Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Music is meant to be enjoyed. If this shit sucks and I have to force myself to derive meaning from something labelled as "avant-garde" then I'm not a fan.
Yeah well no.
No dub, sold a pup…would need to pay me to listen to this again.
Didn’t listen to the whole thing. Singing/screeching was horrid
i can't sit here and pretend i actually enjoy experimental music, but you know, it was definitely interesting and caught my attention. however, the vocals are VERY hard to get past and it just sounds kind of ridiculous at parts. definitely an overabundance of post-punk on this list
That was painful, didn't enjoy it for a single minute
Unfortunately these “you had to be there” albums don’t translate very well if you weren’t there. I’m sure they were making a statement that was “avant-garde” at the time, but it’s a poor musical effort bordering on unlistenable
Just no.
wa is dees absoluut niet m'n ding
Wow, this album blows. If I had ever heard of this band before I know that’s why I would’ve forgotten them / it.
The only thing I liked about this album was when it ended.
Really?
No thank you.
Phwoar what a load of shit
Pretty intimidating album to get as my first one of this project. Punk/post-punk is not something I’m very familiar with, but I did my best to go in with an open mind. There are elements of this album that were almost enjoyable and the enthusiasm of the band is hard to ignore. It was definitely an interesting listening experience, but not something I’d ever revisit. Afterwards I decided to check out their album “The Long Goodbye” since I’m a fan of Raymond Chandler novels but the album made me slightly nauseous. I originally gave this a 2 and the first album of this project, but I’m switching to a 1.
AbSOLUTEly not WHAT is that voice
So annoying. Instrumentally speaking, there are a few parts that I like, but it is completely ruined by vocals
ass
Three funny things I noticed. One; “On the Surface” features Pere pronouncing the word brain as “bwain.” Two; midway through the album, I was thinking that the lyrics and some of the instrumentation sounded reversed. Lo and behold, “Thriller” was mostly reversed. Three; “Ubu Dance Party” sounds ironically like the digital screams of the damned. This album was fun alternative to music.
For something so unlistenable, it’s surprisingly listenable. Most hopefully in bursts of 30-45 seconds. Heard once a moon phase. Delivered with a sum of one million dollars.
Every post punk album I’ve ever heard is just a band putting the most discordant music they can possibly make over distorted guitars and then having some poor soul who has no idea how to sing bleat out some nonsense in over top of it
Post Punk with fractured rhythms, angular guitars, and tense, eccentric vocals that create a disorienting, sometimes playful, sometimes claustrophobic atmosphere.
Wemmer Bi dem Album eifach mol t Stemme wäglod, esches eigenltech voll easy. Rächt guet gspelt, ganze abwächsligswiis dass es eim ned sehr langwiilig werd ond es hed einigi gueti Grooves, wie Zom biispel I "On the surface". Einigi komischi instrumentelle Teil geds aber, wo Onder passende Omständ secher mega guet chönd si, aber ech ned so gse. Es biispel esch debi öppe s ändi vo Thriller. Wär's es rein instrumentals albom wär's rächt guet. Klar, I dem Fall wörd e klare Lead fähle aber es wär emu hörbar. Jetzt werd de Lead leider vo stemme öbernoh, wo enorm verzoge send oder zomendest so töned. Ke ahnig öb das eifach fancy Experimentell sett si oder so, mer heds aber definitiv med gfalle. Velecht als Höheponkt vomne Song zom t Emotione no chli z verdütleche, aber secher ned es ganzes Albom lang, wel mer si halt doch rächt schnell gar hed.
Not my cup of tea
fucking garbage
Terrible.
screetching vocals , mind numbing instrumentation
genuinely terrible. 1.
Infuriatingly annoying Best Song: Caligari's Mirror Rating: 2/10 Stars: 1/5
OMG - that voice is just too much This sounds like music to accompany water-boarding and sleep depravation interregation sessions A hard NO! 0/5
Imagine watching an ASMR video while your toddler was running around the house munching on things and playing with various noise making toys ...
Not for me 1/5
Wouldn’t necessarily say I liked this one but I was intrigued by it
I did not like this.
This is terrible, and "earns" one-star status despite what seems to be some pretty good work on the drums.
Nope, hated it as soon as the vocals started
Ugh. This was a very tough listen. DId not like this at all.
Are you kidding me? 1st song was the warning - this isn't going to go well. And it didn't. It's a big NO for me. Could not make it through this one.
I'm sure this was very influential but it's also so grating that I found it intolerable to listen to.
Heard the name of the band here and there but never really knew what sort of music they do. It was quite a weird experience, not an enjoyable one 1/5
Perhaps this was ground-breaking in its day (though I question that assertion a bit, since it largely mixes a lot of bits and pieces that others were already doing in more interesting ways), but it doesn't feel all that relevant anymore. It generally just feels scattered and unfocused.
