Reviews (page 7 of 7)
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!
Unlistenable
I’ve gotten quite a few shitty punk or punk adjacent albums but none as bad as this one. The vocals are terrible which is par for the course but even the production is completely unlistenable about 80% of the time.
🤮 No one should listen to this.
Love how these guys just occasionally introduce enough musicality to remind you that they are perfectly capable of making stuff that doesn't sound like pure misery. Then then go back to slapping their synthesiser with a kipper and groaning.
Not a fan.
nop
The eccentricity of this album could have been something interesting. But it was more than that. Not only was this album eccentric, but it was absolutely grating, cloying, and irritating, if I'm being honest. This did nothing for me.
Their best album yet.
I like the album cover.
Just not my thing. Vocals murder this.
Awful
Rare PooPoo
Could only manage 4 tracks. Couldn't listen to the vocals anymore.
You can see them musically experimenting here on this album and like some experiments they turn into Frankenstein's monster complete with angry villagers with torches and pitch forks hunting it down for the abomination it is, in other words I thought it was poo.
Terrible. Worst thing I have ever heard
The award for worst vocal performance apparently goes to David Thomas from Pere Ubu. This was borderline unlistenable, while somehow still being incredibly boring musically? God I hate this mix of new wave and post-punk.
Talking Heads, but no one know how to sing or play any instruments.
These idiots should be banned from owning musical instruments. There is nothing on this record that could begin to be called music. None of these brainless bastards can play an instrument, let alone maintain a beat, or carry a tune. This sounds like a bunch of 5 year olds left in a room with musical instruments, and their main objective is to fucking destroy the instruments by wailing on them. This isn't a genre of music because this isn't music. By times it sounds like they're trying to emulate Talking Heads, but they don't have the cognitive ability to even begin to come close. The "singer" sounds like a cat stuck in a grease trap. If you can't make music, don't. This has influenced nothing but headaches from every poor sod subjected to listening to this trash. This "band" should have to pay fines for every set of ears that bleed because of their garbage. Never heard of Pere Ubu before, and will have forgotten about them by tomorrow. Whoever put this album on this list needs their head examined. Favourite songs: (if forced to pick) On the Surface Least favourite songs: Navvy, Dub Housing, Thriller!, (Pa) Ubu Dance Party, 1/5 because I have to... It'd be a 0 if I could.
So bad I had to write my first review. There’s enough post-punk representation on this list that the inclusion of this nonsense is baffling.
Think there's been a mistake?
Irritating. I can't listen to Devo without getting irrationally angry (this type of music just awakens some primal rage inside of me), so listening to Devo: Deluxe Edition over here is not something I enjoyed very much. I will now proceed to live the rest of my life without ever thinking about this album's existence for even a second.
Klinkt als een bende zatlappen die wat roepen en lawaai maken op instrumenten. Een kakofonie van vanalles en nog wat, onaangenaam om te luisteren
Wtf was this?
I'm not really liking the vibe that they be putting down
Just terrible
The only reason I didn't take a flathead screwdriver and jam it into both eardrums is that I was afraid that, this being the last thing I ever heard, it might be stuck in my head until I was able to find that final sweet release. Best track: lol no
Au début j'ai beaucoup ri, puis j'ai pleuré. Une expérience atroce que je ne veux plus jamais revivre.
Not my cup of tea. Only listen to bits of 4 songs. Wouldn't listen to this album again.
Uit de 1001 albums die je gehoord moet hebben om te testen of je nog altijd smaak, beoordelingsvermogen en oren hebt: check, kennelijk heb ik die allemaal nog, want wat een bagger. Het klinkt als wat eruit zou komen als je aan een zesjarige zou vragen om een popalbum in elkaar zou steken. Ik moest Stef Meeder's Hammond Harmony opzetten om bij te komen. Heeft ook een leukere hoes om naar te kijken.
Dit is een test neem ik aan. Geef je dit 3 sterren of meer, ben je af. Mag je niet meer meestemmen...
