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After having it stuck in my head all day, I've concluded that "Final Solution" would be one of the greatest rock songs of all time if anybody knew it. It's not the the music itself, which is awesome beyond belief and makes me wonder how much influence Queens Of The Stone Age took from Pere Ubu, or the vocal delivery, also top-notch. Those are two main points I usually focus on when deciding the greatness of a song, but the lyrics also carry this severe theme of alienation from the subject's surroundings. Everyone's trying to apply a cure to him, but he just keeps a-rockin'. He "don't need a cure, but a final solution."
Basically whoever wrote that this "call for a 'final solution' was the cry of teen angst run down in the decaying rust belt of America, and unlike the British punks who were looking around England the same year, seeing no future, and hating what they saw, Ubu reveled in it," had it.
It's a huge shame that they don't even play it at shows anymore, since a bunch of dorks thought it had to do with Nazis.
Also up there on the list is "30 Second Over Tokyo". It's the experimental garage rock typical of early Ubu, but the guitars carry the same sort of heaviness that made me fall in love with Black Sabbath. It's absolutely delicious.
Seriously, why wasn't this band more popular?
I think I need to buy Datapanik In The Year Zero.
Basically whoever wrote that this "call for a 'final solution' was the cry of teen angst run down in the decaying rust belt of America, and unlike the British punks who were looking around England the same year, seeing no future, and hating what they saw, Ubu reveled in it," had it.
It's a huge shame that they don't even play it at shows anymore, since a bunch of dorks thought it had to do with Nazis.
Also up there on the list is "30 Second Over Tokyo". It's the experimental garage rock typical of early Ubu, but the guitars carry the same sort of heaviness that made me fall in love with Black Sabbath. It's absolutely delicious.
Seriously, why wasn't this band more popular?
I think I need to buy Datapanik In The Year Zero.