Would someone please explain why Bauhaus is releasing a new album?
The reviewer from NPR reports what we all already know:
The record's opening track is a pretty un-Bauhaus-sounding, almost jaunty rock tune with a Taxman bass line called "Too Much 21st Century." From there, the band settles comfortably and effectively into its familiar, spare, rock-in-a-minor-key gloom grooves. Unfortunately, in the second half, the songs start to dissolve into slow, maudlin, melodramatic self-indulgence.
Is there anything more pathetic than elderly Goths trying to relive the glory days of 1982? Nope.
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I saw this too. I got my tuesday email from I-tunes and it was on there.
It doesn't concern me so much that they have a new cd coming out. I just can't understand why the cd is getting pushed by the record company. There are tons of bands still trying to live of successes from days gone by, i.e. Van Halen.
They usually just release stuff and no one knows, exactly like it should be.
I think the record execs just have little else to promote, so sad.
Agreed. I even like Bauhaus. But there's absolutely *no* reason why they should be releasing a new album in 2008. It's over, Johnny...
This whole 80s revival thing is officially out of control. Like Billy Joel, it must be stopped.
One Word: DOOM
Just you wait, the next decade will be even worse. The coming 90's revival well be a fuckin' train wreck/oil spill/nuclear holocaust all rolled into one.
Dear anonymous,
Two words: JESUS JONES
Anon: You're right about the inevitable 90s reunion. "Grunge" all over again. Have I mentioned that I have always hated Nirvana?
Imipolex: Jesus Jones! Yikes! I hate to admit it, but I actually saw them play back in 1992, I think. Long story. Thank goodness, I didn't *pay* to see them. I'm pretty sure they were lip-syncing (no joke!).
Ned's Atomic Dustbin opened. They sucked too...
I hope if they do a Nirvana reunion that they dig up Kurt Cobain, stick some hydraulic cylinders in his rotted corpse and a rod up his arse to stand him on stage and animate him in a Disney "Hall of the Presidnets" style.
The Police reunion was pretty good, better than a lot of new bands I've seen- which I think denotes the sad state of affairs in teens pursuing music or the labels that promote them.
Bauhaus though was good for 2 albums and that was it. They should have stayed apart. Nothing worse than aging goths trying to relive past glories.
I swa Jesus Jones with an opener of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and EMF. I think the whole show was sequenced.
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