Datapanik in Year Zero is a 1996 box set by Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.Père Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné...

, which catalogues their initial phase of existence up to their 1982 break-up (which later turned out to be merely a hiatus). The title was first used by the band for a 1978 EP which compiled their first singles; the name was "recycled" for this release. The name appears to reference the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 film, Panic in Year Zero!

Panic in Year Zero!

Panic in Year Zero! , sometimes known as End of the World, is a science fiction film directed by and starring Ray Milland. The original music score was composed by Les Baxter...

(1962). As David Thomas father was a computer professor, the title could also be related to the Y2K bug in 2000.

This box set compiles the original EP of the same name, their first five albums (which were out of print at the time this set was released), along with a disc of live material, and another of related rarities. It omits "Use Of A Dog" from "Song Of The Bailing Man", '"Humor Me", 'Not Happy" and 'Lonesome Cowboy Dave" from "Terminal Tower" and the vocal version of "Arabia" from "The Art Of Walking." Since, according to David Thomas, Pere Ubu do not produce outtakes or alternate versions (aside from a few anomalies related to an early version of The Art of Walking

The Art of Walking

The Art of Walking is the fourth Pere Ubu full-length. 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...

), the rarities disc is unique in that it features groups that were sometimes only tangentially related to Ubu, in an effort to present an overview of the mercurial Cleveland scene out of which they grew.

In 2009, Cooking Vinyl

Cooking Vinyl

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 released a remastered version of the box set. It restores "Use of a Dog" but omits the fourth disc of live recordings. http://ubuprojex.net/diyz.html

Track listing

All tracks by Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.Père Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné...

Disc 1: 1975-1977

1. "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" – 6:21
2. "Heart of Darkness" – 4:44
3. "Final Solution" – 4:58
4. "Cloud 149" – 2:37
5. "Untitled" – 3:32
6. "My Dark Ages" – 4:00
7. "Heaven" – 3:04
8. "Nonalignment Pact" – 3:18
9. "The Modern Dance" – 3:28 (album mix)
10. "Laughing" – 4:35
11. "Street Waves" – 3:04
12. "Chinese Radiation" – 3:27
13. "Life Stinks" – 1:52
14. "Real World" – 4:00
15. "Over My Head" – 3:49
16. "Sentimental Journey" – 6:06
17. "Humor Me" – 2:43
18. "The Book Is on the Table" – 4:02

Disc 2: 1978-1979

1. "Navvy" – 2:40
2. "On the Surface" – 2:35
3. "Dub Housing" – 3:40
4. "Caligari's Mirror" – 3:49
5. "Thriller!" – 4:36
6. "I, Will Wait" – 1:46
7. "Drinking Wine Spodyody" – 2:44
8. "Ubu Dance Party" – 4:46
9. "Blow Daddy O" – 3:38
10. "Codex" – 4:54
11. "The Fabulous Sequel" – 3:07
12. "49 Guitars & One Girl" – 2:51
13. "A Small Dark Cloud" – 5:49
14. "Small Was Fast" – 3:30
15. "All the Dogs Are Barking" – 3:02
16. "One Less Worry" – 3:46
17. "Make Hay" – 4:02
18. "Goodbye" – 5:17
19. "Voice of the Sand" – 1:27
20. "Kingdom Come" – 3:15

Disc 3: 1980-1982

1. "Go" – 3:35
2. "Rhapsody in Pink" – 3:34
3. "Arabia" – 4:59
4. "Young Miles in the Basement" – 4:20
5. "Misery Goats" – 2:38
6. "Loop" – 3:15
7. "Rounder" – 3:24
8. "Birdies" – 2:27
9. "Lost in Art" – 5:12
10. "Horses" – 2:35
11. "Crush This Horn" – 3:00
12. "The Long Walk Home" – 2:35
13. "Petrified" – 2:16
14. "Stormy Weather" – 3:18
15. "West Side Story" – 2:46
16. "Thoughts That Go by Steam" – 3:47
17. "Big Ed's Used Farms" – 2:24
18. "A Day Such as This" – 7:16
19. "The Vulgar Boatman Bird" – 2:49
20. "My Hat" – 1:19
21. "Horns Are a Dilemma" – 4:21

Disc 4: 390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo, Volume 2

1. "Vocal Liner Notes" 0:56
2. "Theatre 140, 5/5/78" 0:07
3. "Real World" – 4:32
4. "Laughing" – 5:19
5. "Street Waves" – 4:30
6. "Humor Me" – 3:08
7. "Over My Head" – 5:00
8. "Sentimental Journey" – 8:49
9. "Life Stinks" – 3:13
10. "My Dark Ages" – 5:30
11. "C. Teatro Medica, 3/3/81" 0:11
12. "The Modern Dance" – 3:40
13. "Codex" – 3:24
14. "Ubu Dance Party" – 3:57
15. "Big Ed's Used Farms" – 3:27
16. "Real World" – 2:46
17. "Birdies" – 2:15

Disc 5: Terminal Drive (Ubu-related rarities)

1. "Foreign Bodies : The Incredible Truth" – 2:35
2. "15-60-75 : It's in Imagination" – 4:43
3. "Syd's Dance Band : Never Again" – 2:20
4. "Carney
   Ralph Carney
   Ralph Carney is an American musician. While his primary instruments are various saxophones and clarinets, Carney collects and plays many instruments, often unusual or obscure ones....
   
