BAUHAUS Mask LP BEGGARS BANQUET 1981 UK orig+foc BEGA 29
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BAUHAUS
Bauhaus are the founding fathers of goth rock, creating a minimalistic, overbearingly gloomy style of post-punk rock driven by jagged guitar chords and cold, distant synthesizers. Throughout their brief career, the band explored all the variations on their bleak musical ideas, adding elements of glam rock, experimental electronic rock, funk, and heavy metal. While their following has never expanded beyond a cult, they kept their cult alive well into the '90s, a full decade after they disbanded. The group formed in 1978 in Northampton, England. Guitarist/vocalist Daniel Ash, bassist/vocalist David J (born David Jay Haskins), and drummer Kevin Haskins had played together as a trio called the Craze before forming Bauhaus with vocalist Peter Murphy. Originally, the band was called Bauhaus 1919 after the German art movement; by 1979, they had dropped the 1919 from their name.
"MASK"
1981 LP BEGGARS BANQUET RECORDS BEGA29
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
GATEFOLD SLEEVE
NOTES: Recorded at Playground and Jam.
All lyrics copyright 1981 Beggars Banquet Music Ltd.
Manufactured in the UK. ℗ & © 1981 Beggars Banquet.
Distributed by WEA Records Ltd a Warner Communications Company.
There is a similar version with extra text at the bottom of the
inside right gatefold, to the left of the bullet point, not found here.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: BEGGARS BANQUET - BLACK LABEL w/ARTWORK – SILVER/RED TEXT
Catalog on cover: BEGA29
Catalog on labels: BEGA 29 BEGA 29 A / BEGA29 BEGA 29 B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): W-17 BEGA+29+A ARUN
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): W-17 BEGA+29+B
On labels: Manufactured in the UK.
℗ & © 1981 Beggars Banquet
Composer: Bauhaus
Publisher: Beggars Banquet Music
Producer: Bauhaus
top rim text “All rights……..prohibited”
bottom rim text "Distributed by WEA Records a Warner Communications Company Ⓦ"
On inside panels: Tracklist w/Lyrics + Credits + Notes
tracklisting
Side A: HAIR OF THE DOGS – PASSION OF LOVERS – OF LILLIES AND REMAINS – DANCING – HOLLOW HILLS
Side B: KICK IN THE EYE 2 – IN FEAR OF MUSIC – MUSCLE IN PLASTIC – THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES - MASK
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Managing the sometimes hard-to-negotiate trick of expanding their sound while retaining all the qualities which got them attention to begin with, on Mask the members of Bauhaus consciously stretched themselves into newer areas of music and performance, resulting in an album that was arguably even better than the band's almost flawless debut. More familiar sides of the band were apparent from the get-go; opening number "Hair of the Dog," one of the band's best songs, starts with a double-tracked squalling guitar solo before turning into a stomping, surging flow, carefully paced by sudden silences and equally sudden returns to the music, while Murphy details cases of mental addictions in pithy phrases. The energy wasn't all just explosive angst and despair, though; the one-two punches of "Kick in the Eye" and "In Fear of Fear" have as much hip-shaking groove and upbeat swing to them as portentous gloom (Ash's sax skronk on the latter, as well as on the similarly sharp "Dancing," is a particularly nice touch). Elsewhere, numerous flashes of the band's quirky sense of humor -- something often missed by both fanatical followers and negative critics both -- make an appearance; perhaps most amusing is the dry spoken-word lyric beginning "Of Lillies and Remains," as David J details a goofily grotesque situation as much Edward Gorey as Edgar Allen Poe. Add to that three of the most dramatic things the band ever recorded -- the charging, keyboard-accompanied "The Passion of Lovers," the slow, dark fairy-tale-gone-wrong "Hollow Hills," and the wracked, trudging title track, where the sudden appearance of an acoustic guitar turns a great song into a near-perfect blend of ugliness and sheer beauty -- and the end result was a perfect trouncing of the sophomore-slump myth...(AllMusic)
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