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Dub Housing

~ Pere Ubu
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (8 Nov 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • ASIN: B00000IGO6
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Listen  8. Ubu Dance Party 4:49£0.69
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THE MODERN DANCE was Pere Ubu's debut and 1978's great leapforward in the wake of punk and its lesser descendents. As such, DUB HOUSING, 10 months its junior, was always going tohave a hard act to follow. At heart an avant-garde troupe with an overbearing sense of alienation about them, Ubu resisted the hooks that earned THE MODERN DANCE so many of its plaudits. DUB HOUSING rode along on Tony Maimone's fluid bass work on "I Will Wait" and "Navvy", periodically breaking down into ordered chaos. You can almost hear the fragile building bricks tumble on "Thriller!"
When David Thomas idiosyncratically wails his asymmetrical way around "Ubu Dance Party", you sense a forced smile atop the group's thumping noise. Pere Ubu put down the ideas of which others could only dream. Thomas articulates his personal pain in jagged verbal shapes, while art wrestles pop into submission. DUB HOUSING, wrapped in a dark and uninviting sleeve, is named after the ambience of terraced homes in Baltimore. It's that sort of record.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece, 23 Nov 2000
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Dub Housing, Pere Ubu's second studio album, is arguably the best avant-garde rock album of all time. Modern Dance, the first album, was a tough act to follow, but this manages it and then some. Every track is a prime example of inspired experimentation that forms a whole that is unsettling and dramatic. That's not to say the album is without humour and David Thomas' unique and surreal vocals add a human feel to the sometimes quite alien music that is completely without pomposity. The music itself is hard to describe - it simply has to be heard to be believed. From the jazz punk of 'I Will Wait' to the unbelievably haunting title track and the cinematic brilliance of 'Caligari's Mirror' every track is absolutely faultless. A landmark album that stills sounds absolutely incredible 22 years after release.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tuneful dissonance, 14 April 2004
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This mostly dark album contains some great moments and engages the mind with its sonic experimentation that can perhaps be described as a type of psycho funk rock, more or less along the same lines as Captain Beefheart. Navvy is a burbling ditty, the title track has interesting arrangement with rhythmic and vocal variation whilst Thriller! with its muffled vocals presents quite an eerie soundscape. The tortured vocals of David Thomas have a strange charm, especially on songs like I Will Wait, Drinking Wine Spodyody and the impressive Ubu Dance Party with its rousing build-up. My favorite song on the album is the semi-instrumental Blow Daddy-o that has an ominous and hypnotic instrumental texture with background whispers. The music is art rock with visceral appeal and although Dub Housing is considered a masterpiece, my real rating is three and a half stars. I find their pop album Worlds In Collision far more enjoyable and memorable.
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20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the two great Pere Ubu albums., 18 Mar 2003
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Following an early era which under the name Rocket from the Tombs, Pere Ubu were born & released some of the greatest singles of all time: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo & Final Solution, which are collected on Terminal Tower (75-81). 1978 saw the debut album The Modern Dance (which had been recorded over the previous two years), which was rapidly followed up by this album.

The 10-tracks here advance on the sound of The Modern Dance- psychedelic keyboards, alien sounds, guitar drones, suffocating sax & David Thomas's trademark screaming vocals (preceding singers such as Billy Mackenzie, Robert Smith & Black Francis). The title track is as intense as such groups as The Fall, The Pop Group, The Birthday Party & Gang of Four; while On the Surface stands out with its lyrics about "the Iranian sun" as machine noises whir & a Nuggets-style organ recurs: imagine 13th Floor Elevators recording in an abandoned factory & you're close...Caligari's Mirror is inspired by Robert Wiene's 1919 German Expressionist classic Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari & reminds me a little of Husker Du around 1984 (Zen Arcade/New Day Rising)...The rest is as great- I Will Wait, Drinking Wine Spodyody & Ubu Dance Party etc- this is one of the great albums of the 1970s- a period that saw people truly experiment. One to file next to Low, No Pussyfooting, Clear Spot, 154, Cut, Metal Box, Entertainment!, Dragnet, Tago Mago etc...

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5.0 out of 5 stars I Think About You All The Time
Dear Reader, this record has been given a Triple A rating (Arrhythmic. Atonal. Asymmetrical) and should be approached with due caution by anyone who values the following:... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Anthony Dolphin

5.0 out of 5 stars if you only buy one Ubu CD make it this one
As a pretentious 70's teenager I have to confess that the Jarry / Ubu story plus the fact that David Thomas looked like the guy in Eraserhead was a winning combination for me. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2008 by Mr. D. Sharples

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I enjoyed this album when I first bought it about a year ago, and considered it highly experimental. However, having discovered the likes of "Neu! Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2004 by ed_kemp

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