It’s Bauhaus, of
course. A friend of mine had a few of
their albums back in high school, I just COULD NOT get into them. “Bela Lugosi” was good fun, but the majority
of their stuff just sounded like atonal, herky- jerky pretentiousness to
me. And I liked the Residents, dammit!
Someone in college
played “Ball of Confusion” for me, and I was stunned that it was ¾ of
Bauhaus. Love and Rockets were
awesome. Well, their first 3 albums
were. The breakthrough album with “So
Alive” – that kind of partially sucked. Some of it was quite good, though. Sweet
F.A. didn’t impress me in the slightest, either, but I dug the long,
meandering trance stuff on Hot Trip to
Heaven. After that, they lost it totally.
Also heard Tones on
Tail in college for the first time, and they too were totally excellent. And they had the added bonus of a very short
career, so everything they did was great, and you were left wanting more instead
of wincing at an L&R-style tedious decline.
And goddammit if
Peter Murphy wasn’t ALSO excellent post-Bauhaus! Cascade
is my fave, followed by the strange and creaky Dust, but most of his solo stuff has been fairly quality work. And “Cuts You Up”? What a kick-ass fucking song….
And so I periodically
think I must be wrong, and I go back to check out some old Bauhaus, but no – they still leave me cold.
And, son of a bitch, I WANT to
like them! Oh well…..
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