I'm 42 my bro is 46 it was he i say he who got me intae this weird but magnificent band that sound is just dark but most beautiul i say beautiful,do i sound like fred elliot oot coronation st lol Happy new year pop pickers!;)
Tuesday nights 1982 - Eves Night Club Cheltenham - Bella Lugosi back to back with the Forest by the Cure - did clubbing ever get any better than that -- dj monk.
mellibelle said it all as far as Im concerned. Art and music and yes, classic goth. This was during my time and we were, I guess, "classic goth" but we were called "freaks" because of the black clothes, white makeup, blackened eyes, cutting edge hair, and I guess the stuff we did like climbing the park trees at midnight, dancing by ourselves(gasp!!! isn't that like, sacreligious or something?), driving 120 miles every weekend just to "dance"..sad comment about the small minded town I grew up in.
Found this on an album called mix of wierd stuff anyone know where I can find a copy of this album.was on tape in the 80s.other bands on the album were surf punks, unit 3 with venus,b52s and others.any help please and thanks my lovely ones ciao
I just wanted to say, sirrah, after a strangely and egregious charismatic day, that you offered me a bell tower Sir Alucard would have brandished his feather duster. Thanks, man; I may not leap off the Fremont Bridge, and that spritely Amy may not call ... but I will awake, at least. Best fucking Bauhaus vid ever.
This song is an absolute masterpiece, art down to the last detail.The play of light and shadow, the minimalistic, the movement and mimic of Peter, every note exactly at the point. Who found this song boring, understood nothing about good music and good composing.
I like New Order, but try as hard as he might, Bernard Sumner will never approach the lyrical depth and brilliance of Ian Curtis. Sumner knows this and that's why he has never tried to emulate Curtis. Curtis invested a lot of his inner turmoil in his songs that they were often cited as being akin to poetic suicide notes. You can't get any darker than songs like Atrocity Exhibition, 24 Hours and Heart and Soul. Sumner barely scratches the surface in his songwriting.
@eklektro68 Musically, Bauhuas takes the cake for the entire "dark" "macbre" sounds; which inspired a great band we know today as NIne inch nails. Ian was brilliant at wirting horrifying lyrics, at least that is my opinion which is subjective to begin with. However, Peter murphy and Bauhaus were the kings of goth rock in the 80's, Joy divison was a post punk group with great lyrics and average melodies.
@jazzhopin I think another band that inspired Trent Reznor was Skinny Puppy. I think their earlier releases were utterly disturbing and excellent in it's use of synths and samples to create mood and atmosphere.
Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the latter came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the latter came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
@eklektro68 Its hard to say if Bauhaus was influenced by them, they were around at almost the same time, but i agree with you, Joy Division was anything BUT average, lets just settleas the post punk genre in general is bad ass and was extremely influential
@hellchild65 It was about influence - not about likes or dislikes... Velvet Underground's minimalist style and Lou Reeds voice... To be more specific... Anyway they were the forefathers of Punk -- Bauhaus included...
@hellchild65 : Well, You're also right... But, for the record, VU started earlier (with Lou Reed)... The group's first paying gig is dated in 1965—$75 to play at Summit High School, New Jersey... The Stooges (initially "Psychedelic Stooges", with Iggy Pop) had their first gig in 1967 at a Halloween concert at their house... As you might know, back in the '60s a two years difference meant a lot in terms of musical innovation... Anyway, both VU and Stooges highly influenced Punk...
@jazzhopin Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the latter came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
@jazzhopin Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the former came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
Some punk wrote in and said he was into Goth chicks when this stuff started happening. These people may be a few years older than I am, but not much. Uranus - Pluto subgeneration. In truth, I did not discover this band in my teens. I was in my 20s before I heard even one of their songs, and only included more than Bela Lugosi's Dead in my early 40s. Funny how life is.
@dutchjoens I mean no disrespect, but are you serious? You think Bauhaus is dark? I am amazed. I adore them - they are a great live show band and their music is somber - but dark? Hmmm. I just don't see it. This song is but a tribute to the actor - and in my part of the country - was played a lot in discos and dance bars. If you want dark - try listening to D'espairsray "gothic" - it will curl your toes. LOL It's on youtube - go give it a listen.
@dutchjoens Maybe you're forgetting what it was really like to be young. Heavy eye liner and a black long coat would be enough. Dyed black hair and the aforementioned - definitely goth, especially if someone was actually sad. They might have called it New Romantics before it was called Goth, due to changes in the slang, but its still the same thing.
@sodabob King diamond, Danzig are metal. This is post punk. Not new wave. Early on Duran Duran was part of the new romantic movement, like Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet.
Bauhaus would be more aligned with The Birthday Party and The Virgin prunes. The Birthday Party is probably best exemplifies the music and movement.
@sodabob King diamond, Danzig are metal. This is post punk. Not new wave. Early on Duran Duran was part of the new romantic movement, like Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet.
Bauhaus would be more aligned with The Birthday Party and The Virgin prunes.
