Showing posts with label Pere Ubu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pere Ubu. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 7, 2017
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Monday, July 20, 2015
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Songs in the key of my life: Pere Ubu - Final Solution
Some songs turn into your personal anthems and some bands accompany you all your life. Pere Ubu is one of those bands to me. My pal Arno and I would meet on evenings at his place (this was in the late 70s/early 80s), we'd drink a huge bottle of Retsina wine with some cheese, and we had a list of songs we'd play at full volume and which we'd sing along with. 'Final Solution' was one of those anthems. I'll be mentioning the other ones over time. We pretty much got acquainted to Pere Ubu's music from the start, I had their early singles, and of course I immediately got their first album on its release, 'The Modern Dance', easily one of the great classics of rock music. I wasn't into punk, I prefered music with a bit more sophistication. Although 'Final Solution' comes along mightily as a punk song, the lyrics are more of a parody than to be taken seriously. But you can sing along very easily. Pere Ubu is one of those bands I've seen live most often (I also have their complete catalogoe of releases), they are great live performers and a legend, but they hardly ever get an audience of more than 100 people, sadly. It was a sensation to us that Pere Ubu currently are on tour performing their early singles and first album in a retrospective kind of program. Of course, Arno and and I were there and we sang along to 'Final Solution' - together with the few other people that found their way to the concert.
The girls won't touch me
Cos I've got a misdirection
Living at night isn't helping my complexion
The signs all saying it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection
Mamma threw me out till I get some pants that fit
She just won't approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited, always gotta lose
Man that send me off
Let them take the cure
Don't need a cure
Need a final solution
Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction
Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction
Seems I'm a victim of natural selection
Meet me on the other side, another direction
Don't need a cure
Need a final solution
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
New Stuff: Pere Ubu
Although I have this within the pere Ubu box set I wanted to have the album in its more orginal form.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
A Song a Day
Pere Ubu - Birdies
I've been a Pere Ubu fan ever since hey started in the mid-late 70s, and they're still going strong. I did manage to see them live 3 times, and each time it was a tremendous experience. It's difficult to describe their music, singer and head of the band David Thomas just calls it rock music, but it's way different than anything else other bands are plaing. It's a sound all of their own. As they started in the Punk/New Wave era, they were quickly labeled to that, but in reality Thomas was always paving his own road. They're probably the only band in the world that has used the theremin as a regular instrument.
By now Pere Ubu are a rock music legend!
Unfortunately, there's not much of their classic titles available online. The first clip is from the great Urgh! A Music War concert movie, the second clip from a more recent concert. The photo at the bottom is one I took at their Munich concert in 2006.
Birdies
I gotta get holda myself.
I gotta pull myself up by my socks.
I gotta grab myself by the collar and shake!
The birdies are singing.
The birdies are saying what I want to say.
Now watch this close.
(Oh, I should say 'closely.')
Here we go!
The foot goes up.
And the foot goes down.
And so I move along.
And actually get somewhere,
actually get somewhere.
And when the feet,
the big feet get tangled...
Bang!
And I fall down on the ground?
Well, I get back up.
I get right back up!
A tree,
a dog,
a cat,
a house,
a car,
fireplug,
mailman.
Dumpdee dump.
Dumpdee da.
Look at me!
I've got my feet on the ground.
And my head in the air.
And I'm moving along.
The wind's going through.
And my hair's standing straight out behind.
And I'm moving along.
I'm standing up.
And I'm going Some-Where.
I've been a Pere Ubu fan ever since hey started in the mid-late 70s, and they're still going strong. I did manage to see them live 3 times, and each time it was a tremendous experience. It's difficult to describe their music, singer and head of the band David Thomas just calls it rock music, but it's way different than anything else other bands are plaing. It's a sound all of their own. As they started in the Punk/New Wave era, they were quickly labeled to that, but in reality Thomas was always paving his own road. They're probably the only band in the world that has used the theremin as a regular instrument.
By now Pere Ubu are a rock music legend!
Unfortunately, there's not much of their classic titles available online. The first clip is from the great Urgh! A Music War concert movie, the second clip from a more recent concert. The photo at the bottom is one I took at their Munich concert in 2006.
Birdies
I gotta get holda myself.
I gotta pull myself up by my socks.
I gotta grab myself by the collar and shake!
The birdies are singing.
The birdies are saying what I want to say.
Now watch this close.
(Oh, I should say 'closely.')
Here we go!
The foot goes up.
And the foot goes down.
And so I move along.
And actually get somewhere,
actually get somewhere.
And when the feet,
the big feet get tangled...
Bang!
And I fall down on the ground?
Well, I get back up.
I get right back up!
A tree,
a dog,
a cat,
a house,
a car,
fireplug,
mailman.
Dumpdee dump.
Dumpdee da.
Look at me!
I've got my feet on the ground.
And my head in the air.
And I'm moving along.
The wind's going through.
And my hair's standing straight out behind.
And I'm moving along.
I'm standing up.
And I'm going Some-Where.
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