One of the amazing things about Bauhaus, they never replaced anyone. It was always the 4 breaking up and getting back together like a family that fights a lot.
I freakin' love Bauhaus. Always did. They were just so loaded with inspiration - just exploding with it, from the start. Daniel Ash is no doubt an devoted servant of the Muse. The guy just never seemed to stop making stuff, and just pumping that stuff out,.I hear what you say about some of his tones early on, but I'm not sure he was as interested in perfecting the sound coming out of his amp as he might've been in making whatever was there already evoke the correct balance of psychedelia and spookiness. And what a good groove the brought us on the dance floor. It's really cool to see people still talking about it on modern platforms. This is stuff that made me the guy I am. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much for enthroning this tiny, yet significant aspect of my own muse. More power to you. Light, life, love and liberty to you and yours.
14:27, the "weird" Haskins' drum kit is one that would have been found in 1920s bands. Since the video is a spooky, Vaudeville-like scenario, I assume that is why they set up an antique drum kit. There was no hi-hat, there were suspended sock cymbals, there is a Chinese drum, and usually cowbells and wood blocks instead of a set of tom toms. If you listen to old jazz records from the 1920s, you hear kits like these. It was also needed because in original, pre-electrical process of recording, there was an acoustic horn that collected the sounds in from the studio and if the drums were too loud they would cause the stylus etching the wax at the small end of the horn in the recording room to skip.
🤣9:00 Been listening to Bauhaus since I was 13 & have always felt that about David J. He looks like a buncha Goths kidnapped Bank Manager & forced him to play Bass for them. “Hmm, he still doesn’t look quite right”🤔 “I know! Wear these...”🕶
I got the Bauhaus collection with In the Flat Field, Mask, The Sky's Gone Out, Burning from the Inside and some singles recently. Safe to say I'm quite the fan. Really appreciate you compiling info on 'em in this easy-to-consume format.
This was really amazing it's so great to hear a musician with a critique of such a beloved hugely influential band. I'm an OG goth from 83 and this still defines a lot of my identity. I feel like a lot of us have reclaimed what is our original subculture with all of the appropriation but I do love baby bats as long as they're not just about the fashion but really love the music too. I'm going to check out your band Thank you so much! 🖤🦇🖤
This is the video I've been working on for quite a while and I'm very happy that it is done! I've always wanted to do a video like this which is more like a video version of the GothCast Podcast. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you'd like to see any other bands covered! 👻 Here's some of my band stuff: 👻 open.spotify.com/artist/40d6EGvmlQSXIedS3oum9H?si=zZiJh0P5TnGdJdaP5LHxBw drsanders.bandcamp.com/album/distant-apparition
Thx, great video, good to see you again. I remember seeing Night of the Demons in the theater, and totally geeked over the prominent use of Stigmata Martyr, just awesome!
Hey, do you know of a band called "the 3D Invisibles" from the early 80s Detroit, Michigan? It's horror punk in a garage rock, monster mash style, more fun than the Misfits. It's perfect for a Halloween compilation tape with 45 Grave, the Cramps, and Screaming J Hawkins (Alligator Wine). Listen to "Creepy Fella" and "Walking through the Graveyard" to start with, but it's all in this vein! 💉🧟♂️⚰🕯
I was into Bauhaus, and I still listen to them, they've aged well. I regard Cruelty and the Beast by Cradle of Filth as the best continuation of the Bauhaus tradition, Some may not agree there's a connection but the guitarist for that album, Stuart Anstis, was a Bauhaus fan.
Please continue this series. I am totally enjoying learning about the bands I am so fond of. It's a great resource for baby bats and those already in the scene. 🦇💀🕸️ Great start so far.
As someone who listened to goth and was there in Britain when it came out in the 80s, I have to say I loved Bauhaus. Still listen to a lot of this music to this day. Kick In The Eye is probably my favourite
I know for 100% fact I'm going to like this new series you're doing. One of my favorite all-time concerts was their reunion tour in '98 at the Hammerstein in New York When I tell you the concert was EPIC it doesn't do it justice.
I'm 62, not a goth , but they were iconic in my era. We weren't alll cromagnums in that era. They're art performances and raw talent created your passion for sure.
Love your natural presentation style and really interesting content. I saw Bauahus on their final tour in Birmingham Uk (Burning From the Inside) and still stands as one of my most memorable gigs of the 80's along with Japan and the Associates. Keep up the good work.
I'm still tripping out that Peter Murphy has a twin brother, which I just discovered today! After 40+ years. (yeah I'm old) (but i was around when they were around! so there :P ) If he looks anything like Peter, that must have been hell for him when they started rising to fame!
Brilliant. Clearly a lot of time & effort put in. I like that you give your own opinions and don't just stick to a bland band history. I didn't know they had put out a new track recently. Thanks.
Hi, I enjoyed the video. I'm both a Goth and Metalhead. I've been listening to Goth Rock and Metal Music for 14 years. I love Bauhaus. They are my favorite Goth band besides the Goth Rock/Darkwave band, She Past Away. I'm a black goth guy, I know ethnicity shouldn't matter, but I know that it's sort of rare, but not really. I don't know where I'm going with this. I really appreciate Peter Murphy, and Bela Lugosi is a classic, but I love Mask, favorite album and of course, in the flat field was perfect. Great video, awesome content.
