Collecting the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devastating one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends The Modern Dance and Dub Housing, following by The Hearpen Singles (1975-1977) and a red hot live set Manhattan, recorded at the legendary Max's Kansas City in 1977; Elitism For The People 1975-78 serves as a gut punch. Non-Alignment Pact, The Modern Dance, Laughing, Street Waves, Chinese Radiation, Life Stinks, Real World, Over My Head, Sentimental Journey, Humor Me