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It is hard to believe that such noises could come from so deep in America's heartland, played by a group named after a French absurdist play. The debut album by Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance is the realization of group leader David Thomas's (a.k.a. Crocus Behemoth) high-concept vision of a rock band whose sound was always just on the verge of falling apart. Avant garde and not terribly accessible, the album's noisy anarchy was a tonic for punks and intellectuals sick of the bloated, corporate sound that passed for commercial rock at the time. It became a major influence on the leading alternative bands of the following decade, including the Pixies and Husker Du.
Recording information: Cleveland Sound Studios, Cleveland, OH (1976-1977); Suma Studio, Cleveland, OH (1976-1977).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Allen Rowenstine; Scott Knauss; Tom Herman; Tony Maimone.
Pere Ubu: Tom Herman, Scott Krauss, Tony Maimone, Allen Ravenstine, David Thomas (vocals, various instruments).
Personnel: David Thomas (vocals, musette, percussion); Tom Herman (guitar); Allen Ravenstine (keyboards, synthesizer); Scott Krauss (drums).
Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #14 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Ubu were punk's greatest no-future futurists..."
Q (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f you're curious about the original post-punks, THE MODERN DANCE remains absolutely essential."
The Wire (p.62) - "[With] impatient energy, out-of-nowhere sci-fi synthesizer playing...crowd-roaring, and David Thomas's astonishing voice..."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #34 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...Pere Ubu worked fearlessly on a planet of their own..." Pere Ubu Modern Dance Songs Modern Dance Music Review Purchase Modern Dance CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Husker Du Zen Arcade CD (1984)
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Husker Du really hit their stride on this sprawling 1984 release. ZEN ARCADE established the band as one of the leading lights on the American indie scene. The 23 songs are loosely linked to a narrative structure about a young man who leaves home, only to discover the world to be as oppressive and full of hypocrisy as home life had been. The songs show a marked increase in variety.
Along with classic ...
| | Minutemen Double Nickels On The Dime CD (1984)
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The CD reissue of DOUBLE NICKELS ON A DIME includes 43 songs. Two songs have been deleted from the original LP to insure playback on all CD players.
Principally recorded at Radio Tokyo, Venice, California in November 1983 and April 1984. Originally issued as a 2-LP set.
This sprawling double-length release is the Minutemen's undisputed high-water mark, and one of the seminal platters of the post-punk, pre-grunge years. It perfectly encapsulates the strengths shown in their early works, then ups the ante. DOUBLE NICKELS ...
| | Slint Spiderland CD (1991)
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| | Suicide CDs (1977)
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Seven years after the duo's inception, Suicide's debut album finally sneaked out in 1977 on the coat tails of the nascent New York punk scene. If its aim had been to confuse, startle, or repulse, SUICIDE succeeded in spades. By the same token, if a part-time sculptor and avant-garde jazz musician form a two-chord synthesizer duo and call it Suicide, commercial considerations are presumably low on their list of priorities. SUICIDE was a record destined to have future journalists reaching for words like "seminal". Synth duos start here.
SUICIDE's bleak, one-act plays of violence and sexual deviance, and that lo-fi monotone punctuated by sleazy groans and horrifying screams, still induce nervous tension despite the passing years. To hear Alan Vega, an Elvis caricature out of time, ...
| | Richard Hell Blank Generation CD (1977)
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| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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| | Artie "Blues Boy" White Home Tonight CD (1997)
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| | Oi! The Rarities, Vol. 3 CD (2005) (Import) Canada
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| | Greyboy Mastered The Art CD (2001)
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Andreas Stevens (aka Greyboy) first emerged as a DJ at the end of the 1980s. After christening Michael McFadin's Ubiquity imprint with his Greyboy 12" #1, he provided the label with one of its first full-lengths, 1994s Freestylin'. On his third outing, Mastered the Art, the DJs dusty, hip-hop beats are found mingling with the retro sounds of his extensive 8-track tape collection. Late '90s rare-groove may still be the best description but Mastered the Art's flavors include the sounds of Italian cinema, 70s easy listening and tropicalia as well. Supplying the exotica, are Greyboy Allstar multi-instrumentalist Elgin Park (guitar, piano, omnichord, sitar), and veteran jazz vibe player Dave Pike. It's plainly obvious that Steven's genre-warping concept couldn't have worked without them. "Polyphonix" mixes kitschy horns, space-age-bachelor vocals and late-night-jazz-club guitar musings. "Logan's Run" sounds like an appropriate theme song to the 1976 sci-fi film, albeit ...
| | Five Crowns Rainbow & Old Town Recordings CD (2002)
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The Five Crowns' claim to fame, of course, is that they turned into the Drifters in 1959, but these recordings were made four-to-seven years earlier, and they feature only one singer, bass-baritone Doc Green, who was also a member of the later ensemble. When the Five Crowns made their first single, "A Star"/"You're My Desire" for Rainbow Records in July 1952, their lineup consisted of Green, Wilbur "Yonkie" Paul, and the three Clark brothers -- James "Papa" Clark, Claudie "Nicky" Clark, and John "Sonny Boy" Clark -- with Paul singing lead on the up-tempo songs and "Papa" Clark taking over for the ballads. Both sides of the single, along with the contents of the group's three subsequent Rainbow singles, are included here, along with seven more tracks from Rainbow, three of which ...
| | Oh, No! It's Devo CD (1982)
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Devo had an arsenal of past video clips at their disposal, the band benefited greatly from the station's support. The album was musically similar to it's predecessor (keyboard programming and drum machines are a principal tool), and with the success of the videos for "Peek-A-Boo" and "That's Good," Devo were one of 1982's undisputed new wave kings. Although produced by Roy Thomas Baker, who ...
| | Chris Farlowe Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: Anthology 1970-2004 CD (2004)
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Chris Farlowe was nearly as active in the 1970s as he had been in the 1960s, even if he didn't sell remotely as many records. As a singer he was every bit as powerful, a soul belter capable of working in the contexts of hard rock and even progressive rock. This triple-CD, 46-song compilation (which might better have been called "Rock 'n' Soul Soldier") assembles most of the highlights of Farlowe's post-Immediate Records career, from 1970 through 2004. There are a few gaps, such as the absence of his work with Colosseum, but generally -- in terms of the stuff to which Farlowe has access -- he and the producers have excerpted the strongest tracks in that 34-year output, starting with three killer cuts off of The Chris Farlowe Band Live (the latter is an album that ought to be re-released intact). The two subsequent studio albums, Out of the Blue and Born Again, are well represented also, and make disc one a kind of revelation to anyone who didn't hear this material when it was circulating on vinyl; and the sound on those tracks is far superior to the audio off of those noisy old vinyl pressings -- the only flaw is the absence of precise credits for the band. Disc two picks up with no loss of momentum in the 1990s with Farlowe's Live in Berlin album, and carries us through the abortive attempt at restarting Immediate Records, which yielded a pair of killer tracks in Farlowe's re-recording of "Handbags and Gladrags" and the mod-era Small Faces' classic "All or Nothing." The material from As Time Goes By takes some getting used to, but after about a minute, one appreciates what Farlowe brings in expressiveness to "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," and "These Foolish Things." By the time we get to 2003's Farlowe That, and "Let's Get Together," he sounds like Al Green. Disc three is ...
| | Razorlight CD (2006)
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