pere ubu Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/pere-ubu/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:38:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Rocket From the Tombs “The Day the Earth Met The…” https://vinylfromthevault.com/rocket-from-the-tombs-the-day-the-earth-met-the/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rocket-from-the-tombs-the-day-the-earth-met-the Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:23:10 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/rocket-from-the-tombs-the-day-the-earth-met-the/ Rocket From the Tombs “The Day the Earth Met The…” 2002. Smog Veil Records. Subtitled “Live From Punk Ground Zero, Cleveland 1975” on marbled vinyl, I’m spinning this collection of early protopunk songs in honor of Joe’s birthday, who is pictured below with RFTT’s own Cheetah Chrome (Gene O’Connor) giving Joe bunny ears and Johnny Blitz (Madansky). It’s [...]

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]]> Rocket From the Tombs “The Day the Earth Met The…” 2002. Smog Veil Records. Subtitled “Live From Punk Ground Zero, Cleveland 1975” on marbled vinyl, I’m spinning this collection of early protopunk songs in honor of Joe’s birthday, who is pictured below with RFTT’s own Cheetah Chrome (Gene O’Connor) giving Joe bunny ears and Johnny Blitz (Madansky). It’s become a tradition for me to write about records or bands that I usually won’t listen to – but in this case I’m really fine with Rocket From the Tombs. The Stooges-influenced 70′s band, plagued with internal strife from the outset, split after just a couple of years and formed The Dead Boys (Chrome and Blitz plus the fantastic Stiv Bators). The other half, Peter Laughner and David Thomas (Crocus Behemoth) formed Pere Ubu (who I really don’t care for.) This double LP (“the greatest album never recorded”) has early versions of “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” and “Final Solution,” which Pere Ubu would later rerecord and self-release as singles, as well as the entirely insane “Life Stinks” (on The Modern Dance). “What Love Is,” “Ain’t It Fun,” “Down in Flames” and “Sonic Reducer” all showed up on on the Dead Boys’ debut Young Loud and Snotty. RFTT also honor The Stooges with fairly authentic covers of  “Raw Power” and “Search & Destroy” plus a sludgy punk version of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.”

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]]> 11705 Pere Ubu “390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo” https://vinylfromthevault.com/pere-ubu-390-degrees-of-simulated-stereo-1981/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pere-ubu-390-degrees-of-simulated-stereo-1981 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:56:21 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=4130 Pere Ubu “390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo” 1981. Rough Trade Records. Live performances from ‘76-’79 in Cleveland, Brussels, London and Massachusetts. I think this LP is currently out of print. Disclosure: I do not like Pere Ubu but it’s my husband Joe’s birthday today and he really likes them so I’m giving this live recording a full [...]

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]]> Pere Ubu “390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo” 1981. Rough Trade Records. Live performances from ‘76-’79 in Cleveland, Brussels, London and Massachusetts. I think this LP is currently out of print.

Disclosure: I do not like Pere Ubu but it’s my husband Joe’s birthday today and he really likes them so I’m giving this live recording a full listen. AllMusic’s John Dougan writes “it is a warts’n’all snapshot of their career…[it’s] of a very lo-fi quality – I’m talking portable cassette recorder quality. But that doesn’t mean it impossible to enjoy the music; quite the contrary, the grubby sound enhances what were probably grimy, claustrophobic gigs.” Well, I’m going to disagree a little about the “enjoy” part, but Pere Ubu does occupy an important place in the evolution of post-punk art rock, placing an emphasis on dissonance, anti-melody and aural experimentation. “30 Seconds Over Tokyo,” Pere Ubu’s debut single from 1975, appears on the LP, recorded in ‘77 at Pirate’s Cove in Cleveland, where, according to the album’s back cover notes, the band played nearly every Thursday for a year. I do like the bass line, but at certain points the live version totally dissolves into a frenzy of high-pitched whining noise, punctuating the destruction conveyed by the song’s lyrics:

Flew off early in the haze of dawn
In a metal dragon locked in time
Skimming waves of an underground sea
In some kind of a dream world fantasy

Sun a hot circle on a canopy
‘25 a racing blot on a bright green sea
Ahead, the dim blur of an alien land
Time to give ourselves to strange gods’ hands

Dark flak spiders bursting in the sky
Reaching twisted claws on every side
No place to run, no place to hide
No turning back on a suicide ride

Toy city streets crawling through my sights
Sprouting clumps of mushrooms like a world surreal
This dream won’t ever seem to end
And time seems like it’ll never begin

30 seconds
And a one way ride
30 seconds
And no place to hide
30 seconds over Tokyo

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