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Architecture Of Language: 1979-1982

    ‘Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’ is a four disc CD bookback set with excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the ground-breaking ‘New Picnic Time’ described by one critic as the “scariest album ever recorded”. Plus ‘The Art Of Walking’ featuring Mayo Thomson of Red Crayola, ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’ and a further CD of glorious out-takes and oddities, ‘Architectural Salvage’. This release features Ubu approved notes and memorabilia.

    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.



    “Inspired, invigorating, confounding, disturbing…” Rolling Stone.

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

    TRACK LISTING

    Disc One - New Picnic Time
    1 The Fabulous Sequel (Have Shoes Will Walk)
    2 49 Guitars And One Girl
    3 A Small Dark Cloud
    4 Small Was Fast
    5 All The Dogs Are Barking
    6 One Less Worry
    7 Make Hay
    8 Goodbye
    9 Voice Of The Sand
    10 Kingdom Come
    Disc Two - The Art Of Walking
    1 Go
    2 Rhapsody In Pink
    3 Arabia
    4 Misery Goats
    5 Young Miles In The Basement
    6 Loop
    7 Rounder
    8 Birdies
    9 Lost In Art
    10 Horses
    11 Crush This Horn
    Disc Three - Song Of The Bailing Man
    1 The Long Walk Home
    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 A Day Such As This
    9 The Vulgar Boatman Bird
    10 My Hat
    11 Horns Are A Dilemma
    Disc Four - Architectural Salvage
    1 Humor Me - Live
    2 The Book Is On The Table
    3 All The Dogs Are Barking (alt Mix 4)
    4 Arabian Nights
    5 Tribute To Miles
    6 Horses (alt Mix 3)
    7 Rounder (alt Mix 1)
    8 Not Happy
    9 Lonesome Cowboy Dave

    Pere Ubu

    Elitism For The People: 1975-1978

      ‘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

      Pere Ubu

      390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo V2.1 - 2022 Reissue

        Originally released on vinyl in 1981. Long lost and simply breath taking live Ubu classic culled from 1981 recordings in Cleveland, London and Brussels featuring the band’s original line up. An essential pressing for all fans of the the celebrated post-punk innovators.

        TRACK LISTING

        Side A.
        A1 Non-Alignment Pact
        A2 Street Waves
        A3 Real World
        A4 My Dark Ages
        A5 The Modern Dance
        A6 Humor Me.
        Side B.
        B1 Heart Of Darkness
        B2 Laughing
        B3 Can't Believe It
        B4 Over My Head
        B5 Sentimental Journey
        B6 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 

        Pere Ubu

        Nuke The Whales 2006-2014

          Rewriting the history of music, Pere Ubu continue to confound convention and shift personnel. The next box set in Fire Records’ reissue series, ‘Nuke The Whales’ houses 4 LPs originally released between 2006 and 2014 –
          'Why I LUV Women’, 'Carnival Of Souls’, ‘Lady Of Shanghai’ and Long Live Pere Ubu!’

          ‘Nuke The Whales,’ is a nod of respect to a couple in Cleveland who would daub such messages over the big news stations’ advertising boards. “Very few bands display such dedication to constant self-reinvention as Pere Ubu” The Quietus.

          All four albums have been remixed and remastered by original Pere Ubu member David Thomas. ‘Why I LUV Women’, originally released on Glitterhouse in 2006, gains its first vinyl release. "Spews 11 tunes of arcane lyrics and dense music” shrieked The Cleveland Gazaette.

          It’s joined by ‘Long Live Pere Ubu’ a soundtrack to a musical adaptation of the play. “Skronking, squalling rhythms and melodic snippets undulating round a pulsating soundscape." Record Collector

          And ‘Lady From Shanghai’, their Fire debut for Fire in 2013. Originally released on the 35th anniversary of the group's debut, ‘The Modern Dance’, a latter day re-evaluation of the unprompted dance genre.

          And its follow up ‘Carnival Of Souls’, a haunting “underscore’ to a tale of alienation, it “combines metallic percussion, spare guitars and David Thomas' muttered vocals into something rustic and rickety, yet threatening at a moment's notice.” AllMusic.

