March 3, 2009
A Simple Test
Without Googling or anything, what do you know about the band Bauhaus?
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Early Goth. I think.
Nothing but the name.
Late 80′s band
Songs I remember: Bella Legosi’sDead
Peter Murphy was their singer.
Played Bela Lugosi’s Dead.
There’s a giant poster of them on my girlfriend’s wall.
That last one isn’t googlable.
…euro chics who wanted to pretend to drink my blood while we fucked. then i went back to asia and lost track of them.
it was pretty weird, actually; everywhere in europe, at all the dance (acid) clubs, the music was all ABBA. then, almost overnight it was this weird-ass vamire shit.
Andrew Simone and I were briefly talking about East Coast/ West Coast as a sort of divide for knowing about things, in particular, music. Since I sort of casually referenced Bauhaus earlier today in conversation, It just got me to thinking about the things I think valid cultural lexicon vs. the things that are not at all.
It was largely an excuse to justify my ignorance, but now I beginning to think it has some merit.
Before reading other comments.
1. That thin Peter character who had a solo career, and
2. Bela Legosi’s dead.
From the west coast:
Had a Bauhaus sticker on my VW Scirocco in highschool, below my hologram skull sticker that someone ripped off.
Bela Legosi’s Dead… like that song but think some of Peter Murphy’s other music is possibly better. I think it’s one of those songs that if you were the right age at the right time when you heard it, you dug it.
Saw them play at Coachella a couple years ago after the sun went down and the whole mood of the place changed to considerably darker. Peter Murphy sang the whole song hanging upside-down from the scaffolding. It was bizarre but cool.
The drummer was at a small show I was at on Sunday. His daughter was playing with the band we were there to see, so that’s why, but still. He had that unmistakeable British look about him.
I don’t remember much about them other than the fact that Bela Legosi’s Dead was released in August 1979 as I was getting married – I’m assuming I was pre-occupied.
The boyfriend was into it. He was also into Front 242. I didn’t complain the first time I heard it and had to live with its constant drone for two years.
the had an album, the cover art was peter murphy holding a cymbal in front of his face.
they had a song called “kick in the eye”.
murphy went on to a solo career the rest went on to form “love and rockets”.
they were on the beggars banquet label.
I remember being baffled by their choice of name. Aesthetic mismatch, I said to my smart-ass self.
Droplet: Front 242… I had a brief liking for them and Skinny Puppy but they are pretty tough to listen to. Mostly liked them while angry and driving way too fast…
I heard Bela Legosi’s Dead the first time at a party circa 1984 or 5. One of my visual merchandiser friends had asked me to stop by. It was an artsy group. Most everyone was pale and wearing black. Not so many piercings or tattoos as I recall. It was 23 years ago. There were six or seven of us sitting around. The TV in the corner of the apartment was on a “snow” channel and some artist, perhaps the host, had cut out of paper a paper doll silhouette of a man and a dog. Glued them to the center of the screen. The dog was like a head with pointy legs. Maybe the man had pointy legs, too. Maybe so did the host, I don’t remember. I remember staring at the screen like “Golden Girls” was on. I don’t remember anyone talking. I think I had a beer. I don’t recall drugs being passed around. I think there was some incense burning. Or maybe it was the cigarette smoke. We were all smoking. I stopped by before going to see if I could “get lucky” at “the bar.” If true to form, I would have been wearing a flannel shirt and jeans. Seems like I had a pair of “saddle bucks” around that time. I might have been wearing those, too. I remember Bela Legosi’s Dead coming on the stereo. Someone might have made a comment about it. Maybe someone mentioned Bauhaus. Maybe someone else mentioned Nina Hagen. “We are GO-ing to an-other DIS-CO.” After about an hour, I thanked my host. Left. Don’t remember if I got lucky that night or not.
Rick. Oh, Rick.
I was there, you know. Maybe not that night. But some other night.
I was pretty sure that was you. (to quote Cooper, “Hehehe.”)
Dave said “skinny puppy.” Deep in the back where my nasal passages touch my brain, I have a ghost of the smell, bar-funked carpet and Drakkar Noir and Polo with an occasional whiff of Lagerfeld. If anyone says http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xa79n1CdKY ” rel=”nofollow”> Small Town Boy, I’ll just lose it.
Is this the part where I get all emotional about Klaus Nomi?
I think it is, yes.
I think maybe I do that every few years or so.
FABulous!
English. Was there a member named Martin something?
(I tried not to look at the other comments before typing this.)
Rick, I promise not to say Small Town Boy, but, is it ok to say Jimmy Somerville? I remember about the same time as the song that shall not be mentioned was big, I was at Heathrow airport and heard him paged, shortly followed by this tiny man brushing by – my, he is small!
Small, town boy.
I almost used Jimmy Somerville as the title to the link instead of the title of the song we won’t mention.
Rick, I shall never mention that song – however I did spend an extended period in the bathroom this morning trying to hit those notes. Not something I would recommend for gentleman of a certain age, it hurts.
Also, Daniel Ash and David J went on to be the hilarious Tones on Tail and the fantastic Love and Rockets.
1. When I was in high school, I got my dad a Bauhaus T-shirt—white head logo on black shirt. He loved it, and it became one of his dressy T-shirts that he would wear (with a blazer, of course) to art openings or cocktail parties or dinners. He wore it until it faded and was no longer dressy, at which point I may have replaced it with another, identical, shirt. Neither of us had ever heard the band, though I knew there was one because I’d gotten the shirt at Rocks in Your Head, my local record store (remember vinyl records?). I got Dad other band shirts after that, but none was as successful as the Bauhaus tee.
2. In college, I had these two friends who were a year ahead of me and much cooler, and they listened to music I hadn’t heard yet, like Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Tones on Tail, and Love and Rockets, as well as a lot of Siouxsie and the Banshees, which I had heard a bit of on WLIR. I taped a bunch of records off each of them—remember cassette tapes?—and bought a few of my own. I don’t think I ever heard goth used to refer to anything other than barbarian invaders, architecture, or typefaces until years after I graduated. Or, if I had heard it, I didn’t know that that was the aesthetic these two friends were rocking.
i’ve been listening to bauhaus for a while now. i’m really into front man Peter Murphy’s solo stuff. he’s got a showcase at SXSW this year on the 19th at Elysium. i’m bummed i can’t make it this year.
i heard he has a new album coming out soon too… i think this show is a promo event for it.