Such a great video!! Your candor is fantastic, the visuals really help illustrate everything you discuss, and keep you engaged. I love Bauhaus so maybe I'm biased but this video is so well put together and genuine. Excellent job, and I'm really happy to know there's videos like this out there to help guide the baby bats and hopefully lead a few normies down the darker path ;) MORE PLZZZ THNX
As an Elder Goth who never had a chance to see Bauhaus in the 80's, I was excited when they started touring in 2019. Then there was COVID... So when they cancelled the tour due to Peter Murphy's health issues, I figured I would never have the chance to see them live. However I did see Love and Rockets in 2023, so I'm pretty happy about that.
Great video and series, Dr Sanders! Twelve thumbs up! BAUHAUS is a great band to begin the series. Gotham is a great live album, so I am happy that you talked about it. I'd love for you to cover an array of goth bands, especially modern ones so that more people can learn about them. Obviously, this depends on your time and resources, but I'll leave you with some recommendations below, nonetheless. Lastly, your blue hair looks great. 💙🦇💙 Garden of Delight/Merciful Nuns, Lebanon Hanover, Twin Tribes, She Past Away, Xmal Deutschland, The Merry Thoughts, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Spectres, Rosegarden Funeral Party, Hapax, Christian Death, Virgin in Veil, Cinema Strange, Diva Destruction, Switchblade Symphony, Faith and the Muse, Autumn, London After Midnight, Suspiria, Paralysed Age, Ikon, Nosferatu, Corpus Delicti, The Wake, Horror Vacuui, Siouxsie and the Banshees, 45 Grave, Xmal Deutschland, Actors, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Crüxshadows, Traitrs, Die Laughing, Rosetta Stone, Witching Hour, The Mission, All About Eve, and possibly some type of highlight for the really new bands like Male Tears, Mystic Priestess, Manticore Kiss, Nox Novacula, and October Burns Black. Hopefully, this is enough suggestions. 😉 Cheers! Stay spooky! 🕷🦇🕸🦂🐈⬛
Wow. I have just been listening to "Bela Lugosi's dead" full volume. I play it every year when there's thunder and lightning. I love Bauhaus. I am 59 and still love my punk and goth. I had long spikey hair ,that took a lot of hair spray and straighteners. I went to Liverpool's PLANET X until it closed, still got the pics. Massive fan at the time of Alien Sex Fiend and still have all the records. Stigmata martyr being my second fav song of Bauhaus. Well done .
Liked and subscribed. And I'm looking forward to the next G101. This was fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to be a historian for a thing you're passionate about. 🖤
I've yet to watch this but I'm just incredibly happy to see a long video essay about a goth band from a goth! Please make more of these! As for suggestions, another cornerstone band such as The Cure could work. Eventually, I'd love to see these with modern bands too (maybe some interviews 👁).
Thank you for this. You have to be one of a select few who did not treat Burning from the Inside like a disease. I've always enjoyed that album just as much as I did the earlier three.
Punk and glam and even some metal seem to all be important touchstones for Bauhaus, but they combined all that with pop, even, and they had a healthy love for reggae/dub as well, and even funk, soul music. I've played Bauhaus for people who don't know them at all, and they often say "wow, this is too metal for me," or "too punk," but, it's not really any of those things, though there are elements of both in the music, of course. Bauhaus was quite original in their approach, and they never seemed to get proper credit for that. Maybe these days they have. Then others have told me they can't deal with Bauhaus as it's "too avant garde." Which is a valid enough criticism, most of their music is pretty jagged and not at all commercial, whatever that is. You weren't going to hear "Double Dare" on the AM American Top 40 radio charts. LOL There's even a bit of a Kurt Weill/Brecht influence on some of their tracks, such as "The Three Shadows".
First Bauhaus song I ever heard was Crowds, and my buddy played it cause I was going through a breakup. That was back in 1987. Still love them today, 2023.
Great video of the amazing Bauhaus. I was lucky enough to see them 4 times in the early 80s, and they were an incredible live experience. I was also at the Sisters of mercys first gig. I soon moved from the dying punk scene and dived into the darkside. Seeing bands such as Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Sisters, Birthday Party, the Cramps etc, gave me faith that music hadn't turned to shit. Have you checked out the very gothic tale of Lady Paranorma on TH-cam? Well worth the watch, and narrated by Peter Murphy himself. Also, can I recommend a band from the USA. Very underrated goth band called Gargoyle Sox from Detroit.
Great documentary. You remind me a bit of Nik Fiend. I think that Pete was probably the problem in the end. Pete's collaboration with Mick Karn "Dalis Car" is excellent but they only managed one album together.
A question. I saw Bauhaus by chance in 1980 supporting Magazine. On the basis of this, I saw them again a few days later at Brady's nightclub in Liverpool. They showed a short animated film of the creature that can be seen in this video on the label of In The Flat Field at 6.43. Does anyone remember seeing this short film, or know if it still exists and can be seen? Thanks.
I dare you to be real To touch To touch a flickering flame The pangs The pangs of dark delight Don't cower Don't cower in night fright Don't back away just yet From destinations set I dare you to be proud To dare to shout aloud For convictions that you feel Like sound from bells to peal I dare you to despise Bureaucracy and all its lies In the void In the void they stare They never They never dared to dare I dare I dare I dare you You You You I dare you You I I 👹👻💀
All of the band members attended the same scool that I went to ,when innitially forming they played in front of the rest of the school and went on to greater things .They have consistently remained true in regards to thier aproach to performing and overall styalisation .It was obvious to everyone watching them at school that they were going to be popular .