@J3LL3Y wtf...I can remember buying this when it came out...Death Rock? where the hell did you get that one? I cant ever remember anything back then called Death Rock...just art school post punk back then..mind you there was no Goth genre either..nobody called themselves that, not the Bauhaus, the Banshees, the Cure etc..that came later wither untalented bands like the Specimen and such
Goth? This ain't goth, this is new wave/punk. Dudes look like they'd fit right in with Duran Duran or The Cars, for Pete's sake. If these guys are goth, then I must have been also - I wore a black trench coat and had a mullet in the 80's, too! If you want early "goth," look up Mercyful Fate/King Diamond.
There can never be another band this dark? This is great stuff, but Danzig makes this look like the Sun in comparison. Even some of Johnny Cash's stuff is darker than this(e.g. "Hurt").
Goth? This ain't goth, this is new wave/punk. Dudes look like they'd fit right in with Duran Duran or The Cars, for Pete's sake. If these guys are goth, then I must have been also - I wore a black trench coat and had a mullet in the 80's, too!
If you want early "goth," look up Mercyful Fate/King Diamond.
There can never be another band this dark? This is great stuff, but Danzig makes this look like the Sun in comparison. Even some of Johnny Cash's stuff is darker than this(e.g. "Hurt").
It was called Gothic Death Punk... We were Death Punks.. Siouxie did come first, but they were avant garde punk.. Bauhaus was the first ones to claim the title... Robert Smith, while being touted the goth father (because he took it mainstream) was considered more post punk/new wave/ avant garde when the cure first started hitting the clubs.. Lol.. All these catagories really did matter.. We were all punks,but what clan did you belong to told a lot about who you were..
Yeah, those were regular 80's Goths....which was a contemporary re-hash of 18th or 18th century "stuff"....William Blake and too much laudenum resulted in the black and white vampire films followed by people who maybe were sober but not always comfortable...so here we have it....pale houseplants, school girls and men in make up....men too shy to dance and the women who date them...
@dutchjoens The early Christian Death w Rozz certainly vies for that honour as well. Only Theatre of Pain is still the darkest album I have ever heard.
two of the first and best post-punk goth bands like the cure or siouxsie and the banshees (the most important of this music style); but joy division in unknown pleasures have many song with a goth sounds(day of the lords,candidate,new dawn fades, i remember nothing) two great bands for ever
gah....how sometimes i wish to be in high school again...all adorned in black....and lying on my bedroom floor.....with bela lugosi's dead playing on my turntable.
Yes..This is the original postpunk!! Remember I had it first copied on a bad tape recorder...oh..any one remembers those crappy tdk 60min tapes that swayed like nothing else! :-) Even made this song even darker...lol
@fallriverequine Exactly! "death rock" we called it. Alt. Punk. Or GENIUS!! Damn, they seem sick of this song by this point.
Did anyone else see this old article about Courtney (fucking cunt) Love with a pic of her on the phone "requesting Bela Lugosi's Dead for the 800th time"? I was that fucking age then, she could go get tapes and see shows, she wasn't fucking 8 when this was coming out! Bitch!
I'm an 85 year old grandmother, I hate goth music and don't give a rootin tootin sht about trends but this reminds me going to the dime theatre in 1931 in my boyfriend's old Ford Model T and watching bela lugosi in his vampire flick in B&W his ghost was coming out of the screen
being goth isnt trendy for people my age... so go fuck yourself. and dont you dare compare us to emos. dont talk shit about subcultures that you know nothing about. especially considering you're a thirty year old who spends his time bashing young people on youtube
I think the trendy or not debate is daft because it depends on what side of the pond u live. & what town u live. for eg. back in the 80's (i'm 40) In city of Bath UK it was dead trendy to be Goth, 13 miles down the road my home town of Frome you looked Goth you'd have had your head kicked in for looking like a wierdo....So the debate is too vast with too many variables...
@dutchjoens Amen! There was NO SUCH THING as "Goth" when Bauhaus was around. These kids now ("Goth" & "Emo") they don't have a CLUE. We were just "freaks" cause we listened to "weird" music. Now it's trendy. Makes me feel old and sort of sad that what was unique is now the norm.
I'm glad to see the tired old argument about what is goth is still fucking kicking, like we didn't have to hear it a billion times over the last 30 years. Bauhaus has been cool for a long time, and this is absolutely not the norm these days... You'd never hear anything remotely close to this in the mainstream anymore.
