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

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.