          TRACK LISTING

          Disc 1 - Why I LUV Women
          A1 Two Girls (One Bar)
          A2 Babylonian Warehouses
          A3 Blue Velvet
          A4 Caroleen
          A5 Flames Over Nebraska
          B1 Love Song
          B2 Stolen Cadillac
          B3 Mona
          B4 Synth Farm
          B5 Texas Overture

          Disc 2 - Lady From Shanghai
          C1 Thanks
          C2 Free White
          C3 Feuksly Ma'am, The Hearing
          C4 Mandy
          C5 Musicians Are Scum
          C6 Another One
          D1 And Then Nothing Happened
          D2 Road Trip Of Bipasha Ahmed
          D3 Lampshade Man
          D4 414 Seconds
          D5 The Carpenter Sun

          Disc 3 - Carnival Of Souls
          E1 Golden Surf II
          E2 Drag The River
          E3 Irene
          E4 Road To Utah
          E5 Throb Array
          F1 Visions Of The Moon
          F2 Dr Faustus
          F3 Bus Station
          F4 Carnival
          F5 Moonstruck

          Disc 4 - Long Live Pere Ubu!
          G1 Ubu Overture
          G2 Song Of The Grocery Police
          G3 Banquet Of The Butchers
          G4 Tear Your Eyes Out
          G5 March Of Greed
          G6 Big Sombrero
          G7 Bring Me The Head
          G8 Alienating The Audience
          H1 Road To Reason
          H2 Slowly I Turn
          H3 Watching The Pigeons
          H4 The Story So Far
          H5 Snowy Livonia, Pt 1
          H6 Elsinore & Beyond

          Pere Ubu

          Pennsylvania - Reissue

            From the turn of the millennium, ‘Pennsylvania’ was the eleventh studio album from this uncompromising and influential group, presenting their dark take on pop music. This edition is newly remixed by David Thomas in 2021 and reissued on Fire Records. “Everyone talked about our artiness and our unlikeableness, people completely ignored for decades me saying, ‘We’re a pop band’.” David Thomas. With ‘Pennsylvania,’ Pere Ubu welcome you to a barely recognisable secret country drawn out of its own spectral geography... This is much more than just music.

            “[Pere Ubu] were still creating great works of abstract art, pushing the limits of rock ‘n’ roll to twist into avant-garde explorations of the darkest recesses of the human mind” Classic Rock // “From the beginning they obviously understood the nuts and bolts of popular music, and then loosened them.” Mojo

            TRACK LISTING

            Side A
            A1 Woolie Bullie
            A2 Highwaterville
            A3 SAD.TXT
            A4 Urban Lifestyle
            A5 Silent Spring
            A6 Mr Wheeler
            A7 Muddy Waters

            Side B
            B1 Drive
            B2 Indiangiver
            B3 Monday Morning
            B4 Perfume
            B5 Fly's Eye
            B6 Wheelhouse

            Pere Ubu

            St. Arkansas - Reissue

              Pere Ubu's darkest and most dramatic statement, ‘St Arkansas’ remains a work of offhand brilliance by a band who often seem capable of miracles. This edition is newly remixed by David Thomas in 2021 and reissued on Fire Records. Following ‘Pennsylvania’, ‘St Arkansas’ (2002) was Pere Ubu’s next studio album featuring a travelogue of characters encountered on the Mighty Road from Conway Arkansas to Tupelo Mississippi, I-40 to US 49 to State 6. “I drove the route and wrote down what the Road was telling me.” David Thomas. Pere Ubu are the mainstream.

              “Immediate, energised and claustrophobic.. It's difficult to think of a more important band.” Mojo.

              “Straddling the extremes of pure, uncompromising modern art and pure, uncompromising loud rock.” The Sunday Times.

              TRACK LISTING

              Side A
              A1 The Feverered Dream Of Hernando DeSoto
              A2 Slow Walking Daddy
              A3 Michele
              A4 333
              A5 Hell

              Side B
              B1 Phone Home Jonah
              B2 Lisbon
              B3 Mr Steve
              B4 Where's The Truth
              B5 Dark

              Pere Ubu

              390 Of Simulated Stereo V.21C (RSD21 EDITION)

                THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2021 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY JUNE 12TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 6PM ON THE SAME DAY (SATURDAY JUNE 12TH).