    & 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...
   
    : Sunset in the Antipodes" – 2:26
5. "Home & Garden : (please) FIX MY HORN (my brakes don't work)" – 3:24
6. "Neptune's Car : Baking Bread" – 2:13
7. "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...
   
    : Atom Mind" – 2:29
8. "Tripod Jimmie : Autumn Leaves" – 4:17
9. "Friction : Dear Richard" – 5:56
10. "Pressler-Morgan : You're Gonna Watch Me" – 1:40
11. "Rocket from the Tombs
    Rocket From The Tombs
    Rocket From the Tombs is an American rock music band originally active from mid-1974 to mid-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio.Heralded as an important protopunk group, they were little known during their lifetime, though various members later achieved renown in Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys...
    
     : Amphetamine" – 5:32
12. "Mirrors : She Smiled Wild" – 3:57
13. "Electric Eels
    Electric Eels (band)
    The electric eels were a protopunk band active between 1972 and 1975. They formed in Cleveland, Ohio....
    
     : Jaguar Ride" – 1:46
14. "Tom Herman : Steve Canyon Blues" – 4:17
15. "Allen Ravenstine : Home Life" – 6:47
16. "Rocket from the Tombs : 30 Seconds Over Tokyo" – 7:00
17. "Proto Ubu : Heart of Darkness" – 8:47
18. "Pere Ubu : Pushin' Too Hard
    Pushin' Too Hard
    "Pushin' Too Hard", originally titled " Pushin' Too Hard", is a song by American rock group The Seeds, written by vocalist Sky Saxon and produced by Saxon with Marcus Tybalt. It was released as a single in 1965, re-issued the following year, and peaked at number 36 on the U.S...
    
    " – 3:54

Personnel

• Michael Aylward – Guitar
• Scott Benedict – Drums
• Cindy Black – Moog Synthesizer
• Lenny Bove – Bass
• Ralph Carney
  Ralph Carney
  Ralph Carney is an American musician. While his primary instruments are various saxophones and clarinets, Carney collects and plays many instruments, often unusual or obscure ones....
  
   – Keyboards, Saxophone
• Brian Cox – Bass
• Jim Crook – Bass
• Chris Cutler
  Chris Cutler
  Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
  
   – Drums
• Albert Dennis – Bowed Bass
• The Electric Eels – Performer
• 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...
  
   – Keyboards
• Anton Fier
  Anton Fier
  Anton Fier, , is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge , worked with Pere Ubu, was briefly in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos...
  
   – Drums
• John Freskos – Guitar
• Friction – Performer
• Alan Greenblatt – Guitar
• Kenneth Hamann – Producer
• Paul Hamann – Bass, Producer, Digital Transfers
• Tom Herman – Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
• Home and Garden – Producer
• John Hume – Photography
• Terry Hynde – Alto Saxophone
• Bart Johnson – Bass
• Jim Jones – Bass, Producer, Compilation Producer
• Bob Kidney – Guitar, Vocals
• Jack Kidney – Tenor Saxophone
• Adam Kidron
  Adam Kidron
  Adam Kidron is a British-born ex-music producer, serial entrepreneur, and the ex-Chief Executive Officer of Urban Box Office , a reggaeton and urban Latino record label based in New York City. He is currently the Managing Partner of 4food, a fast-healthy food concept launching in New York in 2009...
  
   – Producer
• Jamie Klimek – Guitar, Vocals
• Scott Krauss – Organ, Drums, Tape
• Peter Laughner
  Peter Laughner
  Peter Laughner was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.A native of Bay Village, Ohio, Laughner remains a rather little known figure; nonetheless, Richie Unterberger described him as "probably the single biggest catalyst in the birth of Cleveland's alternative rock scene in the mid...
  
   – Guitar, Vocals
• 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...
  
   – Synthesizer, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
• Paul Marotta – Producer
• Brian McMahon – Guitar
• Morgan – Performer
• Douglas Morgan – Guitar, Harp, Vocals, Producer
• Pat Morgan – Guitar
• John Morton – Guitar
• Pere Ubu – Producer
• Mark Price – Bass
• Allen Ravenstine – Synthesizer, Tape, Performer
• Dave Robinson – Drums
• Rocket from the Tombs – Performer
• Pat Ryan – Producer
• Susan Schmidt – Guitar
• Tom Simon – Photography
• Michael Stacey – Guitar
• Michele Temple – Bass
• 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...
  
   – Organ, Harmonica, Saxophone, Vocals, Producer, Performer, Digital Transfers, Compilation Producer
• John Thompson – Design, Photography
• Mayo Thompson
  Mayo Thompson
  Mayo Thompson is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Crayola .-1960s:...
  
   – Guitar
• Tripod Jimmie – Performer
• Michael J. Weldon – Drums
• Robert Wheeler – Synthesizer, Theremin
• Tim Wright
  Tim Wright (bassist)
  Tim Wright is an American bassist. He was the original bassist with Pere Ubu, but left in 1978 to join Arto Lindsay in the no wave band DNA. He stayed with them until they split in 1982.- References :...
  
  – Bass, Guitar