Dub Housing

While having some bright spots here and there, this just ain't it, chief.

Not into it. Not that it’s bad, but I just don’t get it

1.5

I don’t like his voice. Some pleasant music

eh

Might eventually merit more stars with more listens. There is something good in there. But in a format where you listen to and review an album a day, that ain’t happening. I think The Pixies and Throbbing Gristle might have been listening to these guys.

Stressful. Very, very stressful. What's wrong with this guy's voice? It feels like one of the muppets is being forced to sing a punk song at gunpoint. The bass playing is absolutely stonking though, so that's something, and it wasn't David Gray or Norah Jones, so won on that front.

I don’t like his voice

I would have been fine not listening to this in this lifetime.

Complete love/hate. Some good (4 points) and some argh (1 point). So I split the difference and lowered again. 2. Sorry.

A pretty challenging album. Though the vocal delivery is certainly a bit unusual and offputting, the album does get a decent vibe and execution for On the Surface and Dub Housing. Even Caligari's Mirror is mostly sane. But at some point, it does become a bit of an art project, and other than Ubu Dance Party, most of the rest is a bit noisy and sounds less focused. It is a bit interesting, but I really only found promise on a few songs.

I guess I don't like post-punk. It all just feels thrown together Most if the songs are just passable with yelped vocals.

Not my cup of tea, sorry

It's alright

Pixies' like wanking alt \"credentials\" blech.

Weird album

The singers voice is really annoying, even for a punk band.

Vreemde tonen hier en daar. Onprettige stem om naar te luisteren. Goofy ahhh

Redelijk onprettige stem wel en überhaupt niet echt leuk om naar te luisteren

Very chaotic, not necessarily my taste but very cool!

Þetta voru langar 35 mínútur, en slefar samt í tvær stjörnur því það eru þarna áhugaverðir sprettir.

Hmm this was a little annoying? It was interesting but I am not sure I will be drawn to ever listen to it again. I think I appreciate how annoying it was though lol

Different. Interesting. Not my thing.

Weird album. There’s definitely some DNA that leads to 80s post Rock here. But not my jam.

Eh I didn’t find it so great

Surprised by the comparisons to The Talking Heads on this one. Quirky singer but the content isn't as good.

I recognized the name immediately as one of the albums from the worst ranked albums list. I’m always curious to see what brand of annoying these albums are going to possess. This isn’t the first time I’ve asked myself how on earth someone who can’t sing got a record deal and wound up on this list. This would have been a lot better with another singer. I enjoyed the keyboards and the instrumental songs but that was about it.

- Na endlich wieder avantgarde. Aber dieses mal irgendwie ganz witzig. Im Gegensatz zu einigen Kandidaten vorher ist es noch etwas bekömmlicher und das Chaos läuft bei diesem Album gefühlt in geregelten Bahnen. - Songs wie Caligaris Mirrorund Navy fand ich ehrlichweise sogar ganz geil - Zum Ende wirds wirklich leider wieder etwas SEHR absurd. - Viele interessante Elemente, viele, bei denen man mit der Stirn runzelt. 2,5/5

Se comenta que es el mejor álbum del grupo, respeto el comentario y a las personas que les gustan..........

Did not get this one unfortunately

Interesting, but couldn't listen to all of it.

Echt schade, dass die Vocals so kacke sind. Musik: 4 Vocals 1

Interesting but not something I’d listen to

Insgesamt größtenteils zu nervig leider.

I'm sure this sounds exactly how they intended it to. I find some pieces that I really enjoyed the strangeness and could see myself giving it another listen when I'm in the mood for a serious appreciation session. But as background, going about your day music it was not a hit with me

Some cool stuff, but not really my style and a lot I really didn’t like

Not my cup of tea but found a few songs I could listen to again. Had Talking Heads vibes at times.

I'm not sure about this one

Varies between “pub rock” and more experimental, noisy rock. None of it is interesting to me and I loose energy when listening to it. The vocal is terrible.

These guys fucking love Pere Ubu

1.8 Didnt enjoy this one as much as The Modern Dance

Just too damn weird.

i was bored.

2.5

Reminds me of talking heads on acid. I liked some of the album, but a couple tracks were just headache inducing

Don’t remember this.

The good book says that after some time, Pere Ubu knew that they wouldn't be commercial. After listening to this, I can understand why. Commercial doesn't always equal good, but this is quite far from both. 1.5/5

This is on odd album. Sometimes the bad singing worked for me and other times it didnt. The instrumental backing was really well done. The songs range between 3 stars and 1 stars so I will give it a 2 star rating

Some of the music was fine. Not a fan of the singing. Way too sober for this album.