I was lucky enough to work for Beggars Banquet in the early 80s and saw them many many times at the Rock Garden in Covent Garden they used to sell their tapes at the door I never paid to see them was always on the guest list . They were more punk than Goth tbh
I was busting out Dark Entries last night a few times on the guitar here: wow, always makes my ears ring but it's so much fun to play along with the record. It's actually shocking how easy it actually is to play that song. Just crank up the gain and have fun.
Great job covering one of my very favouritest bands. Totally unique sound, lightning in a bottle, no wonder that they had internal problems. Saw them in the Ambassador in Dublin the second time they reformed and they were incredible. Electrifying show, they had lost none of their energy, one of the best I've been to. Love your hair by the way. P.S. Would be delighted if you would cover the Virgin Prunes. 🖤
Just came across this channel and the content seems super cool. Would love to see more Goth 101! I've found it difficult to find goth band history videos made by goth people themselves.
Along with the live albums I think you should have mentioned “swing the heartache” the BBC sessions compilation. It’s not quite “live” but some of the signs were recorded in one take and there’s very minimal overdubs, so it’s a very raw sounding release but with better acoustics than a live record. Highly recommended
Yay! Knowledgeable and interesting info about the 'goth' scene and the fantastic music it spawned! Thankyou.... please keep it up (I'd particularly appreciate a post about The Cure and Siouxsie and the banshees. Take care, Faerie N.
Excellent video sir! Really good work and I can tell that really must have been a pretty monumental editing task. Just came across your channel seeing this video and subscribed - look forward to future group over-views if you come round to them (will work my way back through the older ones as well). Have the old clam-shell case VHS of Shadow of Light. Also, was super lucky and I got to see them on their 1998 reunion tour when they played at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA. It was the perfect time for me and was actually the first concert I ended up going to myself (vs with the parents etc) and it was surprisingly really really good. Only surprisingly because no one really knew what to expect going into it because the tour etc kind of came out of nowhere. But, the band members were still young enough at the time that they honestly didn't look that different from concert footage of their original run - and most importantly they sounded just as good. Peter Murphy's voice was nearly identical to the original stuff and he could hit all the notes. **in saying all that, its natural for bands to have to change over time as the members age and there's nothing wrong with that - lots of bands successfully transition with age without losing touch with what made folks dig them originally. In this case though, it was just a really cool surprise/treat to show up to see them and it feel like it almost could have been an extension of the first time round. They did a tour with NIN (I can't remember the year) that I really wanted to catch - wherein Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor did some almost duet type versions of a handful of songs by the band Joy Division, and I would almost have killed to have gotten to see that (on the up side there are also some rough studio versions on YT that the two recorded concurrent with the tour I believe). Lastly, I have to say that I felt/feel the same way about that later album they did - and I really really wanted to like it, but it just wasn't very inspiring or even that interesting. Which is a shame because they proved during the periods of solo Murphy and Love and Rockets that they could absolutely still write good songs - and IMO some of the songs on the first L&R album are almost as good and really not that far removed from what appeared on Burning on the Inside. "Haunted when the minutes drag" is really a killer song and you could almost imagine Murphy singing it. At any rate, I doubt at this point I'll ever be able to see them again live, though I suppose it depends on how long and to where their current or ::crossing fingers:: future tour(s) take them.
You can thank the reggae influence on the bass player (David J). At the time they were forming, parts of the post punk scene were experimenting with Dub (a genre of Reggae), which is how we got bands like The Police (as the most notable example.) The bass he played on Bela Lugosi's Dead was a really slowed down Dub bassline, and it had influenced the band's overall sound through its history. It is why they occasionally sound kind of reggae, they actually are somewhat reggae at their roots. It is also why they are probably the only goth band to be able to slip into Dub/Reggae so seamlessly. It isn't a shift in style when it happens, just a shift in focus on what part of their sound is strongest.
I hated pop music back in the early 80s. A friend put on the Mask album and my jaw hit the floor. Eventually I obtained every single, EP and album they ever put out. The epitome of pioneering Goth music.
In hindsight, some of Bauhaus music might have seemed rough or incomplete, but to put it into perspective, it was all incredibly new. So, yes, most of it was considered experimental. For a guy that was hearing it for the first time in the late 70's, very early 80's, it was mind blowing. I can recall hanging in the SF scene when all this was coming out, and it hit hard. Yes, the Goth fishnet was put to use by the Bauhaus, but looking back on it now, check out some of Bowie's live concerts during his Ziggy era, and you'll see the fishnets on him as well, and that was '70-'72. If I were to be even more cynical, I'd say a lot of what Bauhaus did was derived from Bowie. The huge difference being the more modern sound and percussion. I have a fond memory of driving my Lambretta from San Francisco to San Diego to watch Peter Murphy play when he first broke away and went solo. For that matter, Love and Rockets has a place in my heart as well. Cheers
the first release of The sky's gone out came with press the eject and give me the tape. It was recorded over 3 venues, one of them being The Royal Court in Liverpool. Yes, i was there.
I did learn some stuff. On a side note, I saw Peter Murphy at the London passport office when collecting mine, but was too shy to say anything to him at the time. cheers for the video.