What is going on?? It definitely catches my attention with every song, but not in a good way. Even Kevin has to chime in to express negative confusion on this one. I see a lot of more positive reviews on this site begrudgingly admit the vocals might not be for everyone, and like, the instrumentals are surely worse? What /is/ going on??
Nothing could have prepared me for this dumbster fire. Somehow worse than the other random-sound-album that is Welcome to the pleasuredome
So this is what an aneurysm sounds like...
Horrible, its like if David Byrne and Danny Elfman formed into one man who liked to grab his balls and twist them in the recording studio.
My second favourite Jehovah’s Witnesses related album. 2nd to Houmous & Chutneys famous ‘Sorry, But There’s 3 Up Top’ - everyone thought it was about St Livingstone’s decision to play 3 up top in 1979s Scottish Cup. 1.1 2/10 On The Surface
This album seemed to be a concerted effort to sound like a crappy Talking Heads. This was rough to get through and I wasn't able to make it through a single song.
okay wiso isch nomel es ubu album uf dere liste. find de erst song etz funny aber au nüt bsunders. on the surface au afoch postpunk mit bitz nervig avantgarde? title track het cooli gitarre und das isch jo nice und so aber dass es paar lärris afoch "we knooow" 100 mol umeseged isch au chli weird emfall. caligaris mirror plötzlich chli stones im refrain? schisst mi ah da lose? dancepartyau rotz. blow daddy o au. dasch jo nüt?? han the modern dance vieeeeeel cooler gfunde. sorry wie finded die ganz kritik das seg mega geil? ich checks glaub nöd?
hahaha hä wiso nomal die? und wiso singt en aff? de synthi bi on the surface isch fuun! jaa s isch öppe so wie ich au s letschte scho in erinnerig gha han. scho lustig aber au chli irgendöppis caligari's mirror het so öppis wie en refrain??thriller._. schrecklichschrecklichschrecklich ubu dance party findi echt no funny d gitarre vo codex isch na cool aber es passiert eifach z wenig, hans gfühl me chönnt vill meh drus mache kei ahnig hii und daa ghör ich scho cooli sache aber chan eifach nüt demit ahfange. und denn ischs auno s zweite album vom vater ubu. würd es 2 geh aber vlt gits es protest 1
Dreadful shit
What in the world is this. I could have gone my entire life without listening to this and I would be better for it. This added absolutely nothing of value to my life. In fact, instead it took away. Never again. 1/5
Not good at all
Screaming nonsense
Almost unlistenable. 1 out 10.
Utter crap. I get they’re trying to break ground and push boundaries but this is unlistenable.
My poor ears !
Sum songs had good beats nun had good vocals everything is too messed up this album is so shitty respect yourself pere ubu n please so yourself and the world a favor n never experiment with vocals again cause thats the only excuse you can make for that shit you pulled off. As for the man who made this 1001 album lost please remove this immediately
I mean, not good.
I gotta hand it to this album, I'm 1018 deep now and this may have broken the record for how quickly I hated it. Literally as soon as the singer got on mic I knew I was in for an ear-bashing. 2/10
Katastrophe
The perfect album to put on when you're having a party and want everybody to leave.
Not my thing. 1/5 stars.
Would expect nothing less from a Jehova's Witness
borders on unlistenable for far too long to give this anything but a 1. i feel like this is what Zappa haters hear when they listen to him
Goofiest album bro what is this.
Talking heads on severe drugs
Das war absoluter Schrott, aber so lustig teilweise. Herrlich.
Meh I don't think this guy can sing and the guitar just wails and drones, really not for me
If you walk in to someone's house and they call you in to the kitchen and ask you to smell something, there are really only two reasons why they would want you to do that. The first is that they are cooking something so wonderful and the aroma is so magnificent that they want to share it. The second is that they have found something so foul in their refrigerator and the stench is so bad that they want to share it. I think this album challenge is like that. Some albums smell so good that you have to listen to them so that your life is enriched by the experience, while others need to be experienced only so that you have a frame of reference of how bad something can be. This album is the leftover oyster dressing from Thanksgiving that you find on New Years because your resolution is to finally clean out the refrigerator.
not cool enough to enjoy
was für ein lärm. nicht nachvollziehbar.
That's a fast 1 star
It's strange how the title of an album can lead you to expect a specific thing. And then it turns out to be completely different. Well that's what happened here. That's not to say it wasn't still complete and utter shite, just not the shite I expected it to be. This has no redeeming features. You cannot even say it's so bad it's good, it isn't. You cannot even describe it as a novelty, comedy album. It's just plain shite. I have just thought of something positive to say about it...... It isn't slipknot.
