Dub Housing

Pere Ubu | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cooking Vinyl
• ASIN: B00000IGO6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,954 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practicalities Are Possibilities, May 21, 2003

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Ken (Wilmington, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dub Housing (Audio CD)

Wow, what can I add to the stuff written here already? You want a pretty band? This ain't it. You want background music for a bachelor party? This won't work (but please post on here if you do try this). However, if you want music that will stretch your mind a little, Pere Ubu might be what you are looking for.

Yeah, a friend of mine introduced me to Pere Ubu back in college. I remember that I didn't just "not like" it at first, it actually made me mad. It was too hard to get. But once you get "Codex" rolling through you're mind, you're through. ("I think about you all the time . . ." x 50!) You start to understand how the walls have ears when you listen to "Dub Housing" and how it really is swell that you've got these arms and legs flip flop flip flop.

This album insinuated intelf into my DNA when I was 18, and pretty much became the soundtrack to my warped college years. I sometimes wonder what life would have been like had that soundtrack been scored by Madonna or Guns N Roses instead of Dave Thomas.

Is this art rock? Beats me. That sounds like something you would read in a music magazine. But the sound that will come out of your speakers when you play this CD will be unlike anything you can imagine by reading these words. So go take a chance and buy it. If you like it, check out "Long Walk Off A Short Pier" by Tripod Jimmie. Or read some of Alfred Jarry's stuff.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible: 2008 Remaster makes a masterpiece even better, March 12, 2009

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Crashy88 "crashy88" (Level 2) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dub Housing (Audio CD)

This album is one of Pere Ubu's best, one of my all-time favorites. But this review is to rave specifically about the new 2008 remaster, now available on CD from Cooking Vinyl. The original master tape was baked in an oven to dry it out (!!, but according to Pere Ubu's own website) and it was redigitized at the highest rate possible. The result is simply incredible: amazing new detail is now audible, the unique spatial qualities of the mix are even more apparent, and it all sounds wonderful. (To make sure you're getting the new remaster, order directly from Amazon under the entry with a "release date" in 2008.) Let's hope that Pere Ubu's other Chrysallis-era masterpiece, "New Picnic Time" gets similar treatment.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tuneful dissonance, April 14, 2004

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dub Housing (Audio CD)

This mostly dark album contains some great moments and engages the mind with its sonic experimentation that can perhaps be described as a type of psycho funk rock, more or less along the same lines as Captain Beefheart. Navvy is a burbling ditty, the title track has interesting arrangement with rhythmic and vocal variation whilst Thriller! with its muffled vocals presents quite an eerie soundscape. The tortured vocals of David Thomas have a strange charm, especially on songs like I Will Wait, Drinking Wine Spodyody and the impressive Ubu Dance Party with its rousing build-up. My favorite song on the album is the semi-instrumental Blow Daddy-o that has an ominous and hypnotic instrumental texture with background whispers. The music is art rock with visceral appeal and although Dub Housing is considered a masterpiece, my real rating is three and a half stars. I find their pop album Worlds In Collision far more enjoyable and memorable.