PERE UBU Dub Housing 1978 UK CHRYSALIS 1st PRESS - UNPLAYED/MINT
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Feb 18, 2019
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PERE UBU Dub Housing 1978 UK CHRYSALIS 1st PRESS - UNPLAYED/MINT
PERE UBUDub Housing
1978 UK CHRYSALIS (CHR 1207) FIRST PRESSING
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY - BARELY, IF EVER PLAYED AND LIKE NEW
MATRIX: CHR 1207 A // 3 E IB 1 1 6 A PORKY PRIME CUT / CHR 1207 B // 2 E IB PECKO 1 1 6
Though Pere Ubu's tenure on Mercury lasted one record, their departure for their unlikely home of Chrysalis resulted in Dub Housing, widely considered their masterpiece.
Darker and more difficult than The Modern Dance (indicated by the cover's darkened apartment complex and stormy Cleveland skyline) with plenty of bleak soundscapes (e.g., "Codex"), Dub Housing also includes "Navvy"'s bouncy burble (featuring Thomas yelping "I have desires!"), and "(Pa) Ubu Dance Party"'s surreal big beat.
Make no mistake, as much as Ubu indulged in arty dissonance and mucked about with song structure, this is very much a rock & roll record, albeit one made by a band interested in pushing the envelope when it came to sound, song construction, and performance.
As much as this is a band effort, the guitar of Tom Herman and the synthesizer of Allen Ravenstine frequently stand out. Herman's strong, polished playing veers from assertive riffing to assaultive noise; Ravenstine, who may be one of the all-time great synth players, colours the sound with ominous whooshes of distortions, blips, and blurbs that sound like a sped-up Pong game.
But, as is often the case with Ubu, it's David Thomas' singing (here at its most engagingly unrestrained) that is front and center. Part comic foil, part raging madman, Thomas utilises all of his limited range in a whacked expressiveness built around hiccups, yodels, screeches, and, sometimes, singing.
Dub Housing sold next to nothing and signalled the beginning of the end of Ubu's relationship with Chrysalis, but it remains an important and influential American rock record
Side One:
Navvy (2:43)
On The Surface (2:40)
Dub Housing (3:40)
Caligari's Mirror (3:48)
Thriller! (4:35)
Side Two:
I, Will Wait (1:46)
Drinking Wine Spodyody (2:44)
(Pa) Ubu Dance Party (4:47)
Blow Daddy-o (3:37)
Codex (4:56)
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels with no spindle traces or any sign the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like new and even under bright light there is barely a wispy hairline to be seen
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays as-new throughout with nothing to fault the crisp, clean sound.
The finest original copy of this wonderful Beefheartian masterpiece you are likely to find.
Very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The cover is as crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made with just one thumbnail crease on the opening edge
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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841 (GS 7.0.16 (841))
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