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Long Live Père Ubu! is an album by the American band Pere Ubu, released in 2009. It is a soundtrack to a musical adaptation of the play from which the band took its name. The band performed its adaptation at (Le) Poisson Rouge. David Thomas referred to Long Live Père Ubu! as the first "true" punk album to be released in 30 years.
- Hearpen Records
- Punk rock
- 2009
Pere Ubu. with Sarah Jane Morris. Long Live Père Ubu! Released September 14 2009. Produced by David Thomas. Remixed by David Thomas in 2021. Mastered by Brian Pyle. Due for release April 1 2022 in the vinyl box set Nuke The Whales Original 2009 release still available by request from Ubutique. Pix Lyrix.
Père Ubu I'll agree to anything. The Crowd Long Live Père Ubu! Narrator Père Ubu throws coins, tokens, forms, pamphlets, lottery tickets, and small pieces of official-looking paper into the crowd. Père Ubu Promise that you'll pay the taxes. The Crowd Yes, we will! Père Ubu Promise that you'll pay the taxes. The Crowd Yes, we will!
"Long Live Père Ubu!" is the album of songs that was the genesis of the entire mess. It was to be a great leap forward in our pursuit of hypernaturalistic recording techniques by which we replace microphones in the studio with wooden boxes, junked radio speakers, metal horns, and electrically charged window panes.
As they have always done in their 16-album career in awkwardness, Pere Ubu take a different path. The theatre of Long Live Pere Ubu! is more akin to a twisted burlesque or Punch and Judy show than to Wagner or Verdi's sweeping musical grandiosity. Abrasive guitar parts compete with clattering drums in the accompaniment of a host of voices that ...
Sep 11, 2009 · Long Live Père Ubu! by Pere Ubu, Sarah Jane Morris released in 2009. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Sep 15, 2009 · Egged on by his equally unpleasant wife Mere Ubu, he spearheads a plot to murder the King of Poland, accedes to the crown, and sets about becoming the worst kind of despot. What follows is a ...
