Ray Gun Suitcase | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 17 February 2013 - 9:43pm

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Artist:

Pere Ubu

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a_116

Nationality:

USA

Year:

1 995

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Track-listing:

Folly Of Youth*Electricity*The Beach Boys*Turquoise Fins*Vacuum In My Head*Memphis*Three Things*Horse*Don’t Worry*Ray Gun Suitcase*Surfer Girl*Red Sky*Montana*My Friend Is A Stooge Of The Media Priests*Down By The River II

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Nominator:

Bean

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m_44

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Spotify-URL:

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Ray+Gun+Suitcase/4515022

Short-title:

rayGun

nominator-ID:

u_13

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

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Wikipedia-URL:

Ray_Gun_Suitcase

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album

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ray-gun-suitcase-mw0000180293

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70

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

1-2

Some cracking tunes, but it takes some effort to appreciate the style. The album is three songs too long. More hits, less nonsense, and it would have been a classic.
70

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
69

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

7-14

There's something of a shambolic vibe through this, particularly in the vocals, which gives it some appeal but which also stops it from quite being the gem it promises to be. I didn’t pick up on this band back in the day and I may have felt differently if I had, because they seemed to be ahead of the game – in a demented grungy Pixies vein. I don't think it ever really reaches the heights of those illustrious followers but there are some great moments in here.

This is an album from later on in their career, when that scene had probably had its time, and they perhaps hadn’t moved on in the way they might have, but you still gotta give them some points for individuality and originality.
45

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Grandpere Ubu more like

I have been reading about this lot subsequently in a book about post punk. They were clearly innovative and influential back in the day (late 70s) but that was a long time ago. Not really my cup of tea.