The Art of Walking

The Art of Walking
Studio album by Pere Ubu
Released June 1980
Studio Suma Recording Studio, Painesville, Ohio
Genre Post-punk
Label Rough Trade (original release)
Cooking Vinyl (1999 & 2010 European CD reissues)
Thirsty Ear (1999 US CD reissue)
Get Back (2001 Italian LP reissue)
Producer Ken Hamann and Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu chronology
New Picnic Time
(1979)New Picnic Time1979		 The Art of Walking
(1980)		 390° of Simulated Stereo
(1981)390° of Simulated Stereo1981
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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. A notable devotee of the album was avant-garde musician and future Pere Ubu member Chris Cutler.

An error in the first US pressing of the LP 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.

Track listing

All songs written by Pere Ubu, except "Horses" (Mayo Thompson)

  1. "Go" – 3:34
  2. "Rhapsody in Pink" – 3:35
  3. "Arabia" – 4:58
  4. "Young Miles in the Basement" – 4:20
  5. "Misery Goats" – 2:37
  6. "Loop" – 3:14
  7. "Rounder" – 3:25
  8. "Birdies" – 2:27
  9. "Lost in Art" – 5:11
  10. "Horses" – 2:34
  11. "Crush This Horn" – 3:00

Personnel

Pere Ubu

References

  1. ↑ Dougan, John. The Art of Walking at AllMusic
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