“I Hear they Smoke the Barbecue,” from Pere Ubu’s 1991 release “Worlds in Collision.” (And yes, that’s Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band member Eric Drew Feldman on keyboards.) Just like every other Pere Ubu album, “Worlds in Collision” is great, and so is this song. (If you don’t agree, you’ll have to find some other blog. Go on.) This is from their major-label dalliance period, when some producers and labels with connections really thought, like me, that Pere Ubu surely had a hit single in them somewhere. This album got wall-to-wall great reviews, and it might be the album that sold all of 6000 copies (but that might be all of them). As wonderful as they are, these guys couldn’t get arrested if they drove a truck through the police station. But some of us will always be in awe.

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