Reading your profile though, you're 30, meaning Bauhaus is older than you. I'm sure you knew what it was like to be there, right?
i can see where you're coming from, but i think that saying "these kids now don't have a clue" is dismissing a lot of people who actually are trying to be a part of something that's unique and weird. i'm one of them. it's true, there's a lot of people who have taken this style and turned it into something "trendy" or "popular" and taken a lot of the meaning out if it. but there's still tons of kids, who are still considered "freaks," who identify as goth or emo that aren't far off from what you
are talking about. it's just got a name now. which maybe makes it less meaningful, i don't know. but there's still a culture based around bauhaus and similar artists, behind all of the "trendy goth" kids. we're just as hidden in the shadows as you were, and we still exist. and we still get called freaks and weirdos because of the music we listen to and the way we dress.
i only partly agree with what you say. you can still identify yourself as a "goth" today, and see it as a fashion/subculture/whatever you deem fitting. in the same way that one can identify as "hippie", "beatnik" or whatever else. but being a goth in the '80s or a hippie in the '60s was different. the world has changed, and the meaning of goth and hippie has changed. these cultures were a product of their times, and they had a meaning in their times.
maybe it is harsh to call the whole goth subculture a fashion trend, but the fact that the world changed has removed (or at least altered) the motivations and "raison d'etre" of the goth movement. i was a goth in the '80s, and obviously something (quite a lot actually!) of it has stayed in me. but since the early '90s i stopped identifying myself as a goth, simply because the world has changed and one needs to evolve (as i believe i did).
This was the 1st Bauhaus song I ever heard. It was played on the Princeton Univ. radio station. I dropped what I was doing & my mouth hit the floor. I thought it was the most amazing thing I EVER heard. Been in love with them ever since. Seeing them live when they did their reunion tour back in (97? 98?) was the thrill of my life. So surreal being front row. Peter is quite theatrical (as if we couldn't tell by his music).
See PM staring into the spotlight on 6:40? I as about 2 feet away from him, in one of two concerts I went to. The pupils of his eyes contracted so fast, so tiny they almost disappeared, turning his eyes to two blue disks.
Amazing show. Great music, great performers. I stood front-row, and there was an asshole beside me taking too many with-flash pictures. That is - only until the bass player got pissed off and kicked him hard with boot straight in camera and face. I was thinking - D-A-M-N!
I don't really identify as 'gothic' myself, but I can appreciate the poetic value of this song. It's so intriguing and it really challenges you to question weather grotesque can, in-fact, also be beautiful, whether death can also be life
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I NEED to fucking LAND on "Planet Peter Murphy" REALLY SOON and when I'm there I'll FUCK his BIG ROCKET so HARD til I BREAK it!!!... He can give me my MUPH-IX in the form of LIQUID WHITE PROTEIN til I'm completely OVERFLOWING with such PRECIOUS/ NUTRITIOUS NECTAR!!!....
Man, I would've fucking put LEASHES around Peter and Danny's NECKS back then to guarantee they wouldn't STRAY too far away!!!.... Fuck!!! look at those LUSCIOUS legs & ass that Danny had back then TAILOR-MADE PERFECTLY for the spandex he's wearing!!!.... Danny, at 52 you STILL look fucking VOLCANIC!!! Thank you for STAYING BEAUTIFUL for US fans!!!
así es como se ve un vampiro...
deathmurcielagos 5 days ago
Esto es demasiado genial!!!
TioOrwell 6 days ago
ESTA DE LUJOOOO
25071992julio 2 weeks ago
maravilloso me encanta de paris besos ensangrentados isabel
grau4813 1 month ago
Totally Class!
TubesnakeUK 1 month ago
who the fuck dislike this? they're dead.
notesinmyear 1 month ago
I'm 42 my bro is 46 it was he i say he who got me intae this weird but magnificent band that sound is just dark but most beautiul i say beautiful,do i sound like fred elliot oot coronation st lol Happy new year pop pickers!;)
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dark glitter yeh.let the leader come back.a return from the cold .from the media enforced undead.
macwhites 2 months ago
Tuesday nights 1982 - Eves Night Club Cheltenham - Bella Lugosi back to back with the Forest by the Cure - did clubbing ever get any better than that -- dj monk.
mrmrstarwars101 2 months ago
mellibelle said it all as far as Im concerned. Art and music and yes, classic goth. This was during my time and we were, I guess, "classic goth" but we were called "freaks" because of the black clothes, white makeup, blackened eyes, cutting edge hair, and I guess the stuff we did like climbing the park trees at midnight, dancing by ourselves(gasp!!! isn't that like, sacreligious or something?), driving 120 miles every weekend just to "dance"..sad comment about the small minded town I grew up in.
irishrooster66 2 months ago 2
@irishrooster66 sorta how I felt as a punk rocker, if you will. Love the music, but no matter the genre, society will pick us apart.
no1plantman 2 months ago
love this song... i could never get tired of listening to this. its classic goth.
mandesblack 2 months ago
this song is awesome live...
Masterball1214138 3 months ago
As far as I'm concerned, Bauhaus RE-INVENTED THE WHEEL!!!... This performance right here is PLENTY PROOF!!!...
petermurphreak 3 months ago in playlist Bauhaus- Mr. Beautiful
burial bossa nova
BoredxByron 3 months ago 4
Bands like the Horrors can only dream of being as good as this, amazing track
MarkCooperRunsEurope 3 months ago 3
I love this song I saw heard it on a replay of top of the pops!
missknivesandpens 4 months ago
@missknivesandpens same here!
