ARTIST: Pere Ubu
TITLE: Why I Hate Women
LABEL: Smog Veil Records
GENRE: Alternative
BITRATE: 193kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-09-19
RIP DATE: 2006-08-03
Track List
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1. Two Girls (One Bar) 3:38
2. Babylonian Warehouses 4:27
3. Blue Velvet 5:50
4. Caroleen 4:33
5. Flames Over Nebraska 3:08
6. Love Song 6:08
7. Mona 2:47
8. My Boyfriend's Back 0:58
9. Stolen Cadillac 6:12
10. Synth Farm 3:01
11. Texas Overture 6:10
Release Notes:
Pere Ubu are an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in
1975. They have broken up and reformed several times, and despite many long-term
band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant. Pere Ubu's official
website reports that the group is named after the protagonist of Ubu Roi, a play
by Frenchman Alfred Jarry. [1]
While Pere Ubu has never been widely popularùusually categorized as "underground
rock"ùthey have a devoted following, have been hugely influential on several
generations of forward-thinking musicians and are among the most critically
acclaimed American musical groups. Their early singles are sometimes regarded as
minor protopunk classics.
Critical opinions of Pere Ubu include "the world's only expressionist Rock 'n'
Roll band" [2] and "Pere Ubu will be looked back on as the most important group
to have come out of America in the last decade and a half. Either that or they
will be entirely forgotten." [3]
Pere Ubu have consistently conducted their affairs as they see fit, regardless
of convention: They refuse to discuss or explain their sometimes odd music,
forgoing the usual banter of newspaper and press interviews. Pere Ubu have
compiled a list of guidelines for touring, live performances and the like,
including such statements as, "Lighting should be theatrical rather than
rockist. We are interested in atmosphere, mood, drama, energy, subtlety,
imagination-- not rock clichΘ," and note that the Danish Broadcasting
Corporation is one of the few organizations they trust to record live
performances, "solely on the basis of the King of Denmark's defense of the Jews
in WWII."[4]
Tired of being asked to define their music, Pere Ubu coined the term Avant
Garage to reflect interest in both experimental avant-garde music (especially
Musique concrΦte) and raw, direct blues influenced garage rock. Thomas has
stated "Avant Garage" is "a joke invented to have something to give journalists
when they yelp for a neat sound bite or pigeonhole."