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‘Elistism For The People 1975-1978’ is a four-disc ‘bookback’ set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the seismic debut album ‘Modern Dance’, it’s follow up ‘Dub Housing’ and ‘The Hearpen Singles’ and the incendiary ‘Live At Max’s Kansas City’. The set collects the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devasting one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends.

“The Modern Dance is one of the first and greatest art-rock records.” The Guardian

Reinventing rock music from the ground up, Pere Ubu are equally at ease with Sun Ra and The Monkees, Glen Campbell and The MC5, Can and The Raspberries, they are the white Funkadelic.

“Harsh and willfully ugly, yet always mindful of certain rock & roll imperatives: a solid beat, snappy lyrics and engaging themes” Rolling Stone

As vital as ever, no band before or since has ever sounded like Pere Ubu - period.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One - The Modern Dance
1 Non-Alignment Pact
2 Modern Dance
3 Laughing
4 Street Waves
5 Chinese Radiation
6 Life Stinks
7 Real World
8 Over My Head
9 Sentimental Journey
10 Humor Me
Disc Two - Dub Housing
1 Navvy
2 On The Surface
3 Dub Housing
4 Caligari's Mirror
5 Thriller!
6 I, Will Wait
7 Drinking Wine Spodyody
8 (Pa) Ubu Dance Party
9 Blow Daddy-o
10 Codex
Disc Three - The Hearpen Singles
1 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
2 Heart Of Darkness
3 Final Solution
4 Cloud 149
5 Untitled
6 Street Waves
7 My Dark Ages
8 Modern Dance
9 Heaven
Disc Four - Manhattan: Live At Max's Kansas City 1977
1 My Dark Ages
2 Heaven
3 Sentimental Journey
4 Over My Head
5 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
6 Life Stinks