MarkCooperRunsEurope 3 months ago
@MarkCooperRunsEurope yeah i wish more kids my age listened to nthis stuff instead of the charts crap now a days
missknivesandpens 3 months ago
I love this song, this band, all of it. Can't decide who I find more atractive, Daniel or Peter...
LadyKiralin 4 months ago 4
i flippin love this choon!!!! i saw their reunion tour about ten yrs ago,they opened with this.
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bethanylouise95 4 months ago
one of my favorite songs ever
frankenbat 4 months ago
fantastic band ahead of their time.loved just dancing in a trance to this in a smokey club in the 80s.
loulove321 4 months ago
Ganz großes Theater....
Baldschon 6 months ago
LUVED BAUHAUS SINCE I WAS YAY HIGH... WAY A-HEAD O THEIR TIME, ELECTRONIC, MASTERS OF THEIR OWN OROGINAL SOUND, WILL LAST THE TEST OF TIME...
CONRAVERSUTD 6 months ago
Oh btw absolute masterpiece
spankN4U2 6 months ago
Found this on an album called mix of wierd stuff anyone know where I can find a copy of this album.was on tape in the 80s.other bands on the album were surf punks, unit 3 with venus,b52s and others.any help please and thanks my lovely ones ciao
spankN4U2 6 months ago
@spankN4U2 It's was their first single. Will more than likely be on iTunes or Amazon MP3
dugalmr 6 months ago
abgefahren cool !!
zombwolf 7 months ago
wauww
ciceley100 7 months ago
Where has all the talented Musicians gone? R.I.P
Weston1968 7 months ago
I just wanted to say, sirrah, after a strangely and egregious charismatic day, that you offered me a bell tower Sir Alucard would have brandished his feather duster. Thanks, man; I may not leap off the Fremont Bridge, and that spritely Amy may not call ... but I will awake, at least. Best fucking Bauhaus vid ever.
Grauenstadt 7 months ago
I just wanna wish a Happy Birthday to the MOST BEAUTIFUL ALIEN sent down here from Planet **I-LOOKLIKEGOD**!!!...
petermurphreak 7 months ago 2
Thumbs can't go up high enough on this...even though my girlfriend talked though it and missed it. Some people...lmfao.
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samfrompasingtime 8 months ago in playlist Alternative 2 2
Incredibly cool!
TOBEYANNE 8 months ago
this is the essence and the feeling of a generation
mklinge160972 8 months ago
5:29 oh bela ... this song is pure genius
SweetSoulDevil 9 months ago
This song is an absolute masterpiece, art down to the last detail.The play of light and shadow, the minimalistic, the movement and mimic of Peter, every note exactly at the point. Who found this song boring, understood nothing about good music and good composing.
mellilibelle1 10 months ago 47
@mellilibelle1 very true
famousmonster315 4 months ago
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mellilibelle1 10 months ago
Can you imagine if this was produced and released right now?
It would be nothing short of stunning...!
We were lucky to live through those times.
StNige 10 months ago
I love the guitar
myreflection100 11 months ago
peter murphy is a force of nature
the drama the boots the lighting
lielow1ify 11 months ago
UK Decay people!!!!!
klucyev 1 year ago
Skinny Puppy were severely underated by the "populus" but not by the bands around
klucyev 1 year ago
best tunage... blast this in my car... white zombie bela lugosi 1931 rise from his coffin...
calloutinchains 1 year ago
amazing!!
alvarado12345678910 1 year ago
waaaaa...pasan los años y me pone los pelos de punta como cuando recien la escuche x 1ra.vez!!!!
andyazul02 1 year ago
saw bauhaus in the 80s at rock city nottingham awesome!!!!! this song takes you right back there lol
wendo43 1 year ago
I seen these a couple of time in Bristol back in the 80's. They certainly knew how to put a show on!
gabbsdad 1 year ago
I like New Order, but try as hard as he might, Bernard Sumner will never approach the lyrical depth and brilliance of Ian Curtis. Sumner knows this and that's why he has never tried to emulate Curtis. Curtis invested a lot of his inner turmoil in his songs that they were often cited as being akin to poetic suicide notes. You can't get any darker than songs like Atrocity Exhibition, 24 Hours and Heart and Soul. Sumner barely scratches the surface in his songwriting.
eklektro68 1 year ago
dark glam.
balerinauzicka 1 year ago 15
@waptek YESSSSSS!!!!!! ;)
alphasex5 1 year ago
EPIC!!
alphasex5 1 year ago
@dutchjoens
Disagree. Joy Division's songs were genuinely dark and terrifying. Bauhaus was merely theatre.
eklektro68 1 year ago
@eklektro68 I so disagree with you about joy division songs....New order stuff is darker then talking about having a seizure and I love joy division
skyiscrying53 1 year ago
@eklektro68 Musically, Bauhuas takes the cake for the entire "dark" "macbre" sounds; which inspired a great band we know today as NIne inch nails. Ian was brilliant at wirting horrifying lyrics, at least that is my opinion which is subjective to begin with. However, Peter murphy and Bauhaus were the kings of goth rock in the 80's, Joy divison was a post punk group with great lyrics and average melodies.
