Bauhaus

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?

Cool Coachella pics. Peter's pants almost deserve a place on Friday's 'best pants in rock' thread. Those are some big pants.

how is the new album, Ned? I gather it's leagues away from Dusk and more a return to Deep territory.

Extremely and totally. But go anyway.

how is the new album, Ned? I gather it's leagues away from Dusk and more a return to Deep territory.

It's very much not Dusk part two, no -- if anything it strikes me more as an extension of the poppier/gentler side of Cascade, not surprising since Paul Statham, his longest serving cowriter, is back on a number of songs. "Idle Flow," the opener, is one of his best songs ever when it hits the chorus, and more than once throughout the album that same thing happens -- enjoyable, low key verse but then a *great* dramatic chorus that lifts the whole performance. Unshattered in general is a nice mix of ideas and slightly familiar tropes but with a good bright edge to it -- "Kiss Myself" is almost power-pop, with harmonica even! Interesting mix of performers -- Steven Perkins plays drums, his Porno For Pyros sidekick Peter di Stefano adds guitar. It's possibly his easiest, calmest album so far, where the darker moments are suggested rather than put front and center.

It'll be interesting to see what the set is like, blending that with all the solo choices he can draw on, but especially the Dusk material.

this all sounds like code for "it sucks"! But I'm going to give it a listen anyway.

The solo Murphy stuff sounds interesting. I'll try to check some out.

SAY SOMETHING ABOUT BAUHAUS

I have a bizarro CD version of "The Sky's Gone Out." It has a blank white cover with a small logo and title, and the tracklisting is wrong. "Kick in the Eye" and "Earwax" (which is unlisted) are tracks 6 and 7, and "Lagartija Nick" and "Ziggy Stardust" are at the end. Anyone know the origin of this confabulation?

discogs.com list three different editions. yours sounds like the canadian one on vertigo (but not exactly)

http://www.discogs.com/release/539373

picture here:
http://www.musicstack.com/item/34456315/bauhaus/the+sky's+gone

actually, that picture is of the double vinyl version which does have your tracklisting exactly.

Good god, I would NEVER have picked Tracer as a fucking Bauhaus fan. I am staggered.

what are you saying :(

Sade et Bauhaus, même comnbat!

Oh no no I think its a great thing! I'm just suprised!

Wait that still sounds bad doesnt it? Hahah oh god sorry. Its good!

: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