The Tenement Year

Infobox Album
Name = The Tenement Year
Type = Album
Artist = Pere Ubu
Released = March 1988
Genre = Rock
Label = Fontana
Producer = Paul Hammann
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sjd2vw9va9xk link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pereubu/albums/album/213770/review/5941460/the_tenement_year link]
Last album = "Terminal Tower" (1985)
This album = "The Tenement Year" (1988)
Next album = "Cloudland" (1989)|

"The Tenement Year" is Pere Ubu's first album after reuniting (following their 1982 break-up), and sixth overall. 'Classic lineup' members Tony Maimone and Allen Ravenstine, along with fellow Cleveland scenester Jim Jones and Henry Cow percussionist Chris Cutler found themselves playing with David Thomas for his 1987 album "Blame the Messenger", and, discovering they sounded much like Pere Ubu, began incorporating a few Ubu numbers while touring for that album. Eventually, an official reunion was pursued, original drummer Scott Krauss was contacted, and thus the new lineup was completed and the old mantle assumed. "The Tenement Year" found the group veering in a loose, freewheeling, and decidedly more pop-oriented direction than in the past, though the pop leanings would become even more pronounced on subsequent albums.

After being out-of-print for many years, a reissue was announced in early 2007. [http://www.ubuprojex.net/ty.html]

Track listing

#Something's Gotta Give – 5:13
#George Had A Hat – 4:02
#Talk To Me – 3:28
#Busman's Honeymoon – 4:35
#Say Goodbye – 4:58
#Universal Vibration – 2:43
#Miss You – 4:21
#Dream the Moon – 3:25
#Rhythm King – 4:26
#The Hollow Earth – 4:15
#We Have The Technology – 3:03

Personnel

*David Thomas: vocals, trombone, spike
*Jim Jones: guitar, backing vocals
*Allen Ravenstine: EML synthesizer, sax, backing vocals
*Tony Maimone: bass, backing vocals
*Chris Cutler: drums, percussion
*Scott Krauss: drumsand
*John Kirkpatrick: Melodeon