jazzhopin 1 year ago 5
@jazzhopin I think another band that inspired Trent Reznor was Skinny Puppy. I think their earlier releases were utterly disturbing and excellent in it's use of synths and samples to create mood and atmosphere.
edthewave 1 year ago
@jazzhopin
Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the latter came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
eklektro68 1 year ago
@jazzhopin
Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the latter came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
eklektro68 1 year ago
@eklektro68 Its hard to say if Bauhaus was influenced by them, they were around at almost the same time, but i agree with you, Joy Division was anything BUT average, lets just settleas the post punk genre in general is bad ass and was extremely influential
hellchild65 1 year ago 3
@hellchild65 Influnce? Try Velvet Underground...
Wobble2009 9 months ago
@Wobble2009 i dont care too much for them, but i enjoy Lou Reed solo material
hellchild65 9 months ago
@hellchild65 It was about influence - not about likes or dislikes... Velvet Underground's minimalist style and Lou Reeds voice... To be more specific... Anyway they were the forefathers of Punk -- Bauhaus included...
Wobble2009 9 months ago
@Wobble2009 I thought Iggy and the Stooges were considered the godfathers of punk?
hellchild65 9 months ago
@hellchild65 : Well, You're also right... But, for the record, VU started earlier (with Lou Reed)... The group's first paying gig is dated in 1965—$75 to play at Summit High School, New Jersey... The Stooges (initially "Psychedelic Stooges", with Iggy Pop) had their first gig in 1967 at a Halloween concert at their house... As you might know, back in the '60s a two years difference meant a lot in terms of musical innovation... Anyway, both VU and Stooges highly influenced Punk...
Wobble2009 9 months ago
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@jazzhopin Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the latter came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
eklektro68 1 year ago
@jazzhopin Average melodies? Yah, right! JD's melodies were so "average" that NIN were inspired to cover their "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow. It can be argued that Bauhaus themselves were influenced by Joy Division since the former came in the wake of Joy Division. Joy Division has also been credited for influencing bands like the Comsat Angels, The Cure and U2, and more recently Bloc Party, The Editors and Interpol. Look up "Joy Division" in Wikipedia.
eklektro68 1 year ago
5:40 - 6:22 the best
lucas09993 1 year ago
Some punk wrote in and said he was into Goth chicks when this stuff started happening. These people may be a few years older than I am, but not much. Uranus - Pluto subgeneration. In truth, I did not discover this band in my teens. I was in my 20s before I heard even one of their songs, and only included more than Bela Lugosi's Dead in my early 40s. Funny how life is.
MiriamSPia 1 year ago
@dutchjoens I mean no disrespect, but are you serious? You think Bauhaus is dark? I am amazed. I adore them - they are a great live show band and their music is somber - but dark? Hmmm. I just don't see it. This song is but a tribute to the actor - and in my part of the country - was played a lot in discos and dance bars. If you want dark - try listening to D'espairsray "gothic" - it will curl your toes. LOL It's on youtube - go give it a listen.
Lonestarry 1 year ago
@dutchjoens Maybe you're forgetting what it was really like to be young. Heavy eye liner and a black long coat would be enough. Dyed black hair and the aforementioned - definitely goth, especially if someone was actually sad. They might have called it New Romantics before it was called Goth, due to changes in the slang, but its still the same thing.
MiriamSPia 1 year ago
Nobody can put on a show like that in today's age......that is sad.......I miss the real life touch of music and the real people who sang them.....
MrKos1995 1 year ago
I'll comment on my own posting. I'd forgotten exactly how boring they were!!!!!!
MrPhilNotts 1 year ago
@sodabob King diamond, Danzig are metal. This is post punk. Not new wave. Early on Duran Duran was part of the new romantic movement, like Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet.
Bauhaus would be more aligned with The Birthday Party and The Virgin prunes. The Birthday Party is probably best exemplifies the music and movement.
MegaP1972 1 year ago
@sodabob King diamond, Danzig are metal. This is post punk. Not new wave. Early on Duran Duran was part of the new romantic movement, like Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet.
Bauhaus would be more aligned with The Birthday Party and The Virgin prunes.
MegaP1972 1 year ago
First of all it's not goth it's Death Rock as it was in the 80's and always will be. This is Death Rocks theme song....... Bauhaus paved the way
J3LL3Y 1 year ago
@J3LL3Y wtf...I can remember buying this when it came out...Death Rock? where the hell did you get that one? I cant ever remember anything back then called Death Rock...just art school post punk back then..mind you there was no Goth genre either..nobody called themselves that, not the Bauhaus, the Banshees, the Cure etc..that came later wither untalented bands like the Specimen and such
matclarence 1 year ago 3
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matclarence 1 year ago
Goth? This ain't goth, this is new wave/punk. Dudes look like they'd fit right in with Duran Duran or The Cars, for Pete's sake. If these guys are goth, then I must have been also - I wore a black trench coat and had a mullet in the 80's, too! If you want early "goth," look up Mercyful Fate/King Diamond.
