Pere Ubu - Elitism For The People: 1975-1978 [CD]

Elistism For The People 1975-1978 is a four-disc bookback set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. 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. The Modern Dance is one of the first and greatest art-rock records. The Guardian Reinventing 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. Harsh and willfully ugly, yet always mindful of certain rock & roll imperatives: a solid beat, snappy lyrics and engaging themes Rolling Stone As vital as ever, no band before or since has ever sounded like Pere Ubu - period. 1. Non-Alignment Pact 2. Modern Dance 3. Laughing 4. Street Waves 5. Chinese Radiation 6. Life Stinks 7. Real World 8. Over My Head 9. Sentimental Journey 10. Humor Me 11. Navvy 12. On The Surface 13. Dub Housing 14. Caligari's Mirror 15. Thriller! 16. I, Will Wait 17. Drinking Wine Spodyody 18. (Pa) Ubu Dance Party 19. Blow Daddy-o 20. Codex 21. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 22. Heart of Darkness 23. Final Solution 24. Cloud 149 25. Untitled 26. Street Waves 27. My Dark Ages 28. Modern Dance 29. Heaven 30. My Dark Ages 31. Heaven 32. Sentimental Journey 33. Over My Head 34. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 35. Life Stinks

• Format Detail: 4CD Limited Edition Bookback [w/ download card]
• Format: CD
• Label: Fire Records
• Genre: Rock