Long Live Père Ubu!

Long Live Père Ubu! is an album by the American band Pere Ubu, released in 2009.^[2] It is a soundtrack to a musical adaptation of the play from which the band took its name.^[3] The band performed its adaptation at (Le) Poisson Rouge.^[4] David Thomas referred to Long Live Père Ubu! as the first "true" punk album to be released in 30 years.^[5]

Long Live Père Ubu!
Studio album by Pere Ubu with Sarah Jane Morris
Released	2009
Genre	Punk rock
Label	Hearpen Records[1]
Pere Ubu with Sarah Jane Morris chronology
Why I Hate Women (2006) Long Live Père Ubu! (2009) Lady from Shanghai (2013)

Sarah Jane Morris played the part of Ubu's wife.^[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	8/10[7]
Record Collector	[8]
Spin	[9]

The Independent wrote: "Reflecting the original play's deliberately repugnant manner, the accompaniment is full of martial, rat-a-tat drum fusillades and pompous marches, synth whines, washes of white noise and colossal bouts of belching, perfectly embodying the childish antagonism of Jarry's irrepressible urge to 'epater la bourgeoisie.'"^[10]

Record Collector called the album "a hall-of-mirrors audio play with a linear narrative, scronking, squalling rhythms and melodic snippets undulating round a pulsating soundscape."^[8]

Track listing

1. "Ubu Overture" - 2:42
2. "Song of the Grocery Police" - 1:46
3. "Banquet of the Butchers" - 2:55
4. "March of Greed" - 3:34
5. "Less Said the Better" - 2:31
6. "Big Sombrero (Love Theme)" - 4:06
7. "Bring Me the Head" - 3:39
8. "Road to Reason" - 3:55
9. "Slowly I Turn" - 4:25
10. "Watching the Pigeons" - 3:21
11. "The Story So Far" - 7:57
12. "Snowy Livonia" - 1:20
13. "Elsinore & Beyond" - 1:35

Personnel

Pere Ubu

• David Thomas - vocals
• Sarah Jane Morris - vocals
• Keith Moliné - guitar, vocals
• Michele Temple - bass, lead vocals
• Steve Mehlman - drums, percussion, vocals