There can never be another band this dark? This is great stuff, but Danzig makes this look like the Sun in comparison. Even some of Johnny Cash's stuff is darker than this(e.g. "Hurt").
sodabob 1 year ago
Goth? This ain't goth, this is new wave/punk. Dudes look like they'd fit right in with Duran Duran or The Cars, for Pete's sake. If these guys are goth, then I must have been also - I wore a black trench coat and had a mullet in the 80's, too!
If you want early "goth," look up Mercyful Fate/King Diamond.
There can never be another band this dark? This is great stuff, but Danzig makes this look like the Sun in comparison. Even some of Johnny Cash's stuff is darker than this(e.g. "Hurt").
sodabob 1 year ago
Wonderful... The Master of Batcave.........
Hecategoth 1 year ago
It was called Gothic Death Punk... We were Death Punks.. Siouxie did come first, but they were avant garde punk.. Bauhaus was the first ones to claim the title... Robert Smith, while being touted the goth father (because he took it mainstream) was considered more post punk/new wave/ avant garde when the cure first started hitting the clubs.. Lol.. All these catagories really did matter.. We were all punks,but what clan did you belong to told a lot about who you were..
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JetstormsBaby 1 year ago
@dutchjoens Dutch, yes it was. Robert Smith of the Cure is considered the god father of Goth. EMO is an off shoot of Goth I think.
swaggs 1 year ago
@swaggs I think you are probably right.
MiriamSPia 1 year ago
shadow of light is Masterpiece of rock videos. most beautiful and artistic. darker than the dark and sexy.
gogokellyluv 1 year ago 2
@gogokellyluv you really think so?
MiriamSPia 1 year ago
@MiriamSPia yes! i do (>w<)v
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gogokellyluv 1 year ago
Yeah, those were regular 80's Goths....which was a contemporary re-hash of 18th or 18th century "stuff"....William Blake and too much laudenum resulted in the black and white vampire films followed by people who maybe were sober but not always comfortable...so here we have it....pale houseplants, school girls and men in make up....men too shy to dance and the women who date them...
MiriamSPia 1 year ago
@dutchjoens Bauhaus was considered the first goth rock group, but to me they were pure goth.
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swaggs 1 year ago
lovin' the rift
mistyChacha 1 year ago
what a band what a time . I pity the youth of today with shite like Mark Ronson and all the rest of the garbarge flogged to them as "indie"
emile235 1 year ago 2
In yo' faces Sarkozy & Hortefeux !
GuyLiguili 1 year ago
@dutchjoens The early Christian Death w Rozz certainly vies for that honour as well. Only Theatre of Pain is still the darkest album I have ever heard.
erikhai1 1 year ago
two of the first and best post-punk goth bands like the cure or siouxsie and the banshees (the most important of this music style); but joy division in unknown pleasures have many song with a goth sounds(day of the lords,candidate,new dawn fades, i remember nothing) two great bands for ever
joydivisionbauhaus 1 year ago
@dutchjoens hahah. you're at the wind-up or talking absolute rubbish. JD make this lot sound like the monkees
bing1e 1 year ago
@dutchjoens Joy Division was also a nice one.
Together with bauhaus my all time fav music
shrike69er 1 year ago
gah....how sometimes i wish to be in high school again...all adorned in black....and lying on my bedroom floor.....with bela lugosi's dead playing on my turntable.
ptitsaholle 1 year ago 2
Just remember that without the Punk movement Goth would not have happened........
Viva La Punk........(80's Punk that is....)
Abenankh 1 year ago
Yes..This is the original postpunk!! Remember I had it first copied on a bad tape recorder...oh..any one remembers those crappy tdk 60min tapes that swayed like nothing else! :-) Even made this song even darker...lol
I still have the LP´s safly stored!
SatorIICodex 1 year ago 3
Yeah This is the tunes!!!!!!!Enjoy you unworthy idiots who did not live the good days!
gobearcubies 1 year ago
guaranteed to pack the dancefloor in the Old Hall in my day!
fatandim 1 year ago
Fanfreakingtastic
MrsWitchqueen 1 year ago
Hace poco empecé a escuchar Bauhaus...
La verdad lo de Daniel Ash es muy interesante, para mí expandió las posibilidades sonoras de la guitarra... Como sea, me gusta su sonido...
