Bauhaus

 

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This cult post/punk New Wave act are the founding fathers of goth rock.

 

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Key Compiliation: Crackle (1998)

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Career Defining Song:

Bela Lugosi's Dead (1979 UK Independent Chart #1)

 

 

Other Key Songs:

 

Ziggy Stardust (1982 UK#15)

 

She's In Parties (1983 UK#26)

 

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (1989 US#55 US Modern Rock #1)

 

Love & Rockets - I'm Alive (1989 USA#3 US Modern Rock #1)

 

Where any of you fans of the original UK gothic rock band?

They were/are (cos they released an album in 2007) a good band, had a really strange and unique sound to them... They were obviously influenced a lot by Bowie and T-Rex, but they took Bowie and Bolan's Glam Rock to much darker places.... This had the result of having an impact on the likes of Wayne Hussey, Andrew Eldritch and Carl McCoy who definitely followed on from what they, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure did; the Nephs, Sisters and The Mission were certainly the best of the 'Goth Rock' scene of the mid-80s.... When Goth became more about the image than the actual music, Pete Murphy once famously declared that he was not a Goth (as did Eldritch), which I could understand, because the music became so far removed from what he and the others had originally envisioned....

 

One can almost certainly hear Bauhaus' influence in some of today's bands, such as Editors and Interpol....

I don't know much about them apart from Bela lugosi's dead and their version of Ziggy Stardust. Remember seeing in the film The Hunger with David Bowie, thought they were ok but musically I went in a different direction from them.

think scott summed them up perfectly!

 

not overly fussed about them myself though.

actually i prefered this dark piece of indie

 

 

department s 'is vic there'. super one hit wonder from early 81.

I think NIN were certainly inspired by them.