Bauhaus- Exquisite Corpse

[myfullromance]

aaaaaaah i discovered this band two weeeks ago, and now I NEED to get to know more of their music..

[lovePaNiCaTtHeDiScO8]

Ah, these children of the night, what music they make!

[mistomen]

Even Peter Murphy has said it was Siouxsie and the Banshees who were the first band that could clearly wear the goth label. Just to make this clear: Morons who don't know the history of music should refrain from commenting like a big mouth know-it-all.

[Spankabuttux]

@mistomen "who could clearly wear the goth label". If this is directed at me, and if you are saying SATB are the first ever goth band, you are way off.

[Loldeadchildren]

Great name for a death/thrash metal band.

[killerbacteria1]

one of my favorite sides of any album~forever~

[pinksummers]

these guys are going to hell, and i got front row tickets YAY.

[hitohiso]

空は消え、人類は躍る。

[trendydelquendy]

Several of my kid's toys utter "Life is but a dream". It does seem the most profound utterance I've ever heard.

[consonants]

lol You would even argue with Peter Murphy about what is goth. That's funny, but have you listened to tmwstw? You need to give Bowie respect where it is due, that's all I am getting at. I did get to see them live on their reunion tour, so aside everything else, in your face. ;p

[Thanatos989]

The beginning is a bit dub influenced too

[GenoClown]

This is a comment. You are reading this.

[bryngOneOn]

these guys do what they want to don't they, all about the art and energy. was watchin some docu on songwriting and this guy goes - beyonce walks in while i'm writing and says do that bit again, yeah, the fans will lap that riff up. two extremes and aims there, some artists in it for the art some for the money, (Curious are bauhaus more famous now than then? i'm guessin more respected anyway)

[kincaide67]

Go back a few years before punk...1967-68...this is Beatles White Album era experimentalism...with a bit more melody. Perhaps avante-garde punk or something. But very recalling of White Album jamming...

[xXxZOMBi3KiLL3RxXx]

why do people say this is for goths?

[Spankabuttux]

@xXxZOMBi3KiLL3RxXx Bauhaus released what is considered by many to be the first ever Goth song, "Bela Lugosi's Dead"in (I think) 1979. Afterwards they experimented (this is from their third album), but goths have always loved them, in much the same way as The Cure aren't Goth, but loads of goths like them.

[Spankabuttux]

@Spankabuttux Just to make it clear; if any band is Goth it is Bauhaus. There is no connection to The Cure in that way, as Bauhaus instigated the first wave of Goth, the second being The Sisters Of Mercy/Mission era from about 1985.

[shamelessfootfucker]

@Spankabuttux The cure sucks balls except for their first album. Check out Theatre of Ice thats pure deathrock. Probably the greatest deathrock peice though is the early reacordings ablum by Mephisto Walz. Better than Christain Death.

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux Actually Bowie had managed a "goth" sound before Bauhaus and they are very influenced by Bowie.

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants Please link to Bowie's "goth" stuff. I am fully aware of their influences.

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux Check out The Man Who Sold The World album dawg.

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux Yeah, that's what I thought. Apparently you aren't fully aware of their influences, fool. Never question me again UK boy.

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants My my, it appears I have discovered yet another webtwat. Next time wait more than a few hours to assume someone has no answer, I have a life. 'The man Who Sold the World' is not Goth. I say again- the Goth movement began with Bauhaus in 1979. I won't call you US boy as I am aware that not all people from one country are the same. That's called racism isn't it?

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux You are just some psuedo-intellect that likes to smell his own farts is what I am getting out of you. Yes, Peter Murphy even cites it being the first "goth" album. You can google it or whatever you like, I am right, you are wrong. And that is hardly racist.. and you are right not to call me US boy, that's US MAN to you.

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants I think you mean 'pseudo-intellectual', incidentally I do endeavour to smell my own farts, is that wrong? And in terms of your posturing, I think we can all agree you are probably a 5'7 weakling with a tiny withered dick. And your dick has a little mouth that keeps shouting "I AM A TINY WITHERED DICK", and your arse, when not whistling, shouts "Hey all available dirty boys, please defile me", while your mouth fills up with sailor juice. Amirite, US MAN?.

