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Third, and final, box set includes he Tenement Year (1988), Cloudland (1989), Worlds In Collison (1991) and Lost Album (1989).

With Pere Ubu on hiatus since 1982s excellent Song Of The Bailing Man, David Thomas had recorded a much-praised solo album and the band had now signed to a major label. In a period of rampant world commercialism, what would happen next?

Another crucial era for the band unraveled, Pere Ubu's journey charted new undulating territory and so began a three-album escapade that retooled our understanding of what pop music is. The third in the four-part boxed set series, Les Haricots Sont Pas Sale1987-1991 sits between The Architecture Of Language 1979-1982 and Drive, He Said 1994-2002.

Solid as the band can be, it's also likely to dissolve songs from the bottom up. For all Pere Ubu's uncertainty, the band isn't arbitrary; it's music has the off-the-wall unity of a Marx Brothers routine, said Jon Pareles of The New York Times on The Tenement Year.

One year later and things were further obscured with Cloudland when they released their industrial-strength equivalent of a class Beach Boys album from musicians more familiar with factories than surf. (Greg Kot, Chicago Sun Times). Then, in 1991, Worlds In Collision became the most atmospheric, carefully sculpted recording in the band's 13-album catalog. (Tom Moon, Spin).

Here we have Pere Ubu between 1987 and 1991 with three phenomenal pop albums, together with the Lost Album, an 11-track record of demos that sounds like they'd loosened the nut and bolts of the genre even further.

Four of these tracks, Around The Fire, Down By The River, Like A Rolling Stone and Invisible Man were recorded as demos for the album originally designed to follow Cloudland. Referred to by the band as The Lost Album they are now joined with songs from Cloudland that wouldn't fit on the original vinyl release due to the length limitations of vinyl.

Disc 1 - The Tenement Year

1 Something's Gotta Give

2 George Had A Hat

3 Talk To Me

4 Busman's Honeymoon

5 Say Goodbye

6 Universal Vibration

7 Miss You

8 Dream The Moon

9 Rhythm King

10 The Hollow Earth

11 We Have The Technology

Disc 2 - Cloudland

1 Breath

2 Race The Sun

3 Cry

4 Why Go It Alone?

5 Waiting For Ma

6 Ice Cream Truck

7 Bus Called Happiness

8 Love Love Love

9 Lost Nation Road

10 Nevada!

11 Flat

12 The Waltz

13 Pushin

14 Monday Night

Disc 3 - Worlds In Collision

1 Oh Catherine

2 I Hear They Smoke The Barbecue

3 Turpentine!

4 Goodnite Irene

5 Mirror Man

6 Don't Look Back

7 Worlds In Collision

8 Life of Riley

9 Over The Moon

10 Cry Cry Cry

11 Playback

12 Nobody Knows

13 Winter In The Firelands

Disc 4 - The Lost Album

1 Down By The River

2 Around The Fire

3 Like A Rolling Stone

4 Invisible Man

5 Fedora Satellite

6 Fire

7 Bang The Drum

8 Postman Drove A Caddy

9 Wine Dark Sparks

10 The Wire

11 The B Side