Blame the Messenger

Blame the Messenger
Studio album by David Thomas
Released	January 1987
Genre	Rock
Label	Rough Trade
Producer	David Thomas
David Thomas chronology
Monster Walks the Winter Lake (1986)Monster Walks the Winter Lake1986 Blame the Messenger (1987) Erewhon (1996)Erewhon1996
Pere Ubu chronology
Song of the Bailing Man (1982) Blame the Messenger (1987) The Tenement Year (1988)

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Blame the Messenger is singer 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.

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"

Personnel

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