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux looooolllll I bet you were getting rock hard over writing that.. I would probably strangle you with your dirty underwear son. I think you are just mad because you can't admit defeat in the matter of the fact of me being correct. COME@MEBRO

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants Great way of not denying any of it...we are all (I assume) ready to accept that you are homosexual, all we need is for you to admit it. There is nothing wrong with being gay, but there is something wrong with being gay and denying it...

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux Damn dude you really think you told me off? Why would I need to deny any accusation like that from some random cheese dick? Best part of it all is this "we" you speak of, like you have all of youtube backing you on this. All that matters is that you shouldn't be posting comments about a band like you are hot shit if you can not completely back it up. Grow up, doucher.

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants Did "(I assume)" not register with your lazy eyes? Does your desperate need to be seen as a US MAN mean that you have a need to give rather than receive? Or is that a clever feint to the fact you are not the gay man you are desperate not to appear as?

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux You are an idiot or the worst troll ever. You even get your own words mixed up and I am starting to assume that you might be the closet queer in this situation. You try to sound more intelligent than you are and are relentless on homosexual remarks.. Did your Uncle Winston put his scone in your no-no zone when you were a child or what? OH MY SCONE.. MY BLOODY SCONE

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux lol I bet your favorite jam is pet shop boys - go west

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants Calm down...two posts, neither of which enlighten us...I love most Americans, I really do. You, on the other hand, are embarrassing yourself and your fellow countrymen. Here's an idea: shut up.

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux Okay, how many Americans do you actually know, tough guy? lol You act like you run this page, for someone who barely knows his shit about Bauhaus.

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants Says the guy who thinks 'The Man Who Sold The World' is a goth album. That is the only reason you don't like me; I showed you up as wrong. That's it. YOU were the one acting the big 'I am'. Your accusations are baseless, and unless you introduce a point to your argument, I won't answer.

[consonants]

@Spankabuttux Look man, I doubt you have even listened to that album entirely to even know what to think about it. spin.com/articles/tough-questi­ons-peter-murphy you can read for yourself, that maybe at it's time it wasn't considered goth, but from the man you say was the very inventor of goth says that he felt that it was the first goth album. That album is pretty dark and maybe you should listen to it or if you have already give it a better and more thorough listen.

[Spankabuttux]

@consonants 1979- The first Goth single is released, it is "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus. If Peter Murphy wants to say in 2011 that a Bowie album was goth fair enough, but if he says TMWSTW is Goth he is obviously wrong.He is obviously wrong, there was nothing truly gothic in music until Bauhaus.

[BlackSabbathory]

@Spankabuttux Hey, I'm 5'7" and I have a tiny dick...

[Spankabuttux]

@BlackSabbathory Yeah, but it isn't withered though, is it?

[corwinfreak19]

this doesn't sound like the horrors- excellent choice at all.........

[petermurphreak]

A fucking MASTERPIECE!!!...

[MrsChaosBitch]

Don't care what you guys think but I find this song briliant. actualy I like the reggea part

[cheeto161]

what the fuck is this

[jjamo5]

@cheeto161 Classic Tune! Thats what :)

[Spankabuttux]

I always associate this song with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, why I don't know.

[Spankabuttux]

The tape version of the album continues with an old man saying (and I am paraphrasing) " My baby...how big you'll be in a very short while; you'll be all grown up and you won't want your daddy then, will you darling...oh I wish you could be my baby all the time...I wonder what the future holds." Actually that may not be paraphrasing, that is exactly how I remember it. I'll just press 'Post' anyway.

[penandwhiteout]

is this song really an exquisite corpse or just a random mashup?

[Spankabuttux]

@penandwhiteout I very much doubt that it is a genuine 'exquisite corpse' in the French sense, I assume they just liked the phrase.

[SilentIvo]

@Spankabuttux I think the only thing the parts of the song have in common is the beat. They settled a beat and then each made a piece of their own with that beat as the unifying element. The last part of the song is a union of the different parts.

They have another exquisite corpse track which is the one with their names in the title, and it's the same thing, same beat underneath, so yeah, it's a proper exquisite corpse.

[SuperAfterforever]

I make the earth fall apart. sounds bueno!!!!!!!!!

[heliogabala]

do it yourself, and do it realistic, sur-realistic

[halfcabdisaster7]

I think if I start a band I would expand each of these into full songs.

[leonardotube]

@halfcabdisaster7

What a fantastic idea!

[halfcabdisaster7]

@leonardotube Why thank you!

