, organ, backing vocals), Jim Jones (organ, guitar), Robert Wheeler (EML synthesizer, theremin, piano), Michele Temple (bass, piano, organ) and Steve Mehlman (drums, organ).
	www.spinartrecords.com /site/bandpage.php?id=40 (183 words)

	RollingStone.com: The Modern Dance : Pere Ubu : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Both Pere Ubu and the Suicide Commandos are from the Midwest (Cleveland and Minneapolis, respectively), and The Modern Dance and Make a Record are the first two releases on Blank, an intelligently subversive subsidiary of Mercury.
		Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance is harsh and willfully ugly, yet always mindful of certain rock and roll imperatives: a solid beat, snappy lyrics and engaging themes.
		Ubu tends to break these imperatives apart: if the lyrics are funny, the melody will be excruciatingly abstract; if the melody is catchy, the lyrics will be intentionally dull or indecipherable.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/221015/pereubu?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1 (466 words)

	Pere Ubu
		I've been reading Pere Ubu's website and some interviews with their singer David Thomas and his theories on Rock and Roll are highly recommended especially to the more knowledgeable members and reviewers on this site.
		Ubu is a band from the industrial north of America and a rust-belt, no-glamour city of Cleveland and their music is a sonic portrait of that landscape with all of its rough edges showing.
		pere ubu had toured with their 'heirs' the Pixies and the two bands borrowed a lot from each other.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/pereubuc.htm (861 words)

	Sweet Corn Productions - UBU
		UBU was adapted from dada master Alfred Jarry’s Ubu On The Hill written in 1888.
		Ubu’s favorite word, “merdre,” was accurately translated to English and shouted, as scripted, throughout the play with great frequency and relish.
		UBU was commissioned as part of a DADA Festival that took place during the summer of 1971 on the five college campuses in the Amherst area: Amherst College, Hampshire College, University of Mass., Mount Holyoke, and Smith College.
	www.buddybuddy.com /sw-d09.html (456 words)

	Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Albums - Pere Ubu: Apocalypse Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although Pere Ubu has always been a band that needs to be experienced, Ubu has never been touted for its strong live performances.
		To most people, Pere Ubu live means watching the band's oversized leader, David Thomas, stalk the stage, clad in a dark overcoat or baggy suit, spewing weird poetic exclamations, murmuring and hiccuping the punctuation marks with arms flailing.
		Some of the best stuff on Pere Ubu's 1996 five-CD boxset, Datapanik in the Year Zero, was found in the live recordings from their European tour, rocking in some tiny club in Brussels in 1978.
	www.hearsay.cc /reviews/albums/03-02-09-99/PereUbu.html (476 words)

	Pere Ubu \| Moneypenny Agency
		Pere Ubu burst upon the scene in 1975 and changed the face of music.
		Pere Ubu make a music that is a disorienting mix of midwestern riff rock, "found" sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals.
		In the early to mid-70s Pere Ubu was part of a fertile rock scene that also produced 15-60-75, Mirrors, The Electric Eels, Rocket From The Tombs, Tin Huey, Styrene Money and Devo.
	www.moneypennymusic.co.uk /pere_ubu (207 words)

	PERE UBU
		For the better part of three decades, Pere Ubu has been challenging perceptions -- perceptions held by the powers that pull the strings of pop culture as a whole as well as those held by those already drawn into the band's inner circle.
		That edition of Ubu -- responsible for such enduring classics as 1978's The Modern Dance and the same year's Dub Housing -- lasted until 1982, at which point Thomas turned his attentions to other projects and solo works that were taking him in a more eccentric, more improvisational direction.
		That appraisal might seem unduly pessimistic, given the plaudits Ubu has garnered over the years, but Thomas puts forward the notion that he -- and by extension, his compatriots -- are "doomed" to exist in an odd limbo, one independent of both pop culture and carefully-constructed counter-culture.
	www.billions.com /artists/pereubu (985 words)

	VH1.com : Pere Ubu : Biography
		Pere Ubu emerged from the urban wastelands of mid-'70s Cleveland to impact the American underground for generations to follow; led by hulking frontman
		Laughner's longstanding battles with drugs and alcohol forced his exit from Pere Ubu in June of 1976; within a year, he was dead.
		He recorded 1987's Blame the Messenger with the Wooden Birds, a backing band including fellow Ubu alums Ravenstine and Maimone; after Krauss sat in for a Cleveland live date, the decision was made to begin working as Pere Ubu again.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/pere_ubu/bio.jhtml (493 words)

	Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - Pere Ubu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pere Ubu has held up surprisingly well for the past 11 albums.
		While it is likely that many a "hardcore" Ubu fan was turned off by the more poppy affairs of the late 80s and early 90s (particularly the straightforward Cloudland, even though it was an excellent album), the band has remained credible for its entire career.
		After all, Pere Ubu is the most consistent band I can think of, especially considering they've been around since the mid-70s.
	www.adequacy.net /reviews/p/pereubu.shtml (876 words)

