Plays Pretty for Baby

Plays Pretty for Baby
Studio album by Nation of Ulysses
Released	October 6, 1992
Genre	Post-hardcore
Length	49:42
Label	Dischord Records
Producer	Ian MacKaye
Nation of Ulysses chronology
13-Point Program to Destroy America (1991) Plays Pretty for Baby (1992) The Embassy Tapes (2000)

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Plays Pretty for Baby is the second album by the American punk rock band Nation of Ulysses.

Tracks 14-16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from the 7" EP Birth of a Ulysses Aesthetic.

The song "The Sound of Jazz to Come" references A Love Supreme by John Coltrane multiple times through its lyrics, while the title of this song references the similarly titled Ornette Coleman album The Shape of Jazz to Come.

Track listing

1. "N-Sub Ulysses" − 3:32
2. "A Comment on Ritual" − 2:27
3. "The Hickey Underworld" − 2:50
4. "Perpetual Motion Machine" − 2:33
5. "N.O.U. Future Vision Hypothesis" − 3:09
6. "50,000 Watts of Goodwill" − 4:05
7. "Maniac Dragstrip" − 2:59
8. "Last Train to Cool" − 3:27
9. "Shakedown" − 3:27
10. "Mockingbird, Yeah!" − 2:59
11. "Depression III" − 3:27
12. "S.S. Exploder" − 2:27
13. "The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken by Storm" − 2:12
14. "The Sound of Jazz to Come" − 4:42
15. "N.O.U.S.P.T.D.A." − 2:51
16. "Presidents of Vice" − 2:35