Terminal Tower (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Terminal Tower

| type = Compilation album

| artist = Pere Ubu

| cover = Terminaltow.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1985

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Art punk, post-punk{{cite journal |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-20160406/pere-ubu-terminal-tower-1985-20160406 |title=40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time |work=Rolling Stone |date=April 6, 2016 |access-date=April 6, 2016}}

| length =

| label = Rough Trade

| producer = Paul Hamann, Pere Ubu

| prev_title = Song of the Bailing Man

| prev_year = 1982

| next_title = The Tenement Year

| next_year = 1988

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/terminal-tower-mw0000650621 |title=Terminal Tower – Pere Ubu |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=January 20, 2013 |last=Huey |first=Steve}}

| rev2 = Chicago Sun-Times

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4172654.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312194200/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4172654.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |title=The Best of Pere Ubu on CD |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=May 30, 1993 |access-date=March 12, 2017 |last=DeRogatis |first=Jim |author-link=Jim DeRogatis |url-access=subscription }}

| rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=0-85712-595-8}}

| rev4 =Hi-Fi News & Record Review

| rev4Score = A/B:1{{cite news|last=|first=|authorlink=|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Hi-Fi-News/80s/Hi-Fi-News-1989-06.pdf|title=Review: Pere Ubu — Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection|work=Hi-Fi News & Record Review|type=magazine|date=June 1989|volume=34|issue=6|access-date=2 September 2021|page=107|location=Croydon|publisher=Link House Magazines Ltd|via=World Radio History|issn=0142-6230|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902070605/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Hi-Fi-News/80s/Hi-Fi-News-1989-06.pdf|archive-date=2 September 2021}}

| rev5 = MusicHound Rock

| rev5score = 5/5{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/musichou.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111051836/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/musichou.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 11, 2007|title=Rocklist.net... Gary Graff - MusicHound}}

| rev6 = Q

| rev6Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite journal|title=Pere Ubu: Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection |work=Q}}

| rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Pere Ubu|last1=Coleman|first1=Mark|last2=Matos |first2=Michaelangelo|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|year=2004|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/626 626–27]}}

| rev8 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev8Score = 9/10{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |publisher=Vintage Books |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8}}

| rev9 = The Village Voice

| rev9score = A−{{cite news |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv4-86.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |newspaper=The Village Voice |date=April 1, 1986 |access-date=June 12, 2017 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}

}}

Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection is a compilation album by American rock band Pere Ubu. Released in 1985, the album compiles several of the band's early singles and B-sides, including the Hearthan singles recorded with founder Peter Laughner that were initially compiled on the Datapanik in Year Zero EP, and continuing through later sides recorded with Mayo Thompson.

The original Rough Trade UK LP was fine, but the American Twin Tone LP and CD both played at slightly slow speed (about a half-tone flat) throughout, had the left and right channels reversed and suffered from generally poor sound compared to the UK LP or the US singles. Most of the compilation was properly remastered for the Datapanik in the Year Zero box set, and all subsequent individual reissues of the compilation have used that corrected master.