I’m old lived in Glasgow and seen Bauhaus The Cure Southern Death Cult Meteors Death Cult PIL Sex Gang Children Siouxsie Virgin Prunes The Cult it was magic and many more parties
Was Nick cave influenced by Peter Murphy?. The 2nd album cover reminds me of The Cure album from the early 2000's. I only know 3 songs and really like to go and listen to all the albums from start to finsh. It's a great movie the heavy metal one.
I love Bauhaus, especially the Skys Gone out. I feel this album is more more of a journey than than their others. Where did you get the really clean clips of them on the Oxford road show Top of the Poos. I had a video years ago with all these clips. What a performers
Just getting into them. Very interesting, informative and concise, thank you. I didn't get the appeal of goth in my youth in the 90s (despite many of the people in my circles enjoying it) but it's never too late to start appreciating a genre. Bela Lugosi... has an obvious dub beat, so the reggae elements aren't surprising.
Impressive coverage of a great band. Your take on each album was spot on although I tend to enjoy Sky over Mask (might be the cover). Really like the commentary of the music vids 😂 and do Nephillim next!
45 Grave could be discussed, and whatever happened to their guitarist Pat Smear? No one ever talks about him, other than him being in the Germs. Like 45 Grave wasn't cool, and never existed, like when people didn't know about Samhain in between Misfits and Danzig.
The final Bauhaus album was a bit confusing. Some songs sounded like Love & Rockets (featuring Peter Murphy singing) while others sounded like Peter Murphy songs backed up by The Guys from Love & Rockets. It's very hard to tell which songs they actually wrote TOGETHER AS BAUHAUS ... if there were any. A Suggested Video would be of what is known as The Cure's "Goth Trilogy" (the albums "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith", and "Pornography"). Although Robert Smith calls the whole Goth thing complete and utter bollocks, pretty much EVERY Goth has these particular 3 albums.
It was Bauhaus that introduced me to Bella Lugosi. I don't mean they actually introduced us at a party in person, they just, you know, made me aware of him. And German art. They made me aware of that to, and subsequently, Der Blau Reiter. Thanks, Bauhaus.
I was privileged to see Bauhaus on several occasions but the one that stands out the most was they 1979 gig at the Warehouse in Leeds very short set due to the material they had but it was electric not seen anything like it before . The gig was only attended by a curious few but was one in a life time experience.
As innovative and relevant as Bauhaus were, Murphy's solo work is so much more sophisticated. Dust is epic, for example. Hot Trip to Heaven is a wonderful classic album and L&R's apex but there has never been an album like Cascade and there never will be again. EDIT: I've met him twice. A gem of a human. Long, funny story.
A friend introduced me to Bauhaus in the early 90s, years after they split up. I was so overjoyed to get to see them live during the Resurrection tour. That they have toured sporadically for decades after they split up, and even put out Go Away White, is beautifully on-point with the undead theme.
The one and only time I saw Bauhaus live...we had pit tickets...he swear on me ffs...well...Peter...not once...but two fuckin times during the show reaches down and hands my Fiance at the time...a rose. It..was...fuckin...amazing.
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One of the amazing things about Bauhaus, they never replaced anyone. It was always the 4 breaking up and getting back together like a family that fights a lot.
Bauhaus is one my favorite bands. I really enjoy Peter Murphy's vocal styles. Thank you for the deep background on the band.
I think maybe "the Birthday Party" might be a good soon to be entre to this series. Leading into Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
oh hell yes. saw them in brixton in late 1982. there are clips on here somewhere. their story needs telling.
Yesssss!
@@MissNurseNoir I saw the Birthday Party supporting Bauhaus in Liverpool.
I freakin' love Bauhaus. Always did. They were just so loaded with inspiration - just exploding with it, from the start. Daniel Ash is no doubt an devoted servant of the Muse. The guy just never seemed to stop making stuff, and just pumping that stuff out,.I hear what you say about some of his tones early on, but I'm not sure he was as interested in perfecting the sound coming out of his amp as he might've been in making whatever was there already evoke the correct balance of psychedelia and spookiness. And what a good groove the brought us on the dance floor. It's really cool to see people still talking about it on modern platforms. This is stuff that made me the guy I am. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much for enthroning this tiny, yet significant aspect of my own muse. More power to you. Light, life, love and liberty to you and yours.
🖤🖤 Complete and utter admiration and fascination for Bauhaus and I remain helplessly in love with Peter Murphy
14:27, the "weird" Haskins' drum kit is one that would have been found in 1920s bands. Since the video is a spooky, Vaudeville-like scenario, I assume that is why they set up an antique drum kit. There was no hi-hat, there were suspended sock cymbals, there is a Chinese drum, and usually cowbells and wood blocks instead of a set of tom toms. If you listen to old jazz records from the 1920s, you hear kits like these. It was also needed because in original, pre-electrical process of recording, there was an acoustic horn that collected the sounds in from the studio and if the drums were too loud they would cause the stylus etching the wax at the small end of the horn in the recording room to skip.
🤣9:00 Been listening to Bauhaus since I was 13 & have always felt that about David J.
He looks like a buncha Goths kidnapped Bank Manager & forced him to play Bass for them.
“Hmm, he still doesn’t look quite right”🤔
“I know! Wear these...”🕶
I completely agree
He’s the typa guy to say “turn that mfs neck into an acute angle!” When he’s jumping someone
Took me a while to like Bauhaus after first hearing them, but was hooked in the end. My absolute favourite is "All we ever wanted was everything"
I got the Bauhaus collection with In the Flat Field, Mask, The Sky's Gone Out, Burning from the Inside and some singles recently. Safe to say I'm quite the fan. Really appreciate you compiling info on 'em in this easy-to-consume format.
