Bauhaus

I was gonna get indignant but then I realized Twilight isn't really any worse than The Hunger

the hunger was great!

i haven't seen the twilight movies. the trailers make them look like a really low-budget wb show filmed in canada. like one tree hill with bad special efx. (can certainly see the kid appeal though)

"Third Uncle" pwns u

Heard the original?

I don't think so...?

Compare/contrast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v3yXuORL4Q

I love both FWIW.

I was trying to decide which version I liked better last week, and I just couldn't!

Impossible decision, Daddy or Chips.

lol I just went to go track it down

hmm, this is good but I am so used to the Bauhaus version

i also heard the Bauhaus version first, so that's the definitive one for me. kicks ass.

oh it just got into the meat of the song, this is fucking CLASS

T. Rex "Telegram Sam" v. Bauhaus "Telegram Sam" is also impossible imo.

And then there's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMtYCBG6vg

T.Rex easily on Telegram Sam.

But the delay on David J's bass is just so damn appealing and Murphy sounds so freaking demented while Eno just sounds so... oddly calm.

Actually, it's the distortion more than the delay, there's delay on the original, too.

I am not sure "Bela Lugosi's Dead" would make a POX for me, which I find kind of surprising.

And what the hey:

http://hypem.com/track/421245/Zongamin+-+Third+Uncle

It would be something like:

Third Uncle
Spirit
The Passion of Lovers
Silent Hedges
The Three Shadows
Swing the Heartache
She's In Parties
Endless Summer of the Damned
Hair of the Dog
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

I think the last minute and a half of Bauhuas is some of my favourite music ever recorded. Those "giggle stick" guitars. Whoa.

Of Bauhaus? Eh? She's In Parties.

Every time I start to listen to Bauhaus again, I am just starkly reminded, again and again, how much they made me the person I am today. I'm not sure if I should thank them or not.

yeah, loved them to death in the mid 80s, though i never dug any further into goth anything, except maybe the birthday party. liked them best as a rock & roll band: the "third uncle" & "telegram sam" covers, "dark entries" & "lagartija nick". not to slight the rest, but they could really kick up a storm when they wanted to.

Listening to their records, there are just so many arty in-jokes and allusions, and I laugh to myself and then think "why do you KNOW that?" and then think "Oh yeah. Because I listened to Bauhaus."

When is a door not a door?
When it's a Ducasse.

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paging trayce

fish cakes

stamp on the fish

THROW IT AGAINST THE WALL!

A la carte!

Do you always keep your drumsticks in the piano?

Take it easy

Avoid risks and if possible, stay at home.

I remember thinking "The case continues" was just some romantic conclusion for that section and not standard Brit crime journo conclusion for a mid-trial report.

this song made me fall in love with Bauhaus btw

Haha wow of all things! But it is an inspired idea, more bands should do similar.

What is Ash saying in his bit, anyway? Some sort of backward-masked love of spiky hair?

It's the same idea as 5% for Nothing and all those wacky one-band-member bits on Fragile but obv p different in execution

I loved when they split up their songs into bits and worked on them like an exquisite corpse, it was so Surrealist, I love it. Spot the art school band, I win.

http://hideyourarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/il_570xN.203300498-480x511.jpg

Hahah thank you, I'd linked that upthread a bit but the URL died.

No rush. Take your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBe--9NqLU

Hahahaha... the fuck!? :D

Just...let it flow.

My latest Quietus piece -- on the 30th anniversary of Burning From the Inside:

http://thequietus.com/articles/12708-bauhaus-burning-from-the-inside

MAKE THE MOST OF A MILLION TIMES... yes?

Great article! I still listen to "Hope" regularly to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4zPCKtIqcc

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/10/14/peter-murphy-peads-guilty-meth-probation/

Kick in the EEEYYYYYYEEEEE! Oh! Oh! Oh!

ooooooo-OOOOOOOH-oooooooh ooooooooh-OOOOOOOH-oooooh...

(I thought there was another Bauhaus thread that was longer and had Bimble bimbling with love all over it, but I should read behind the cut of this one, I guess.)

Ned Raggett from days of yore...

Noodle of course nails the real killer thing -- that rhythm section. Absolutely nothing against Peter or Daniel of course, the whole band is essential as a combination, but the sheer ability, stop-on-a-dime mania as well as careful restraint of David J doing his King Tubby-meets-Can imitations and Kevin Haskins essentially doing similar is mind-bogglingly great.

...

To give an example, meanwhile, of Peter and Daniel getting their due...there's the audio on Press the Eject but the video on Shadow of Light during the performance of John Cale's "Rosegarden Funeral of Sores" when Peter is half-draped over Daniel yelping "SCREAMING WHORES!!!!" while Daniel, playing along without a hitch, is delivering these rhythmic agonized yelps is pure transgressive violence as art project. And oh I love it I love it I love it.

As fucking brilliant as that particular scene is, it isn't even the best part of that video. Which is when Peter goes over to the other side of the stage and attempts to drape himself in a similar fashion over the besuited and dark sunglassed David J. Who pulls a slightly pained expression, raising one ginger eyebrow, dislodges him with a faintly reptilian shrug which somehow seems about a billion times *weirder* and more outre than all of Daniel's fishnets and alien-sex-god antics, then, as Peter walks away... HIS FISHNET TUNIC THING CATCHES ON THE TUNING PEGS OF DAVID'S BASS. David, with the same reptilian cool, tilts his bass neck - without ever losing track: not a beat dropped, not a pitch even slightly faffed - of the insanely complicated line he is playing on a fretless fucking bass - and casually unhooks him as if tossing an unwanted minnow back into the sea.

I love Daniel and all, but seriously, in a band as weird and insane and hilariously out there as Bauhaus were, the most *freakish* and bizarre thing was actually turning up to work every day in a suit. David J always was the coolest member of that band, against stiff competition.