Story of My Life (album)
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Story of My Life is Pere Ubu's ninth studio album. Eric Drew Feldman
Eric Drew Feldman
Eric Drew Feldman is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, Charlotte Hatherley, Custard, and PJ Harvey.He was...

 left the band prior to recording, reducing Ubu to a quartet. Prior to touring on this album Tony Maimone
Tony Maimone
Tony Maimone is a bass player, producer, and engineer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.He was a member of Pere Ubu from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, often playing with drummer Scott Krauss...

 left as well. According to a conversation between David Thomas
David Thomas (musician)
David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...

 and Frank Black
Frank Black
Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...

 included on the b-side of the "Kathleen" single, the album's working title was Johnny Rivers Live At The Whiskey A Go Go.

Though out of print
Out of print
Out of print refers to an item, typically a book , but can include any print or visual media or sound recording, that is in the state of no longer being published....

 for many years, a reissue was announced in early 2007. http://www.ubuprojex.net/soml.html

Track listing

  1. "Wasted" – 2:37
  2. "Come Home" – 4:49
  3. "Louisiana Train Wreck" – 3:20
  4. "Fedora Satellite II" – 3:26
  5. "Heartbreak Garage" – 3:52
  6. "Postcard" – 2:49
  7. "Kathleen" – 4:24
  8. "Honey Moon" – 2:54
  9. "Sleep Walk" – 4:23
  10. "The Story of My Life" – 4:06
  11. "Last Will & Testament" – 3:48

Personnel

  • David Thomas
    David Thomas (musician)
    David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...

    : vocals, melodeon, guitar on "Postcard"
  • Jim Jones
    Jim Jones (guitarist)
    James E. Jones, known as Jim Jones, was an experimental music artist, producer, and guitarist in the rock band Pere Ubu. Jones was a founding member of many experimental rock bands of the 70s and 80s including: Easter Monkeys, Foreign Bodies, Mirrors, The Styrenes, Home And Garden, and Terminal...

    : guitar, Hammond B3, backing vox, keyboard
  • Tony Maimone
    Tony Maimone
    Tony Maimone is a bass player, producer, and engineer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.He was a member of Pere Ubu from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, often playing with drummer Scott Krauss...

    : bass, EML synthesizer
  • Scott Krauss: drums, percussion, keyboard, shortwave

and
  • Al Clay: vox calliope, digital keyboard, backing vocals, guitar on "Postcard".
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