“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] ![]() |
A2 | [03:17] ![]() |
A3 | [02:16] ![]() |
A4 | [03:20] ![]() |
A5 | [02:46] ![]() |
A6 | [03:47] ![]() |
B1 | [02:24] ![]() |
B2 | [07:17] ![]() |
B3 | [02:49] ![]() |
B4 | [01:19] ![]() |
B5 | [04:21] ![]() |