Rewriting the history of music, Pere Ubu continue to confound convention and shift personnel. The next box set in Fire Records’ reissue series, ‘Nuke The Whales’ houses 4 LPs originally released between 2006 and 2014 – ‘Why I LUV Women’, ‘Carnival Of Souls’, ‘Lady Of Shanghai’ and ‘Long Live Pere Ubu!’. ‘Nuke The Whales,’ is a nod of respect to a couple in Cleveland who would daub such messages over the big news stations’ advertising boards. “Very few bands display such dedication to constant self-reinvention as Pere Ubu” The Quietus // All four albums have been remixed and remastered by original Pere Ubu member David Thomas. ‘Why I LUV Women’, originally released on Glitterhouse in 2006, gains its first vinyl release. "Spews 11 tunes of arcane lyrics and dense music” shrieked The Cleveland Gazaette. It’s joined by ‘Long Live Pere Ubu’ a soundtrack to a musical adaptation of the play. “Skronking, squalling rhythms and melodic snippets undulating round a pulsating soundscape." Record Collector // And ‘Lady From Shanghai’, their Fire debut for Fire in 2013. Originally released on the 35th anniversary of the group's debut, ‘The Modern Dance’, a latter day re-evaluation of the unprompted dance genre. And its follow up ‘Carnival Of Souls’, a haunting “underscore’ to a tale of alienation, it “combines metallic percussion, spare guitars and David Thomas' muttered vocals into something rustic and rickety, yet threatening at a moment's notice.” AllMusic //
Ltd edition box set, 4xLP + Poster & DL card.
Disc 1 - Why I LUV Women A1 Two Girls (One Bar) A2 Babylonian Warehouses A3 Blue Velvet A4 Caroleen A5 Flames Over Nebraska B1 Love Song B2 Stolen Cadillac B3 Mona B4 Synth Farm B5 Texas Overture Disc 2 - Lady from Shanghai C1 Thanks C2 Free White C3 Feuksly Ma'am, The Hearing C4 Mandy C5 Musicians Are Scum C6 Another One D1 And Then Nothing Happened D2 Road Trip of Bipasha Ahmed D3 Lampshade Man D4 414 Seconds D5 The Carpenter Sun Disc 3 - Carnival of Souls E1 Golden Surf II E2 Drag the River E3 Irene E4 Road to Utah E5 Throb Array F1 Visions of The Moon F2 Dr Faustus F3 Bus Station F4 Carnival F5 Moonstruck Disc 4 - Long Live Pere Ubu! G1 Ubu Overture G2 Song Of The Grocery Police G3 Banquet of the Butchers G4 Tear Your Eyes Out G5 March of Greed G6 Big Sombrero G7 Bring Me The Head G8 Alienating The Audience H1 Road to Reason H2 Slowly I Turn H3 Watching The Pigeons H4 The Story So Far H5 Snowy Livonia, pt 1 H6 Elsinore & Beyond