Bauhaus

Hey you might be able to help me, because the clerk at Virgin couldn't help me in the slightest. (We stopped by on our way out of the cinemaplex to get NIN With Teeth while it was on sale). While my husband & I were poking around in the Bauhaus section, we found a Japanese import of what looked like Volume 1 greatest hits. But it had a black cover & gold cover, like Volume 2, but the whole thing was a very thin cardboard sleeve. It also contained what looked like 2 discs and a vastly different track listing to the Volume 1 we ended up buying. Husband mused that perhaps it was v1 & 2 together, but there wasn't enough detail on the cd sleeve to decipher it. Clerk didn't know, computer didn't pull up any useful information & we were left wondering.

Thoughts?

Speaking of obsessive, there is one official track that was never released on CD and apparently will never be -- when the band broke up, they released a final single via their fan club, "The Sanity Assassin." This song did surface later on V. 2 and the Burning CD, but the B-side never did -- a cover of Norman Greenbaum's irregularly revived/recovered early seventies Jesus-hippie-rock hit "Spirit in the Sky." Funny stuff! There's also a one-off studio track from the late nineties reunion that surfaced on the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack, "The Dog's a Vapour," while Gotham includes the other studio track the reunited band did, a cover of Dead Can Dance's "Severance," which was covered to absolutely brilliant effect on the tour (there's a live version on the disc as well).

Excellent! I will pass that on to my friend Hina, she will be pleased. :-) Come see Peter's solo show! It'll be much different in intensity but he does the occasional Bauhaus number and is still a riveting performer on his own.

:-D

And a pity about the V.1/V.2 confusion! But this might help -- the only track on V.2 that isn't on the studio album CD versions is "Paranoia Paranoia," which is a great song but is essentially a tweaked dub version of Sky's Gone Out's "Silent Hedges," so not quite as necessary. It is however a fine instance of the ability of the band to pulverize their own work as needed.

Peter once said that Daniel could take three notes, play it on his guitar and make it sound like the end of the world. This is in fact perfectly accurate.

When will the solo tour start? How big of a tour is it? Actually the reason I went & bought Bauhaus in the first place was because of what I was reading about their performance at Coachella. Even having never heard them, they sounded like something to look into a little more. I'm glad I did!!

http://www.petermurphy.info/

And here's the tour info -- got it slightly wrong, the tour isn't beginning until next week:

UNSHATTERED TOUR ITINERARY
click on individual show dates for venue and ticket information

MAY

12 Lake Buena Vista, Florida - House of Blues
13 Atlanta, Georgia - The Masquerade
15 Washington DC - 9.30 Club
16 New York, New York - B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill
17 Cleveland, Ohio - Odeon Concert Club
18 Chicago, Illinois - Metro
20 Denver, Colorado - Ogden Theatre
22 Portland, Oregon - Roseland Theatre
23 Seattle, Washington - The Showbox
24 San Francisco, California - The Fillmore
26 San Diego, California - House of Blues
27 Los Angeles, California - Henry Fonda Theatre
28 Anaheim, California - House of Blues
30 Mexico City, Mexico - Salon 21

Go for the SF show! You'll really like it, I predict. :-) I've seen Peter now solo and in Bauhaus a total of...*thinks*...ten times. He has never once failed to seriously put on an excellent show -- a committed performer, he doesn't take his audience for granted, while he never seems to lose his sense of humor either.

Keep in mind that there's also the wonderful music by everyone else in the band -- Love and Rockets of course, but Tones on Tail, the solo stuff by Daniel Ash and David J...

Love and Rockets IS Bauhaus, just without Peter. :-) They didn't immediately become L&R, though -- Tones on Tail was the project that Daniel and Kevin started a bit while Bauhaus was still going, with Glenn Campling on bass, and they continued that for a while after the Bauhaus collapse. There's a double disc, Everything, which I highly recommend -- it's just as enjoyable schizophrenic as Bauhaus. "Go!" was their most famous song, which you might have heard here or there. David's solo career was in full swing around the same time, he recorded two solo albums and enough singles to warrant a rarities collection. AND he was performing with the Jazz Butcher at the same time, which is a whole other story! And then he has released a number of solo discs off and on over time since -- David's solo stuff is generally calmer, lower-key, witty and warm folk/rock/blues, he's a prince of a feller. Daniel's solo stuff is his 'rock never dies!' dream impulse and he often does a good job with it.

Bauhaus were on the best post-punk bands around. It is just too bad they are mostly remembered as thee GAWTH godfathers instead one of the better of the post-punk canon instead. Nothing wrong with the former, but the latter is often grossly overlooked.

As much as I love this typo, I really meant to say: Bauhaus were one of the best post-punk bands around.

I'll be interested to read Simon R.'s take in the post-punk book. Keep in mind that many writers flat out HATED Bauhaus -- not all, mind you, there were defenders like Alan Moore (yes, that Alan Moore -- a member of the Sinister Ducks, a collaborator with David J elsewhere -- to the point where J. released a V for Vendetta single in 1984 or so -- Moore freaks will recall there's a part in the story where the titular figure is playing a song called "This Viscious Cabaret" at a piano, that's an actual song David and Alan cowrote and David released) and Helen Fitzgerald. I've got a great unofficial collection of many press articles that complements Beneath the Mask, and it's interesting reading both the praise and condemnation from the time itself, without the burden of 'goth' as such, though intriguingly it was brought up very early by some writers, so the tag was already starting to coalesce.

