Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

It must properly be winter now. The nights are drawing in, it's dark early and I'm listening to Bauhaus.

Spirit, tho I prefer the single version.

does this band mean anything to The Young Folks? feels just on my hunch like I'd be hard-pressed to find an under-30 who'd have a take on Burning From the Inside or know much beyond Bela Lugosi's Dead. which if I'm right is interesting to me - there was that one moment when they were such a big deal

Never really got into this one, my least favourite Bauhaus LP. Having trouble remembering any of the songs tbh. Feels like a cop out to vote for a cover.

i think that third uncle is definitely the best thing here, but i contend that all the rest of side one is pretty great too

had to listen to 'in the night' again to remind myself how it went, if they'd have only called it 'you'll never know know know-know know know' i wouldn't be making this dumb post

Fie, a pox 'pon you, the album version of Spirit doth PWNeth!

'swing the heartache' sounds like it could have come off a chrome album, the best guitar noises over a cold dead mechanical beat

Swing The Heartache is amazing; I always forget just how amazing it is (I hated it when I was younger because it had the most boring bassline).

Gah, I mean, this album has some of the MOST PRETENTIOUS BASS TONE KNOWN TO MANKIND and yet I still love, love, love it more than just about anything.

David J pretty much wrote the manual on pretentious basslines of the future. God I love his eyebrowlessness and pretentious bass tone.

he sounds like jah wobble pretending to be a spider

Good to see that Lagartija Nick is currently available on cd. It's on the singles set in the cheap lps cd box set.
Bela Lugosi was on the Halloween night Goth at the Beeb collection. I realised I still didn't know the lyrics as I played that back this morning.

I could make a case for almost every track here except maybe Third Uncle (which is great, but a cover nonetheless).

Silent Hedges - the moment after the middle 8 where the feedback and 12-string maelstrom pauses for a moment, and then the bass kicks in again THIS TIME WITH DISTORTION and it is the most amazing thing.
In The Night - the flange on the guitar is fantastic, but my favourite thing is that demented monologue that Peter Murphy goes into that ends with 'before him lies the dreadful truth, undignified, insignified, his wrist onto the razor sliiiides...' that I have been trying to sing along with for 30 years now and have never been able to do that tonguetwister
Swing The Heartache - as above (I believe that some of it is eBow but some of it is actually synth) but yeah. Monster.
Spirit - just the most epic of epicness
The Three Shadows, Pt. 1 - this is possibly one of the very first songs I ever learned to play on guitar, so I have massive nostalgia for it. So spooky!
The Three Shadows, Pt. 2 - I love it! I just love the Brechtian Bauhausian weirdness of it all. I could write you a dissertation on the use of fish metaphors in Bauhaus lyrics. What on earth do they signify? I'll never know.
The Three Shadows, Pt. 3 - AND DRINK OTHER FISHES' PISS!!! christ I love this album
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - and then this lush, lovely little folksong in the middle of all that maelstrom of noise and weirdness!
Exquisite Corpse - not as fantastic an experiment as 1 - 2- 3 - 4 in terms of exquisite corpses, but still worth every minute for the snoring, the dub, and Terry and his army surplus bag. The use of distorted guitar as texture under 12-string is just so distinctively Daniel Ash and so amazing.

I don't care if the kids know this one or not, the kids are wrong. Bela Lugosi's Dead was the least interesting thing Bauhaus ever did, the end.

he sounds like jah wobble pretending to be a spider

― john wahey (NickB), Monday, November 3, 2014 2:58 PM

You say this like it's a bad thing?

"Silent Hedges" and "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" are in the top 10 best songs they did.

does this band mean anything to The Young Folks?

There are ALWAYS over the top aggressive/wound-up arty goth types out there. And given the various excavations of not too far removed stuff via labels like Sacred Bones and Captured Tracks and so forth, it's a little hard to imagine further connections haven't been made. Last time I saw Peter Murphy solo I'd say a good chunk of the crowd was well under 30.

You know, a lot of the Young People who follow a certain band I've recently become obsessed with are surprisingly well versed in the ways of Bauhaus. I will say no more!

The Young Folks On The Block.

(sorry!)

I really really want to start and all-girl Bauhaus tribute band called Frauhaus.

You know, I'm honestly surprised that hasn't happened already.

(Well, my sisX0r and I were effectively in one when we were teenagers, but we didn't think of that name.)

haha excellent

I've just got my first victim - I mean, member. ha!

I'm 26 and know a good number of people around my age who are into Bauhaus, proper goths as well as hipsters who gravitate towards 80s deathrock+post-punk.

