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Artist:  PERE UBU          

Title:  “The Modern Dance”  

Label:   BLANK.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is white with black text.  Catalog number is BLANK-001. 

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:  Jacket is NEAR MINT with flawless front and back panels.  Reverse panel has gold embossed PROMOTIONAL stamp mark at the upper right corner.  Nice seams and corners, just a few light traces of wear along seams.  No writing, stickers, or other issues.  A beautiful PROMO jacket worthy of display.

Track Listing: 

Side One:   

Non-alignment Pact The Modern Dance Laughing Street Waves Chinese Radiation

Side Two:

Life Stinks Real World Over My Head Sentimental Journey Humor Me

Review:

“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, and the "difficult" tracks like "Street Waves," "Chinese Radiation," and the terrifying "Humor Me" are revelatory, and way ahead of their time.  The Modern Dance is the signature sound of the avant-garage: art rock, punk rock, and garage rock mixing together joyously and fearlessly."

(courtesy John Dougan, allmusic.com.)

 

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The records are removed from the jackets to protect the cover.
Both the LP and jacket are sandwiched between additional layers of cardboard.

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