Blog: She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight...

Nonalignment Pact - Pere Ubu from The Modern Dance , 1978 Since Lin decided to start with the delicate and minor-keyed "Via Chicago," it seems fitting that I should open with a thick slab of raucous noise--Pere Ubu's "Nonalignment Pact," the first track from their 1978 debut LP, The Modern Dance . Beginning with a series of shrill, almost painful shrieks of one of Allen Ravenstine's synths before dissolving into a nearly rockabilly guitar riff and the full-throated ravings of vocalist David Thomas (one of rock's few [...]