Ok så eksperimenterende, men problemet er de elsker sådan en skrattelyd, som er forfærdelig at høre på. Så ikke helt væk, men skrattelyden gør det så svært at høre på

Highly PMS and irritable and this didn't resonate with me unfortunately. Luke is a fan but did advise you have to be in a certain mood for PU. Silly voice

Meh, nothing special, bit annoying but oh wel

This was weird for the sake of weird or something. This was made by a bunch of guys from Ohio apparently, wasn't expecting that. Not great but had 1 or 2 interesting tracks

Listened Before? N What an odd little post-punk album. The first half was unique and new and somewhat rockin'. His voice started grating on me by the end of the album though. Added to Playlist: N Songs added to playlist: On the Surface

I can see why this one is rated so poorly. It’s a bizarre attempt at music, and yet, there is some inept charm here. I’m not gunna bash on it because so many people already have and I do admit that I found moments that piqued my interest. But overall, I really won’t be seeking it out again.

J'imagine que ça doit être perçu par certains comme étant révolutionaire par comment c'eest étrange et je suis sûr que ça a influencé plusieurs artistes de styles experimental. Mais ce n'est vraiment pas tant ma tasse de thé. Mon principal problème vient surtout des vocals qui sont tout simplement insuportables la majorité du temps. La musique est souvent intéressante, mais c'est gâché par les chants qui font n'importe quoi. 4/10

Experimental rhythmic music with a lot of yelling. 2 Stars.

We got Pere Ubu's album "The Modern Dance" a while back, and my take was "meh." Nothing on this album's changed my mind. A lot of it was just noise, or off-key sorta-singing. No thank you.

There are bits and pieces of songs that I like, but I'm not a fan of the way the lead singer throws his voice 90% of the time. Especially how high-pitched he decides to do it. I can sort of get behind the asyncopation and chaotic nature of the songs, but that only goes so far if the rest of the content isn't enjoyable. This is unfortunately a solid 2/5 for me. There are some good aspects of it, but I just could not enjoy any of the songs in full.

Avant garde to say the least with one of the most obnoxious vocal performances I’ve ever heard. Some cool instrumental parts, but yeah, very very weird and avant garde. For me it’s kinda hard to tell a good avant garde album from a bad one. But this one kinda sounds like it came out in the early 90s but it came out in the early 70s so that’s something.

I quite liked how this started. I do not like how it finished. Seemed to go from fairly nice, experimental but melodic right through to dissonant, cacophonic mess with a bad David Byrne vibe. It doesn't seem to go anywhere - like any old claptrap were shoved in with a "that'll do".

Een punt voor de invloed, verder slecht luisterbaar.

I wanted to like this more than I actually did. I think I can hear the influence of some of this stuff in places like Bowie's Lodger and Scary Monsters albums. But he softened some of the rough edges and turned it into pop music. I'd generally rather listen to that. Still, this is interesting, if not always that enjoyable.

Nothing stood out.

Wcale nie dub

The gin of post-punk albums in that it's an acquired taste. It'll probably improve upon repeat listens, but the thing is, a lot of people still don't like gin, no matter how closely acquainted they get with it. Maybe gin just sucks.

Interesting, but not for me

thought i might like this. I was wrong.

Album #11 On paper, this album is a perfect fit for me. Post punk with electronic experimentation and an outrageous singer. Unfortunately, I could not get past the "avante garde" nature off this album. Dave Thomas' vocals are too distracting for me and take away from the rest of the songs. I understand that this is very influential, but it just didn't do it for me. I liked the instrumental songs more, but even those were a bit much for me. 1.5* rounded to 2 because I'm feeling guilty.

Not for me

God, that final song is terrible

Yeah, this is not really connecting with me. It’s sort of like the Talking Heads, but without all the things that make the Talking Heads great. I’m sure there is some grand creative vision behind it, but to me it just sounds like chaotic nonsense. 2 stars.

Interesting if not exactly listenable. Alternated between fun and weird (but still not all that listenable) and flat out disorganized noise. I respect the cojones of everyone involved in putting this album out into the world and am glad to have listened once. Also, once is enough. I find myself at a bit of a loss for how to rate it.

Huh kohtuullisen ärsyttävää kuunneltavaa. Onneksi oli edes lyhyt.

Mikäs tää olikaan. Muistan ulinaa.

Sounds like they were trying to explore and push the envelope. Seems like they achieved what they set out to do, but the album is better suited for music history enthusiasts. It's not particularly great music, at least to my taste.

Hated the vocals

Vanalega er ég all in í post-pönkinu en þetta er ekki alveg að ná mér á sitt band.

Sounds kinda like a trippier Talking Heads album. Starts off okay, but really overstays the fuck out of its welcome

The Modern Dance is usually in my top ten albums of all time, but I wasn't so keen on this. Some of it I loved - the loopiness of Blow Daddy-O, for instance. Call me old-fashioned, but this lacks the direction that the actual songs on their first album add. Probably warrants another listen, and some interesting ideas, but the quirkiness seems a little mannered here in a way that 'Dance' doesn't.