This was really amazing it's so great to hear a musician with a critique of such a beloved hugely influential band. I'm an OG goth from 83 and this still defines a lot of my identity. I feel like a lot of us have reclaimed what is our original subculture with all of the appropriation but I do love baby bats as long as they're not just about the fashion but really love the music too. I'm going to check out your band Thank you so much! 🖤🦇🖤
This is the video I've been working on for quite a while and I'm very happy that it is done! I've always wanted to do a video like this which is more like a video version of the GothCast Podcast. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you'd like to see any other bands covered! 👻
Here's some of my band stuff: 👻
open.spotify.com/artist/40d6EGvmlQSXIedS3oum9H?si=zZiJh0P5TnGdJdaP5LHxBw
drsanders.bandcamp.com/album/distant-apparition
Thx, great video, good to see you again. I remember seeing Night of the Demons in the theater, and totally geeked over the prominent use of Stigmata Martyr, just awesome!
Hey, do you know of a band called "the 3D Invisibles" from the early 80s Detroit, Michigan? It's horror punk in a garage rock, monster mash style, more fun than the Misfits. It's perfect for a Halloween compilation tape with 45 Grave, the Cramps, and Screaming J Hawkins (Alligator Wine). Listen to "Creepy Fella" and "Walking through the Graveyard" to start with, but it's all in this vein! 💉🧟♂️⚰🕯
Really great job man, I need to check your band out🤙
I was into Bauhaus, and I still listen to them, they've aged well. I regard Cruelty and the Beast by Cradle of Filth as the best continuation of the Bauhaus tradition, Some may not agree there's a connection but the guitarist for that album, Stuart Anstis, was a Bauhaus fan.
@@alienmindwarp3455 Stigmata Martyr - one of their best
Really looking forward to more of these series! Sisters of Mercy or The Chameleons would be great to see in the future☺️
Please continue this series. I am totally enjoying learning about the bands I am so fond of. It's a great resource for baby bats and those already in the scene. 🦇💀🕸️ Great start so far.
As someone who listened to goth and was there in Britain when it came out in the 80s, I have to say I loved Bauhaus. Still listen to a lot of this music to this day. Kick In The Eye is probably my favourite
OH MY GOD! And im going to see them at Cruel World this Saturday!!
Lucky
As for a band to cover, I'd like to see Christian Death 🤘
Yes!!!!!!! I totally agree with you. Christian Death should definitely be in this series. Right on!!!!🖤🖤🤘🤘
I know for 100% fact I'm going to like this new series you're doing. One of my favorite all-time concerts was their reunion tour in '98 at the Hammerstein in New York When I tell you the concert was EPIC it doesn't do it justice.
Saw that tour in Denver for my 25 bday. Type O Negative opened, kicked ass
I'm 62, not a goth , but they were iconic in my era. We weren't alll cromagnums in that era. They're art performances and raw talent created your passion for sure.
Awesome work. Love the choice of a Siouxsie t-shirt to talk about Bauhaus. 🤣
I come back to watch this every so often, hoping you do more of these soon🦇
Love your natural presentation style and really interesting content. I saw Bauahus on their final tour in Birmingham Uk (Burning From the Inside) and still stands as one of my most memorable gigs of the 80's along with Japan and the Associates. Keep up the good work.
I'm still tripping out that Peter Murphy has a twin brother, which I just discovered today! After 40+ years. (yeah I'm old) (but i was around when they were around! so there :P )
If he looks anything like Peter, that must have been hell for him when they started rising to fame!
Thanx for your great band review!
I must admit, that mask is one of the most underrated gem in whole popmusique history 💚☠️😻☠️💚
Skeletal Family is a great band over looked.
Yes!!
Yess good call
I must say when doing a series of this nature, you, my friend picked the perfect start point. Bauhaus whose lead singer is the Godfather of Goth.
Brilliant. Clearly a lot of time & effort put in. I like that you give your own opinions and don't just stick to a bland band history. I didn't know they had put out a new track recently. Thanks.
It's interesting how many of the bands in this genre denounce the term 'Goth' when it is referred to them, Bauhaus included.
Gets misused a lot...
Even the Smiths are called Goth now.. hahaha...
I saw Bauhaus supporting the godfathers of Goth UK Decay
Hi, I enjoyed the video. I'm both a Goth and Metalhead. I've been listening to Goth Rock and Metal Music for 14 years. I love Bauhaus. They are my favorite Goth band besides the Goth Rock/Darkwave band, She Past Away. I'm a black goth guy, I know ethnicity shouldn't matter, but I know that it's sort of rare, but not really. I don't know where I'm going with this. I really appreciate Peter Murphy, and Bela Lugosi is a classic, but I love Mask, favorite album and of course, in the flat field was perfect. Great video, awesome content.
Thank you for this university, rich, lesson with Bauhaus! You are a savvy, na-t cave creature! Bravo 🎉
I toured with Bauhaus. I also toured with Peter Murphy with David J doing Flat Field in its entirety.
Bela Legosi’s dead is the song that created the genre.