Weird vocal just ruined any joy I might have got out of this. Some tracks were ok, most were awful.
Thank God that's over
Nope
What was that? Maybe it makes sense when you're high. Listening to it sober makes it sound awful.
What the hell was that.
I do not like his voice
This is avant garde and I don't care for it.
I hated this
First thoughts on first notes - no. Three songs in and really, really disliking. This is going to be a DNF for me.
Strange.
Weird and bad in a way that is neither enjoyable nor interesting
On a positive note, I only had to listen to this for 35 minutes. On a negative notenote, I had to listen to this for 35 minutes. Fuck post punk with a rusty dildo.
Meh
Uh… I mean I want to be open minded enough to say that there is something in there? Some songs, like ’Drinking Wine Spodyody’ had a groove that was onto something. But at the end it’s just a bit too weird for me. Especially the singing is just too much to handle.
Last time I gave Pere Ubu the benefit of the doubt, that was ill advised. Honestly, it's so over the place an nothing was particularly good. Like what is with the reggae pastiche in "Blow Daddy-O"? Feels like I'm missing something.
No comment
Sounds like the talking heads, and I don't like the talking heads. Too much new wave for me, it felt like there were some good prog-rock riffs that were quickly replaced with dissonance.
It started out ok then got progressively worse
Nope. That makes two ⭐️ albums on the list for Pere Ubu. That’s a pretty special accomplishment.
Please for the love of god, make this bad acid trip stop. I just want to do my homework.
Nope
Oof. Just oof.
i don't get why making prolonged stupid noise is such a thing but these guys were good at it. unfortunately
Som en full Anton Halldin
Hot garbage
Yeah... This is pretty shit.
This is the worst “music“ I have listened to so far. The instrumentation is okay and even nice at times. But this singer‘s voice is nightmarish. In German we would refer to his voice as Katzengejammer / Katzengejaule. (Caterwauling in English according to ChatGPT.) The only track that was bearable was Thriller! because the singer shut up for the whole song. This album reminds me of awfully bad musicals or distorted music used in theatre plays. Terrible but so terrible it made me laugh a few times.
My thoughts going into Navvy "Dude this isn't even that bad theres no way this is one of the lowest rated albums". But then, the singer kicked in with one of the most off-beat unenjoyable voices I have ever heard. The instrumental feels competent except for one or two parts per song I would change/remove, but the singer's voice and the lyrics are so offsetting, I can't find myself to come back to this album again. I can understand wanting to do something different but I feel like removing the enjoyability of the most prominent part of your song wouldn't be my first choice. Thriller! is a highlight for me just for being able to creep me out with just the music.
I couldn't make it all the way through. It was awful. It's albums like this that really make me think though. Do the band sit in the recording studio and say "fuck yeah, we nailed that" or do they say "we fucking hate it, that's exactly the sound we are looking for"? In some ways I hope it's the latter. It reminds me of a quote that Chuck D from Public Enemy said about their creative process. He was so sick of the soul \ ballad shit in the 80's (think Freddie Jackson and Luther Van Dross) that he would play what the band had produced to his girlfriend and if she said she hated it then he knew they were onto something good. This album gets 1 star only, I couldn't get to end (I dropped out at track 5 for anyone that's interested)!
Ive never liked an album less from the needle drop that this one
1/10… punk rock experimental
What the fuck was that crap...
De muziek is opzich wel nice, maar die zanger klinkt alsof 'ie op zijn 16e pas heeft leren praten. Wat een tyfusherrie...
Truly awful
At first I thought the music was ok, the singing was just bad. Then I got a couple tracks in and it got worse. And worse.
Sounds like a drunk 5 year old sitting on a keyboard
Tämä on kyllä mulle käsittämätön kokonaisuus. Tavallaan tykkään laulajan äänestä, mut jos hän tekis muuta kuin rääkyis, se vois päästä oikeuksiinsa.
1/5
Teilweise ähnlich Blur, andererseits aber grober Schmarren…
Yeah I hate this. All the charm of Punk but non of the passion. I feel a little sorry for the rhythm section because a few of the bass lines have some decent groove to them… but then the vocals come back in and remind me it’s an unequivocal 1 star.
I'd rather be smashed in the head with a bottle than listen to this again. No favorite song, nothing good to say. Overall score 0/10.
Yesterday Duck Stab and now this - what the fuck was going on in '78?!
I dont see the vision
I liked the first three seconds of this. It went sharply downhill shortly after. What the fuck did I just listen to? It certainly did not sound swell.