This was a bit of an early morning jolt in an attempt to overcome the hangover. Another album that I know I'm expected to like, but, but... It's too angular for me. All elbows poking you around with no smooth flow. Maybe I drank too much last night.

Mieux que 1 mais moins bien que 3

allez ne soyons pas rabat joie

another one i'm apparently too stupid to appreciate; I just heard this guy's very bad singing!

If it wasn't for the voice this could go way higher 2

is this haunted

Wow I really hate the vocals. Thrilller kind of sounds like a squeaky horror soundtrack.

They clearly didnt take it seriously, so why are we in putting them on this list?

Rather disappointing and unmelodic album

Interesting

Not my style but really cool to learn about it.

ummm, Whatnow?

Not my lane, but also not completely horrible

Ik heb ooit een album gehoord van Ubu wat ik tof vond. Dat was deze niet

Why??

Heu? Toch nog twee sterren omdat ik het ook wel komisch vond.

Did nothing for me really

oh god, that voice

This album made me think of Talking Heads except that they're better than Pere Ubu. It really went downhill when they started singing "Drunken Sailor"

3/10

3/10. I don't really get it.

This isn’t quite down there with my worst-rated albums but I can see why this is generally disliked on this site. At least it’s pretty short, though the last couple songs really drag on. 3/10

I can see what's going on here I guess but it was a chore for me. Maybe on a different day

jaja, ¿Pero qué broma es ésta? Y a estas horas de la mañana? Me ha hecho gracia, hombre.

En una època de cúspide creativa, semblava que innovar era obligatori, i això porta a intents fallits com aquest

Not good.

not for me

More avant garde atonal nonsense. Hints of tune.

Decent start, but lost me about halfway through.

Me no like

Partiendo de un tipo de voz un poco peculiar y sin mucho carisma, el resto de canciones me han parecido un nivel similar, con escasa melodía. Estilo algo de pop, aunque también un poco extraño

it's weird in both a good way and a bad way

Unable to find, listened to some other albums by this artist.

A lot of the album felt very drone-y and same-y. I did like codex tho

Bit too weird, won’t be returning.

It has some moments here and there but is mostly annoying. I can get down with some Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart, Ween, etc but this stuff is just goofy, weird and annoying without much that I could consider endearing. To be blunt: it feels like pseudo artsy hipster crap and I'm not feeling it.

Outside of post-punk devotees, this album probably appeals to a very limited audience. Harsh and formless.

Varies between interesting songs and plain noise

Catchy, but not for me. I think there were more skips then listens if I listen to this again

what a weird album, can't say I was a fan at all

I want to like this album, but it might be too new-wave-y for me. Not really catchy in the way that the talking heads are. Caligari's mirror is nice and there are catchy moments to this album- the rest is kind of a stew that I can't get into. 2 stars

Come on, some interesting chord progressions which keeps it from being 1 but "what do we do with the drunken sailor".. no

Fucking nonsense. The vocals are just dumb. Whoever rates this as a classic needs their ears checked. Christ.

pas vraiment aimé pour etre franc. C'est bizarre et éclaté mais sans rien qui vient me chercher. C'est meme fatiguant pour les oreilles des fois. 2.5

Wtaf

thriller is such a deeply unsettling song and i can’t decide if i like or hate it blow daddy-o guitar riff reminds me of that devil song in GH3

Not the dub house music I was hoping for

First album to legit make me laugh when it came on

Not really my thing. A bit too experimental and goes from okay listen to unbearable.

Do you like things that are wary of being liked? Then have i got a band for you.

couldn’t connect, i think the lyrics in particular made it more difficult

Sorry Pere, I couldn't tolerate this today.

I found this one a bit jarring on the ear. Not really for me. And, sadly, there was no dub to be heard on the whole record.

Too weird

👏 Every late 70s early 80s post punk album isn’t one we must hear 👏

Such a frustrating album. I really like the music, very much so, but the vocals make me want to stab pencils into my eardrums for some blessed relief from the agony of hearing that voice. I've never heard anything so polarising. If this was an instrumental I'd have doubled its score.

"Important post-punk" album. Riiiiight. It's loud and annoying. On the bright side: it's only 35-minutes. Didn't add.

I wasn't high enough for this.

This albums low points drag on the ground while the high points are barely above the elbow.

