U-J3RK5 was a Vancouver

Vancouver

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 based band from the late 1970s. Their style was post punk/new wave

New Wave music

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, but was more art rock

Art rock

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 than synth pop. U-J3RK5's short lived local success was influenced by the music industry's infatuation with Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian new wave band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, they had a number of hits in their native Canada, and the core members of the band also charted in Canada and...

 styled male-female bands. The band included local artist celebrities Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace (artist)

Ian Wallace in Shoreham, England, is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. He won the 2004 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts...

, Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s...

 and Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham

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, as well as Kitty Byrne, Colin Griffiths, Danice McLeod, Frank Ramirez and CBC Radio

CBC Radio

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 host David Wisdom

David Wisdom

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. Their eponymous debut album, portraying the pioneers of Vancouver's school of so-called 'photoconceptualism' or 'post-conceptual photography' in a rare moment of unison, sported an unlikely hit single titled "Eisenhower and the Hippies" - a song inspired by a work of American conceptual art

Conceptual art

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 proponent Dan Graham

Dan Graham

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. Their album

Album

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 was released by Zulu Records

Zulu Records

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The band was a rather short-lived affair, allowing the members to concentrate on their art careers instead.

Oh Canaduh! compilation album

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s featured two covers

Cover version

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 of UJ3RK5. "Eisenhower and the Hippies" was covered by Man or Astro-man?

Man or Astro-man?

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 and "Locator" was covered by Servotron

Servotron

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