Y la voz de Peter... bue, está todo dicho :)
Pablito73X 1 year ago
Bauhaus opening up for NIN... I'm going to guess that even Trent would have thought that was the wrong way around.
jamesmarshall67 1 year ago 41
@jamesmarshall67 Mmm... I think it's O.K., if you want my personal opinion. - Trent
19torento 10 months ago
@jamesmarshall67 WHAT is NIN ?
gamesplaystation1 4 months ago
@gamesplaystation1 google it (i hate NIN, but still, don't ask questions when you have google)
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sickid138 1 year ago
Saw them open up for NIN and they were amazing.
ninmachine109 1 year ago
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I like Bauhaus's music but their shows seem boring and dull!!! Shock rock shows is where it's at!
spookymt1 1 year ago
@spookymt1 I think that may depend on the quantity and quality and mix of your "supplements" and the headspace they create.
howlongwasIoutfor 1 year ago
@spookymt1 You'd be surprised to see the energy and theatrics of their other live performances. This is obviously a mellower song.
dante4live 1 year ago
Goth BEFORE there was 'Goth'
fallriverequine 1 year ago 5
@fallriverequine Exactly! "death rock" we called it. Alt. Punk. Or GENIUS!! Damn, they seem sick of this song by this point.
Did anyone else see this old article about Courtney (fucking cunt) Love with a pic of her on the phone "requesting Bela Lugosi's Dead for the 800th time"? I was that fucking age then, she could go get tapes and see shows, she wasn't fucking 8 when this was coming out! Bitch!
Eh, I got robbed, YT making up for it.
LexeconKiddo 1 year ago
This Song is a Masterpiece!!!
MrRan2000 1 year ago 67
Graveyard Institution
graveyardinstitution 1 year ago
"Alone in a darkened room..."
Scary.
davandk 1 year ago
I swear when PM was young he is the twin of Wayne Hoffman the mentalist.
vampcat24 1 year ago
very gloomy
handel1111 1 year ago 3
I'm an 85 year old grandmother, I hate goth music and don't give a rootin tootin sht about trends but this reminds me going to the dime theatre in 1931 in my boyfriend's old Ford Model T and watching bela lugosi in his vampire flick in B&W his ghost was coming out of the screen
calloutinchains 2 years ago
That would mean that when you were six years old, you had a boyfriend old enough to drive a Model T.
Dodgy!
quasarsphere 2 years ago 6
@quasarsphere lol.......
inconceivabledark 1 year ago
i doubt you are 85 and anyway what kinda grandma even knows the meaning of the word youtube
birinbirinbirin 2 years ago 2
Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins the three other PRINCES in Bauhaus surroundind the MOST beautiful COUNT in the WHOLE FUCKING UNIVERSE!!!!
petermurphreak 2 years ago 7
me encanta
polly65ful 2 years ago
Seeing them live on Halloween is still one of my best memories ever!!
missliquideyeliner 2 years ago 4
i was at this gig. all them years a go wow 1982 at the old vic.its still the best gig i have been to. :0)
paynebert 2 years ago
Dan Ash and Kevin Haskin's do great job of getting reggae(DUB) echoe effects down live.
giacblanc 2 years ago
That's what I liked about the live mix, seemed to have more Dub echoes than the studio version, & the guitar feed back!!
Output9 2 years ago 2
being goth isnt trendy for people my age... so go fuck yourself. and dont you dare compare us to emos. dont talk shit about subcultures that you know nothing about. especially considering you're a thirty year old who spends his time bashing young people on youtube
yamsidbooker 2 years ago
I think the trendy or not debate is daft because it depends on what side of the pond u live. & what town u live. for eg. back in the 80's (i'm 40) In city of Bath UK it was dead trendy to be Goth, 13 miles down the road my home town of Frome you looked Goth you'd have had your head kicked in for looking like a wierdo....So the debate is too vast with too many variables...
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yamsidbooker 2 years ago
@dutchjoens Amen! There was NO SUCH THING as "Goth" when Bauhaus was around. These kids now ("Goth" & "Emo") they don't have a CLUE. We were just "freaks" cause we listened to "weird" music. Now it's trendy. Makes me feel old and sort of sad that what was unique is now the norm.
eeyoreannie 2 years ago 5
I'm glad to see the tired old argument about what is goth is still fucking kicking, like we didn't have to hear it a billion times over the last 30 years. Bauhaus has been cool for a long time, and this is absolutely not the norm these days... You'd never hear anything remotely close to this in the mainstream anymore.
Reading your profile though, you're 30, meaning Bauhaus is older than you. I'm sure you knew what it was like to be there, right?
megalman1 2 years ago 3
i can see where you're coming from, but i think that saying "these kids now don't have a clue" is dismissing a lot of people who actually are trying to be a part of something that's unique and weird. i'm one of them. it's true, there's a lot of people who have taken this style and turned it into something "trendy" or "popular" and taken a lot of the meaning out if it. but there's still tons of kids, who are still considered "freaks," who identify as goth or emo that aren't far off from what you
catlover1001 2 years ago 2
are talking about. it's just got a name now. which maybe makes it less meaningful, i don't know. but there's still a culture based around bauhaus and similar artists, behind all of the "trendy goth" kids. we're just as hidden in the shadows as you were, and we still exist. and we still get called freaks and weirdos because of the music we listen to and the way we dress.
