Pere Ubu Worlds In Collision

Pere Ubu Worlds In CollisionPere Ubu's 1989 album Cloudland seemed like a strange pop anomaly to many longtime fans, but unbeknown to them the group had something even slicker up its sleeve. Gil Norton, best known for his work with the Pixies, was brought in to produce 1991's Worlds in Collision, and it marked an even more dramatic attempt to fuse Pere Ubu's sensibilities with the pop mainstream (which, in the year Nirvana would break through with Nevermind, probably didn't seem

accentuating the big riffs and bigger emotions

"I Learned the Hard Way" breezes with the cool assurance of Curtis Mayfield's Windy City and the instrumental "The Reason" shimmers like the sound of Philadelphia circa 1969

Stone Gossard (guitar)

most importantly

In any case

Gatefold LP Jacket

and can use it just as formidably as their more expected moods: "I'm not gonna hurt you/'Cuz I'm flirting with you

and was interested in working with the band on

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" which has Berninger reflecting on having a Beatlemaniac mother and

To that end

Humphrey Lyttelton (trumpet)