[evan9851]

what they left out at 6:11 my baby how big you'll be in a very little while,you'll be going to school,and you won't want your daddy then will you darling.i wish you could be my baby all the time.i wonder what the future holds?

[maiuslover]

bauhaus and joy division were my music in the trip along London *_*

[peetrwilson]

"The Skies Gone Out" is Bauhaus masterpiece album, In my opinion.

[halfcabdisaster7]

@peetrwilson Ha ha, I think that was the album that had the least involvement from Peter Murphy because he was ill. I have to agree with you though.

[GirlchildAqlovv]

I love this song so much <3

I'm so glad I found it. Thanks for posting :)

[MarsionLove]

Hmm, I've heard better bauhaus. I prefer their darker toned music, but that's just me...

[olmecbones]

I first heard this song when I was eight in 82'. I didn't even know what reggae was. It was the coolest song I ever heard. For me, if the reggae wasn't in this song, it wouldn't be this song.

And the outro is missing on this video.

[WoodRatGirl]

This version is not complete, so I'm going to go and listen to de617's version.

[CharlesXavierr]

Bauhaus is perfect when you are on a road trip at night haha

[thisisthejohnshow]

@CharlesXavierr My father would always play their CDs when me and him went on longer trips. Never with my mom though, she hates it.

[CharlesXavierr]

@thisisthejohnshow SAME way with my father, sometimes when id use his car id see he would be listening to it when he was at work. But my mother doesn't listen to anything that doesn't look "normal"

[Spankabuttux]

@CharlesXavierr Bauhaus ARE perfect, they are a band. I get the feeling anyone who refers to a band as a thing is self-conciously doing so; does this appear cool? if so it is sad. A band is a bunch of people. Would you say "The Killers is touring"?, no you wouldn't, it sounds fucking stupid. Bauhaus ARE(not is) a band, made up of people(not a person).

[CharlesXavierr]

@Spankabuttux Lol calm down sir (;

[Spankabuttux]

@CharlesXavierr It pisses me off so bad though. Grrr...

[LMB222]

there is also a minute longer version which was originally on the vinyl album. looking for this one.

[WoodRatGirl]

@LMB222

Look to the right and you'll see that de617 has uploaded it I think.

:-)

[fcuklaura]

looove<3

[ghettomuecke]

müde neige ich mein haupt und sage - Danke...

[1787dude]

this is a great song for all those occultists out their or spiritualists or whatever the fuck they are calling themselves nowdays i have no idear

[parksy010101]

Splendid frign' song.

[LunaSeaSane]

My favourite album. My favourite track.

[theheartovblack]

This is an antiquity to be desired...by me...oh, beloved Bauhaus...

[zechnrabbitndonkey]

@theheartovblack im the twisted fukker? look at your own actions ... i think im taking all this very well...you should read the response to the rant and rave posting i put on ft hood/killeen craigs list ..your pink triangle as you requested...you will be getting more than you deserve for you actions ,,the writing is on the wall...you should have thought some of this thru before you committed to me and then attempted to destroy me by ripping out my heart. talk to me and ill drop the posting

[hobothehill]

after you have been around for a while you realize that preppy kids come and go. I think its because they aren't real people. They try to participate in scenes because they have no real identity. I can't help but listen to the music I like any more than I can stop reading some books or breathing. So stick around, when they leave thats when the real party in the ruins starts. You've got too wait and see who is left standing.

[InsertGoodNameHeree]

I think it's awfully sad that amazing bands like Bauhaus and Siouxsie and The Banshees started out so awesome, but then a goth sterotype happened and all these preppy kids thinking that buying clothes from the mall and listening to slipknot and evanesence makes them goth. Same with punk, how it's turned into just fashion. :[ and emo, and every other thing that started off cool....

[Katchiznatch]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!

[Isdelth]

i think this is the musical version of the surrealist game "the exquisite corpse" where they would created images and abstract poetry by combining different parts randomly drawn of written by each person playing.

[saulkim]

thanks for uploading a masterpiece. oh and a great sound quality.

[1787dude]

life is a dream.... yooooouuuuuuu fucks!!!!

[shadowgeek101]

if this is the full version, then the song is split up into 4 parts

1st part has a baseline suspiciously similar to the 'Nutcracker'...

2nd part talks about someone dying a thousand deaths etc the sky's gone out

3rd part is reggae and snoring... intermission, anyone?

