The Modern Dance

The Modern Dance
The Modern Dance
Studio album by Pere Ubu
Released 1978
Recorded October 1976 (tk. 4), January 1977 (tks. 1 & 2), Cleveland Recording, Cleveland; November 1977, Suma Studios, Cleveland
Genre Post-punk, garage rock, experimental rock
Length 36:20
Label Blank (Original Release, 1978)
Producer Pere Ubu and Ken Hamann
Pere Ubu chronology
The Modern Dance
(1978)		 Dub Housing
(1978)

The Modern Dance is the debut album by American rock band Pere Ubu, released in 1978.

Contents

Overview

"Street Waves" is exactly the same as their 3rd single (on Hearthan). "The Modern Dance" track is the same recording as their 4th Hearthan single, but is remixed for this album (the percussion on the single is a squeaky doll and is replaced by a railroad tie).

Critical Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau (A-)[2]
Piero Scaruffi 9/10 stars[3]

Music critic Piero Scaruffi names The Modern Dance as the 7th greatest rock album of all time.[4] Reviewing the album, he writes that "their sound starts out from the spirit of old-style garage-rock, but distorts it with harmonic and rhythmic grotesquery. The surreal lyrics and the student humour attenuate the dramatic force of the performance, but at the same time increase the feeling of collective madness, of resigned fatalism, of ineluctable slavery."[3]

Allmusic critic John Dougal writes that "the Modern Dance remains the essential Ubu purchase... It announces itself quite boldly: the first sound you hear is a painfully high-pitched whine of feedback."[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Pere Ubu, except where noted. (Copyright Virgin Music)

Side one

  1. "Non-Alignment Pact" – 3:18
  2. "The Modern Dance" – 3:28
  3. "Laughing" – 4:35
  4. "Street Waves" – 3:04
  5. "Chinese Radiation" – 3:27

Side two

  1. "Life Stinks" (Peter Laughner) – 1:52
  2. "Real World" – 3:59
  3. "Over My Head" – 3:48
  4. "Sentimental Journey" – 6:05
  5. "Humor Me" – 2:44

Personnel

  • David Thomas - vocals, musette, percussion
  • Tom Herman - guitar, backing vocals
  • Allen Ravenstine - EML 101 & 200 analog synthesizers, saxophone, tapes
  • Tony Maimone - bass, piano, backing vocals
  • Scott Krauss - drums

Production

  • Arranged By Pere Ubu
  • Production By Pere Ubu & Ken Hamann
  • Recorded & Engineered By Ken Hamann
  • Assistant Engineers: Mike Bishop & Paul Hamann
  • Mastered By Porky

Release History

Year of Release Place of Release Format Label
1978 United States Vinyl LP Blank
1981 United Kingdom Vinyl LP Rough Trade
1988 United Kingdom Vinyl LP Fontana
1988 Germany CD Fontana
1998 United Kingdom CD Cooking Vinyl
1998 United States CD DGC
1999 Italy Vinyl LP Get Back
2006 Europe CD Silverline
2007 United States Vinyl LP Blank
2008 United Kingdom CD Cooking Vinyl

External links

References

  1. ^ a b Dougan, John. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance, Allmusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert. Robert Christgau: Pere Ubu
  3. ^ a b Scaruffi, Piero. The History of Rock Music - Pere Ubu
  4. ^ Scaruffi, Piero. 100 Greatest Rock Albums
v · Pere Ubu
Steve Mehlman · Keith Moliné · Michele Temple · David Thomas · Robert Wheeler
Chris Cutler · Eric Drew Feldman · Anton Fier · Tom Herman · Jim Jones · Scott Krauss · Peter Laughner · Tony Maimone · Douglas Morgan · Pat Morgan · Allen Ravenstine · Mayo Thompson · Tim Wright · Garo Yellin
Studio albums
Live albums
Extended plays
Datapanik in the Year Zero · Folly of Youth · B Each B Oys See Dee Plus
Compilations
Singles
"30 Seconds Over Tokyo/Heart Of Darkness" · "Final Solution" · "Street Waves/My Dark Ages (I Don't Get Around) " · "The Modern Dance" · "The Fabulous Sequel (Have Shoes Will Walk)" · "Not Happy" · "We Have the Technology" · "Breath" · "Love Love Love" · "Waiting for Mary (What Are We Doing Here?)" · "I Hear They Smoke the Barbecue" · "Oh Catherine" · "Folly of Youth" · "Slow Walking Daddy"
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