Weird album, off rhythm off key singing, didn’t really enjoy it

The music was alright but the vocal was terrible. Put me on edge. 2*

If I needed a sound track for a haunted house I might be tempted to include some of these cuts. Was not whelmed

Like a somehow-more feral Talking Heads. A record that would be playing while you were shopping, bleary-eyed, for records. Part of me, for some reason, enjoys this, but "Codex" knocked it down from a 3 to a 2. Though I'm sure the haunting, "I think about you all the time..." will visit me in my sleep tonight. Favorite track: "Caligari's Mirror"

This is the musical equivalent of drinking Jeppson's Malört. It's an extremely challenging experience that seems mostly to exist as an initiation into a group or a rite of passage. You get to watch your friends make that distinctive face when they realize how horrifying it tastes, and then find appreciation for a completely unique experience. It becomes a shared bond and lively conversation piece. This is not enjoyable music. But it's kind of compelling in a WTF kind of way.

Unpleasant

Áhugavert

Did not enjoy any of the songs, but continued to listen without interruption. Barely two stars.

I love post-punk and appreciate the influence this album/band had but as a listening experience it's a bit grating.

This was a challenging listen, very off the wall vocals, dissonant and unsettling so it was very difficult to enjoy.

6/10

I understand how this is an important album in the history of post-punk, but generally forgettable. Caligari's Mirror and Blow Daddy-O have moments of being a recognisable song, but I find this album mostly not memorable or compelling.

Occasionally like listening to a cheese grater and a broken keyboard being played by a drunk. Post-punk mash potato. Best Tracks: Navvy; Drinking Wine Spodyody; (Pa) Ubu Dance Party

Very interesting. Had zero knowledge of this band before now. At times, this album veers towards what sounds to me like parody, but I'm not always great at being able to spot that, so forgive me if I missed the point. Musically odd and disjointed, so it had my attention at various points. The vocal melodies and performances are quite unusual, especially for the time. All in all, a little "out there" for me, but I can see how they were influenced by 60s avante garde and experimental art of all kinds, and how ahead of the musical curve they were in some ways -- a lot of the elements I hear in these tracks are familiar to me from later music.

Interesting!

Couple o' nice grooves, but it mainly sounds like some folks jamming/fooling around in the studio. Which is fine, though I wouldn't say it makes for a 'great' album.

Inventive and unique in its sound, but hard to listen to top-to-bottom and just not my style.

influential this may be, but can not listen for pleasure

Musically this is quite interesting and fun. The vocal just ruins it though. Screechy and awful and renders some songs unlistenable. I'd like to understand why the band didn't just go out and find someone who could sing, but, frankly, I can't be bothered to look it up. 1.5/5.

starts of great with roots of punk there and new electrical sound as the album progresses some 'experimental' sounds are used which mainly make your ears bleed

Felt like there might be something more interesting in this music but never materialized.

Interesting arrangements to the entire album and an interesting look into post-punk from the late 70s. At times it was a little grating, but overall an ok album. Best: Dub Housing Worst: Blow Daddy-O 2.5 Stars

Interesting...

I appreciate the experimentation but overall not something that I would go back to. I'd be grooving to it one second, and then confused the next.

Weird experimental rock album. Some catchy songs though.

A weird album

Not a fan of his singing. Very experimental and jagged sounds. More noisy than musical. Like your friends in the garage trying to be a Ultra Cool New Band.

Seems newer than late '70's, some catchy other unlistenable songs

This is a first time listen to a band I've never heard of. There are elements that reminded me of the Talking Heads and the Art Rock of the early 70s. I'm not sure what to do with this album. It was interesting, and I'm glad that I got to hear something new. I'm not sure if I liked it enough to give it 3 stars, but I'm judging the album as a whole

Des hob i jetz ned verstanden

Flashes of decency, but just weird post-punk vibes throughout. The flashes keep it at a 2 for me. Caligari's Mirror is a jam, but they will mix in more artsy discordant riffs that throw me off

Ballsy

35 minutos y 10 canciones. Sigo sorprendiéndome con lo corto y directos que eran antes los discos. Empieza bien con Navvy a pesar de la voz como de gato maullando. El sonido post-punk, avant-garde no me disgusta y tenía algo de miedo ya que este es uno de los discos peor puntuados dentro de los 1001 de esta lista. No es malo y pero tampoco se merece más de un 2. Si te gustan Pavement, Talking Heads o Manos de Topo lo mismo te parecen interesantes.

There's maybe one good song in this album...

Meh

Tuneless shouting and repetitive arrangements. A band of the music papers only. Some of the playing is good but then the shouting starts.

Debiles Quietscheentchen? Mist hoch 3!

No.

yeeeeeesh what a disaster. I can't imagine making this album, finishing a take and being like "Yeah that was almost there...If only it had weird as squeaks throughout half the song". And that's saying a lot coming from me as a Tom Waits fan

OK, who left the equipment on and the door unlocked to the downtown recording studio over the three day weekend? It took forever to get the mentally unbalanced and homeless out of the studio this morning and the place cleaned up again. Who knows what they were up to while they were here. Oh wait....

The first few seconds seem okay, but when that weird scratching sound started, alarm bells rang. Then the true horror of “Dub Housing” kicked in. This album is atrocious. Incoherent noise topped with comedy shouting. What a mess.

