David Thomas - Monster: Boxed Set

David Thomas has been the bizarre and wonderful voice of Pere Ubu since the band's emergence from the Cleveland underground in the mid-'70s. In that capacity, he's attracted critical accolades from every quarter, if not teen idol status or platinum sales -- which isn't completely puzzling, given that he tends to write songs about birds, dinosaurs and hats, that he sings in a sort of strangled warble, and that his early stage name was Crocus Behemoth. If Pere Ubu is obscure, the solo albums Thomas made in the early- to mid-'80s are downright abstruse; until this five-disc set came out, every single one was long out of print. Read More