Released October 6, 1992 Length 49:42 Release date 6 October 1992 Label Dischord Records | Recorded Inner Ear Studios Artist The Nation of Ulysses Producer Ian MacKaye Genres Punk rock, Post-hardcore | |
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Plays Pretty for Baby
(1992) The Embassy Tapes
(2000) Similar 13‑Point Program to Destroy A, The Embassy Tapes, No Kill No Beep Beep, End on End, In Mass Mind | ||
Nation of ulysses plays pretty for baby full album 1992
Plays Pretty for Baby is the second album by the American punk rock band Nation of Ulysses.
Contents
Tracks 14-16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from the 7" EP Birth of the Ulysses Aesthetic.
"The Sound of Jazz to Come" and "50,000 Watts of Goodwill" reference the opening track of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane in their respective openings, while the former references the similarly titled Ornette Coleman album, The Shape of Jazz to Come.
Track listing
- "N-Sub Ulysses" − 3:32
- "A Comment on Ritual" − 2:27
- "The Hickey Underworld" − 2:50
- "Perpetual Motion Machine" − 2:33
- "N.O.U. Future Vision Hypothesis" − 3:09
- "50,000 Watts of Goodwill" − 4:05
- "Maniac Dragstrip" − 2:59
- "Last Train to Cool" − 3:27
- "Shakedown" − 3:27
- "Mockingbird, Yeah!" − 2:59
- "Depression III" − 3:27
- "S.S. Exploder" − 2:27
- "The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken by Storm" − 2:12
- "The Sound of Jazz to Come" − 4:42
- "N.O.U.S.P.T.D.A." − 2:51
- "Presidents of Vice" − 2:35
Personnel
Songs
1N-Sub Ulysses3:32
2A Comment on Ritual2:27
3The Hickey Underworld2:50
References
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