1989 live album by Pere Ubu
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One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams is Pere Ubu's second live album, covering the years 1978-1981 (dovetailing with their previous live release, 390° of Simulated Stereo, which covered 1976-1978, but containing no recordings from 1979).
The album contains live renditions of one non-album track; one from the first Pere Ubu album, The Modern Dance (incidentally a version of this track, ‘Street Waves’, also appears on 390° of Simulated Stereo); six songs from Dub Housing; one from New Picnic Time and four from The Art of Walking. The first six songs were recorded at London's Electric Ballroom in November 1978 and feature Tom Herman on guitar. Herman left the group in 1979 (he would return in 1995).[2] Tracks 7-11 were recorded at The Mistake in Cleveland in July 1980, and feature Mayo Thompson on guitar in place of Herman, as do the last two tracks, recorded in Heidelberg, Germany in March 1981. One Man Drives... allows the listener to compare versions of the songs 'Small was Fast', 'Ubu Dance Party' (listed on the Dub Housing album as '(Pa) Ubu Dance Party') and 'Codex' with Thompson on guitar instead of Herman. Brett Milano of the Amherst Valley Advocate wrote in 1980 that Thompson 'has an intuitive sense of when to take off on spontaneous improvisation and when to hold everything together with some well-placed riffing.'[3]