Yeah no

No.

no

Truly awful. I wonder what the story is with this one.

I didn’t get this albums brilliance at all? Nothing going for it in my opinion

Just what… the… fuck. Awful singer, awful tunes, awful lyrics. One of the worst on here

The type of bullshit I'd whip up at the end of a middle school music lesson after doing fuck-all the entire time. Grating and annoying, did Pere Ubu really need EVERY bleep bloop possible? Surely, there must have been a time when this album was at the threshold of 'just listenable'. It could've stopped there. But alas, it didn't. So we have an off-putting amalgamation of eerie and repetitive noises. Fuck off.

I couldn't even get through the first song.

Reminds of Talking Heads except worse in every way, that is when it isn’t just experimental noise.

Really did not like

Abysmal

Tried listening in the background… and had to turn it down it was so bad. I might like it if I had rounded glasses and a curled mustache… but I don’t 1.2

This album will make you go WTF, and not in a good way.

by the third song I was already annoyed. I’m on a music discovery adventure, but respectfully this is not my taste. Straight noise to me. I’m sure it has some deep meaning, but the vocals are grating my ears.

I did not like this

Ehh. Thriller! was…. Something

Possibly the worst punk album I’ve ever listened to

He sounds like a high carnival clown singing in a different key then the song.

Not an enjoyable listen. 1/5

In the grand scheme of things, this is not a great album. It was very wonky and experimental. Interesting album for the 70s. Its called Dub but theres no reggae, only punk.

Eesh. Virtually unlistenable. “Apoplectic” is a work that comes to mind.

Pre Listen: The album cover is a bit bleak for something from the 70's? Never heard of them, no expectations. Notable Tracks: Navvy - Why the fuck does the singer sound like a schizophrenic heroin addict. Skipped after 1 minute, dear god I hope the album isn't all like this. Thriller! - The album is all like that first song. Awful, just terrible. Skipped every song partway through, and ultimately decided to stop listening entirely on this track. Post Listen: What a miserable piece of work. The vocalist really outdid himself making the worst possible noises a human can make and pass off as "singing". The instrumentation was ok I guess, for the first 15 seconds of each song until they are entirely drowned out by the worst drunken karaoke you've ever heard. The vocalist sounded like a washed-up Temu-brand David Byrne wannabe. He completely took any merit out of any song within moments of making a sound. I couldn't understand 80% of the slop coming out of his mouth either. Just awful, truly. 99% shit, 1% post type album. 1/5

Musically quite o.k. but as soon he starts to sing I am done with this album. Furthermore I question why they even have two albums on this list!

Ehh.

Oof

This would've been a great instrumental album.

This pissed me off. DNF

It must be some sort of gimmick and I don't like it.

What the fuck is this?

Overall rating : 1 / 5 Favorite track : "Dub Housing" (3.5 / 5) Least favorite track : "Thriller!" (0.5 / 5) (can you even call this music????? it's just random noises????) ------- Okay, so. I do listen to a LOT of post-punk and experimental subgenres. But what the actual hell was that?? I don't want to be rude but really, this has to be one of the WORST things I've listened to. I feel like I've wasted half an hour of my life... Sloppy instruments, messy rhythms, and I really can't stand the vocalist's singing. I get that it's supposed to be "avant gardiste", but there's a line between this, and just mashing random noises in a hesitant way into your recorder and call it a day (or a good track). I have "appreciated" a song or two though. "Dub Housing", "Caligari's Mirror" and "I, Will Wait" were quite enjoyable actually. They felt a bit more like a finished product. I do not understand why the rating is so high on RYM. What the HELL? It's like, 3.68 / 5??? It was such a pain to finish. I had to skip the last song because I already knew I didn't like it. At the very least, each track is a bit different from the others, but they all are repetitive themselves. I can't decypher where most of them are trying to go. Maybe I'm not into "underground" subgenres enough, or am I simply not this enlightened "avant gardisme"-wise, but I can't consider this a release that I like. Will not listen to it again. The cover art looks cool tho.

Sometimes, things just aren't for you.

I think this is what Benadryl feels like when the Hat Man starts to come

Not my music!!!

Dont understand this album at all feels uncomfortable 1.1/10

Two days two absolutely disgusting albums At the very least I think this album is a touch better than the other one on this list, The Modern Dance, only because the parts where there’s no vocals aren’t quite as bad, just not exciting by any means. Also thankfully a short album clocking in at 35 minutes The lows are just horrendous on this album though. I really think David Thomas has one of the worst voices I’ve ever heard for a lead vocalist, genre be damned. It’s like it takes everything that makes a bad singer (no range, no touch, no ability to stay in time, no tone) and combines it into a voice that would be horrendous even for a band of elementary schoolers. The instrumentation sucks and actively makes this album worse, just screeching, chaotic, and basically just noise to fill out the tracks length. I really just despise this band and I’m beyond glad I never have to listen to this piece of shit group ever again. Getting this in and captain beefheart in back to back days only ensures me more and more that experimental “bad on purpose” music is without a doubt my least favorite genre; I’m not listening to music to engage with it as a challenging piece of art, I’m listening to it to make me feel emotions (usually positive ones).

