Datapanik in the Year Zero
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| Box set by Pere Ubu | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1975-1982 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk, experimental rock, avant-garde music | |||
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DGC (original release) Cooking Vinyl (reissue) |
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Datapanik in the Year Zero is a 1996 box set by Pere Ubu, which catalogues their initial phase of existence up to their 1982 break-up (which later turned out to be merely a hiatus). The title was first used by the band for a 1978 EP which compiled their first singles; the name was "recycled" for this release. The name appears to reference the Cold War film, Panic in Year Zero! (1962).
This box set compiles the original EP of the same name, their first five albums (which were out of print at the time this set was released), along with a disc of live material, and another of related rarities. It omits "Use of a Dog" from Song of the Bailing Man, "Humor Me", "Not Happy" and "Lonesome Cowboy Dave" from Terminal Tower and the vocal version of "Arabia" from The Art of Walking. Since, according to David Thomas, Pere Ubu do not produce outtakes or alternate versions (aside from a few anomalies related to an early version of The Art of Walking), the rarities disc is unique in that it features groups that were sometimes only tangentially related to Ubu, in an effort to present an overview of the mercurial Cleveland scene out of which they grew.
In 2009, Cooking Vinyl released a remastered version of the box set. It restores "Use of a Dog" but omits the fourth disc of live recordings.
All tracks by Pere Ubu
Disc 1: 1975-1977
Disc 2: 1978-1979
Disc 3: 1980-1982
Disc 4: 390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo, Volume 2
Disc 5: Terminal Drive (Ubu-related rarities)
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