1. navy - 1 2. zurface - 1.5 3. dubbing - 0 4. mirror - 0 5. thriller - 0 6. uuill - 0 7. drinking - 1 8. dance - 0 9. blouu - 0 10. codez - 0
Is this another one of the author's just highlighting random-ass american/british groups nobody cares about? I'm 30 sec in, and I already hate it. The chicken wailing is doing nothing for me. 1*
Funny thing about this site is that when you have an open mind, it reveals so many great albums you would normally not go out of your way to listen to, leading to discovering new tastes you weren't expecting. It also reminds you that there's some things you just don't get. And that's okay.
What a disappointment. My 400th album and one of the worse so far. Biggest take away is that I’m away from home in Scarborough a short break so not much opportunity to listen and take in. Some may argue I haven’t given it chance which is fair comment but I think my wealth of musical knowledge and appreciation (60 years) I know what I like and what I despise. Awful recording and an assault on audio senses. Would rather listen to a flock of Scarborough seagull’s which is serenading me now. 1/5 5/2/25
Meh
This is egregiously terrible. Any critic that thinks this should be an album to hear before you die should never be taken seriously again. This is why you don't tell kids they can be anything when they grow up, because the lead singer is atrociously bad. I tried to listen to the entire album it to see how low this train wreck would get, but I couldn't after track 4. I'd rather him come knock on my door and spew his Jehovah Witness garbage than listen to another song off this slop.
I couldn’t sleep this morning. I was tossing and turning with anxious energy. “Oh I know! I’ll put on my album of the day. Some good music will chill me out.” Bruh. Dude’s voice sounds like a crying dog with cotton mouth.
I gave them the benefit of the doubt with the first album I heard, but not making that mistake again. Just not something I want to listen to. 1/5
Has the sound of artists who could create something conventional but instead opt to to do their own thing entirely. Worked for Picasso has not worked here. 1.5*
Well...there was ~35 minutes of my life I will never get back. What the fuck was that album??? That might be the worst thing I have ever listened to. I am sitting here trying to come up with something positive to say and I have nothing. This wasn't even music...it was just noise. "Thriller!" ....horrendous. I apologize to all other albums I rated a 1....I wish I could give this a 0 or a negative score. (Jacob I really hope you didn't like this album or I'm gonna feel bad) Liked Songs: Absolutely None Tolerated Songs: I guess maybe "I, Will Wait" and "(Pa) Ubu Dance Party"
This blows. Jesus this was a long 35 minutes. And it only got worse after an awful start. 1
херня, не понравилось. слушать невозможно, подойдет для пыток.
Quite shit
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: On The Surface, Dub Housing, Blow Daddy-O Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: A lot of these post punk albums are like an abusive relationship; in the moment you're looking for anything to cling to to justify all the time you've committed to it, and there are highlights that make it almost worth it and make you think they weren't so bad. It almost normalizes the strife it puts you through, punishing you for wanting to love it. But when you step back and really examine your experience you realize you were miserable 80% of the time and it was really really awful for you.
This album sucks. Feels like it's different just for the sake of being different. Nothing it's doing appeals to me. DNF Fav Track: On the Surface
I couldn't make it through these songs.
did. not. like.
A basic understanding of French will help anyone appreciate avant-garde music. “Avant” means “before”, and “garde” means “anyone-realised-being-experimental-didn’t-equate-to-being-interesting-or-good.” It can also be described as merde-totale (total shit). I did not enjoy this album.
If bad jazz session went punk
Listen for a minute, skip, listen for a minute, skip, listen for 30 seconds.. nope
Not good. Maybe just ok. Too much edgy vocals ruining an otherwise fun vibe. Talking Heads was a clear inspiration here. Post-punk may have some good albums, but this isn't on my list of recommendations.
Welche Wohltat für die Ohren. Wenn die Nadel wieder abhebt.
Caligari's Mirror was unpleasant to listen to... I did not enjoy the sound experimentation in Thriller! either. This was definitely some sort of experimental music, and I am just not a fan.
It was like there were spiders in my ears, and they were dancing out of time
Schrecklich.
What am I meant to do with this? It's doing what it wants to decently well but what it wants to do doesn't give a damn. Cool to do your own thing. Not for me to come back to.
I made it through this. I can appreciate the cacophony, but I don't think I will bother to do that this time. Not sure that it needs to be on the list.
Not for me
you know those rubber chicken toys that squeak and squawk when you squeeze them? this guy’s voice kinda sounds like if someone were dancing all over a giant one of those for 35 minutes. all i can say is thank god it was only 35 minutes (and even then that was too long)! some of the slower instrumental bits (”caligari’s mirror”) were interesting but that’s about it. actually i couldn’t finish this cos it was too irritating and pointless to me. sorry messrs. ubu…
I get that their music is intentionally weird, but it also sounds like shit. Especially the vocal, sounds like it was made by the jostiband
Wow... This is obviously intentionally dissonant and shitty... Can't say I'm the biggest fan of "post-punk" like this. Maybe it would make more sense in the cultural moment or something, because this shit just kinda sucks listening to it today. Is that an uninformed take? Probably, but it's just not for me.