Problem is I don’t know if I will still be in So Cal or San Francisco by the time this show happens.

np: Tones On Tail – Night Music

"WHO ARE YOU?"

"My CARD...pretty lady!"

--

"But I am, I AM a singer!"

"Nooooo FOOLING?"

Wait I did see Peter Murphy at the Wiltern Theatre in 1990, forgot about that.

Which night? He played three nights -- Exene opened one, Thin White Rope another, and the one I attended was with Human Drama. Much as I love HD and Johnny Indovina in retrospect I would have preferred to see TWR.

Yeah that was it, I saw HD a bunch around that time.

The third radio session of the five on the disc is probably the best because it's them just going nuts with whatever -- "The Three Shadows Part 2" is much better than the record version, while "Party..." and "Departure" weren't rerecorded when they were used as B-sides, they stuck with this take. Daniel's going nuts with some of the guitar on "Departure," there's that contrast between David's drollery and Peter's archness, all the whispering and hissing and of course...

"INTO THE HILLLLS THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN!"

Uh, because you always act like this big thing how you're teaching me some sort of lesson and for all the nervous denials seem weirdly obsessed when in contrast I don't think about you at all, except in moments like this?

https://louderthanwar.com/peter-murphy-thrown-gig-sweden-former-bauhaus-singer-bizarre-incident/

"Last night Peter Murphy had a meltdown at the gig in Stockholm (Nalen).

Annoyed at a small sector of the crowd ignoring his show he was apparently throwing bottles at the audience one of which landed on the mixing desk which broke it and ended the concert after 2/3 of the gig. Following this there was an altercation with the security at the venue which saw him thrown out of the venue."

Fucking hell. Is he still on the crystal meth?

Well, here we go once more.

BAUHAUS announces HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM SHOW

Bauhaus, featuring Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J, will play the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on November 3.
Tickets on sale Friday, September… https://t.co/d4or2gN9NE

— Peter Murphy (@petermurphyinfo) September 10, 2019

There's something...weird in realizing they're announcing this reunion to take place in the spot where they played the first reunion shows in 1998. Double nostalgia.

Double nostalgia excitement!

Crazy to think that more time elapsed since that first reunion than between that and their initial split

More and more I appreciate the sweet innocence of this being called what it is when it was released in 1992:

https://www.discogs.com/Bauhaus-Rest-In-Peace-The-Final-Concert/master/324249

Anyway so they're still back together and they have a new song and they've pulled the ol' "1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash" trick again. And you know, why not?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bauhaus-new-song-drink-the-new-wine-1325242/

Their North American tour has been canceled. Peter Murphy has checked himself into rehab "to attend to his health and well-being."

Disappointing, to say the least.

Was just coming here to post that

After rehab maybe they can tour

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bauhaus-cancel-north-american-shows-as-peter-murphy-enters-rehab/

So for the Pop Conference this year I had some thoughts, at least in terms of archiving and legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYpT_GKxz3k

Great stuff. Still getting over the white and black albums bit. Ha!

The vinyl 1979-1983 version was something my then girlfriend introduced me to and that really ignited my Bauhaus love, having previously only heard the hit singles. Really interesting to hear that over there a lot of people found Bauhaus through their Love & Rockets fandom.

I came to the band at an odd time, circa Burning from the Inside, which is still my favorite. We used to play it at the record store I worked at near closing time. It was pretty good at clearing the store.

'she's in parties' is a highly recommended gothdub. i like that album; good bridge to tones on tail.

honestly Burning is my fave album overall

(of theirs)

my intro was The Sky's Gone Out upon release, I did not really know what to make of it. then I heard that green 4AD EP of the early singles and I got it.

Great stuff. Still getting over the white and black albums bit. Ha!

Haha. It struck me out of nowhere and as I'm now thoroughly sick of the Beatles Industrial Complex I decided to include it.

Really interesting to hear that over there a lot of people found Bauhaus through their Love & Rockets fandom.

Oh absolutely the case. Bauhaus had zero chart presence at the time, even though over here for the third and fourth albums they ended up on of all labels A&M. (Perhaps not too surprising given the Police and a sense that they could have a new wave thing going -- they had the Cure at the same time too! A&M was almost an arch-goth label!) But Love & Rockets really clicked over here in LA -- I like to think both the Bauhaus tours and the one Tones on Tail one here created enough of a fanbase that when L&R started really connecting on both college radio and stations like KROQ by the time 1986 rolled around, them going Top 40 with "No New Tale To Tell," along with the MTV boost thanks to the video, made absolute sense. That's how I learned about them and by the time of early 1989 with "So Alive" in the near offing -- I think the "Motorcyle" single had already caught my attention as well -- I heard enough stories about 'this band called Bauhaus,' as well as learning a bit about Peter Murphy (Love Hysteria had been a notable college/KROQ era hit thanks to "All Night Long" in particular), that I started to backtrack a bit. The white/black comps were easily available on import CD as well as a number of the albums -- Sky's and Burning got A&M CDs but I waited until I could get the UK versions with the extra tracks -- and the Peel Sessions comp Swing the Heartache came out shortly afterward as well.

Neds 100% right in regards to L&R and that history is my history, can't wait to watch this.

My order:

In the Flat Field (1980)
Mask (1981)
The Sky's Gone Out (1982)
Burning from the Inside (1983)

You slave to chronology or something.

Hardly but for Bauhaus albums, absolutely. Burning from the Inside doesn't have enough Peter Murphy and therefore the worst.

thanks Ned. Very interesting.

i think I'd go for the same order as Bee OK.