Pere Ubu - Laughing

[@db528]

Early Ubu was the greatest band of all time.

[@theharakiriboyturnedout3470]

For sure!

[@matteo7059]

Early, late, after, then, between 100 years

[@stevennicholas4160]

My favourite song of all time.

[@Jblood001]

I think this is one of the greatest love songs of all time.

[@vidarlarsen748]

This band is together with The Only Ones, the most underrated band of all time I think. This song is really special. One of my all time favourites.

[@mikehouser2518]

A classic , I have not heard it in a while .

[@sytulejkazdroj]

This chorus is one of heaviest objects in universe.

[@malsmith8755]

So lucky to be around in the same era, just love this !

[@kendavid891]

Yes i remember pere ubu in my teens in 83!always liked different genres of music,glad to find it here!

[@rickhellman1406]

It seems to me the line at 2:30 -- "My baby said if the devil comes, we'll shoot him with a gun" -- was directly inspired by Terrence Malick's 1973 film "Badlands." Speaking of Martin Sheen's character, Kit, Sissy Spacek's character, Holly, says this at one point when they are on the run: "He said that if the devil came at me, I'd shoot him with a gun." In fact, the whole song can be seen as inspired by the film. I love both Ubu and "Badlands!"

[@alexanderostheimer1112]

yea but remember how only one of them got old and married well. cheers :D

[@juliussw9153]

Knowing the mindset of Ubu, it wouldn't surprise me.

[@vollsticks]

Fucking hell, good catch

[@craigbeasley1]

Well said indeed! I could not have been more succinct.

[@dalexanderberry4317]

David Thomas has introduced this song live before by saying that every good line in it was stolen from Badlands

[@SoldierOfMetal6]

My baby says We can live in the empty spaces of this life My baby says Far away the stars are coming all undone My baby says My baby says, But that's far away And we're young My baby says And if the devil comes we'll shoot him with a gun My baby says We can live in the empty spaces of this life My baby says In the desert sands Our hearts are brighter than the sun My baby says When the devil comes we'll shoot him with a gun My baby says My baby says, And if he shows his face We'll laugh

[@blu1263]

best lyrics ever

[@krnewman]

I actually chose to live my life by these words, back when this album came out, and it worked out pretty well. That's what I'm doing right now. "Interstitial living" I call it. You know, "we can live in the empty spaces of this life." If you are different at all, this is one of the only ways to survive.

[@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465]

That's the real secret- no matter how dense the existential traffic jam, there are always spaces between where one can slip through to survive. This was notably expressed by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon) in "The Women Men Don't See": "What women do is survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your world-machine."

[@krnewman]

just so. I learned a lot about this by watching how many women have managed it.

[@Everdaze]

I hear a major Beefheart influence in this song which is pretty damn cool

[@stevennicholas4160]

Yes but more accessible than Beefheart.

[@koski296]

I compare geniality of this album with first Velvet underground and Nico album.MUst love it.

[@Debonair19773577]

It is truly amazing how something this weird could have existed in the '70s. They were post punk before punk even coalesced. It is entirely too easy to be weird now and accepted for it; in the '70s, listening to this would have gotten your ass kicked on a daily basis.

[@foxybingo1112]

Brian Whitehorn I guess people pining for the 70s to come back because of the music should take that into account

[@knotwilg3596]

I beg to differ. The 70s were much more unconventional in general and in particular in terms of music than later eras. There was something in the air in the late 60s early 70s. Think Zappa, Beefheart, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin ... the list goes on. In the late 70s "postpunk" and later in the early 80s "new wave" borrowed some of that early weirdness but already was more accessible. Today there may be a wide variety of music, as technology has made music production democratic, but you don't hear it on the radio. In the 70s weirdness was close to mainstream.

[@phyllislucero8716]

I bought this album when it first came out. We all went to the same clubs and hung out together. We were insulated against assholes and didnt have to deal with tedious annoying bland viciously boring people. Some people i knew moved to NYC and got involved in a bigger scene.

[@mulmoher]

reminds me of early Roxy Music

[@matteo7059]

G R E A T

[@maculka999]

How could I not know about this band for 30+ years of my life?

[@CaptKoreyuh]

wow

[@habibiii1491]

nice

[@ludofuzz3012]

The mothers of invention was on that freakency before any velvet. That was the first step before getting on search for the big note. 4 years in the beginings to contest hippie fascism. In vain....now Jésus thinks we are all jerks

[@Marco_Venieri]

this reminds me very close hair pie by beefheart

[@HoxVox]

Controlled dadaism, splendid oxymoron.

[@franchoggle5543]

Bollocks. They created their own thing. Everyone else followed.

[@craigbeasley1]

Yeah I think that you got it all so wondrously vivid and may I extend a 'letter' to you?

[@tomburns70]

If you don't know Pere UBU, and like a little dissonance in your music, you might consider this first album from heaven, OHIO...

[@onecuriousworld]

Song of the Day 02-09-18: Laughing | Pere Ubu also on: www.onecuriousworld.com

[@MrWetrock]

Best thing out of Cleveland. Very misunderstood and less appreciated.

[@thomasray2261]

An urban wasteland love song, and it is followed by the driving Street Waves on their first LP----a proper example why by 1977 there was NO reason to listen to the typical FM Rock format (now 'Classic Rock') on radio of that era, if REO Speedwagon or Boston was not your speed.

[@craigbeasley1]

And..all concidered, not a thing compares to those Northern Ohio bands. First among them the Pere Ubu.

[@craigbeasley1]

considered

[@TheRAGE154]

Welcome to the neighborhood

[@kelechi_77]

Pixies made a whole career out of this song

[@stevennicholas4160]

I partly agree Pixies borrowed this sort of weirdness but I also love the Pixies.

[@pizzademuzzarella4390]

Temazooo brutalll, es como captain beefheart pero mas ezquizofrenico y mas new wave

[@popcycles]

sounds like a rooster

[@vollsticks]

CHHOOOOONNN

[@TETRAHEDRONLOSANGELES]

3:21 loud nigra