Album · Pere Ubu
Cloudland by Pere Ubu
Cloudland is an album by Pere Ubu, released in 1989. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Waiting For Mary”, on 1 list with a best position of #73.
Cloudland, Pere Ubu's seventh studio album, arrived on Fontana in May 1989, and it's the most startling move the Cleveland avant-garage crew has pulled yet: it goes after hooks you can actually hum. Back together since 1987 after a five-year break, David Thomas's band hasn't lost its taste for the peculiar, but here the oddness is folded neatly into the tunes, with Thomas yelping and crooning over a lineup of Tony Maimone, Jim Jones, Scott Krauss, Chris Cutler and keyboard man Eric Drew Feldman.
"Waiting for Mary" is the proof, a jittery, twitchy charmer whose video got some MTV airtime and which gave the band the only Billboard chart hit of their career, reaching 6 on Modern Rock Tracks. Out of print for years afterwards, the album came back on CD with bonus tracks in 2007.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Cloudland on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiting For Mary | 1 | #73 | – | 1989 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.