Such a great video!! Your candor is fantastic, the visuals really help illustrate everything you discuss, and keep you engaged. I love Bauhaus so maybe I'm biased but this video is so well put together and genuine. Excellent job, and I'm really happy to know there's videos like this out there to help guide the baby bats and hopefully lead a few normies down the darker path ;) MORE PLZZZ THNX
As an Elder Goth who never had a chance to see Bauhaus in the 80's, I was excited when they started touring in 2019. Then there was COVID... So when they cancelled the tour due to Peter Murphy's health issues, I figured I would never have the chance to see them live. However I did see Love and Rockets in 2023, so I'm pretty happy about that.
Great video and series, Dr Sanders! Twelve thumbs up!
BAUHAUS is a great band to begin the series. Gotham is a great live album, so I am happy that you talked about it. I'd love for you to cover an array of goth bands, especially modern ones so that more people can learn about them. Obviously, this depends on your time and resources, but I'll leave you with some recommendations below, nonetheless. Lastly, your blue hair looks great. 💙🦇💙
Garden of Delight/Merciful Nuns, Lebanon Hanover, Twin Tribes, She Past Away, Xmal Deutschland, The Merry Thoughts, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Spectres, Rosegarden Funeral Party, Hapax, Christian Death, Virgin in Veil, Cinema Strange, Diva Destruction, Switchblade Symphony, Faith and the Muse, Autumn, London After Midnight, Suspiria, Paralysed Age, Ikon, Nosferatu, Corpus Delicti, The Wake, Horror Vacuui, Siouxsie and the Banshees, 45 Grave, Xmal Deutschland, Actors, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Crüxshadows, Traitrs, Die Laughing, Rosetta Stone, Witching Hour, The Mission, All About Eve, and possibly some type of highlight for the really new bands like Male Tears, Mystic Priestess, Manticore Kiss, Nox Novacula, and October Burns Black. Hopefully, this is enough suggestions. 😉 Cheers! Stay spooky! 🕷🦇🕸🦂🐈⬛
I know Christian Death, Siouxsie, and I love 45 Grave! The others are movies and never heard of lol
@@alienmindwarp3455 I should have also mentioned Specimen, Sex Gang Children, and Fields of the Nephilim. 🤔
Yis! I love Gotham!
Wow. I have just been listening to "Bela Lugosi's dead" full volume. I play it every year when there's thunder and lightning. I love Bauhaus. I am 59 and still love my punk and goth. I had long spikey hair ,that took a lot of hair spray and straighteners. I went to Liverpool's PLANET X until it closed, still got the pics. Massive fan at the time of Alien Sex Fiend and still have all the records. Stigmata martyr being my second fav song of Bauhaus. Well done .
Man this band is so creative and talented
I saw them at the Northampton civic centre supporting house of love and magazine. My friend at school his dad was tour manager in the uk
great video are you going to do Sisters of Mercy?
Liked and subscribed. And I'm looking forward to the next G101.
This was fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to be a historian for a thing you're passionate about. 🖤
Thanks so much for watching! 💀🕷️
I've yet to watch this but I'm just incredibly happy to see a long video essay about a goth band from a goth! Please make more of these!
As for suggestions, another cornerstone band such as The Cure could work. Eventually, I'd love to see these with modern bands too (maybe some interviews 👁).
My dad and I just discovered your channel and we are in love with it! Thank you :D
you sir are a true gentleman & scholar. Thanks for the unbiased review on the discography. You earned yourself a new subscriber. Respect.
Thank you for this. You have to be one of a select few who did not treat Burning from the Inside like a disease. I've always enjoyed that album just as much as I did the earlier three.
Dr Sanders my compliments on this!!
I love listening to your talks. Specially this one. And listening to your opinions are great, history and sharing. A+
I never saw Bauhaus. I saw Love and Rockets open for Siouxsie in Los Angeles, in 1986. 2 nights in a row
Punk and glam and even some metal seem to all be important touchstones for Bauhaus, but they combined all that with pop, even, and they had a healthy love for
reggae/dub as well, and even funk, soul music. I've played Bauhaus for people who don't know them at all, and they often say "wow, this is too metal for me," or "too punk,"
but, it's not really any of those things, though there are elements of both in the music, of course. Bauhaus was quite original in their approach, and they never seemed
to get proper credit for that. Maybe these days they have. Then others have told me they can't deal with Bauhaus as it's "too avant garde." Which is a valid enough
criticism, most of their music is pretty jagged and not at all commercial, whatever that is. You weren't going to hear "Double Dare" on the AM American Top 40 radio
charts. LOL There's even a bit of a Kurt Weill/Brecht influence on some of their tracks, such as "The Three Shadows".
First Bauhaus song I ever heard was Crowds, and my buddy played it cause I was going through a breakup. That was back in 1987. Still love them today, 2023.
Great video of the amazing Bauhaus. I was lucky enough to see them 4 times in the early 80s, and they were an incredible live experience. I was also at the Sisters of mercys first gig. I soon moved from the dying punk scene and dived into the darkside. Seeing bands such as Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Sisters, Birthday Party, the Cramps etc, gave me faith that music hadn't turned to shit. Have you checked out the very gothic tale of Lady Paranorma on TH-cam? Well worth the watch, and narrated by Peter Murphy himself. Also, can I recommend a band from the USA. Very underrated goth band called Gargoyle Sox from Detroit.
Great documentary. You remind me a bit of Nik Fiend. I think that Pete was probably the problem in the end. Pete's collaboration with Mick Karn "Dalis Car" is excellent but they only managed one album together.
