Quality Time is the fourteenth studio album by power electronics band Whitehouse, released in 1995 through their Susan Lawly label. The cover art was illustrated by Trevor Brown, who made artwork for the band's previous album, Halogen, and their 1991 album, Twice Is Not Enough. The album was reissued on vinyl format in 2009 through Very Friendly.

Quality Time
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1995
Recordedat Electrical Audio, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
GenrePower electronics, noise, avant-garde, dark ambient
Length32:49
LabelSusan Lawly
ProducerWhitehouse, Steve Albini
Whitehouse chronology
Halogen
(1994)
Quality Time
(1995)
Mummy and Daddy
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
BrainwashedPositive[2]

The track "Baby" is composed solely of samples of baby noises. When Quality Time was uploaded to the music sharing website MP3.com, the track stirred controversy within the website's community, with users calling the band "extremely pretentious" and the track "one of the worst forms of electronic creations [they'd] ever heard".[3]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Told"William Bennett, Peter Sotos4:46
2."Quality Time"Bennett, Sotos10:01
3."Baby"Bennett2:58
4."Execution"Philip Best5:19
5."Just Like A Cunt (PB Vocal Version)"Bennett6:05
6."Once And For All"Bennett3:40

Personnel

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  • Whitehouse – music, production
  • Steve Albini – recording, production
  • Denis Blackham – mastering
  • Trevor Brown – artwork
  • Akiko Hada – photography
  • Mike Reber – photography
  • Atholl Drummond – graphic design

References

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  1. ^ Ravelin, Antti. "Quality Time - Whitehouse". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ^ Whitney, Jon. "Whitehouse, Quality Time review". Brainwashed. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  3. ^ "The 'Baby' controversy..." Susan Lawly. Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
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