Elements of Pere Ubu
It's possible Smooth Sick Lights even helped inform factions of the New York No Wave (lead guitarist Patrick Geoffois would go on to be a member of both The Contortions and James White and the Blacks)
The title may be ironic since all of the songs have never been released
dorky pastiches of 70's AOR Hard Rock and
They do this kind of broken down carnival atmospherics and piano pieces very well and the record has an orchestral sweep to it which is very appealing and vastly more successful than the bands more conventional release 'Snowflake Midnight" which followed
BOB GEBELEIN - Uncle Bobby's Record LP boogie Elements of Pere UbuLimited edition of 300 copies on hand painted sleeves. This LP from 1974 is impossible to compare with any LP ever (!), but at the same time, can be compared to some of the most visionary folk LPs ever Picture a combination of early Bob Dylan, Skip Spence, the 1st Gordon Bok LP, TIm Buckley, Lou Reed, Peter Drudzien, Ernest Stoneman, Daniel Jonson, Richard and Mimi Farina, Chris Smither and Phil Ochs. But is a record all it's own, with unique and