Een soort cultvariant van Talking Heads, die extra krankzinnig zijn geworden. Het geluid klinkt ook alsof ze door een kussen heen aan het spelen zijn. Dat zou Joni ook eens moeten doen. Er moest blijkbaar weer een afspiegeling van de tijdsgeest bij, maar er is gewoon een reden dat niemand ooit meer van deze pannenkoeken gehoord heeft. Het is simpelweg bagger. Ik heb het na een paar nummers afgezet, verschrikkelijk.
Would give a 0 wtf is this
Anything positive that could be said about this album is immediately eradicated by the overwhelming presence of the singers stupid ass alien voice. It would’ve been cool if he used it on a couple songs but he uses it on every single song and it’s just so retarded
Dub Housing is the second album by American rock band Pere Ubu. It is a post-punk album that is regarded as one of the band's best. The album was critically successful and has been rereleased multiple times, but I didn't see it make it on any music charts. I disagree with the critics' ratings. This album's music and its themes/direction did not make sense to me, so I did not enjoy it. The post-punk sounds were too abrasive for me to vibe with, and I don't know what this album wanted me to feel, so it left me with a bad taste in my mouth (or should it be a bad sound in my ears?).
Vaya mierda
I didn't dislike everything on here, but the VOCALS really drag this down into a deserved 1. I get the sense some people who dislike Yoko for "screeching" might like this for being "groundbreaking", when really both are like a cheese grater to the eardrums.
Terrible...
p400. 1978. 1 star. Unpleasant mixture of Talking Heads, 13th Floor Elevators and The Doors, only without the songs or the talent. And David Thomas cannot sing. This is bloody awful. 35 minutes of my life I will never get back.
Please no. I couldn’t wait for one song in particular to be over. Just why??
Not so good. 1
Oh boy. I really wanted to like it. I was firstly very impressed by the graphic art and typography. It promised esoteric edge. The music really lives up to the cover: there's intentional and tasteful styling. But, alas, I couldn't do it. The music switched between avante garde and just punk rock. Even if it was interesting, I couldn't stop grimacing. I mentioned the band to Adam who mentioned that there was a cult following of it in college, which for him means the radio people. So, yes, that explains it: I'm just not cool enough nor not cool enough to get this.
The weirdest music I have ever listened to. I try to be open minded but this is just weird. Ubu Dance Party is the most musical track maybe the last track too. I can't really figure out any redeeming qualities. Must not be for me.
Awful.
Good joke but April was MONTHS ago
Not sure why this is in the list
Awful
Much of this was pointless noise.
What the everliving fuck was that? I hated every second of this mindless cacaphony. I was working on some data entry while listening to this album and somehow the data entry was the less miserable task. Lots of questions here. Such as, why was this noisefest made? Why does the singer sound perpetually kicked in the gut? Why is this album on this list when it could be used as a torture device by government organizations? Seriously, though, this was genuinely dreadful. I only finished it out of spite. It's between this and Locust Abortion Technician for the audio diarrhea award.
1978. yeah it was there right in the middle of it. Even their name tells you what to expect. They were there with Devo and Talking Heads too and I bet they had fun making this. I understand the need for this to exist but it's not enjoyable.
It's not for me
1/5 that was disturbing
The instrumentation and songwriting are dissonant, chaotic and frankly, all over the place. But that's nothing as compared to the vocals which are straight up absolutely horrible.
Aika sekametelisoppa, ei jatkoon.
This is another new one for me, and it is a hard “no thank you, please” at this time. As I listened, there would be moments that I thought that I could get into this album, and then it would turn on me. If I were hanging out in someone’s dorm room and they put this on, then I think that I would excuse myself to return on a different day.
Unique, abrasive, harrowing. Not my thing at all but well produced and I can see why some people would like it. Bordering between 1 and 2 stars
Very rare moments we’re enjoyable. Some of the singing and lyrics are kinda funny. Mostly this album hurt my ears. Literally. I’m not trying to make a joke. My ears starting ringing as I listened to this.