Pretentiöst faff. Inte min grej.
Fucking garbage and it’s a tragedy that I got two albums from this artist in the span of a week.
Some interesting stuff, but it soon descended into an ugly mess of headache inducing nonsense!
Honestly, utter dog shit.
Just bad. Could not finish.
I miss when this album generated real music
Let me preface this by saying I like to think I have a pretty high tolerance for “weird” media, but this one crossed a line for me when there was like two minutes of what sounded like an angry badger in a garbage can (the song I’m referring to here is Thriller!). Not to mention that the singer sounded like he was *trying* to sound bad. If this is some kind of weird avant garde art genre, I don’t get it. The Vibe: You accidentally tuned your radio to an alternate reality where music is made by people who haven’t actually *listened* to music before but they read a book about it once and decided to give it a shot.
i liked the modern dance but no thanks
Extremely weird, disorienting music. I wasn't fond of it.
Passou rápido, mas o vocal deixou alguma irritação.
erm…what the sigma
I don't know what to say about this album. I was thinking of giving this a 2-star rating because I was thinking that the singing absolutely ruins everything that is happening, but then I realised 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 good 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.
Creative, but just absolute trash. Was curious if this is some sort of outside art/music.
Meaningless noise.
uskomaton ksoneptuaalinen eksperimentaalinen albumi vwau wau todella kiinnostaavaa keksperimentaclick... yrittää omaa tekee omaa musiikkia vaan... jättäkää meidät rauhaan tänne tehdään omaa juttuaamme.. omia juttuja täällä ei ole pakko mutta jos heh kyllä arvostaisin jos kävisit täällä nurkassa katsomassa kyllä silti ei älä rauhaan jätä kokonaan kyllä voi kuunnella heh tykkäätkö :) tykkäätkö musiikisitamme heh ollaan täällä omilla kulmilla seikkailemassa musiikin ääripäissä mitä on mahdollista tehdä heh ollaan tämmösellä retkellä ei ole pakko piitata mutta heh tykkäätkö :) (en) on the surface
If Jim Morrison had lived, The Doors could have been this band. The lead singer sounds like the guy from the New Zealand band OMC that did How Bizarre. The saxophone is weirdly overrepresented in so many of these experimental bands songs. It's like they all went to a conference and decided to add jazz sax to everything. Talking Heads does this kind of music much better. Why do all these "experimental" bands insist on using strange singing voices? More found sound! I just found Black Francis' favorite band, validated by the fact that apparently The Pixies and Pere Ubu went on tour together. Again, post punk can mean a lot of things because the music has similarities to the Pretenders even if it's light years away from them stylistically, both post punk bands though. The talking through the background on so many albums is distracting.
this sucks
Bunch of anxty Brits yelling
Combine Talking Heads with Devo, and you begin to come close to Pere Ubu, but without the talent. Quirky and annoying - I just don't like the lead singer's voice.
Pretty sure I hated this
不是很喜欢……
scuffed
Pere Ubu's "Dub Housing" is often praised as an avant-garde post-punk work, but for many, it’s an incoherent and alienating experience. The album's dissonant sounds and obscure lyrics create a cacophony that fails to engage.Tracks like "Navvy" and "Dub Housing" emphasize atmosphere over melody, resulting in experimental soundscapes that lack structure. David Thomas' grating vocal style and the murky production further detract from the listening experience.While there are occasional interesting riffs, they’re buried under the album's overall inaccessibility. "Dub Housing" is more frustrating than rewarding, earning it a 1 out of 5. Post-punk fans would do well to seek more accessible alternatives.
It was painful for me to listen to this album. Found it depressing!
Self-indulgent
Too weird. 1/5
this is pretty bad
STANDOUTS: ABSOLUTELY NONE OVERALL: 1/5; truly a contender for worst album so far
Yikes, that title track. Speaking of the title, very misleading.
Ouvir esse álbum inteiro foi uma experiência sofrível. A voz irritante me deu dor de cabeça e fez a experiência parecer ser 3 vezes mais longa do que deveria. Também tenho uma crítica à lista: não sei se foi uma grande coincidência com os álbuns que vieram até agora, mas tenho a impressão que a quantidade de álbuns post-punk é muito maior do que deveria ser.
Hard to get into
Experimentelles Gejaule von einem Zufallsgenerator. Dieses Gewimmer als PostPunk zu bezeichnen ist eine Beleidigung anlle Punker. Jeder mit einem Hauch von Musikverastand wird sich die Sinnfrage stellen - warum musste ich das Album zu Lebzeiten hören und warum gibt es Kritiker die das Album als eins der besten ihrer Zeit empfinden - Es ist gequirlter Shit.