much respect,
mattie. x
catlover1001 2 years ago 2
i only partly agree with what you say. you can still identify yourself as a "goth" today, and see it as a fashion/subculture/whatever you deem fitting. in the same way that one can identify as "hippie", "beatnik" or whatever else. but being a goth in the '80s or a hippie in the '60s was different. the world has changed, and the meaning of goth and hippie has changed. these cultures were a product of their times, and they had a meaning in their times.
fradiavolo11 1 year ago 6
maybe it is harsh to call the whole goth subculture a fashion trend, but the fact that the world changed has removed (or at least altered) the motivations and "raison d'etre" of the goth movement. i was a goth in the '80s, and obviously something (quite a lot actually!) of it has stayed in me. but since the early '90s i stopped identifying myself as a goth, simply because the world has changed and one needs to evolve (as i believe i did).
fradiavolo11 1 year ago
This was the 1st Bauhaus song I ever heard. It was played on the Princeton Univ. radio station. I dropped what I was doing & my mouth hit the floor. I thought it was the most amazing thing I EVER heard. Been in love with them ever since. Seeing them live when they did their reunion tour back in (97? 98?) was the thrill of my life. So surreal being front row. Peter is quite theatrical (as if we couldn't tell by his music).
eeyoreannie 2 years ago
See PM staring into the spotlight on 6:40? I as about 2 feet away from him, in one of two concerts I went to. The pupils of his eyes contracted so fast, so tiny they almost disappeared, turning his eyes to two blue disks.
Amazing show. Great music, great performers. I stood front-row, and there was an asshole beside me taking too many with-flash pictures. That is - only until the bass player got pissed off and kicked him hard with boot straight in camera and face. I was thinking - D-A-M-N!
HypnosisCourses 2 years ago
goth as fuck. bad ass. peter murphy's sexy too... :)
catlover1001 2 years ago 3
Funny, the first I had ever heard this song was at a Ramones show. They were playing it between sets. That had to be about 1985 or so.
Commonsenseify 2 years ago 3
I don't really identify as 'gothic' myself, but I can appreciate the poetic value of this song. It's so intriguing and it really challenges you to question weather grotesque can, in-fact, also be beautiful, whether death can also be life
kimmariebimmarie 2 years ago 3
I love the way that P.M. and Bauhaus can sing us about the darkness... it's an essencial part of the human being.
aruheria 2 years ago 4
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I NEED to fucking LAND on "Planet Peter Murphy" REALLY SOON and when I'm there I'll FUCK his BIG ROCKET so HARD til I BREAK it!!!... He can give me my MUPH-IX in the form of LIQUID WHITE PROTEIN til I'm completely OVERFLOWING with such PRECIOUS/ NUTRITIOUS NECTAR!!!....
petermurphreak 2 years ago
why the tag of glam????
Rauddel 2 years ago
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fuck. I wish I had a bloody lassie so we could listen to them and share some gothic love and other stuff.....
I feel lonely .. maybe just as Bella does.. who knows!
salsollo 2 years ago
Bloody lassie oh whatever could you mean? :)
Lunara16 2 years ago
undead undead undead
heavydutydudes 2 years ago 2
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Reminds me of SNL's Goth Talk with the Prince of Sorrows.
ItsAmadWorld2 2 years ago
OF COURSE IT DOES, THIS SHITS GOTH AS FUCK SON. but seriously, that skit was a parody of the goth scene.
lazirusien 2 years ago
HEAVY TUNE YEAH RIGHT EH
heavydutydudes 2 years ago
Man, I would've fucking put LEASHES around Peter and Danny's NECKS back then to guarantee they wouldn't STRAY too far away!!!.... Fuck!!! look at those LUSCIOUS legs & ass that Danny had back then TAILOR-MADE PERFECTLY for the spandex he's wearing!!!.... Danny, at 52 you STILL look fucking VOLCANIC!!! Thank you for STAYING BEAUTIFUL for US fans!!!
petermurphreak 2 years ago
wow thats deep lol
irock5 2 years ago
People like you make me fucking sick. Get a life, whore.
megalman1 2 years ago
SUCK MY DICK, CLOSET FUCK!!!!...
petermurphreak 2 years ago
Adamnorten: Would that he could be a 400 year old vampire so that he could have stayed this excuisitely gorgeous forever.
sogholi 2 years ago
What talent.
ThingsWorthKnowing 2 years ago 6
my god...i was there...and now looking back, the overt over theatricality and campness of it all...still....good for its time?
MrMox46 2 years ago 2
Peter is fucking sexy !
fasadacul 2 years ago 3
Peter is fucking sexy AND BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE IT.
IsabelDhampir82 2 years ago
Peter Murphy: You were BORN to BE fucking ADORED!!! You make me CREAM like a fucking "DAIRY FARM" every time you come on the screen!!!
petermurphreak 2 years ago 3
Peter Murphy is really a 400 year old vampire!
adamnorten 2 years ago 7
I have this in dvd, amazing.
EmicraniaMonAmour 2 years ago