In Praise Of...Bauhaus' "Mask" album

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How is that I find myself pulling out Bauhaus’ “Mask” album this evening? I think it’s because the title track suddenly appeared in my head for no reason, specifically the shatteringly gorgeous guitar part at the end and all that. But really of Bauhaus’ albums I always felt this was the best, though I was madly in love with the quiet side of “The Sky’s Gone Out” album as well. What say you about the album “Mask”? I decided I didn’t want this to be a poll, but that could be done later on if desired.
Here’s the tracklisting of Mask for a refresher course:

Hair Of The Dog
Passion of Lovers (IRRESISTABLE!)
Hollow Hills (CLASSICK!)
Kick In The Eye (FUNKY BASSLINE!)
In Fear of Fear (EVEN MORE FUNKY BASSLINE! One of my top 3 fave Bauhaus songs ever)
Muscle In Plastic
The Man With X-Ray Eyes
Mask (hmm...their BEST SONG EVER?)

See now I’m going to have to pull out The Sky’s Gone Out and do a comparison and rank them correctly. Sigh.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 26 April 2008 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

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― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 26 April 2008 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

Images hate me.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 26 April 2008 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

absolutely my fave album of theirs. bur then, just the inclusion of 'hollow hills' would have won me over. when they played here last year (or the year before - my concept of time has long gone) they played more songs from 'mask' than any of their other records so they obviously know it too.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 26 April 2008 03:56 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck yeah!

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 26 April 2008 05:03 (seventeen years ago)

ABSOPLUTELY MY VARE ABLUM OF THEIR BUT THEN JUST HTE INCLUSIOON OF HOLLOW HILLS WOUDL HAVE OWOOWN ME OVER WHEN THEY PLAYED HERE LATST YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE MY CONECPT OF TIME HAS LONG GONE THEY PLAYTED MORE SONG SFROM MASK THAN ANY OF THEIR OFTYHER RECORDS SO THEY OBVCIOSULY KNWO IT TOO

― stephen, Saturday, 26 April 2008 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

FUCK YEAR

― stephen, Saturday, 26 April 2008 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck I totally screwed up the track listing! What the hell? I left out "Of Lillies & Remains" (maybe my fave of all!) and "Dancing"!

Well done, Stephen! I dig.

― Bimble, Saturday, 26 April 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

thanks, i was drunk last night

― stephen, Saturday, 26 April 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

I still prefer Sky's Gone Out, dubby Bauhaus never really did it for me

― baaderonixx, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

Yes that's exactly the point, Stephen! So was I! :)

― Bimble, Sunday, 27 April 2008 04:21 (seventeen years ago)

so was i. drunken bauhaus posting frenzy.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 27 April 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)

Hahaha! You too?! Good lord, I thought sure you were the sober one! :) Well I think we've done really well with this thread. Kudos all around.

― Bimble, Sunday, 27 April 2008 18:42 (seventeen years ago)

Never heard this album, but I downloaded this last night whilst enjoying a whisky :)

― willem, Sunday, 27 April 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

ahahaha stephen

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 April 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

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