“Song Of The Bailing Man” by Pere Ubu - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1982 → ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s → |
The downward spiral continues on the fifth album, released in April, 1982. Since “The Art Of Walking” almost 2 years earlier, drummer Scott Krauss has quit the band, who now line-up: David Thomas (vocals); Mayo Thompson (guitar); Allen Ravenstine (synthesizers); Tony Maimone (bass) and Anton Fier (drums, piano, marimba, percussion). Eddie 'Tan Tan' Thornton guests on trumpet. The super-rhythmic funk-punk opener “The Long Walk Home” is promising (despite a jazzy interlude) and the jitter-dub oddness of “Use Of A Dog” lifts the hope further still. Nothing much connects with me from thereon in a set which is particularly impenetrable on side two which, by Pere Ubu standards, is really saying something.
The Jukebox Rebel
05–Mar–2019
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [02:34]  Pere Ubu - The Long Walk Home (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Post-Punk |
| A2 | [03:17]  Pere Ubu - Use Of A Dog (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Dubbeat |
| A3 | [02:16]  Pere Ubu - Petrified (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Post-Punk |
| A4 | [03:20]  Pere Ubu - Stormy Weather (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Avant-Garde |
| A5 | [02:46]  Pere Ubu - West Side Story (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog |
| A6 | [03:47]  Pere Ubu - Thoughts That Go By Steam (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Avant-Garde |
| B1 | [02:24]  Pere Ubu - Big Ed's Used Farms (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Post-Punk |
| B2 | [07:17]  Pere Ubu - A Day Such As This (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog |
| B3 | [02:49]  Pere Ubu - The Vulgar Boatman Bird (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog |
| B4 | [01:19]  Pere Ubu - My Hat (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog |
| B5 | [04:21]  Pere Ubu - Horns Are A Dilemma (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog |
