Bela Lugosi response

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revive for research paper. does anyone know what kind of response 'bela legosi's dead' received when it was released? specifically in the us.

― Ariel (Ariel), Thursday, 11 December 2003 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

spike in hair crimping sales (no accredited metrics for this unfortunately)

― bakhtin, Thursday, 11 December 2003 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Increased eyeliner sales in males???

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Thursday, 11 December 2003 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably made the biggest US splash at first by appearing in the film The Hunger.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 11 December 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what the hell kinda class is this, asking people to research people's reactions to "bela lugosi's dead" when it was released?

i suspect most people in the USA didn't hear it at all when it was released over here, since it wasn't exactly huge on the pop-charts. ergo: no response at all.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 December 2003 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I see people talking about him I ALWAYS think of the fat bastard that was carrying Kerri Strug around.

― DarrensCoq, Thursday, 11 December 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Here in NYC, outside of clubs like Danceteria and the Mudd Club, I'd suggest mass indifference.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In Canada, we were like, "yeah, he has been for a few years."

I don't think it really got much attention until we saw it (and them) in that crappy vampire with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve (okay, it wasn't that crappy if it had CD in it).

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

..in that crappy vampire with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve

You're not fit to dwell on this planet. Please leave at once.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Useless Factoid:

The Hunger was based on a novel by Whitley Strieber, the author of the "non-fiction" alien abduction bestseller Communion.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Cetera wears a T-shirt with the cover of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" on it in the Chicago video for "You're the Inspiration". Any research paper discussing the cultural impact of the song would do well to include this fascinating tidbit

See also Theodore Adorno's "The Culture Industry" and Lola Bollocks' "The Perils of Using Anonymous Internet Postings as Primary Research Sources".

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt the Lugosi estate was particularly appreciative.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank god.. i thought this was a thread about a new band called the Bela Lugosi Response that was some new post-wave band from New York or something...

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have been cool if there was a Bela Legosi's Revenge diss record single by another goth band like Roxanne's Revenge did to UTFO....

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Cetera wears a T-shirt with the cover of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" on it in the Chicago video for "You're the Inspiration".

eh? THIS IS A JOKE, YES?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope. It's the truth. One of the New Kids on the Block also sports a Bauhaus t-shirt (featuring a still from "the Cabinet of Dr.Caligari" on it, if I remember correctly) in one of their vids.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete Cetera = the proto-Shania Twain

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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