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Song Of The Bailing Man (CD)

By: Pere Ubu (Artist)

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Pere Ubu Artist Snapshot:

Pere Ubu was aptly named for Alfred Jarry's Dadaist play. One of the prime movers in post-punk, the influential Cleveland, Ohio, group took the power and volume of punk and the fractured song forms of avant-gardists like Captain Beefheart, then sent David Thomas's free-ranging vocalizing careening across the top. Founded in the 1970s, the group has undergone a multitude of manifestations to become one of the longest-lasting avant-garde ("avant-garage," they have called themselves) music groups, continuing to make uncommercial audio into the 21st century.

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DISC 1 for Song Of The Bailing Man (CD) Album By Pere Ubu (Artist)
1   Long Walk Home, The
2   Use Of A Dog
3   Petrified
4   Stormy Weather
5   West Side Story
6   Thoughts That Go By Steam
7   Big Ed's Used Farms
8   Day Such As This, A
9   Vulgar Boatman Bird, The
10   My Hat
11   Horns Are A Dilemma
 

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Review

Q (1/00, p.140) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...more satisfying to early Ubu fans....partly the sound of a band chasing its own tail, they still osund like they're having a fine time."
Alternative Press (4/00, pp.95-6) - 4 out of 5 - "...continues the downbeat trend, with even its more rocking tracks...suffused with melancholy confusion....This disc is an essential purchase, but they're definitely not dancefloor or party fodder."
The Wire (4/00, p.63) - "...Swathed in layers of reverb-as-sugarcoating and [drummer, Anton] Fier's backbeats ensure that every song here moves several bpm faster than anything else in [their] catalog....easily Ubu's most accessible material..."

Title Note

Pere Ubu: David Thomas (vocals); Mayo Thompson (guitar); Anton Fier (piano, marimba, drums, percussion); Allen Ravenstine (synthesizer); Tony Maimone (bass).

Recorded in August and December 1981, and January 1982.

The most restrained album of Pere Ubu's career, 1982's SONG OF THE BAILING MAN was the group's last before a five-year hiatus. Newest Ubu member Mayo Thompson (vocals, guitar), who had joined prior to 1981's THE ART OF WALKING, is almost entirely in control here, and the results sound more than a little like the whimsical art-rock of Thompson's once-and-future home, Red Krayola.

Although group leader David Thomas still sings the majority of the songs, even he seems to have retooled his unique vocal style to conform with the mood set by Thompson's skittering, playful guitar lines and Tony Maimone's springy, melodic bass. SONG OF THE BAILING MAN is considerably less dark and more song-oriented than the albums which preceded it, but it also lacks the pop tendencies of the albums made after the group's 1987 reformation.

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