THE NATION OF ULYSSES
PLAYS PRETTY FOR BABY (1992)
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This thing is intensely unique. Combining elements of DC's straight-edge scene (Minor Threat, Fugazi et al) and New York's best noise artists (Sonic Youth, Richard Hell) with excessive socio-political diatribes, Nation of Ulysses create an album singular in its urgency. The CD struck me like a letter bomb, tempting me with an ambiguous spoken monologue in the first track, and then blowing up in my face with "A Comment on Ritual" (my vote for standout track). I can only wonder why these guys didn't get more attention. Were they too dangerous? In any case, I think if they continued, they would have spontaeously combusted within a matter of months.
1. N-Sub Ulysses
2. Comment on Ritual
3. Hickey Underworld
4. Perpetual Motion Machine
5. N.O.U. Future Vision Hypothesis
6. 50,000 Watts of Goodwill
7. Maniac Dragstrip
8. Last Train to Cool
9. Shakedown
10. Mockingbird, Yeah!
11. Depression III
12. S.S. Exploder
13. Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken by Storm
14. Sound of Jazz to Come
15. N.O.U.S.P.T.D.A.
16. Presidents of Vice
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