Pere Ubu- Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection

Usually odds and ends compilations are inconsistent at best, which is most certainly NOT the case with "Terminal Tower."
It spans from when the only reason they formed the band was to record 2 Rocket From the Tombs songs up to the more avant garde Mayo Thompson/Rough Trade era (5 years). Too many classics here to ever be out of print, but it is.
Rather than just go on about how great this record is...

Also:
All Pere Ubu CDs I have are unfortunately mastered at a very low volume, leaving the music sounding unfortunately thin. So I recorded my LP to CD with the levels turned up. I must say it enhances the chunkiness their earliest songs (especially "Final Solution").
For me, this sounds better...hope you agree.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qb14aya12abf5pe

Where it leaves off...

Rocket From The Tombs- Demo 1975

As you probably already know, RFTT was one of those classic bands who would have been hugely influential had they ever recorded an album, but upon breaking up split into two great first wave punk bands from opposite ends of the spectrum: Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys (compare each of their first and second albums). I always found this strange, but I guess the pre-punk crowd in Cleveland, OH in the early to mid 70's was less the bustling (even though there were a lot of great bands...those big city assholes always get all the credit...fucking jerks).
This is the closest thing to an original RFTT album there is...a live to borrowed reel to reel through a reverb unit in their practice space to be broadcast on local radio a few days later. Early punk pushers of DIY.
Even the reunion show I saw (2004?) was great, this tape is much better (RNR always was, and always should be a young person's genre, even if reunited RFTT was way better than today's dumb ass youth...no fucking contest).

http://www.mediafire.com/?5opigqp93chybqb