Blame the Messenger

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Blame the Messenger
Studio album by David Thomas
Released January 1987
Genre Rock
Label Rough Trade Records
Producer David Thomas
Professional reviews
David Thomas chronology
Monster Walks the Winter Lake
(1986)		 Blame the Messenger
(1987)		 Erewhon
(1996)


|- ! style="background: #ffff00;" colspan="3" | Pere Ubu chronology |- style="text-align: center; font-size: 0.8em;" | style="width: 33%;" valign="top" | Song of the Bailing Man
(1982) | style="width: 33%;" valign="center" | Blame the Messenger
(1987)

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(1988)

Blame the Messenger is David Thomas's fifth studio album. The album features three of the five 'Modern Dance' era Pere Ubu members, as well as resembling Pere Ubu sonically. These factors contributed to the official reformation of Pere Ubu the following year.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "My Town"
  2. "A Fact About Trains"
  3. "King Knut"
  4. "When Love Is Uneven"
  5. "The Storm Breaks"
  6. "The Long Rain"
  7. "Having Time"
  8. "Friends of Stone"
  9. "The Velikovsky 2"-Step

[edit] Musicians

  • Chris Cutler
  • Jim Jones
  • Tony Maimone
  • Allen Ravenstine
  • David Thomas