Couldn't take the lyrics and sampling noises
Not my speed.
Really couldn’t connect to anything in this album.
This was a hard listen for me. There were juuuust enough quirky yet disjointed melodies to grab my attention for moments, but then the spell would be shattered by either some new weird rhythmic passage and/or the wailing singing. Only the song “Dub Housing” clicked (barely) for me.
Not a fan
Whoever did the mixing had the chance to make this an actually good album by just turning the volume on the vocal tracks all the way down.
I can't deal with dissonant sounds and that voice doesn't help. It's not the worst thing I've ever heard but it's unpleasant enough to give it a 1.
I can't really say that I have anything positive to say about this one. You can kind of see how it inspired some later bands, but to actually listen to this is pretty painful. High 1.
Vocals make this nearly unlistenable they might be doing something interesting sonically, but I can't even tell.
This sounds like a ragtag group people in a garage trying their best to "jam", despite they have absolutely zero musical or performing experience, all the while the lead singer is trying to muster through performing while being tased. Nothing remotely coherent for 90% of the run time; instrumentally, vocally, or otherwise. The only thing even remotely interesting is the manic energy. But it's the type of "interesting" similar to when you walk onto a New York City subway, and there's an in-progress fight of two naked people smacking each other with flutes. Mildly entertaining, but mostly just bewilderment how it got this far.
That singer is already a struggle to listen to and then they do stuff like "Thriller!", "Blow Daddy-O" and "Codex". Those really ruined their chance to stay above 1 star.
Honestly I have no idea what to say even . It's ust not good.
Just a bunch of noise. 1/5
It might be band's goal to dislike the album. Ugh. My head hurts.
Pretty bad. The songs started out well but then they started singing. Sounded a bit like IceJJFish.
This was so bad wtf. Especially Thriller!. There were a few moments where it started to sound like real music but they usually ended pretty fast. 3/10 Also, I’d like to petition Lucas to bring back scores out of 10. I know it gives some false precision but I think it’s fun to see exactly what you’re thinking at the time, even if it changes
2/10 - The first song is absolutely terrible. The second song is better but still pretty bad. The singing is terrible but the rest is pretty good. "whaaat do you dooo with a drunken sailor" bro this album is awful. I would keep making fun of the songs or saying they are bad but it would just get old quickly. It is kind of crazy to me how many times I have written that my favorite parts of this album is when they do not sing. Except for Blow Daddy-O there is no singing but its still awful.
Annoying Nope.
If this was an instrumental album it would kinda slap. I cannot do these vocals, man. I'm writing this after only a couple songs, this one is going to be tough to get through. Coming back later in the album: Only 3 of these songs have over 80k plays on spotify. Was this popular in the 70's? Reading another review that says ""Dub Housing sold next to nothing and signaled the beginning of the end of Ubu’s relationship with Chrysalis."" Why is it on this list, my ears can't do this. Coming back at the end of the album now: The last song... I was thinking ""ok this has some potential to be cool, the tension is kinda rising... maybe the last song has the potential to redeem the album a little bit" and then the vocals come in at 1:40 and just made me laugh out loud holy shit it's so BAD AHHAHAAHHAAHA Score is only as high as it is because the instrumentation was pretty decent.
Bad. Very bad. More like noise than music to me.
NO
More noise......
Ohio sucks balls. And so does this.
Incredibly annoying voice and the random placed noises are off-putting.
You know, I was really hoping this album would be good. It's one of the lowest rated albums on the website, and despite that I hoped that I would be able to see the value in it that others couldn't. So what if it's an avant-garde post-punk album? I've enjoyed avant-garde albums and I've enjoyed post-punk albums. They're not for everyone, but I was at least hoping that Dub Housing by Pere Ubu is just one of those things that fits that bill as well. But no... Unfortunately, the people on this website were right. This album's terrible. I'll start with the positive. The sound at times is not bad. I think that the instrumentals on the first few tracks gave me hope that this could be somewhat tolerable. The instrumentals for most of the songs have that Talking Heads vibe I was hoping for this album to have. That's it. That's the positive. I don't like anything else. The vocals might just be my least favorite vocals ever. I can't stand them. They're so ear-grating that it's not even funny. At least the vocals on albums like Duck Stab by The Residents were comical in a way. This one just hurts. The writing makes zero sense whatsoever. It's fine to have confusing writing if there's still a goal in mind. I don't think there was a goal in mind. These guys just shat out what they thought was quirky and let it release in stores. Finally, I said that the instrumentals on SOME songs were good. However, there are a few tracks, mainly on the latter half of the album, that are painful to listen to. You'd think that the instrumentals would be good given the lack of the horrendous vocals. And yet somehow, the instrumental "Thriller!" is probably the worst track on this album! I tried justifying in my head a reason for this to get a 2, but I just couldn't. This is awful. 1/5. And I'd still rather re-listen to this than Haunted Dancehall!
