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30 Seconds Over Tokyo (6:21) |
Laughing (4:35) |
Running Time is 69:29.
Produced by Pere Ubu & Ken
Hamann.
All songs written by Pere Ubu except "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"
(Laughner-O'Connor-Thomas), "Heart of Darkness"
(Thomas-Herman-Krauss-Laughner-Wright), "Final Solution"
(Bell-Thomas-Pere Ubu), and "Life Stinks" (Laughner).
© 1996 Ubu Projex BMI.
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
A Rocket From The Tombs song. Inspired by the kids book about
Doolittle's heroic raid on Tokyo.
Heart of Darkness
First song written for Pere Ubu. Listen to it so that you pass the
CEI bend on I-90 going west as the song starts. Then go where you
think you should. "I don't see anything I want" was written driving
up Cedar Road going east just past the intersection with Fairmount
Blvd. Never did like Cleveland Hts.
Final Solution
A Rocket From The Tombs song. Written to the scansion of Summertime
Blues, the Blue Cheer version. See comments to Non-alignment Pact.
Cloud 149
David's favorite lyric: "Here she comes. There she goes. Oh Oh Oh"
My Dark Ages
"My Back Pages." Driving west joining Carnegie Blvd just where
Chester branches off at night with street lights and a summer haze in
the air
Heaven
First of a LONG series of songs about sound.
Non-alignment Pact
Apocalyptic teen vision of a world gone terribly wrong. Inspired, of
course, by Summertime Blues: "Gonna take my problem to the United
Nations!"
The Modern Dance
The sound tapes are from the West Side Market on Saturday and tv
applause tracks.
Laughing
Loaded with lines lifted from the film "Badlands." The song was
inspired by the name of a truck stop in the middle of the
Pennsylvannia Interstate wilderness called something like "Bill's
Laff Inn."
Street Waves
At Detroit & W.80th Street there was a used tire store selling
stacks of rotting rubber. Driving west on Detroit, listening to CKLW
and looking at those tires is what the song is about. Glad you asked?
Chinese Radiation
Two facts inspired the song:
Chinese Radiation is a Love Song.
Life Stinks
This is a Rocket From The Tombs song.
Real World
This is a song about New Year's Eve at the Viking Saloon.
Over My Head
This is a song about smoke.
Humor Me
Concering the death of Peter Laughner.