Plays Pretty for Baby

by The Nation of Ulysses

Plays Pretty for Baby cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1992
  • Label: Dischord
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 49:52
  • Community rating: 3.86/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Plays Pretty for Baby' is an incredibly manic and subversive document of post-hardcore from the Washington, D.C. scene. The band utilizes highly energetic, jazz-inflected art punk to deliver a fiercely passionate, sarcastic, and satirical political manifesto that heavily influenced the "sass" hardcore movement.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, male-vocalist, noisy, political, satirical, fast, DIY, experimental

Tracklist

  1. N-Sub Ulysses (3:30)
  2. A Comment On Ritual (2:26)
  3. The Hickey Underworld (2:50)
  4. Perpetual Motion Machine (2:30)
  5. N.O.U. Future Vision Hypothesis (3:08)
  6. 50,000 Watts Of Goodwill (4:05)
  7. Maniac Dragstrip (2:59)
  8. Last Train To Cool (3:27)
  9. Shakedown (3:27)
  10. Mockingbird, Yeah! (2:58)
  11. Depression III (3:27)
  12. S.S. Exploder (2:27)
  13. The Kingdom Of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm (2:18)
  14. The Sound Of Jazz To Come (4:47)
  15. N.O.U.S.P.T.D.A. (2:51)
  16. Presidents Of Vice (2:34)

Credits

  • The Nation Of Ulysses - primary artist, design, songwriter
  • Don Zientara - engineer
  • Peter Hayes - graphics
  • Steve Raskin - graphics
  • John Falls - photography by [cover insets, back]
  • Don Lewis - photography by [cover]
  • Ian Mackaye - producer

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