I remember when this first came out, we were upstairs smoking pot and flipping out. I still love it's weirdness and I vote Swing the Heartache for that shard-y guitar, among other things. Gonna put this on right now.

i think this was my intro to Bauhaus, haven't heard it in years. going to vote for "Third Uncle" even if it is a cover.

does this band mean anything to The Young Folks? feels just on my hunch like I'd be hard-pressed to find an under-30 who'd have a take on Burning From the Inside or know much beyond Bela Lugosi's Dead. which if I'm right is interesting to me - there was that one moment when they were such a big deal

― The Complainte of Ray Tabano

Well... me and my friends are under 30 and some of them loved Bauhaus. I don't think they were that much of a big deal for my generation but those who liked them, loved them. None of them were hipsters, nor goths. Actually the biggest fans I know are more of the 'sporty' type. Go figure.

I actually first got into Brian Eno so my favorite song in here is Third Uncle. I think I even prefer Bauhaus' over the original one. They were great at covers, weren't they?

As for my friends, I'm sure they'd vote Spirit. I don't think this was their most played album over here, though. They loved the one with 'King Volcano' and the one with 'Hollow Hills' can't remember the names of the albums just those songs at the moment.

I kinda wish I'd been around and experienced the release of these things as they happened. Like, it was all over and done with by the time that I discovered Bauhaus. (Love & Rockets, however, those albums I remember coming out, and people being so confused by, compared to Bauhaus; when I heard <<Express>> and Earth Sun Moon first.)

Like, I can remember being about 15 or 16, being at 288 (a punk/goth/deathpunk hangout in the 80s) for some all ages hardcore gig, and they'd play She's In Parties as we were waiting to go in, which was at that point 3 or 4 years old, and already felt ancient. (But mysterious and ancient, not mouldy and outdated ancient.) But Bauhaus was not something I was aware of as it was happening, and felt weirdly like a party I was too young to go to, and got into once the party was all over. But really wish I'd been 'there for'.

But I guess Bauhaus/Love & Rockets felt way less divisive than, say Joy Division vs New Order. Because Bauhaus were still within living memory, while Joy Division felt as mouldy oldy ancient and prehistoric as the Sex Pistols did. But I think that's probably down to 'what got played on college radio'? When I started listening to college radio in about 85 or 86 or so, they would still play Bauhaus or Tones On Tail, in amidst current stuff like The Queen Is Dead or The Head On The Door. And bands that were 'current stuff' would be far more likely to have their back catalogue played - someone giving Brotherhood a spin for the first time would dig out Power Corruption and Lies for comparison/history. (In a way they would not dig out Day Of The Lords or whatever.) I suppose it's telling that people giving Mirror People a spin for the first time would go back to King Volcano, though. But someone playing PiL's 'Album' wouldn't dig out the Sex Pistols for comparison. Weird, what bands are perceived as a fresh start, and what bands are viewed as a continuation of their members' former projects.

my only memory of bauhaus while they were a going concern (and they were only in existence for a relatively short period of time tbh) was seeing them do bela lugosi when i was 9 on some after school youth tv programme on bbc 2. wasn't until i bought a singles comp in my teens that i actually got into them.

and then there was this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBem3x7G6bc

Last time I saw Peter Murphy solo I'd say a good chunk of the crowd was well under 30.

It was all old farts round our way on his Bauhaus Anniversary Cash In Tour.

But Bauhaus was not something I was aware of as it was happening, and felt weirdly like a party I was too young to go to, and got into once the party was all over. But really wish I'd been 'there for'.

^This for me too.

I instinctively went to vote for All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (so brilliant but so out of place on that crazy second side) but then I stopped and had a think and now have a few contenders.

I keep changing my mind on what to vote for. Today I'm all about the bass on Exquisite Corpse.

i'm doing the Bauhaus - Love and Rockets poll, hope there is enough interest when it finally comes around.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I almost forgot to vote in this...

(went with Exquisite Corpse in the end, because reasons.)

I think I like Silent Hedges the most out of any of these. Swing the Heartache is obv great but since I heard the BBC version first I'll always prefer that one.

This album is fucking legend. I checked it out of the library when I was in ninth grade and it blew my mind.

This album is one of those "this album made me the person I am today" albums. I have no idea if that worked out for good or bad.

i feel like at this point, 3 shadows had the greatest impact on me as a musician -- going with that one rather than trying to decide which one of these songs I like the most.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I really really want to start and all-girl Bauhaus tribute band called Frauhaus.

― Jacques Lacan let me rock u; let me rock u, Jacques Lacan (Branwell with an N), Monday, November 3, 2014 7:24 AM (3 weeks ago)

lol would join