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Pere Ubu – Worlds In Collision

Label: Fire Records – FIRECD368

Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Cardboard Sleeve

Country: UK & Europe

Released: 2018

Genre: Rock

Style: Art Rock, Pop Rock, Experimental

1                       Oh Catherine         2:52

2                       I Hear They Smoke The Barbecue   3:59

3                       Turpentine! 2:40

4                       Goodnite Irene       4:09

5                       Mirror Man 3:27

6                       Don't Look Back     4:05

7                       Worlds In Collision  3:41

8                       Life Of Riley           2:34

9                       Over The Moon      3:06

10                     Cry Cry Cry            2:43

11                      Playback    3:27

12                     Nobody Knows       2:33

13                     Winter In The Firelands       3:07

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fire Records

Copyright © – Fire Records

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mercury Records Ltd.

Licensed From – Ubu Projex

Licensed From – Universal Music Group Limited

Licensed From – Universal International Music B.V.

Published By – Fire Songs

Recorded At – Suma Recording Studio

Recorded At – Wessex Sound Studios

Recorded At – Livingston Studios

Mixed At – The Church, London

Mixed At – RAK Studios

Mixed At – Mayfair Studios

Mixed At – The Town House

Mastered At – Suma Recording Studio

Remastered At – Suma Recording Studio

Manufactured By – Key Production

Glass Mastered At – Sony DADC

Backing Vocals – Gil Clay*, Gil Norton

Bass – Tony Maimone

Design, Photography By [Photos] – idrome*, John Thompson (17)

Drums – Scott Krauss

Engineer [Engineered By] – Al Clay*

Engineer [Mix] – Bob Kraushaar (tracks: 6), Mike Drake* (tracks: 2, 7, 13), Steve Chase* (tracks: 3, 4, 8 to 12)

Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Felix Kendall, Paul Hamann

Executive-Producer – Stephen Hague

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Jim Jones (3)

Keyboards, Computer [Computers], Synthesizer [Synthesizers] – Eric Drew Feldman

Mastered By – Paul Hamann

Melodeon – John Kirkpatrick

Mixed By – Dave Bascombe* (tracks: 1), Gil Norton (tracks: 3, 4, 8 to 12), Mike Drake* (tracks: 5), Stephen Hague (tracks: 2, 6, 7, 13)

Percussion [Added], Drum [Parts] – Andy Redhead

Producer [Produced By] – Gil Norton

Remastered By [Uncredited], Edited By [Uncredited] – David Thomas (2), Paul Hamann

Synthesizer [EMI Synthesizers] – Allen Ravenstine (tracks: 3, 8, 11, 13)

Violin – Susie Honeyman

Vocals – David Thomas (2)

Written-By – Chris Cutler (tracks: 6, 10, 13), David Thomas (2), Eric Drew Feldman, Jim Jones (3), Scott Krauss, Tony Maimone

Originally released as Fontana 848 564 in April 1991; this gatefold reissue has a different track sequence.

 

℗ 1991 Fire Records. © 2018 Fire Records.

 

Sleeve:

This reissue was mastered by Paul Hamann at Suma, February 2017.

 

Pere Ubu website:

The album was remastered and edited in 2017 by Paul Hamann and David Thomas.

 

Packaged in a double gatefold card sleeve with an inner card sleeve for the CD. Includes a four-panel insert.

 

The back cover writing credits are incorrect, referring to Ray Gun Suitcase tracks; the correct credits are listed in the insert.

Barcode (Text): 8 09236 13682 4

Barcode (Scanned): 80923613682405423

 

Personnel: (vocals); (guitar, background vocals); (violin); John Kirkpatrick (melodeon); Eric Drew Feldman (keyboards, synthesizer, computer); (drums, percussion); Scott Krauss (drums); Gil Norton, Al Clay (background vocals). Recording information: Livingston Studios, London (06/1990/07/1990); Suma (06/1990/07/1990); Wessex Studios, London (06/1990/07/1990); Livingston Studios, London (08/1990); Suma (08/1990); Wessex Studios, London (08/1990); Livingston Studios, London (09/1990); Suma (09/1990); Wessex Studios, London (09/1990). Photographer: John Thompson . Pere Ubu's 1989 album Cloudland seemed like a strange pop anomaly to many longtime fans, but unbeknown to them the group had something even slicker up its sleeve. Gil Norton, best known for his work with the Pixies, was brought in to produce 1991's Worlds in Collision, and it marked an even more dramatic attempt to fuse Pere Ubu's sensibilities with the pop mainstream (which, in the year Nirvana would break through with Nevermind, probably didn't seem quite as forbidding a place as it once did). With Allen Ravenstine largely out of the picture (he amicably quit the band to pursue a career as a pilot) and the less willfully eccentric Eric Drew Feldman taking his place, Pere Ubu were a less noisy ensemble this time out, and under Norton's tutelage David Thomas' vocals gained a new degree of precision and control (though no amount of coaching and mix-fixing would ever turn the guy into, say, Morrissey). However, while Norton buffed off even more of the rough edges of Pere Ubu's approach than Stephen Hague on Cloudland, the group created a bizarro-world triumph; "I Hear They Smoke the Barbecue" is a brilliant pop single that still finds room for Ubu's lyrical obsessions and clattering sonic underpinnings, the opening "Oh Catherine" is pretty in a way Thomas' vocals have never been before, "Mirror Man" is a sideways shout-out to a primal influence, "Cry Cry Cry" finds room for a dash of country twang in the Ubu formula, and "Turpentine!" is as crazy as they wanna be. If there were ever a band destined never to make the charts, it's Pere Ubu, but not unlike the Velvet Underground's Loaded, Worlds in Collision shows that they could make an album capable of appealing to a broader audience without losing touch with what made them a singular creative force in the first place, something not every band that signed to a major label was able to manage. ~ Mark Deming

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Released: 8/17/18
• Internal ID: JITRE