                1000 pressed on Yellow vinyl & DL card. Last released on vinyl in 1981. Long lost and simply breath taking live Ubu classic culled from 1981 recordings in Cleveland, London and Brussels featuring the bandís original line up. An essential pressing for all fans of the the celebrated post-punk innovators. 

                TRACK LISTING

                Side A. A1 Non-Alignment Pact A2 Street Waves A3 Real World A4 My Dark Ages A5 The Modern Dance A6 Humor Me.
                Side B. B1 Heart Of Darkness B2 Laughing B3 Can't Believe It B4 Over My Head B5 Sentimental Journey B6 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

                Pere Ubu

                20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo



                  Fronted as ever by David Thomas, Pere Ubu unveil their new album, 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo, which opens the doors of the avant-garage to reveal the hardworking mechanics hammering away at the fundamentals of blue-collar rock.

                  A three-guitar revision sees Keith Moliné, Gary Siperko and Kristof Hahn (The Swans) expand the established orchestra of analog and digital synths (Wheeler, Gagarin), clarinet (Boon), drums (Mehlman) and Thomas’ unique vocals.
                  20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo follows their 2015 release Carnival of Souls, which was widely praised by the media and used by cult series 'American Horror Story' in Season 4.

                  David Thomas: “The new album is The James Gang teaming up with Tangerine Dream. The Chinese Whispers methodology we worked on the last two albums has been replaced by the Dark Room. Put musicians in a lightless room and by feeling one small section of an unknown object have them figure what it must be.”

                  The album was recorded and mixed at Suma, Painesville Ohio. Engineer Paul Hamann, and his father before him, have been part of almost every Pere Ubu album since 1976.

                  Pere Ubu

                  The Art Of Walking

                    Released in 1980, ‘The Art Of Walking’ sees Pere Ubu ‘moving even further from the conventions of rock music - and from their own past - but still moving forward, without a doubt, and losing none of their integrity as a group.’ (Melody Maker, Chris Cutler). The album features in new box set, ‘Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’, released in March. It gathers together ‘New Picnic Time’ with its companion releases, ‘The Art Of Walking’ and ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’ plus LP of extras, ‘Architectural Salvage’. Coed Jail! Live dates mark the release of the box with a set list drawn exclusively from the recordings of 1975-1982. Tom Herman, guitarist from 1975 to 1979 and from 1997 to 2002, rejoins the band for the tour. The line-up is David Thomas, Tom Herman, Robert Wheeler, Michele Temple and Steve Mehlman. Wheeler and Temple have been in Pere Ubu since 1994, Mehlman since 1995. 

                    TRACK LISTING

                    01 Go
                    02 Rhapsody In Pink
                    03 Arabia 04 Misery Goats
                    05 Young Miles In The Basement
                    06 Loop
                    07 Rounder
                    08 Birdies
                    09 Lost In Art
                    10 Horses
                    11 Crush This Thorn 

                    Released in 1982, 'Song of the Bailing Man' is an ‘inspired, invigorating, confounding, disturbing... yeah, one hell of a swinging way to go. Still the futility Ubu must have felt making far sighted music in a chronically near-sighted world is pressed hard into these grooves.’ (Melody Maker, David Fricke).

                    The album features in new LP box set, ‘Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’, released in March. It gathers together ‘New Picnic Time’ with its companion releases, ‘The Art Of Walking’ and ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’ plus LP of extras, ‘Architectural Salvage’. Spring dates mark the release of the box with a set list drawn exclusively from the recordings of 1975-1982. Tom Herman, guitarist from 1975 to 1979 and from 1997 to 2002, rejoins the band for the tour. The line-up is David Thomas, Tom Herman, Robert Wheeler, Michele Temple and Steve Mehlman. Wheeler and Temple have been in Pere Ubu since 1994, Mehlman since 1995. 

                    TRACK LISTING

                    01 The Long Walk Home
                    02 Use Of A Dog
                    03 Petrified
                    04 Stormy Weather
                    05 West Side Story
                    06 Thoughts That Go By Steam
                    07 Big Ed’s Used Farms
                    08 A Day Such As This
                    09 The Vulgar Boatman Bird
                    10 My Hat
                    11 Horns Are A Dilemma


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