Pere Ubu - Datapanik In the Year Zero

Pere Ubu was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. Assembled in August 1975 as the Crosby Stills Nash & Young of the Cleveland music underground, the plan was to record one, maybe two singles and exist no more. Within months, however, those first self-produced records were being snapped up in London, Paris, Manchester, New York and Minneapolis. Pere Ubu was changing the face of rock music. Over the next 34 years they defined the art of cult; refined the voice of the outsider; and inspired the likes of Joy Division, Pixies, Husker Du, Henry Rollins, REM, Sisters of Mercy, Thomas Dolby, Bauhaus, Julian Cope and countless others.

The Boxset compiles the original EP of the same name, their first five albums, along with Terminal Drive, a disc of studio related rarities.

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