A question. I saw Bauhaus by chance in 1980 supporting Magazine. On the basis of this, I saw them again a few days later at Brady's nightclub in Liverpool. They showed a short animated film of the creature that can be seen in this video on the label of In The Flat Field at 6.43. Does anyone remember seeing this short film, or know if it still exists and can be seen? Thanks.
I dare you to be real
To touch
To touch a flickering flame
The pangs
The pangs of dark delight
Don't cower
Don't cower in night fright
Don't back away just yet
From destinations set
I dare you to be proud
To dare to shout aloud
For convictions that you feel
Like sound from bells to peal
I dare you to despise
Bureaucracy and all its lies
In the void
In the void they stare
They never
They never dared to dare
I dare
I dare
I dare you
You
You
You
I dare you
You
I
I
👹👻💀
All of the band members attended the same scool that I went to ,when innitially forming they played in front of the rest of the school and went on to greater things .They have consistently remained true in regards to thier aproach to performing and overall styalisation .It was obvious to everyone watching them at school that they were going to be popular .
I was lucky enough to work for Beggars Banquet in the early 80s and saw them many many times at the Rock Garden in Covent Garden they used to sell their tapes at the door I never paid to see them was always on the guest list . They were more punk than Goth tbh
I was busting out Dark Entries last night a few times on the guitar here: wow, always makes my ears ring but it's so much fun to play along with the record. It's actually
shocking how easy it actually is to play that song. Just crank up the gain and have fun.
Average Joe finds a copy of MASK at a thrift store. Takes it home and gives it a spin. And all the colors fade to black. 🖤⚰🦇🥀
I've been a fan of Bauhaus since the start this was a really interesting video thank you for producing it.
Tones on Tail video? Thanx for the job.
I enjoyed this Bauhaus review, well done with the edit, info and imaging ❤
A very illustrative video! Thnks
Great job covering one of my very favouritest bands. Totally unique sound, lightning in a bottle, no wonder that they had internal problems. Saw them in the Ambassador in Dublin the second time they reformed and they were incredible. Electrifying show, they had lost none of their energy, one of the best I've been to.
Love your hair by the way.
P.S. Would be delighted if you would cover the Virgin Prunes. 🖤
Once my favourite band now one of my faves...
I didn't expect to like it as much as i did, the gothguy was good...congrats!
Just came across this channel and the content seems super cool. Would love to see more Goth 101! I've found it difficult to find goth band history videos made by goth people themselves.
Along with the live albums I think you should have mentioned “swing the heartache” the BBC sessions compilation. It’s not quite “live” but some of the signs were recorded in one take and there’s very minimal overdubs, so it’s a very raw sounding release but with better acoustics than a live record. Highly recommended
Yay! Knowledgeable and interesting info about the 'goth' scene and the fantastic music it spawned! Thankyou.... please keep it up (I'd particularly appreciate a post about The Cure and Siouxsie and the banshees. Take care, Faerie N.
Yeah, soundtrack of my youth. I kinda like Sisters of Mercy, Cure and Field of the Nephelim.
well done!! thank you for creating this
Keep doing your thing dude!
Excellent video sir! Really good work and I can tell that really must have been a pretty monumental editing task. Just came across your channel seeing this video and subscribed - look forward to future group over-views if you come round to them (will work my way back through the older ones as well).
Have the old clam-shell case VHS of Shadow of Light. Also, was super lucky and I got to see them on their 1998 reunion tour when they played at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA. It was the perfect time for me and was actually the first concert I ended up going to myself (vs with the parents etc) and it was surprisingly really really good. Only surprisingly because no one really knew what to expect going into it because the tour etc kind of came out of nowhere. But, the band members were still young enough at the time that they honestly didn't look that different from concert footage of their original run - and most importantly they sounded just as good. Peter Murphy's voice was nearly identical to the original stuff and he could hit all the notes. **in saying all that, its natural for bands to have to change over time as the members age and there's nothing wrong with that - lots of bands successfully transition with age without losing touch with what made folks dig them originally. In this case though, it was just a really cool surprise/treat to show up to see them and it feel like it almost could have been an extension of the first time round.
They did a tour with NIN (I can't remember the year) that I really wanted to catch - wherein Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor did some almost duet type versions of a handful of songs by the band Joy Division, and I would almost have killed to have gotten to see that (on the up side there are also some rough studio versions on YT that the two recorded concurrent with the tour I believe).
Lastly, I have to say that I felt/feel the same way about that later album they did - and I really really wanted to like it, but it just wasn't very inspiring or even that interesting. Which is a shame because they proved during the periods of solo Murphy and Love and Rockets that they could absolutely still write good songs - and IMO some of the songs on the first L&R album are almost as good and really not that far removed from what appeared on Burning on the Inside. "Haunted when the minutes drag" is really a killer song and you could almost imagine Murphy singing it.
At any rate, I doubt at this point I'll ever be able to see them again live, though I suppose it depends on how long and to where their current or ::crossing fingers:: future tour(s) take them.
Not only is Bela Lugosi their first single after being together for so little time, it’s the first song Peter ever wrote.
You can thank the reggae influence on the bass player (David J). At the time they were forming, parts of the post punk scene were experimenting with Dub (a genre of Reggae), which is how we got bands like The Police (as the most notable example.) The bass he played on Bela Lugosi's Dead was a really slowed down Dub bassline, and it had influenced the band's overall sound through its history. It is why they occasionally sound kind of reggae, they actually are somewhat reggae at their roots. It is also why they are probably the only goth band to be able to slip into Dub/Reggae so seamlessly. It isn't a shift in style when it happens, just a shift in focus on what part of their sound is strongest.
