It's All About Tomorrow

One Hundred Fifty-Ninth:

Artist - The Nation of Ulysses
Album - Plays Pretty for Baby
Released - 1992
Label - Dischord
Genre - Punk Rock

Tracks:
Side One
N-Sub Ulysses
A Comment on Ritual
The Hickey Underworld
Perpetual Motion
Machine
N.O.U. Future-Vision
Hypothesis
50,000 Watts Of Goodwill
Side Two
Maniac Dragstrip
Last Train To Cool
Shakedown
Mockingbird, Yeah!
Depression III
S.S. Exploder
The Kingdom Of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm

What The Nation of Ulysses has is beyond 

talent.

Smashed instruments

Smashed faces

Smashed lives

They've been accused of the works, yet

this same five are soft touches for

has beens...

and to pay the tab for the youth

revolution, The Nation of Ulysses puts

on  some of the most fabulous one-

nightgers in the history of show business.

Gangway kids, from Washington D.C., the

five foolish lambs who came cool - 

The Nation of Ulysses! - J. Blake (Chicago)

I wanted to do something out of my comfort zone and when I pulled this record, the first thing that I thought of was, "the name of this band sounds so familiar!"  Even though I read some of the songs and what the sleeve contents contained, I still didn't have a clue, so I played it anyways.  Pretty impressed by their sound, The Nation of Ulysses reminds me a lot of...Fugazi in a way.  As I was listening, my roommate came in and gave me a little Wikipedia lesson on the members of this band.  Apparently the drummer is now the guitarist in Ted Leo's band and is brothers with the drummer of Fugazi.  There's the connection.  But regardless of what we can compare them to, I was impressed with this record.  The second album by The Nation of Ulysses, Plays Pretty for Baby is full of all kinds of emotion that make this album unmatchable by any band.   Solid drumming, distorted guitars, pure punk at it's best.  The band having a life-span that started in the late 80's into the early 90's, they have had much influence on many artists today.

Enjoy!