Re: Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980)

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:35 pm

And she's going "Peter, the thing stunk to high heaven, you'll never get a nice girlfriend if you go about like that".

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:35 pm

Track 2 - In the Flat Field.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:35 pm

Now this does sound like Warsaw era Joy Division.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:36 pm

David Bowie does Joy Division.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:38 pm

The album was "absolutely slated" by the British weekly music press, according to Bauhaus biographer Ian Shirley.

NME described the album as "nine meaningless moans and flails bereft of even the most cursory contour of interest, a record which deserves all the damning adjectives usually levelled at grim-faced 'modernists'."

Reviewer Andy Gill then ultimately dismissed them as "a hip Black Sabbath".

Dave McCullough of Sounds was also negative: "No songs. Just tracks (ugh). Too priggish and conceited. Sluggish indulgence instead of hoped for goth-ness. Coldly catatonic."

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:39 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:40 pm

Track 3 - A God in an Alcove.

by Guest Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:40 pm

I quite like this. shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:40 pm

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:40 pm

Rickenbacker-y jangles.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:41 pm

It is much more like Joy Division than I expected.

by Guest Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:41 pm

Ooh, who does this sound like.

Sister of Mercy?

by Guest Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:42 pm

I'd have been all over like this like an Octopus when I was in my Post Punk phase.

25 years ago.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:43 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Ooh, who does this sound like.

Sister of Mercy?

I dunno, are we jumping ahead in time a bit.

It's like "We Walked In Line".

by Guest Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:43 pm

I was always put off them by that pointless Bowie cover they did.

by Guest Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:43 pm

Nightjar wrote:
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Ooh, who does this sound like.

Sister of Mercy?

I dunno, are we jumping ahead in time a bit.

It's like "We Walked In Line".

'They'.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:44 pm

Track 5 - Dive.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:45 pm

Devastating doom-laden use of the word "silly".

by Guest Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:45 pm

Disco bass line.

Swiped straight off Youth.

shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:45 pm

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