Added on January 21, 2013
Scott Creney
Captain Beefheart , David Thomas , Greil Marcus , Mumford & Sons , Pere Ubu , Scott Creney
I kneel and genuflect before the first two Pere Ubu albums and the handful of singles surrounding it, but I think this may be the greatest Pere Ubu album ever made.
Added on April 30, 2012
Wallace Wylie
Bob Dylan , Chuck Berry , Class , David Thomas , Elvis Presley , Howlin' Wolf , Mark E Smith , Muddy Waters , Oprah Winfrey , Pere Ubu , Race , race music , Simon Reynolds , The Animals , The Beatles , The Fall , The Kinks , The Rolling Stones , Them , Totally Wired , Wallace Wylie
The fantasy world that David Thomas inhabits reeks of privilege and conceit. Perhaps I expected a bit more intelligence, a bit more individuality, a bit more adventurousness to his thinking. Then again, he is a white middle-class American male. We can’t expect too much.
Added on October 6, 2011
Tamsin
album review , Barfly , Cleveland , David Thomas , Fire Records , Pere Ubu , punk rock , Tamsin Chapman , The Day The Earth Met the Rocket From The Tombs , The Stooges
There is a version of ‘Satisfaction’ on here, but it’s tellingly only 19 seconds long.
Added on September 1, 2010
Everett True
Armedalite Rifles , Black Diamonds , C86 , Can , Captain Beefheart , David Thomas , Frank Black , Gang Of Four , Kurt Cobain , Lenny Kaye , New Age Steppers , Pere Ubu , Sarandon , shambling , Teenage Fanclub , The Deadnotes , The Feelies , twee pop , Wild Colonials
So some guy reads my piece on Australian garage bands and decides to contact me on Facebook, asking if I’d like to hear a CD of his band. I say, direct me to your music first, so he does. I give it a listen. I like it. It’s all spark and fire: rhythms like Captain […]
