They get no respect. People always seem to just start making fun of goths instead taking in the merits and talent of the band. One of the best singles bands ever.

I'm a fan, but to answer your question I would need to know exactly how you go about loving them. Do tell!

She's In Parties belongs on so many more mixes than it makes it to.

Bauhaus is my black sheep with a pale white face.

No goth jokes please.

My ex-girlfriend.

I dig Bauhaus, but I'm glad they broke up. Tones on Tail, David's work with The Jazz Butcher, the first two Murphy solo albums, Love & Rockets, Dali's Car---man that group splintered well.

I really like tones on tail and some of the Murphy solo stuff but i haven't paid too much attention to Love & Rockets and i have a David J solo album that i think i've listened to once.

Yes, I love Bauhaus, but not quite like you. My love is a bit more...erm...uninhibited is the wrong word, as that implies that your love is inhibited, and that's not at all my intention...oh, never mind.

Yes, medigs.

Current favourite song: "Nerves"

Like em, not love em. But yeah. I need to reseach they post Bauhaus projects. I saw L&R in 96 & liked them but never followed it up.

some amazing songs.

Tones on Tail was fucking brilliant. It's a shame that they didn't last longer, but it has been said that when a great band dies young, they never get a chance to suck.

The same can be said of Bauhaus - four studio albums and that was it. I agree that they were a great singles band, but I am a bit partial to their album cuts (i.e.: "Who Killed Mr. Moonlight" and "Slice Of Life").

Like every real Goth band, they never considered themselves as one. They claimed to be a glam band. I guess they were - they're cover of "Ziggy Stardust" is pure gold.

*sigh* I think of great old bands like this and then check out new "gawth muzak" and I am even more convinced that the scene is in a coma...

Some of Tones On Tail was brilliant -- "Performance", "Lions" (...Lions always hit the heights because to kill is always taking the easy way out...), "Slender Fungus", "Rain" -- but other times, it sounded like they were in different rooms when they recorded their parts (I wanna say an example of this is "You, The Night And The Music"...or perhaps it was "Copper"...I don't know, I rarely throw disk 2 in, except for Heartbreak Hotel)...I actually didn't get into Bauhaus until after I got into Tones on Tail (that's right, I got into Tones On Tail first -- I'm also probably the only one to have done it in that order). Although when my sister made me watch The Hunger, she did point them out. I said, "yeah, it's got a pretty good rhythm".

Love & Rockets were brilliant. Every album was fantastic, even Lift was ahead of its time in a post-rock way. Y'all should revisit it.

God, I have a disgusting amount of vinyl by all of the above from a VERY troubling and obsessive bender on all things Bauhaus in like 1989-90;

Still break it out though, and Love and Rockets can play at my house any time. Wish I could find an old picture to post in some goth getup; ill get right on that.

This just reminded me of the first Lollapallooza (Janes,Surfers,NIN etc); there were still a lot of goths around and they were all dolled up in July, in Georgia; I think they all turned to grunge rock so they could wear shorts.

There is hope. Keep it coming people.

I agree that both as a group and split apart, they put out some great stuff. I tend to listen to Love & Rockets and Tones on Tail more than Bauhaus, but when I do go back to Bauhaus, I'm never disappointed. She's in Parties in indeed a great song. Mask was always my favorite album. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is a great sad ballad and I always liked Hollow Hills.

And, they're right, they were never considered a "goth" band. There was no such thing then. I'm not really sure when that term came into being. I'd guess sometime in the 90s.

I only have the Bauhaus two disc set (1979-1982 Volumes 1 and 2), but I love what I have heard. While I really like Bauhaus and thought they were an amazing band, I do believe the splintered groups did better. I was a huge L&R and Tones on Tail fan in highschool, and still rank Peter Murphy as the 2nd rock star I'd most like to sleep with (after David Bowie of course, who is pretty much who he channels). Never really heard much of the Jazz Butcher... am I missing out?

I haven't heard any of Daniel Ash's solo stuff, but I know he's still out there cranking the tunes. I don't know much about writing music or tablature, but the guy does some amazing acoustic guitar work that is soothing and dissonant at the same time. Mask is one of my all time favorites, and I also have a soft spot for Stigmata Martyr.

edit: if anyone is interested, I have Peter Murphy's "Unshattered" on Clever Cactus.

another edit: I totally forgot, but Daniel Ash actually wrote the theme music (and maybe some of the other songs played in the show) for the show "Keen Eddie," which is actually quite entertaining.

I used to have a David J solo album i dug alot too; the one with "I'll be Your Chauffeur" or whatever.....

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I would give Dave's left nut to see that picutre! GHEY!

Yes, that was a great show! Too bad Mark Valley is being wasted on Boston Public, which is a very good show, but doesn't utilize his particular strengths.

What? They've been pretty much hipster-approved for five or six years now.

I don't hang around with hipsters or keep track of hipster movement or trends. The hipster movement hasn't really hit Idaho yet. Wranglers are big however. What do the hipsters think of that?

I own a few pair; what of it?

They're hip in Idaho. Are they hip elsewhere?

Bauhaus was a bit before my time but really loved the power and mystery of their music. I probably played Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape the most, which is a live recording released after their first two albums. 1979-1983 is an amazing collection and the most played vinyl I have ever owned.

Love and Rockets were amazing and happen to see them at least six times. They happened to be one of the first shows that I went to and was at this small club in Long Beach called Fenders. They had this gimmick were they dress up like bees and were called the Bubblemen. Bee outfits with huge heads and strobe lights going as they moved around. I felt like I took acid when it was only alcohol and something that I will never forget. Earth.Sun.Moom was my favorite of theirs but Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven was a great introduction. My musical taste changed and so I never heard anything pass their forth self-titled album.

So I heard they stolen the Coachella shows this last weekend with Peter Murphy coming out hanging upside down while they ripped into "Bela Lugosi's Dead." I am still kicking myself because I never got a chance to see them live but Love and Rockets I did see many, many times. In 2000 they played the Fillmore in San Francisco and I skipped the shows because of the price.

Never have seen Peter Murphy live but here is some up coming shows:

UNSHATTERED TOUR
MAY
12 Lake Buena Vista, Florida - House of Blues
13 Atlanta, Georgia - The Masquerade
15 Washington DC - 9.30 Club
16 New York, New York - B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill
17 Cleveland, Ohio - Odeon Concert Club
18 Chicago, Illinois - Metro
20 Denver, Colorado - Ogden Theatre
22 Portland, Oregon - Roseland Theatre
23 Seattle, Washington - The Showbox
24 San Francisco, California - The Fillmore
26 San Diego, California - House of Blues
27 Los Angeles, California - Henry Fonda Theatre
28 Anaheim, California - House of Blues
30 Mexico City, Mexico - Salon 21

Right now I live in Anaheim but will probably be back in San Francisco by this time. I have to see THIS show.

np: Tones On Tail - Night Music

I was pretty floored by their Coachella show. Sort of ruined my desire to watch Coldplay.