Released January 1978 Producer Pere UbuKen Hamann Label Plan 9 Records | Length 36:20 Release date January 1978 | |
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Recorded October 1976; January 1977; November 1977 Similar Dub Housing, New Picnic Time, The Art of Walking, Song of the Bailing Man, Cloudland | ||
Pere ubu nonalignment pact
The Modern Dance is the debut studio album by American rock band Pere Ubu. It was released in January 1978 by record label Blank.
Contents
- Pere ubu nonalignment pact
- Pere ubu the modern dance
- Track listing
- Critical reception
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
A 5.1 surround sound version was released as the DVD-Audio side of a DualDisc in 2005.
Pere ubu the modern dance
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Pere Ubu (David Thomas, Tom Herman, Allen Ravenstine, Tony Maimone and Scott Krauss), except as noted.
- "Non-Alignment Pact" – 3:18
- "The Modern Dance" – 3:28
- "Laughing" – 4:35
- "Street Waves" – 3:04
- "Chinese Radiation" – 3:27
- "Life Stinks" (Peter Laughner) – 1:52
- "Real World" – 3:59
- "Over My Head" – 3:48
- "Sentimental Journey" – 6:05
- "Humor Me" – 2:44
Critical reception
The Modern Dance has been critically acclaimed. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote that "even though there's too much Radio Ethiopia and not enough 'Redondo Beach,' he would be "listening through the failed stuff—the highs are worth it." Christgau later raised his initial B+ rating a notch and re-affirmed that "the highs are worth it, and the failed stuff ain't bad" in his revised review. At the same time, Ken Tucker, writing in Rolling Stone, called it vivid and exhilarating, even if "harsh and willfully ugly".
Personnel
Songs
1Non-Alignment Pact3:20
2The Modern Dance3:30
3Laughing4:37