	David Thomas: Pere Ubu : The Modern Dance : An interview with spike magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Along with new-wave band Devo, Pere Ubu had thrashed on the fringes of Cleveland, Ohio's music circuit for a few years in the guise of Rocket From The Tombs.
		But it's something other that sets Pere Ubu apart; something alien, almost dangerous, ironic and fascinating that lurks within their out-of-shape yet tight as metal song structures; those purely dynamic slabs of fury that present apocalyptic landscapes, stellar production and emotions of insanity that burn your ears out.
		Ubu fit into that cult category of being a band that made people want form their own bands.
	www.spikemagazine.com /0305davidthomas_pereubu.php (1644 words)

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		If David or Ubu Projex is meant to float any such road expenses the details must be agreed in advance with the Directors of Ubu Projex.
		Ubu Projex will happily convert pounds to $s at the best possible rate (it's always better to do this in London and not in the US!) on the last day of the tour - but it is your responsibility to co-ordinate this with UP.
		Once an Ubu musician, partner or not, makes himself unavailable for Ubu work he is liable to be replaced with no guarantee or assured expectation of reinstatement.
	ubuprojex.net /protocols.html (6337 words)

	Pere Ubu
		"I consider Pere Ubu to be a pop band, totally the same as Wings, or The Music Explosion or The Archies.
		While David Thomas may have playfully called Pere Ubu 'pop' there was nothing commercial in their early sound.
		Ubu's world is rarely comfortable, full of the space beyond the electric light and what it does to people, but always direct and unwavering.
	www.punk77.co.uk /groups/pereubu.htm (457 words)

	Pere Ubu: Dub Housing: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cleveland's Pere Ubu were one of the strangest, most advanced, and most uncompromising bands of the punk era.
		Ubu juggled, channeled and distorted their esoteric influences like the Velvets, Roxy Music, Captain Beefheart, Red Krayola, Sun Ra and the madcap spirit of Alfred Jarry's provocative surrealist drama.
		Ubu was well received in New York, of course, and helped to shape the sound of no-wave.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/p/pere-ubu/dub-housing.shtml (520 words)

	Pere Ubu: Song Of The Bailing Man -- Ink Blot Magazine
		Pere Ubu formed from the ashes of Rocket From The Tombs, a little-known Cleveland avant-garage band led by vocalist David Thomas and guitarist Peter Laughner.
		When it first came out it represented a drastic change from all previous Ubu records; crisp melodies, hyperactive jazz-rock percussion, and straightforward lyrics replaced the noisy musique concrete and fragmentary songwriting of yore.
		Part of the change could be attributed to the replacement of drummer Scott Krauss by Anton fier, whose all-over attack was matched in force only by his combative personality.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Pere_Ubu_Bailing.htm (313 words)

	Pere Ubu: Yet Another J. Eric Smith Interview . . . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pere Ubu have also been vexed with more than a career's worth of shoddy vinyl pressings and record company indifference and/or incompetence.
		Jim Jones (a one-time Pere Ubu roadie who has served as the band's guitarist since 1987) features strongly on Terminal Drive: he can be heard playing with Mirrors ("A cool band to be with, back in '74, and a great learning experience for me", he recalls), Electric Eels ("Absolute terror.
		Rocket From the Tombs were an Ubu precursor that featured Thomas, future Dead Boys Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome and guitarist-cum-critic Peter Laughner, who died of rock n' roll life-style complications in 1977.
	www.jericsmith.com /ubuint.htm (1164 words)

	Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower Review
		Pere Ubu is one of those bands that probably never planned on being as influential as they eventually became.
		Not only did Pere Ubu do all of their early music all by themselves but they did it well and without compromise.
		Pere Ubu was a totally original act that proved if you were / are talented that you don’t need money in order to get out to your fans.
	www.musicemissions.com /display_review/1133 (211 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Pere Ubu
		It includes two songs remade from early 45s that Pere Ubu had released on its Hearthan label (when Thomas was calling himself Crocus Behemoth and the late Peter Laughner was one of the sextet's guitarists and main songwriters).
		Pere Ubu formally reformed in late 1987, but all that actually meant was a name change and inclusion of Scott Krauss in the lineup of Thomas' most recent solo support band, the Wooden Birds.
		Prior to his stint in Ubu, Jones played with a number of seminal bands, ranging from the psychedelically inclined Mirrors (which survived from 1974 well into the '90s, although Jones split in the first decade) to the aforementioned Home and Garden.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=pere_ubu (2352 words)

	The Home of Ubu Projex
		This is a consequence of allowing Johnny to establish pink as the official Pere Ubu color all those years ago.
		A few Pere Ubu dates are coming up at the end of September / beginning of October.
		The latest Pere Ubu release: "A fl and incandescent jewel and without question a peak of the ubuesque oeuvre.
	www.ubuprojex.net (2863 words)

	nthposition online magazine: 'St Arkansas' by Pere Ubu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pere Ubu, too, are more restrained in their output, while the Fall have produced it must be something like 40 albums, this is Ubu's 18th.
		Any consideration of Pere Ubu is inevitably coloured by the shadow of their classic first album, 'The Modern Dance', which was key in showing the way music could go after the purgative blast of punk.
		While this album does not have anything like the sheer heft that 'Modern Dance' did, it is closer in many ways to the feel and intent of that record than much of their other studio output.
	www.nthposition.com /starkansasbypere.php (537 words)

	Pere Ubu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		an experimental rock music group, see Pere Ubu (band).
		the enigmatic central figure of Ubu Roi, a play by Alfred Jarry.
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pere_Ubu (130 words)

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