I don't know what to say about this album. I was thinking of giving this a 2-star rating because but the singing absolutely ruins everything that is happening, and then I came to realize that the instrumental is mostly not that great either. Everything is a complete mess. I don't know what purpose this music serves because usually when an album is relatively bad, it is still decent for background listening. This is annoying playing in the background even, but the one redeeming thing is that there are only 10 songs and the whole length of the album is 35 minutes. I wish we could have skipped this album in the first place, but now we were blessed with this "wonderful" 1 star experience.

Started off ok, but by the end I was completely over it.

Listening to this album after a long and tiring day filled me with a very particular and unsettling form of despair.

Felt almost deliberately terrible.

Whinge singing. I get enough of that at home

Ärsyttävävimmän kuuloinen laulaja vähään aikaan. Eikä musiikki muutenkaan oikein kolahtanut

Gek doen om het gek doen. Het is slechts 35 minuutjes en dat is het enige positieve aan het album, dat het niet langer duurt. Het is niet grappig, het is niet mooi, het is niet baanbrekend. Het is gewoon een beetje triest. Aandachtstrekkerij. In kunstzinnige kringen zal hier wel heel bijzonder over worden gedaan o.i.d. Anders heb ik geen idee waarom het in deze lijst staat. Ik kan hier niet meer dan 1 ster voor geven. Wat een onzin.

Not very good

There's a reason I've never heard these guys before...their music is atrocious.

This is bad. I don't like it.

Expectation: -> No idea. Not going to research. Just going to tap play. After listening: -> Insert big eyes emoji here. I'm truly going to wait to see how the rest of this project community feels about this album. Are there people who like this? That prefer this over say… anything else? How did it make this list? This is our 73rd album and I've yet to give a 1 rating, though in retrospect could have given that to a couple. With some I refused to do so out of respect to a well known band with better songs elsewhere. That would not apply here. This was a tough listen and though my brain is slowly getting used to the sounds, most of this is some combination of abrasive and bizarre. Looking forward to taking a peak at ratings from friends and this community.

What even was that?

What in the fresh hell is this???? Imagine you took Tiny Tim, gave him three singing lessons, backed him with Tom Waits' band with actual instruments, and then armed them with a songwriter who took cues from the Talking Heads, Napolean XIV, 10cc, and Robert Wyatt. I get being an artist, but this is not my thing. It shouldn't be your thing either. You can do better. My Rating: 1/5

I still haven’t really grasped what I listened to. I just know I’m not a fan lol.

Some of it is cool, Talking Heads-y, most is too weird.

I didn't have the patience to listen to this whole album. It all sounded the same, and when I checked to see how far along in the album I was, it was only the second song. one star.

Oh no. Ohhhh no. This is one of THE most hated albums on the site. I understood why, at least I thought I did at first. It's noisy, it's hectic, it's unpredictable and downright scary sometimes, and it's got a whiny singer. All your least favorite things for most of you, right? That's part of what drew me to it. I love noisy, I love weird singers, I love unpredictability and being so taken aback and astonished by whatever it is I just heard. I was so ready to sing my praises for the album before I even heard it, because it seemed so in line with everything else I usually like! And then I heard it, and you were all proven right. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get into this. Many of my friends are early Pere Ubu fans, so it might need a bit of time on my end to appreciate. But I just...this singer, man. He's a bit too whiny, even for me. If I felt the songs were stronger, I'd probably appreciate him more. But I don't even think the songs behind him are that great. Caligari's Mirror I found to be just too bizarre for my tastes. The songs aren't even boring, I can say that. Nothing about the album is boring. But to me, there's not enough to latch onto. Not enough legitimately pleasing musicality. The amount of times I felt like I was listening to a ringtone, or listening to my dryer cycle being done... Maybe in a few years I'll grow to love this, just like I did with some other favorites of mine. But now is not the time. As of right now, I don't want to come back to a single song on this again. I have to give it a 1 just so I can laugh at my ratings in five years time when I end up loving it.

A new one for me, and I doubt I’ll listen to it again

People might say this is avantgarde. I pretty much say it's shit. I didn't enjoy this at all.

Some elements of this album I kinda of like. There are some catchy basslines & fun guitar work at points. But unfortunately that's where the semi-praise ends. Everything else's is awful. I absolutely hated the vocals from the second the wailing started on track 1, and every time the record decided to go experimental I let out an audible sigh. Not good at all - 3/10.

