“Song Of The Bailing Man” by Pere Ubu - album review

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TJR says

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] 6.4.png Pere Ubu - The Long Walk Home (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Post-Punk
A2 [03:17] 7.0.png Pere Ubu - Use Of A Dog (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Dubbeat
A3 [02:16] 5.8.png Pere Ubu - Petrified (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Post-Punk
A4 [03:20] 5.7.png Pere Ubu - Stormy Weather (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Avant-Garde
A5 [02:46] 5.1.png Pere Ubu - West Side Story (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog
A6 [03:47] 5.3.png Pere Ubu - Thoughts That Go By Steam (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Avant-Garde
B1 [02:24] 4.9.png Pere Ubu - Big Ed's Used Farms (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Post-Punk
B2 [07:17] 4.8.png Pere Ubu - A Day Such As This (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog
B3 [02:49] 4.6.png Pere Ubu - The Vulgar Boatman Bird (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog
B4 [01:19] 5.4.png Pere Ubu - My Hat (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog
B5 [04:21] 6.0.png Pere Ubu - Horns Are A Dilemma (David Thomas, Mayo Thompson, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone, Anton Fier) Prog

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