Biography

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.

Top Tracks

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• 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

• Birdies

• Caligari's Mirror

• Codex

• Fedora Satellite Ii

• Final Solution

• Go

• Heart Of Darkness

• Highwaterville

• Kathleen

• Life Stinks

• Louisiana Train Wreck

• Misery Goats

• Mr. Wheeler

• Navvy

• Nonalignment Pact

• Non-alignment Pact

• The Fabulous Sequel

• The Modern Dance

• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

• Ubu Dance Party

• Urban Lifestyle

• Wheelhouse

Discography

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• Why I Hate Women

  Smog Veil Records

  2006

• St. Arkansas

  SpinART Records

  2002

• The Shape of Things

  Hearpen Records

  2000

• Apocalypse Now

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  1999

• Folly of Youth

  Tim/Kerr

  1996

• Warning Bells Are Ringing

  DGC

  1996

• Story of My Life

  Imago

  1993

• Worlds in Collision

  Fontana Distribution

  1991

• Cloudland

  Fontana Distribution

  1989

• One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams

  Hearpen Records

  1989

• The Tenement Year

  Enigma

  1988

• Song of the Bailing Man

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  1982

• 390° of Simulated Stereo

  Rough Trade

  1981

• The Art of Walking

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  1980

• New Picnic Time

  Rough Trade

  1979

• Dub Housing

  Rough Trade

  1979

• The Modern Dance

  Geffen

  1978