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23-10-2019 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1978-1973 >>Pere Ubu, Rory Gallagher, Peter Gabriel, The Stranglers, Van Der Graaf Generator, Soft Machine, Roxy Music, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Bill Withers, Pink Floyd, Betty Davis<<
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1978-1973
Influential art punk band whose experimental sound harnessed self-destructing melodies, scattershot rhythms, and industrial-strength dissonance.
The Modern Dance (Tom Herman / Scott Krauss / Tony Maimone / Allen Ravenstine / David Thomas / Pere Ubu) 3:28
Laughing (Tom Herman / Scott Krauss / Tony Maimone / Allen Ravenstine / David Thomas / Pere Ubu) 4:35
from The Modern Dance 1978
There isn't a Pere Ubu recording you can imagine living without. The Modern Dance remains the essential Ubu purchase (as does the follow-up, Dub Housing). For sure, Mercury had no idea what they had on their hands when they released this as part of their punk rock offshoot label Blank, but it remains a classic slice of art-punk. It announces itself quite boldly: the first sound you hear is a painfully high-pitched whine of feedback, but then Tom Herman's postmodern Chuck Berry riffing kicks off the brilliant "Non-Alignment Pact," and you soon realize that this is punk rock unlike any you've ever heard. David Thomas' caterwauling is funny and moving, Scott Krauss (drums) and Tony Maimone (bass) are one of the great unheralded rhythm sections in all of rock...
Skilled Irish blues-rock guitarist whose stripped-down brand of blues rock touched everyone who heard it.
Shadow Play (Rory Gallagher) 4:45
Fuel to the Fire (Rory Gallagher) 6:16
from Photo-Finish 1978
...Reverting back to a trio, Gallagher toughens up his sound and blazes through some robust blues rockers like "Last of the Independents," "Shadow Play," and "Brute Force & Ignorance" (one of his best hard rock riffs) with nervy energy... Still, the album has a samey feel due to some of the songwriting not being quite up to snuff, and a few tracks, like the moody, slow-burning "Fuel to the Fire," stretched well past its breaking point to over six minutes...
Theatrical leader of '70s-era Genesis and a bona fide pop star by the '80s despite his experimental, often exotic, material.
Moribund the Burgermeister (Peter Gabriel) 4:20
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) 4:21
from Peter Gabriel 1 1977
Peter Gabriel tells why he left Genesis in "Solsbury Hill," the key track on his 1977 solo debut. Majestically opening with an acoustic guitar, the song finds Gabriel's talents gelling, as the words and music feed off each other, turning into true poetry. It stands out dramatically on this record, not because the music doesn't work, but because it brilliantly illustrates why Gabriel had to fly on his own. Though this is undeniably the work of the same man behind The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, he's turned his artiness inward, making his music coiled, dense, vibrant. There is still some excess, naturally, yet it's the sound of a musician unleashed, finally able to bend the rules as he wishes. That means there are less atmospheric instrumental sections than there were on his last few records with Genesis, as the unhinged bizarreness in the arrangements, compositions, and productions...
