Dub Housing

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Dub Housing
Studio album by Pere Ubu
Released	November 1978
Recorded	August–September 1978
Genre	Rock
Length	36:46
Label	Chrysalis Records
Producer	Ken Hamann and Pere Ubu
Professional reviews
Alternative Press 10/99, pp.105-6 All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (9.4/10) link Robert Christgau (A) link Rolling Stone (favorable) link
Pere Ubu chronology
The Modern Dance (1978) Dub Housing (1978) New Picnic Time (1979)

Dub Housing is the second album by Pere Ubu. It was released in 1978. The title is an allusion to rows of identical public housing units, rather than an implication that the content is dub music. 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. It's David Thomas's favorite Pere Ubu album, naming it "the masterpiece".

[edit] Track listing

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. "Ubu Dance Party" – 4:46
9. "Blow Daddy-o" – 3:38
10. "Codex" – 4:55

[edit] Personnel

• Tom Herman – Guitar, bass guitar, organ
• Scott Krauss – Drums
• Tony Maimone – Bass guitar, guitar, piano
• Allen Ravenstine – EML synthesizers, saxophone
• David Thomas – Vocals, organ