SPIN Alternative Record Guide (1995) Top 100 Alternative Albums (51-100)

how the fuck have i never listened to pere ubu?

the modern dance is amazing wow

i saw black eyes a bunch of times when i lived in dc and i never knew they basically took their whole thing from this record

yeah, Pere Ubu are amazing! If you like that record make sure you get all the singles from around that time and just before.

I saw Black Eyes once when I came down to DJ between bands when they opened for the Rapture. I like to pretend I introduced Ital to house music that night.

yeah, the Smog Veil site's newsletter is a good source of Ubu and related reissues/prev. unreleases; also, though I don't always hear things like xgau does, he pretty much nails this
early collection of even earlier stuff:
Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection [Twin/Tone, 1986]
Side one is the long unavailable Datapanik in the Year Zero EP, itself comprising two indie singles and a compilation cut and as powerful a sequence as side one of Dub Housing nevertheless. Side two collects the kind of oddments that rarely cohere on LP, yet here the outtakes and B sides and stray singles come together as a record of David Thomas's slide or progress from willed optimism to blessed whimsy. In short, this is a gift from God--a third Ubu album from the former Crocus Behemoth's pre-God period. A- He means third pre-G after The Modern Dance and Dub Housing, but also likes New Picnic Time and several others from DT's Jehovah's Witness prime time, before the art-rock further complicated/maybe took over the layers.

Allen Ravenstine's solo/sidetrip mid-70s-recorded Terminal Drive is out soon, via Smog Veil.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Hey, I wasn't the only Sebadoh III voter!

The Beat deserved at least one vote...

Hey, I wasn't the only Have Moicy! voter. Just being a smartass.

I was the only Beck voter :(

Probably would have been smarter to join team Devo and I'm probably coming around that way anyway ok my old age

I knew I should've for the Upsetters :(

Also, Modern Dance is fucking killer! I listened to it a couple times before but have mostly just stuck to Dub Housing in recent times, but man does it hit both the 'avant' and 'rock' sweet spots just right