4th part... haunts me. It's like I'm in a haunted mansion and that creepy organ is playing, but it's guitar... and I'm looking down a stairway into the abyss... someone cries that the sky's gone out.

Anyone else hear that?

[thejunkiecherry]

wow i can hear some ragge there^^

[FullPaladin]

AMAZING!!! It's a really art!

To me this song show the scare of our hearts!

[lecorpseexquisite]

Has anyone heard The Horrors' "Excellent Choice" and suspect it was inspired by this?

[MipKouta]

I've heard the song, and I love the Horrors. I don't think it's inspired by this song, never noticed any similarities...

[z1u12b]

@MipKouta English Punk has its roots in reggae and Rock Steady Rude Boy stylee .

[TheDivineAberration]

@MipKouta I feel like as a band they could've been easily inspired by bauhaus, but not excellent choice in particular?

[DaArbiter]

@lecorpseexquisite sounds like more velvet's The GIft turned Horrors style to me.

[halfcabdisaster7]

@lecorpseexquisite I think that song sounds more like something by the Fall, like their song L.A. or Cruiser's Creek. Good song though!

[murderbydeath222]

Was this song possibly a musical form of the exquisite corpse game played by surrealists? Since it sounds like two different songs within one piece.

[ForwardN2Unknown]

Just wondering that. Could also be some sort of pun/in joke. I don't know much about Bauhaus, so I'm not sure.

[communistsuck]

i dont like that reggae ending wtf is that

[MipKouta]

I totally agree with you on this one.

[NewDealerNiko]

@MipKouta @communistsuck

Don't hate on the reggae. It adds a surreal dreamy sort of feel to it. If anything is wrong with this song, it's the eerily familiar first bass riff. Hell, I want be subtle. THIS IS THE STRANGEST PLACE FOR THE DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY. EVER. But I think all of the strangeness is what makes this album so good in the end.

[criminedipassione]

that reggae ending is the essence of post-punk, mixing together different genres

[sizone]

@criminedipassione ending? so much Bauhaus has reggae beats...

[criminedipassione]

@sizone ending, yes...I was just answering to communistsuck

[sizone]

much bauhaus has reggae beats... as for the incongruities you have to understand the concept and process of the exquisite corpse...

[forcesofattraction]

@communistsuck , when we were kids, in london, in between sets/gigs the venues often played reggae music, cos thay didnt have to pay a licencing fee, anyway a lot of punks and their bands became affected buy the 'interlude' music, t'was how the end of this track, madness and PiL were conceptually formed, wether they knew it or not. Thanks for asking.

[Grave187RIP13]

@communistsuck The reggae ending is sick, I dunno what you're talking about.

[DaArbiter]

@communistsuck its Exquisite Corpse thats what it is. Its random

[penandwhiteout]

@DaArbiter iswnt exquisite corpse when you start something and someone else finishes it?

[aderbberti]

@communistsuck Bauhaus is inspired by some reggae sounds, mostly in the bass. At the time many bands were inspired by reggae, like the clash. In bauhaus music it sounds very obscure than reggae. Listen the end of she's in parties it sounds like a dub sound. In the bauhaus songs reggae is taken away from its context, specially in this track. The idea of making an exquisite corpse of sound is great and burns down reggae mixing it with the lirycs, the silly melodies and the backwards drum sound.

[Spankabuttux]

@aderbberti There were various dub versions of these songs on vinyl, But don't say "is" say "are", or I hate you and all you stand for...

[Spankabuttux]

@aderbberti Bauhaus ARE inspired, they are people not a blob, aaarrgghhh!

[aderbberti]

@Spankabuttux Sorry Manglar I'm from Manglar

[cordfluidnevoie]

@communistsuck why did you close your account i want to be your friend so bad!

[Febrais]

Love this song.

[depechemodevilla]

THere is a strong Eno influence in this stuff.

Estoy cansado.

[MipKouta]

What is Eno? I would be happy to know :)

[ThePoisonDoor]

I think he means Brian Eno :)

[depechemodevilla]

You never heard of Brian Eno? Check out his wikipedia entry or look up him on youtube, there's a ton of clips of his music.

[MipKouta]

Good to know, thanks.

[LMB222]

@depechemodevilla I've heard one of his albums, the one with "Third Uncle", and it wasn't that good - sounded too much like Depeche Mode

[stena74]

your right some eno there. Same sort of time. Check out 'Dogs in Space' film about austrailian punk with Michael Huchence (inxs). Excellent film!!