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Released
  
November 1978

Length
  
36:46

Artist
  
Pere Ubu

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Recorded
  
August–September 1978

Dub Housing (1978)
  
New Picnic Time (1979)

Release date
  
November 1978

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Producer
  
Ken Hamann and Pere Ubu

Genres
  
Rock music, Post-punk, Experimental rock

Similar
  
Pere Ubu albums, Rock music albums

Dub Housing is the second album by American experimental rock group Pere Ubu. Released in 1978, the album is now regarded as one of their best, described by Trouser Press as "simply one of the most important post-punk recordings."

Contents

The title is an allusion to the visual echoes of rows of identical concrete public housing units in Baltimore, presumably reminiscent of the echo and reverberation that characterize dub. The photograph on the cover shows the apartment building on Prospect Avenue near downtown Cleveland in which members of the band lived when this album was recorded.

Village Voice, NME and Sounds ranked it the 9th, 8th and 11th best album of the year respectively.

Track listing

  • All songs written by David Thomas, Tom Herman, Tony Maimone, Allen Ravenstine and Scott Krauss.
    1. "Navvy" – 2:40
    2. "On the Surface" – 2:35
    3. "Dub Housing" – 3:39
    4. "Caligari's Mirror" – 3:49
    5. "Thriller!" – 4:36
    6. "I, Will Wait" – 1:45
    7. "Drinking Wine Spodyody" – 2:44
    8. "(Pa) Ubu Dance Party" – 4:46
    9. "Blow Daddy-O" – 3:38
    10. "Codex" – 4:55

    Personnel

  • David Thomas – vocals, organ
  • Tom Herman – guitar, bass, organ
  • Tony Maimone – bass, guitar, piano
  • Allen Ravenstine – EML synthesizers, saxophone
  • Scott Krauss – drums

    • Production

  • Produced By Pere Ubu & Ken Hamann
  • Recorded & Engineered By Ken Hamann
  • EQ & Mastering By David Thomas & Paul Hamann

    • Songs

    1Navvy2:43
    2On the Surface2:38
    3Dub Housing3:42

    References

    Dub Housing Wikipedia
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