This was honestly so boring and weird and strange. I didn’t like it at all. Sometimes I like unique sounding albums however this did not pass that. This was awful in every way and just so blech.
Someone needs to fix this - lines got crossed and I got linked to the "1001 albums that will make you die" list instead. jesushchrist here's another beyond-shitty vocalist who immediately wrecks the entire vibe before there's even a vibe to wreck. or maybe that is the vibe. wow. Awful. 2/10 1 star
At this point I’m convinced the artist put some of these nonsense insanely weird albums on this list as a troll job. There’s no way this is an album people need to hear. I do t even know what I was listening to half the time. A waste of time. 1.3/10
Props for trying something new for the times. Sorry I don't really like it, or appreciate it, or even "get" it.
There is no way in hell I'm expected to listen to this singing voice on Navvy for the entire album, right? Update: apparently I was
#52 No
Very discordant. Think neo-Nazi kids banging their heads to this in their mom's basement.
Very close to pure noise.
I don't think this even counts as music... awful
This was exhausting to listen to. The singer sucks and makes this unbearable.
I was expecting some relaxing dub sounds so this shouty man came as a bit of a shock
Guess you had to be there…..
Awful.
Could hardly make it through the whole thing. Nothing makes sense. No melody. Bad vocals. Weird wanna be psychedelic stuff but nothing works. It’s short but painful. Listen again: never Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none
Not my thing at all...
Weird and not great with the exception of one song
Punk
LOUD NOISES
Think this is the worst one i got yet. Standard "Wanna be deep", "wierd for the sake of being wierd". Skipped most due to the singers inability to sing.
Like Talking Heads, but weirder
Nop
Sorry, this album sucked.
experimental garbage?
Painful. They would need practice and honing to become a subpar garage band.
Uff…
This a big no for me. My god the vocals are annoying and the guitar noises are just screeching and piercing .
Volgens mij is dit niet eens bedoeld om naar te luisteren
This album made me uncomfortable
Listing to this was a SLOG. I hope this raised a smile that this made the 1001 to those who like this kind of music and hates everything mainstream on here.
Not my thing
It has become obvious that "post-punk" is not for me
Not my thing
Worst album so far
Auch, wenn es nur 35 Minuten gewesen wären.. ich wollte nach den ersten 3 Songs nicht mehr. Hat mich ziemlich genervt.
- Mmh, ja das war mal wieder wild. - Teilweise fand ich das irgendwie ganz interessant. Vor Allem den Gesang - da fällt mir keine Referenz ein, die so klingt. - Leider war mir das insgesamt einfach zu wild und teilweise unhörbar. Rating: 1,5/5
Der erste Song "Navvy" löste in mir direkt ein wenig Unbehagen aus. Bei "On the Surface" ging dann allerdings wieder und meine Hoffnungen für ein cooles Album stiegen wieder. Weiter über "Dub Housing" zu "Caligari's Mirror", bei dem mich die Platte dann allerspätestens wieder verloren hat. Der Rest danach war dann eine absolute Härteprüfung für mich, zu der ich guten Gewissens sagen kann: Dub Housing: 1, Ich: 0. Ja, ich habe die letzten vier Songs nur noch ein wenig durchgeskippt, konnte dabei aber nichts Cooles mehr entdecken.
What in the Sam Hill am I listening to. Who signed these guys?
weird and not good
I'd never heard of this band before and i kinda wish i still hadn't
Wtf is this shit, it's so bad that I want to give other 1 star albums an additional star
pass
Seems like it should be my sort of thing, but was not my sort of thing.
An excruciating listen!
Where do they find this crap?!
Interesting. Challenging. Complex. All of those types of words. Which are really just code for “this is a bit shit, but if I say I think it’s a bit shit people will think I’m a pleb”.
Vocals are grating. Some really weird music also, eg, Thriller! The short I will wait is fairly pleasant, unlike most of this album.
No. Just no
what was that
Unlistenable. There are many "questionable" albums listed here (to put it nicely), but this one was truly unbearable.
Weird
Strange… very strange. Kind of felt like an album you need to be really high or tripping to fully get. Not for me
Too weird
Awful
I wanted to like thus, but I couldn't finish the album.
I had to tap out on this one. This was just not good, or interesting.