2 songs in… can tell this one sucks. DNF. 1 star. I can’t stand this type of singing or instrument playing. It feels like the artists are just TRYING to be artsy. Or like if someone learned guitar and 1 year later started a band and was like, “we’re so good and so cool everyone listen to us.” And then their popular friends were like YEAH OMG ITS SO GOOD! EVERYONE LISTEN TO IT. And everyone pretends to like it bc they think it’s cool to do so. But deep down everyone knows it’s dog shit.

Yikes. A cacophony of sound. Not in a good way.

So much beeps and base

Если бы не сумасшедший псих-вокалист, то музыка была бы вполне сносная (местами).

I really wasn't a fan of this if I'm being completely honest. It just seemed really odd and all over the place with no real direction or meaning behind it. It just sounded like endless noise to me... I couldn't even get behind the vocals at all; they were just slightly annoying. There were some tracks that stood out more than others, but I can't really say that I enjoyed them. Standouts: Caligari's Mirror Thriller! Blow Daddy-O

So I listened to it. I can say that about it. I can also say that my boss walked past while I was listening and went, "Drew the short straw on the list today huh?" I'm sure there is something good to say about it, I'm not sure what but I'm sure it's there.

Just no

nah this is too messy

One of the most annoying things I've ever experienced

Oh.... noise......

It felt like being in a farm surrounded by chickens.

Some fun beats that cannot be enjoyed due to the heavy handed use of dissonant noises so ill-suited to the human ear that I assume the band had some sort of vendetta against it.

Oh cool, some atonal screeching over other atonal screeching layered over yet more atonal screeching. The bass kinda sounded like he knew what a key signature is. Kinda. I got through 3 songs and DNF'd, on to an album that won't make me re-think this whole list.

Tingiu bl

This is even weirder and more annoying than the last Pere Ubu album. Pretty difficult to listen to.

Occasionally interesting, but mostly noise with terrible vocals.

Unique and interesting but not enjoyable to listen to.

This album just has an unnecessary creepy vibe don’t think I’m ever gonna return except for track number four and it’s drunken sailor but other than that, I mean it’s a short album so it doesn’t take up too much time but it also feels like you’ve wasted a lot of your time especially the last song bro so so creepy something that would be played in a serial killers layer

In another time, maybe I could appreciate this. But right now, hot garbage. No redeeming qualities. Worst album so far.

I hated this. Noisy. Bad singing. Not good!

I was stressed listening to this

This music does nothing for me.

This was slightly better than their previous album, because it's 1 minute shorter.

Previously unknown. Not for me.

This is just a weird amalgamation of noise, it is so hard to find a melody in some of these songs, and the vocals are just bad. I cant dig any of this. Its like they all just started playing their instruments willy nilly and hoped for the best. What a jarring experience.

What is this and why did I have to hear it!?

What😭

I had a girlfriend who liked Pere Ubu. She was pretty mean to me. That should have been my first red flag.

Pues no he conseguido conectar con este grupo. Vale que en el rock no es esencial tener una buena voz para transmitir energía y pasión, pero es que la del cantante aquí es continuo desatino de desafine y nerviosismo en la cuerdas vocales que exaspera a la segunda canción. Quien quiera, que lo compre. Le doy algo de crédito por el intento de post-punk alternativo, poco ortodoxo, si el punk alguna vez lo es, pero me exaspera.

I think if my anxiety made an album it would sound exactly like this. It's definitely got the vocals right. A boy in my office got so stressed today that he climbed out of the window (we're on the ground floor but it still felt fairly drastic). This album makes me consider following. Favourite song: Dub Housing Least: Thriller!

Noise, I tell you

This album didn't really do anything for me. It was interesting, so I'll give it that. But I don't have much else good I can say about it. Overall: 1.4/5

gaajvi

Had hoped this was actual dub, but it was one of the worst yet

Preposterous

This is some of the choicest, grade a pretentious bullshit. I already hate post punk but this takes the cake for the worst of them. Even if the singer didn't have a deeply unpleasant voice, I don't find any artistic value here, just shock value.

This one was interesting. Not in a good way. There were some funky, unique sounds at play but I couldn't see myself listening to any of these songs again.

Not 4 me

Yeah, thought I'd like this. Not even close. Another 1/5 banger!

