bauhaus mega-post

Push me in take me t’ward
The sub­ject in the sub­ject taught
A war with­out a war within
Join head and heart for to begin
Be­mused we flinch no easy work
For in­vit­ed me are loath to shirk
The line be­tween the devil’s teeth
And that which can­not be repeat

Pow­er to suc­cess, re­spect and climb the steps

 

“Orig­i­nal­ly, the band was called Bauhaus 1919 af­ter the Ger­man art move­ment; by 1979, they had dropped the 1919 from their name.”
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine
 

Sto­ry of my life as a young mu­sic fan.

I didn’t have much mon­ey and that ex­posed me to a lot of ob­scure stuff I wouldn’t have ven­tured to if I had mon­ey, like this Bauhaus BBC comp. It was the same price as a reg­u­lar CD but twice as long, so I got it not know­ing that it was most­ly rid cov­ers and experiments.

I had re­cent­ly spent $11 in 1989 teenag­er mon­ey on the Bela im­port sin­gle with 2 songs on it so I need­ed bang for buck and fast.
 

I nev­er got to see them in their OG run but I did get to see them rip through this one like a fer­al an­i­mal at Coachel­la and that’s dope enough for me.

I had no idea Pe­ter was ever this an­i­mat­ed on stage.

And of course the in­cred­i­ble be­gin­ning of that show with Pe­ter en­ter­ing up­side down:

What was great about Bauhaus is that they could ex­ist com­plete­ly sep­a­rate from the en­tire goth sub­cul­ture and still to­tal­ly make sense as their own thing.

They jumped off Roxy and Bowie and prob­a­bly thought at times they were copy­ing each but there were too many bril­liant peo­ple in the same band so they failed and end­ed up mak­ing some­thing new.

This was on their BBC comp and it blew my tiny mind:

This Eno cov­er from the same BBC comp also destroys: 

And hey, re­mem­ber MTV’s Road Rules?

Cuz I don’t. What the hell even was that?

 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2018 Ja­son Malm­berg. Ad­di­tion­al ma­te­r­i­al: V Jonathan Facile, seen here. In­tro: Some of Pe­ter Murphy’s solo work.

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