Apocalypse Now is Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu (band)

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. Despite many long-term band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant...

's third live album, and first to document a single performance. The show in question, recorded on December 7, 1991 at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, was performed semi-acoustically, with synth-man Eric Drew Feldman

Eric Drew Feldman

Eric Drew Feldman is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, Charlotte Hatherley, Custard, and PJ Harvey.He was...

 instead handling an upright piano, and Jim Jones playing an amplified (and occasionally heavily distorted) acoustic guitar.

Track listing

1. "My Theory of Spontaneous Simultude" – 6:47
2. "Life of Riley" – 3:08
3. "Wine Dark Sparks" – 3:16
4. "Heaven" – 3:28
5. "Worlds in Collision" – 2:49
6. "Cry Cry Cry" – 3:10
7. "Non"-alignment Pact – 3:41
8. "Caligari's Mirror" – 3:33
9. "Invisible Man" – 3:38
10. "We Have the Technology" – 3:10
11. "Humor Me" – 4:18
12. "Busman's Honeymoon" – 3:20
13. "Oh Catherine" – 4:24
14. "Misery Goats" – 3:49

Personnel

• David Thomas
  David Thomas (musician)
  David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...
  
  : vocals, radio, swirl horn
• Jim Jones
  Jim Jones (guitarist)
  James E. Jones, known as Jim Jones, was an experimental music artist, producer, and guitarist in the rock band Pere Ubu. Jones was a founding member of many experimental rock bands of the 70s and 80s including: Easter Monkeys, Foreign Bodies, Mirrors, The Styrenes, Home And Garden, and Terminal...
  
  : acoustic guitar, rat pedal
• Eric Drew Feldman
  Eric Drew Feldman
  Eric Drew Feldman is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, Charlotte Hatherley, Custard, and PJ Harvey.He was...
  
  : honky tonk upright
• Tony Maimone
  Tony Maimone
  Tony Maimone is a bass player, producer, and engineer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.He was a member of Pere Ubu from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, often playing with drummer Scott Krauss...
  
  : acoustic guitar, electric bass
• Scott Krauss: drums, percussion