Music Capsule Review

Story of My Life (1993)

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Lead Performance: Pere Ubu; Genre: Rock

By Charles Aaron

Whether singing about blast furnaces, train wrecks, or unrequited crushes, Pere Ubu lead singer David Thomas has always ached to be a romantic, but he's too playfully pained, like Dr. Seuss, crafting skewed metaphors for a skewed world. Story of My Life's tense, terse melodies (''Kathleen,'' ''Honey Moon,'' ''Sleep Walk'') are his band's most generous yet, putting a jump in your step as well as a lump in your throat.

Posted Apr 09, 1993

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