Album

The Art Of Walking

Pere Ubu

1980 · Electronic, Rock

Rare pressing on Gatefold

The Art Of Walking by Pere Ubu

The Art Of Walking is an Alt/Indie album by Pere Ubu, originally released in 1980. On Gatefold: 25 pressings tracked.

About

The Art of Walking is the fourth full-length album by Pere Ubu. Mayo Thompson of The Red Krayola joined as guitarist for this album and slanted the proceedings further towards deconstruction and abstraction, and away from the primal rock that former guitarist Tom Herman had facilitated. The group would record one more album with Thompson, Song of the Bailing Man, before disbanding. An error in the first U.S. pressing resulted in a vocal overdub mix being used of "Arabia" - the original UK pressing used the correct instrumental mix. The first Rough Trade CD edition also used the accidental second mix, but the remastering on the Datapanik box set restored the correct version. The individual remastered disc issued subsequently included both (titling the vocal version "Arabian Nights"). Later editions of the album also changed the title of "Miles" to "Young Miles in the Basement." A version of the song "Horses" had originally appeared on Mayo Thompson's solo album Corky's Debt to His Father, in 1970.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Go2:55
  2. 2Rhapsody in Pink3:35
  3. 32Arabia5:51
  4. 4Misery Goats2:39
  5. 5Young Miles in the Basement2:59
  6. 6Loop3:15
  7. 7Rounder3:24
  8. 8Birdies2:26
  9. 9Lost in Art4:33
  10. 10Horses2:35
  11. 11Crush This Horn3:00

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Post-Punk
  • angular
  • detached
  • art school

Credits

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Rare pressing on Gatefold · 25 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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