A recent comment from Craig Cobalt prompted me to dig out a couple of Bauhaus albums that i'd put together from their non-album b-sides. There was enough material for two 40 minute albums and I was trying to decide how to sequence them - two discs in chronological order, split in half? - when it occurred to me that two of my very favourite tracks of theirs - 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' and 'Rose Garden Funeral Of Sores' - were on 12" singles, so I checked out some of their other 12"ers and found there were enough good songs on them to add to those two and make a great album. I've been a fan of the band since day one, and bought their Axis single 'Dark Entries' when it came out - later to become one of their rarest discs after the label changed it's name to 4AD and re-issued the single. I snapped up 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' as soon as I'd heard it on John Peel, and still think it stands up even today as one of the best ever indie singles. Their cover of John Cale's 'Rose Garden Funeral Of Sores' is a tour de force, and was the start of a penchant for covering eclectic songs like 'Telegram Sam', 'Ziggy Stardust', 'Third Uncle', 'Waiting For The Man', and 'Spirit In The Sky'. The b-sides of the 7" singles will be used for a later complementary post, so that both albums span the same time period of 1979 to 1983. The songs on this post are from the 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', 'Telegram Sam', 'Searching For Sartori', 'Ziggy Stardust' and 'She's In Parties' 12" singles.
Track listing
01 Bela Lugosi's Dead02 Boys03 Untitled (Dark Entries)04 Rose Garden Funeral Of Sores05 Crowds06 Kick In The Eye (Searching For Satori)07 In Fear Of Dub08 Harry09 Earwax10 Waiting For The Man (Live)11 Departure12 Here's The Dub
The second of my Bauhaus posts consists of their stand-alone 7" singles and b-sides from 1979 to 1983, plus a few choice out-takes.They apparently recorded quite a few tracks while in the studio to lay down the classic 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', and the ones which weren't released at the time have finally surfaced some forty years later, so I've included a couple of them here. I've omitted the original recording of 'Boys' as a version of that was on the previous post, and if I'm honest 'Some Faces' isn't really that great, but it's worth at least one hearing, as is the distinctly odd 'Dave And Danny's Waspie Dub #2' which closes the album.
Track listing
01 Dark Entries (Axis single 1980)02 Untitled (b-side of 'Dark Entries')03 Some Faces (from the 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' sessions 1979)04 Bite My Hip (from the 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' sessions 1979)05 Terror Couple Kill Colonel (single 1980)06 Scopes (b-side of 'Terror Couple Kill Colonel')07 Terror Couple Kill Colonel 2 (b-side of Terror Couple Kill Colonel')08 Monkey (Poison Pen) (previously unreleased 1981)09 Satori (b-side of 'Kick In The Eye' 1981)10 1-2-3-4 (b-side of 'The Passion Of Lovers' 1981)11 Lagartija Nick (single 1983)12 Paranoia, Paranoia (b-side of 'Lagartija Nick')13 The Sanity Assassin (single 1983)14 Spirit In The Sky (b-side of 'The Sanity Assassin')15 Dave And Danny's Waspie Dub #2 (previously unreleased 1981)
