{"product_id":"les-haricots-sont-pas-sales-1987-1991","title":"Les Haricots Sont Pas Sals 1987 - 1991","description":"\u003cp\u003e4LP box, A3 poster. Third, and final, box set includes \u003ci\u003eThe Tenement Year \u003c\/i\u003e(1988), \u003ci\u003eCloudland\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eWorlds In Collison\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) and \u003ci\u003eLost Album\u003c\/i\u003e (1989). With Pere Ubu on hiatus since 1982’s excellent \u003ci\u003eSong Of The Bailing Man\u003c\/i\u003e, David Thomas had recorded a much- praised solo album and the band had now signed to a major label. In a period of rampant world commercialism, what would happen next? Another crucial era for the band unraveled, Pere Ubu’s journey charted new undulating territory and so began a three-album escapade that retooled our understanding of what pop music is. The third in the four-part boxed set series, \u003ci\u003eLes Haricots Sont Pas Salé 1987-1991\u003c\/i\u003e sits between \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture Of Language 1979-1982 \u003c\/i\u003eand Drive, \u003ci\u003eHe Said 1994-2002\u003c\/i\u003e. “Solid as the band can be, it's also likely to dissolve songs from the bottom up. For all Pere Ubu's uncertainty, the band isn't arbitrary; its music has the off-the-wall unity of a Marx Brothers routine,” said Jon Pareles of The New York Times on \u003ci\u003eThe Tenement Year\u003c\/i\u003e. One year later and things were further obscured with \u003ci\u003eCloudland\u003c\/i\u003e when they released “their industrial-strength equivalent of a class Beach Boys album from musicians more familiar with factories than surf.” (Greg Kot, Chicago Sun Times). Then, in 1991, \u003ci\u003eWorlds In Collision\u003c\/i\u003e became “the most atmospheric, carefully sculpted recording in the band's 13-album catalog.” (Tom Moon, Spin). Here we have Pere Ubu between 1987 and 1991 with three phenomenal pop albums, together with the \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Album\u003c\/i\u003e, an 11-track record of demos that sounds like they’d loosened the nut and bolts of the genre even further. Four of these tracks, \u003ci\u003eAround The Fire, Down By The River, Like A Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e were recorded as demos for the album originally designed to follow \u003ci\u003eCloudland\u003c\/i\u003e. Referred to by the band as \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Album\u003c\/i\u003e they are now joined with songs from \u003ci\u003eCloudland\u003c\/i\u003e that wouldn’t fit on the original vinyl release due to the length limitations of vinyl. The record also includes a tribute to Van Dyke Parks \u003ci\u003eWine Dark Sparks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBang The Drum\u003c\/i\u003e inspired by a Van Dyke Parks song. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"LP | x4","offer_id":50497627980107,"sku":"1029956","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dfe9511f-c25d-40d0-9678-d2517b5a5053_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727729125","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/les-haricots-sont-pas-sales-1987-1991","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}