The auditory equivalent of visiting a modern art museum and having no idea what's going on
Je vais faire une observation qui vaudra pour tous les groupes à la con comme celui-ci. Quand bien même la musique serait inscrite dans tel mouvement contestataire de mes couilles, en réaction à tel style de musique de mon gland, inspiré de tel contexte de mon anus, si musicalement c'est de la merde, ça restera de la merde à jamais. Laissez nos oreilles en dehors de tout ça.
Un grand n'importe quoi comme attendu, un album complétement à la heuteur des espérances.
My initial reaction is that they definitely fit the "avant-garage" label. Some of the music is actually good/fine - instruments are interesting to listen to and the themes feel fine. The singing is mostly what I dislike - a little too much haphazard singing or just forced half yelling which just feels so bad to listen to. The singer sounds like Morty from Rick and Morty, ugh. Thriller actually sounds like disorienting music you would play at a haunted house. Like why are they scratching their guitar strings. And having Halloween music play. Some of it qualifies as "noise" to me, but not all. I think I'm disappointed that there's actually some music hiding here, because I don't want to listen to it. I reserve 1 star for albums that I would be sad or upset if someone were to play them in most situations - I believe this fits the criteria. As an art project, it's interesting, but as a music album that I want to listen to, I think it's pretty close to the bottom for my personal preference.
I don’t like post-punk. This is awful even for post-punk. Why would you listen to this? Terrible.
Best post punk album ever!????.....I don't think so....
This was intolerable. Avant-garde BS.
Jesus christ. What an appalling pile of shit this is.
Music is fun, vocals are tough. It must have been the mid to late 1970s that forced post-punk male singers to be higher pitched and whimsical. I would put the vocals in the same group as David Byrne of the Talking Heads and Fred Schneider of the B-52s.
Why is post-punk as shit as punk is good? This sounds like some people were listening to The Talking Heads and decided "we should start a band kind of like them'" then they all got way too drunk and high to be able perform in any way. In their heads, they are killing it, but we the audience are suffering through their incoherent mishmash.
Not a fan at all. Sonically not for me
That was hard going!
amateur hour
This is what Talking Heads sounds like to people that don't like Talking Heads
I really enjoy post-punk music, but this album was not my jam. I've never heard of this artist or album before, but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying several "new-to-me" post-punk albums and artists on this list, so I figured that I'd probably like this album. Unfortunately, that was not the case. The thing that I disliked the most about this album was the vocals. Most of the lyrics were completely unintelligible to me, and I found the lead singer's voice absolutely grating. Musically, I could pick out little elements here and there that reminded me of Talking Heads, but the overall sound was very unpleasant to me. This album might be important to post-punk music, but I didn't enjoy listening to it.
Why is this here?
Too new wave
Post punk, rock, mærkeligt, talende, distortion
This will be my 1st back to back 1. I rarely give them. Its almost like a gift so the artist can then go try to make amends for the crap they realeased onto the world.
Very unhinged
I literally got a headache from this.
Thanks, I hate it. No. Just no.
I can't tell if this is bad because they want it to be or if it's bad because they just suck. Either way it was bad. Like... REALLY bad. It's utterly baffling how incredibly bad this is. How this made the list, I don't know.
WHO IS THIS SINGER? WHAT is wrong with his voice?! What sort of insane person let him away with singing?!?!?!?! The music and lyrics in 'Navvy' are laughably bad. Earlier today, I rated a grunge album I had missed. I waited out the whole length of it. Given that I have already exposed myself to one atrocious album, I have decided not to repeat the experience. Pere Ubu are less talented (this is not music -- sound is the only word I can use to describe it) and the album is TWICE AS LONG. 1/10. And what is that name? 'Father Ubu' without an accent? (apparently it is, given that the name is taken from the play 'Ubu Roi' <Ubu the King>).
Gash
Shit, just pure shit. No structure in there sound at all
This is bloody awful!!!!!! Who in their right mind thought anyone needed to have their ears raped and buggered listening to this tortured mutilation of sounds clumped together into an album, never mind think it was worthy of 1001 albums you must listen to!!! I've read reviews giving it 5 and how it's a masterpiece... but you must be off your meds stroking the white rabbit? Pure shit!!!
I made it to track 5 before my ears started to bleed.
Can't stand this music
Wtf?
Instant 1 star
Obviously this is shit?
Intros were unique and I was able to listen and even start to enjoy some of it. Then the vocals began.
Wow. What was that I just listened to?
Weird Shitty Devo?
1/5. I just don’t like post punk I guess. Not memorable and just noise. Wish I appreciate it but doesn’t feel like there’s much to appreciate.
And a no from me dog.
what an awfully annoying voice!
Een soort van nachtmerrie met hier en daar wazige lichtpuntjes. Blij dat ik weer wakker ben.
God no!