Bauhaus

:D

There ought to be a genre called "pseudo-Bauhaus"...

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll22/f4k3acc0unt/notsluts.jpg

Says it all, pretty much.

Rosegarden Funeral of Sores (originally a John Cale song, for those who don't know, like me, for 70 billion years):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKPST30lmQ

Let's take a short coffee break to remember who is more goth than you.

This is one of those nights when "Bela Lugosi's Dead" sounds so undeniably glorious and exhilarating.

sigh

"Bela" became such an worn-out 'alternative disco' cliche towards the end of the eighties that I didn't listen to it for well over a decade. When I finally got round to acquiring Bauhaus on CD, it was almost like hearing it for the first time all over again, and I was really shocked by just how good it was. The lyric and the delivery hit a very fine balance between celebration and self-mockery, and I'd forgotten how much reggae influence there is in the sound. Quite a punishing dance floor work-out, too. Classic, of course.

SHE'S IN PARTIES
IT'S IN THE CAN

Does anyone know anything about the reissues coming up on Beggars Banquet? Just got an email from them promising a bonus disc if you preorder both "box sets," which look like maybe expanded reissues of In the Flat Field and Mask. I can't find any info anywhere else on their (horrific) site, and <a href="http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/releases/bauhaus-box-sets-bundle/";>the preorder page</a> doesn't even bother to mention whether these are LP or CD.

Tracklisting for the bonus rarities disc:

TRACK LISTING
1. Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Tomb Raider Mix
This is a new mix based on the Hammersmith Palais ’81 live performance (the same as on ‘Press The Eject’). It has a constant rhythm (the live take starts at a gallop, quickly slowing to a canter) and uses a studio vocal that was added to the multi-track.
2. Terror Couple Kill Colonel – Spaceward Studio 24 April 1980
There are already 3 versions of TCKC on the box set (that’s enough) but this version was briefly available (by accident) on a re-press of the vinyl single and quickly withdrawn.
3. Double Dare – Southern Studio Mix #1
The unreleased mix #4 is on the box set but this is an earlier take.
4. A God In An Alcove
5. Poison Pen
6. Hollow Hills
Recorded at University Of London Union 31 October 1980. We wanted to include a live disc with ‘In The Flat Field’ Omnibus Edition but only one official recording was made of a show (at ULU). The tape was a live monitor mix so the sound balance was way out with Daniel’s guitar recorded far too low in the mix. Sadly there were no multi-tracks so a re-mix wasn’t possible. These are the only 3 tracks worth salvaging from the tape. It’s a shame, as audience bootlegs show that Bauhaus were always a dynamic live band right from their early shows.
7. Poem
Recorded at Space Place, Chicago 9 September 1980
This is from a bootleg and it’s a bit of fun that Peter employed during some of the 1980 shows.

My young naive housemate was asking about Bauhaus last night so I played "Slice of Life" for him. So amazing.

Good step, that.

Hmm, bonus disc looks of interest. I've carefully relied on my 4AD CD all this time from the import days.

These are part of Beggaes "Omnibus" series - they're offering a *4*cd version of a Cult album as well as these 2 Bauhaus albums and (hopefully soon) 2 Fall albums as well. It's a cool idea that takes the reissue-repackage idea to the extreme.

So is anyone picking up the Omnibuses today? Has anyone heard them? I'm torn; listening to In The Flat Field for the first time in a long time and am kind of blown away at how good it sounds. The temptation to drop some serious coin on these is really high...

So I broke down and got Mask (would have picked them both up, but my local record store didn't get a copy of In The Flat Field yet). Really blown away by the live disc - only one track was previously released, and the whole show is pretty amazing and intense. Glad to finally hear the spoken piece that Alan Moore recorded for them to use as an intro. Nice booklet with lyrics, interview snippets, recording history, etc., and some of the alternate mixes are as good, if not better, than the ones that made the album. In particular, the rejected album mix of "Hair Of The Dog" makes me think of the angular, punky dance music on the B-52's first album.

I can't wait to hear In The Flat Field when it comes in.

GOTH LIFE

http://img.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ben1__oPt.jpg

Haha that took me a second.

Did anyone else ever get those omnibuses? They're both great. I hope they get the next two out this year.

(natalie portman's new BF btw)

Devendra's beardiness wasn't satisfying her anymore?

guess not, she wanted a goth six pack!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10490847.stm

Indeed:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/150963

Revival of this thread has me playing "Mask" for the first time in fnyears. I was an OBSESSIVE Bauhaus fan in the late 80s.

But yeah, Murphy's whole Twilight thing is pretty wtf. My teenage self would have been UTTERLY DISGUSTED.

...that he didn't have a bigger role in the film, as you waited in line. :-D

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.