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With Allen Ravenstine largely out of the picture (he amicably quit the band to pursue a career as a pilot) and the less willfully eccentric Eric Drew Feldman taking his place, Pere Ubu were a less noisy ensemble this time out, and under Norton's tutelage David Thomas' vocals gained a new degree of precision and control (though no amount of coaching and mix-fixing would ever turn the guy into, say, Morrissey). However, while Norton buffed off even more of the rough edges of Pere Ubu's approach than Stephen Hague on Cloudland, the group created a bizarro-world triumph; \"I Hear They Smoke the Barbecue\" is a brilliant pop single that still finds room for Ubu's lyrical obsessions and clattering sonic underpinnings, the opening \"Oh Catherine\" is pretty in a way Thomas' vocals have never been before, \"Mirror Man\" is a sideways shout-out to a primal influence, \"Cry Cry Cry\" finds room for a dash of country twang in the Ubu formula, and \"Turpentine!\" is as crazy as they wanna be. If there were ever a band destined never to make the charts, it's Pere Ubu, but not unlike the Velvet Underground's Loaded, Worlds in Collision shows that they could make an album capable of appealing to a broader audience without losing touch with what made them a singular creative force in the first place, something not every band that signed to a major label was able to manage. ~ Mark Deming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: Fire Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pere Ubu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43582444798150,"sku":"HXN1O6-Q9YB-00","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/8085\/0374\/files\/Pere-Ubu-Worlds-In-Collision_iOfa5.jpg?v=1762273367"},{"product_id":"pere-ubu-pere-ubu-nuke-the-whales-2006-2014-box-set-vinyl","title":"Pere Ubu - Nuke the Whales 2006-2014 (BOX SET) [Vinyl]","description":"Pere Ubu - Pere Ubu - Nuke the Whales 2006-2014 (BOX SET) [Vinyl] \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 809236163912 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRewriting the history of music, Pere Ubu continue to confound convention and shift personnel. 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It features the seismic debut album Modern Dance, its follow up Dub Housing and The Hearpen Singles and the incendiary Live At Maxs Kansas City. The set collects the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devasting one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends.\r\n\r\nThe Modern Dance is one of the first and greatest art-rock records. The Guardian\r\nReinventing rock music from the ground up, Pere Ubu are equally at ease with Sun Ra and The Monkees, Glen Campbell and The MC5, Can and The Raspberries, they are the white Funkadelic.\r\nHarsh and willfully ugly, yet always mindful of certain rock \u0026amp; roll imperatives: a solid beat, snappy lyrics and engaging themes Rolling Stone\r\nAs vital as ever, no band before or since has ever sounded like Pere Ubu - period.\n\n1. Non-Alignment Pact\r 2. Modern Dance\r 3. Laughing \r 4. Street Waves \r 5. Chinese Radiation\r 6. Life Stinks\r 7. Real World\r 8. Over My Head\r 9. Sentimental Journey\r 10. 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