Pere Ubu / Pennsylvania
Artist Pere Ubu
Album Title: Pennsylvania
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: General Alternative
Format CD
Released 1998
Label Tim Kerr Records
Catalog No T/K 155-2
Bar Code No 7 64483 0155-2 3
Packaging Blisterpack
Tracks
1. Woolie Bullie (3:43)
(Pere Ubu)
2. Highwaterville (1:33)
(Pere Ubu)
3. SAD.TXT (3:20)
(Pere Ubu)
4. Urban Lifestyle (2:57)
(Pere Ubu)
5. Silent Spring (4:08)
(Pere Ubu)
6. Mr Wheeler (4:13)
(Pere Ubu)
7. Muddy Waters (3:48)
(Pere Ubu)
8. Slow (1:04)
(Pere Ubu)
9. Drive (4:41)
(Pere Ubu)
10. Indiangiver (0:56)
(Pere Ubu)
11. Monday Morning (4:07)
(Pere Ubu)
12. Perfume (4:20)
(Pere Ubu)
13. Fly's Eye (2:38)
(Pere Ubu)
14. The Duke's Saharan Ambitions (4:56)
(Pere Ubu)
15. Wheelhouse (23:27)
(Pere Ubu)
Date Acquired 04/07/2008
Personal Rating
Acquired from Cheap_CDz (Amazon)
Purchase Price 5.97

Web Links

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Notes

URL: http://www.dnai.com/~obo/ubu/ "Pere Ubu's Avant Garage Online"
URL: http://www.projex.demon.co.uk "Ubu Projex"

Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
On self-imposed exile in England yet still obsessed with industrial America, Dave Thomas looks back to his hometown and finds that it's not what it used to be. The factories are still there, still belching out smoke to the heavens. There are still vast landscapes of concrete and steel. The difference is, it's all been homogenized, run through the grinder of corporate consumer culture. Although he's half a world away, he doesn't like what he sees, and that's the essence of Pennsylvania, Pere Ubu's eleventh album in 20 years. It's a return to the clastrophobic, complex, darkly paranoid sound of their early albums; only occasionally is it graced with the relatively tamed alterna-pop stylings that marked their early-'90s records. Thomas, thankfully, hasn't abandoned his satiric wit, and that's what makes Pennsylvania provocative, not insular. It's been many years since Pere Ubu has delivered a record as sweeping in lyrical and musical scope as Pennsylvania, and it's been worth the wait.
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