David Thomas (born 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Simon Le Bon lead singer of Duran Duran in concert, 2003. ... A songwriter is someone who writes, in part or in full, the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...

He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs (1974-1975) and of art rock warhorses Pere Ubu (1975 - present, intermitently). He as also released several solo albums. Though primarily a singer, he sometimes plays melodeon, trombone, guitar or other instruments. Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of punk rock, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. ... Rocket From The Tombs was an American rock band that formed in the summer of 1974. ... Art rock is a sub-genre of rock music that is characterized by ambitious lyrical themes and melodic or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard pop song forms and toward influences in jazz, classical, or the avant-garde. ... Pere Ubu are an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. ... The terms melodeon and melodion can refer to any of several related musical instruments of the free reed aerophone family: A type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-operated vacuum bellows, and a piano keyboard. ... A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ...

Something of a cult figure, Thomas's high pitched voice is one of the most distinctive in rock music; rather high pitched (inspiring many helium-inhaltion references); Rick Anderson described Thomas's singing as "a barely mammalian yelp",[1], while Greil Marcus writes that "Mr Thomas's voice is that of a man muttering in a crowd. You think he's talking to himself until you realize he's talking to you."[2] A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific item, usually a film, television or radio program, though some comic books, musicians, writers or others also gain dedicated followings. ... General Name, Symbol, Number helium, He, 2 Chemical series noble gases Group, Period, Block 18, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 4. ... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Eutheria (includes extinct ancestors)/Placentalia (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes... Greil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. ...

Discography

Albums

• The Sound of the Sand & other songs of the Pedestrians (1981)
• Variations on a Theme (1983)
• Winter Comes Home (1983)
• More Places Forever (1985)
• Monster Walks the Winter Lake (1986)
• Blame the Messenger (1987)
• Erewhon (1996)
• Mirror Man (1999)
• Bad City (2000)
• Surf's Up! (2001)

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EPs

• Vocal Performances (1981)

Vocal Performances was an EP released by Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas in 1981. ...

Compilations

• David Thomas: Monster (1997)

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External links

• David Thomas, Ghoulardi: Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk, draft text of a talk by Thomas on Ghoulardi, at the April 2005 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project.