Jesus this album is annoying. The vocals are irritating at best, the organ and keyboards are cringingly crap for the most part, and the rest of the instruments are mediocre. Literally the first track feels like a fly is buzzing right in my ear while the whining vocals stabs them to bleed. Thriller! has the most ironic song title as I wanted to chuck my earbuds after two minutes. It doesn't help that the few good musical moments on here like the intro riff on Codex and I Will Wait can be found in a better form elsewhere on this list.
I didn't like this. The instrumentation was totally enjoyable in parts, but each song was spoiled for me in some way by the singing. It was possibly going to get a 1.5 but then the last song was so terrible even musically that it gets a 1.
Unlistenable garbage. Maybe if they got rid of the shit singer this might have some redeemable qualities. The music itself borders on listenable at times, but then the horrible vocals come in and take destroy whatever good will the song had. Wikipedia mentions this album as post-punk and looking at some of the other bands that are classified in this genre, e.g. the Talking Heads, Devo, or Joy Divison, they had musicianship that made their weird shit listenable. Here it just doesn't work. Possibly the worst album I've heard so far.
1, možda samo ja ne razumim šta bi ovo tribalo bit, nije za mene nikako
This album was pretty terrible...
Truly awful
Bad Avant Garde
Kinda Interesting but annoying AF. That first track has a sound like a cellphone vibrating. Feels so much longer than 35 minutes.
17th November 2021 Listened across the Wednesday and Thursday as we've had a lot going on. Sprout gave birth first thing Wednesday morning then lost 2 in 24 hours. Not sure if it was what was going on, but not for me. I'm all for messing things up, going a bit left field, but I didn't get this.
There are a couple of good Pixies-ish tracks on this (early on in the album) but it's ultimately too much effort to wade through the rest of the record. Mostly shite rambly music that feels like it was knocked out in a day.
This album is the main influence behind the Shooting Stars "Song in the club style" round. I hit the dislike button.,
mycket kasst
idk what i just listened to. lots of noise, not much good music. super weird vocal styles, almost makes the talking heads singer sound normal. did not enjoy.
What is this?
Terrible
Not a fan...at all. Very grating to my ears. Not sure on the appeal - I'll have to wiki Pere and understand where he was coming from.
Oh my poor ears
Either LSD or razor blades need to be used to listen to this.
This album was good when it wanted to be, but it also wanted to be terrible during the rest of it. It had a good mix, and sometimes each instrument complimented each other perfectly. However, more often than not, the instruments, including the voice, all sounded like they were performing different songs.
Disjointed noise
Genuinely one of the worst things I've ever heard. It wouldn't be any less than 40 years for bands like Squid to pick apart the trash from this album and form it into something manageable. Any redeeming quality any song would seem to have would be immediately extinguished with awful noises for the ears. Save yourself the listen on this one and go listen to anything else. It will be a much better use of your time.
let's just say it's very experimental with a hint of creepiness
Thankfully the albums don't repeat ಠ_ಠ
Just straight garbage
I don't understand this at all. I don't like Beefheart's Trout face lp and I don't like this. To me it makes no musical sense. Why is it highly rated?
Not a fan
What is this noise I subjected my poor ears to? This album needs to be filed ‘never open’ and buried in a desert 100 meters below the surface. There is no way in any world this shite makes its way into any musical best of list. -1000 Stars!
Liked the beat throughout the album. It lost a star when the band adding their voice & lyrics. Groovy beats until Ubu Dance . Whoever sang in a voice that sounded like Tiny Tim “Tip Toe through the Tulips”, was the tipping point to skip the rest.
The first notes I wrote down about one minute into the first song were “grating and not enjoyable - frantic”. The rest of the album pretty much follows suit. The second album I get to listen to on my island in hell.
No thanks. And trust me, I tried. Stevie, sorry this is the album on your b-day.
I hate this.
Ja Dit is een keuze
Another awful one. The vocals are as bad as it gets. Sounds like a drunk donkey. 0 stars and doesn't belong on this list
Total garbage
Absolutely not. I would prefer this with no vocals. I made it about halfway through before just nopeing out. Sorry. The sailor song was okay. It’s like if Isaac Brock only sang drunk or something and had worse lyrics. Congrats to this album on my first 1 star!!!!!!!!