hsu@UICSRD.CSRD.UIUC.EDU (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) (11/17/86)
Re: Experiment IV (wait, calm down, John...) I think I heard this in a record store the other day. I thought it was some OTHER female singer (name withheld to protect both the singer and *ME*) trying to sound like Kate Bush... Re: Rob Rosen's roommate Rob, maybe you should like push him off the Golden Gate or sth.? I don't let anyone mess with my perverted sex manuals. (BTW, those figures on the orange catalog are by Keith Haring, who is now just about the trendiest thing on the east coast. He should have stuck to leaving anonymous drawings in subway billboards, sigh.) I'll try to dig up my copy... The incomplete but almost essential info on Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/ Love & Rockets... What Bauhaus-haters think of Bauhaus: "Pretentious artsy-fartsy bullshit, boring, silly poseur post-punks for the trendies." What Bauhaus-fans think of Bauhaus: "Good live band with vicious distorted guitars and strong lead singer. Daniel Ash is God." Both sides are probably correct. They do have occasionally pretentious lyrics, but they have played some good music, especially the earlier stuff. Essential Bauhaus albums: Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape (good live album with 10 min. Bela Lugosi's Dead,) The Sky's Gone Out (with the best Eno cover anyone has ever done,) and Bauhaus: the Singles (tho the big compilation may make this redundant.) The other albums: In the Flat Field is a relentless, savage album (their first) that I liked but is a little more primitive. Burning From the Inside (their last) is more commercial but has a few good songs. I don't have Mask or any of their numerous 12"s. Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets are essentially Bauhaus without Peter Murphy. Both are relatively slick, poppy and accessible. I have a Bauhaus boot tape (Leicester '83) if anyone's interested... Bill