After being subjected to The Modern Dance a few years ago, my expectations of Pere Ubu couldn't be lower. And, uh-oh, Dub Housing was released in the same year... I guess it's time to "pre-pere" for ubu. We're launched into the album with the aggressively terrible Navvy. That singing is truly the voice of all time. It's so, so bad. The backing instruments do an okay job at keeping the sound relatively stable, but only when Mr Ubu (David Thomas) isn't wailing and moaning like a male Yoko Ono. I particularly like the soft, pre-alt guitars on this track. But it does little to spare the ears from their untimely 35-minute-long death that would follow. The synth riff in On the Surface is really solid, actually. Funny that the best part of the track is the weird barbecue-in-the-rain deal (complete with mumbled conversation). But then, that part of the track doesn't have Thomas's "absurdist warble" (as Spotify chose to describe it). The strongest track on the album, along with the one it leads into, Dub Housing. Lovely interacting instrument parts here. The delicate high piano contrasts with the mournful horns and other lines. Sort of reggae-ish. The Police should take notes (and they absolutely did, because their output is quite a bit less garbage than, uh, this). Caligari's Mirror pays a weird homage to... somebody, I think. Maybe the Rolling Stones, or David Byrne. Now is a good time to remind everyone why the Talking Heads' music isn't *quite* perfect: namely, the singing is terrible. Now imagine making the songwriting a little less memorable and the vocals even worse (somehow) and you get a good approximation of the Dub Housing experience. Drinking Wine Spodyody has a more laid-back classic-rock mood than most previous tracks. Again, the guitar line is pretty good, and whatever weird bass melody was conjured up for the solo always stands out. But that singing... man, it's *so* unbearably terrible. I could see this being a standout Bowie track from around the same time period. But Pere Ubu? Nah, man. Turn down the Ubu, the neighbours are listening. Thriller? More like Snoozer. I Will Wait isn't exactly convincing as an artefact of the punk movement (though it's more of a thriller than the previous track). Why not hire a good singer? Or even one of those drunk-sounding British 19-year-old dudes that appears on every 1977 punk record? The final three tracks are completely empty of substance and I have nothing to say about any of them. Well, except for Codex. I have to point out how it's actually pretty solid until (you guessed it) Thomas starts groaning in a vaguely rhythmic fashion. And then I start groaning in the same way. Let's all groan together, because this music sucks. Conclusion: just because you can record it doesn't mean you should. 1/5 Key tracks: On the Surface, Dub Housing

Very frustrating to listen to, since there isn't anything but nonsensical noise on this album. Strange and unappealing, and decidedly not for me

Terrible. I’ll never get back those 35 minutes

Genuinely made me nauseous listening to this

Man what the hell was this

awful

uma das piores coisas que já escutei.

Tem ate uma ou outra coisa interessante mas na maior parte se eu ficar batendo com a cabeça no teclado sai algo melhor 1.5/5

One star. Horrible

- If this was performed in my city I’d go on holiday -If this was performed in my local I’d ban myself permanently -If this was performed in my house, they can have it by squatters rights because I’ll never be back

Absolutely terrible, no redeeming qualities

Not my thing, Navy was almost good

Odbijam da slušam Peru

Ewwww, David!

Mit Dub Housing (1978) festigten Pere Ubu ihren Ruf als eigenwillige Kraft im amerikanischen Underground. Die Band aus den USA bewegte sich zwischen Art Punk, Proto-Post-Punk und experimentellem Rock. Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Suma Recording Studio in Painesville, Ohio, unter der Produktion von Ken Hamann. Stücke wie „Navvy“, „On the Surface“ oder „Caligari’s Mirror“ zeigen die typische Spannung zwischen nervöser Rhythmik, scharfkantigen Gitarren und den eigentümlichen Synthesizerflächen von Allen Ravenstine. David Thomas’ markanter Gesang wirkt dabei weniger führend als vielmehr kommentierend, fast beobachtend. Trotz aller formalen Sperrigkeit besitzen einige Passagen eine unterschwellige Eingängigkeit, die sich erst nach mehrmaligem Hören erschließt. Dub Housing klingt kontrollierter als das Debüt, ohne an Unberechenbarkeit zu verlieren. Für mich ist es ein konsequent durchgezogenes Statement zwischen Kunstanspruch und Rocktradition, das eher durch Atmosphäre als durch einzelne Songs trägt.

Wierd and meh, 1

Nah. I will begrudgingly give it credit for some of the interesting musical ideas. But I loathe everything about the vocals. Just because you can be weird in a vocal booth doesn’t make it music.

Really did not enjoy this. I had the album on in the background while working and I was actively trying to block it out, but couldn't. I constantly would get interrupted by it thinking "What in the hell is that noise?" Just not good at all for me.

not good

Awful awful singer. Any interest in this is killed stone dead by him. Post punk late 70's is the most overhyped genre ever.

What the fuck is dit

🫨Shit was rough, yo. But towards the end, I did say to myself a couple of times, well, I guess I don’t hate that. 1.1 stars

Wtf did I just listen to?

Just seems like unorganized noise, a few cool guitar licks but this is ultimately a no for me dog.

Non mais franchement, j'ai du me trompé de liste !! Je me demande bien l'influence qu'a bien pu avoir cet album... en tout cas, direct aux oubliettes en ce qui me concerne

Wtf do u want from me bro, cant give this higher than a 1 now can I