Just saw Love and Rockets last month and really enjoyed your video. 1st time,but not last time,viewer. Subbing now. Cheers
I hated pop music back in the early 80s. A friend put on the Mask album and my jaw hit the floor. Eventually I obtained every single, EP and album they ever put out. The epitome of pioneering Goth music.
Just discovered your channel, and summarily subbed. Looking forward to binge watching your offerings. Informative and sincere. I'm in!
In hindsight, some of Bauhaus music might have seemed rough or incomplete, but to put it into perspective, it was all incredibly new. So, yes, most of it was considered experimental. For a guy that was hearing it for the first time in the late 70's, very early 80's, it was mind blowing. I can recall hanging in the SF scene when all this was coming out, and it hit hard. Yes, the Goth fishnet was put to use by the Bauhaus, but looking back on it now, check out some of Bowie's live concerts during his Ziggy era, and you'll see the fishnets on him as well, and that was '70-'72. If I were to be even more cynical, I'd say a lot of what Bauhaus did was derived from Bowie. The huge difference being the more modern sound and percussion.
I have a fond memory of driving my Lambretta from San Francisco to San Diego to watch Peter Murphy play when he first broke away and went solo. For that matter, Love and Rockets has a place in my heart as well.
Cheers
Tones on Tail…
That is all.
Just found this video and love this so much! Bauhaus is a favorite band of mine.
Also your makeup and look is so COOL!
the first release of The sky's gone out came with press the eject and give me the tape. It was recorded over 3 venues, one of them being The Royal Court in Liverpool. Yes, i was there.
I hope you end up doing more of these. Really informative and entertaining and I enjoyed it a lot.
I did learn some stuff. On a side note, I saw Peter Murphy at the London passport office when collecting mine, but was too shy to say anything to him at the time. cheers for the video.
I’m old lived in Glasgow and seen Bauhaus The Cure Southern Death Cult Meteors Death Cult PIL Sex Gang Children Siouxsie Virgin Prunes The Cult it was magic and many more parties
Great review been a fan of Bauhaus , love and rocket since early mid 80’s
Was Nick cave influenced by Peter Murphy?. The 2nd album cover reminds me of The Cure album from the early 2000's. I only know 3 songs and really like to go and listen to all the albums from start to finsh.
It's a great movie the heavy metal one.
I love Bauhaus, especially the Skys Gone out. I feel this album is more more of a journey than than their others. Where did you get the really clean clips of them on the Oxford road show Top of the Poos. I had a video years ago with all these clips. What a performers
Just getting into them. Very interesting, informative and concise, thank you. I didn't get the appeal of goth in my youth in the 90s (despite many of the people in my circles enjoying it) but it's never too late to start appreciating a genre. Bela Lugosi... has an obvious dub beat, so the reggae elements aren't surprising.
Lene Lovich would be so cool! 🦇
Impressive coverage of a great band. Your take on each album was spot on although I tend to enjoy Sky over Mask (might be the cover). Really like the commentary of the music vids 😂 and do Nephillim next!
45 Grave could be discussed, and whatever happened to their guitarist Pat Smear? No one ever talks about him, other than him being in the Germs.
Like 45 Grave wasn't cool, and never existed, like when people didn't know about Samhain in between Misfits and Danzig.
Pat Smear went on to join some lesser-known bands such as Nirvana and The Foo Fighters..
Not even a mention of Tones on Tale?! Still, thanks!
Nice video man! Subbed!
The final Bauhaus album was a bit confusing.
Some songs sounded like Love & Rockets (featuring Peter Murphy singing) while others sounded like Peter Murphy songs backed up by The Guys from Love & Rockets.
It's very hard to tell which songs they actually wrote TOGETHER AS BAUHAUS ... if there were any.
A Suggested Video would be of what is known as The Cure's "Goth Trilogy" (the albums "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith", and "Pornography").
Although Robert Smith calls the whole Goth thing complete and utter bollocks, pretty much EVERY Goth has these particular 3 albums.
It was Bauhaus that introduced me to Bella Lugosi. I don't mean they actually introduced us at a party in person, they just, you know, made me aware of him. And German art. They made me aware of that to, and subsequently, Der Blau Reiter.
Thanks, Bauhaus.
I was privileged to see Bauhaus on several occasions but the one that stands out the most was they 1979 gig at the Warehouse in Leeds very short set due to the material they had but it was electric not seen anything like it before . The gig was only attended by a curious few but was one in a life time experience.
As innovative and relevant as Bauhaus were, Murphy's solo work is so much more sophisticated. Dust is epic, for example. Hot Trip to Heaven is a wonderful classic album and L&R's apex but there has never been an album like Cascade and there never will be again.
EDIT: I've met him twice. A gem of a human. Long, funny story.
A friend introduced me to Bauhaus in the early 90s, years after they split up. I was so overjoyed to get to see them live during the Resurrection tour. That they have toured sporadically for decades after they split up, and even put out Go Away White, is beautifully on-point with the undead theme.
Dr. Sanders!!!
This video is really good!
True fan. Have the album your holding with the glow in the dark bela. Just amazing . daily listener
The one and only time I saw Bauhaus live...we had pit tickets...he swear on me ffs...well...Peter...not once...but two fuckin times during the show reaches down and hands my Fiance at the time...a rose. It..was...fuckin...amazing.