Plays Pretty for Baby

Infobox Album |
Name = Plays Pretty for Baby
Type = studio
Artist = Nation of Ulysses

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Released = October 6, 1992
Recorded =
Genre = Punk
Length = 49:42
Label = Dischord Records
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jlkbikbhbb59 link]
*Sputnikmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=13256 link]
Last album = "13-Point Program to Destroy America"
(1991)
This album = "Plays Pretty for Baby"
(1992)
Next album = "The Embassy Tapes
(2000)

"Plays Pretty for Baby" is the second album by the American punk rock band Nation of Ulysses.

The song "The Sound of Jazz To Come" references "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane multiple times through its lyrics, while the title of this song 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