We're not past the half-way mark and this week's pick is possibly the last obscure or controversial choice. I was never a fan, and I've never heard this live recording, so I'll turn it over to you guys for comments.

13) 390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo--Pere Ubu: In the studio these guys often seemed dazed by the technological options and the chance to think too much and in their original incarnation the longer they stayed together the weirder they got. Which was fine and dandy, except that while they were a very good art-rock band, they were also a very good live art-punk-band and somehow the extra hyphenated genre makes for happier living in general. Embrace them

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