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Flipping through a copy of Stuart Coupe and Glenn A. Baker's 'The New Rock 'n' Roll: An A-Z of Rock in the 80's' (Omnibus Press, 1983), I noticed this in the entry for Pere Ubu:

"Certainly Pere Ubu remain at the forefront of American avant-garde music. They began before punk, they existed through the rise and fall of that period, and they continue to exist. They aren't post-punk, they are more post-rock."

Predates Simon Reynolds' use of the term by almost a decade, no?

― Sasha Gabba Hey! (sgh), Sunday, 21 September 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

seems apt.

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 21 September 2003 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have that book too, and that quote didn't escape me. I'm just miffed that whoever owned the book before me cut out the pages with Japan on them.

― Damian (Damian), Sunday, 21 September 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I think Pere Ubu definitely rock. I don't know if I'd say the same about Bark Psychosis.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Sunday, 21 September 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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