Story of My Life by Pere Ubu

Story of My Life, Pere Ubu's ninth studio album, came out in 1993 with the Cleveland band pared down to a quartet after keyboardist Eric Drew Feldman walked before the sessions. That leaves David Thomas hollering and crooning over Jim Jones's guitar, Tony Maimone's bass and the drums of founding member Scott Krauss, and it was the last Ubu record with either Maimone or Krauss; Maimone was gone before the tour.

With the keyboards thinned out, this is Ubu at its most direct, the avant-garage wobble still there but tucked inside tight, springy rock songs with a sly pop streak. Thomas once told Frank Black the working title was Johnny Rivers Live At The Whiskey A Go Go, which about sums up the joke. Two songs found second lives on screen: "Come Home" soundtracks a bar fight in Kalifornia, and "Wasted" turns up in Sleep with Me.

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