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In the Flat Field by: Bauhaus List Price: £8.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.98 You Save: £2.01 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5014436130021 Label: 4ad Manufacturer: 4ad Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: 4ad Release Date: November 01, 1999 Studio: 4ad Sales Rank: 17867 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: When godfathers of goth Bauhaus initially issued this insidious opening shot, it virtually changed the face of the UK independent music scene overnight. Choice elements of punk, glam and metal were stripped to their barest bones and infected with a virulent strain of sonic spite. Statuesque and skeletal lead vocalist Peter Murphy roars with a passionate commitment that's nothing short of blood-freezing as Daniel Ash provides spiky shards of fractious guitar dissonance. "Double Dare" with its ponderous and menacing overdriven bass riff is malicious doom incarnate. The blistering, adrenal rush of the title track further intensifies the melodrama, "The Spy In The Cab" is a brooding slice of claustrophobic art school minimalism and "Stigmata Martyr" a genuinely disturbing, blasphemous plummet into "crucifixation ecstasy". Even today, this cobweb-strewn Dead Sea Scroll of Goth retains its rare, ignominious appeal. --Ian Fortnam Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - We are bauhaus !Having just bought the CD some 24 years after originally buying the album... I am shocked at how good it still sounds. They were my favourite band of the time and Pete was a great showman. The atmosphere they whipped up was always dark and sensual unlike the bleak, hopeless but brilliant Joy Division which were also the talk of the students union bar. Fantastic; buy it, buy it all.... as for Goths, dont think the word really existed at that time so stop making comparisons. Rating:  - 80's alternative with more than just a hint of Goth.Kings of Goth, Bauhaus made history with this album. It's goth to the core, in the musical sense. Straying away from the heavier side of goth, the darkness here is no less stringent. This album is worth buying for the stupendously moody but utterly fantastic "Crowds", but this band have long since been surpassed for beautiful goth tunes. Get this album though, as a sign of respect if nothing else. Rating: - Gothic cathedralPeter Murphy being one of my favourite musicians, it’s interesting to investigate his roots in this seminal goth album from the early 1980s. Compared to his later solo work, this music is raw but passionate and multifaceted, utilising innovative drum patterns, guitar bursts and alienated vocals to create sparse sounds of gloom and foreboding. The eeriest tracks here – and my personal favourites – are Small Talk Stinks with it insistent repetition of the title, the frightening St. Vitus Dance and the hair raising Stigmata Martyr with its Latin chant that sounds like the black mass. A God In An Alcove and Spy In The Cab are further above-average tracks. Bauhaus were brave in their experimentation and deserve their cult status as they didn’t ... Read More: Rating: - I Dare - YouPeter Murphy may get bored In the Flat Field, but you would need to be part of the undead to not appreciate the uniqueness and vitality of Bauhaus's debut outing. Prior to the release of this album in 1980 I caught them as a support act to Magazine in Bristol Trinity Centre and was blown away by songs like God in an Alcove and In the Flat Field. The songs are stripped down with scratchy guitar sounds and pounding drum rhythms. This CD has the added benefit of containing one of my all time favourite singles, Terror Couple Kill Colonel. If you want to dip into the world of Bauhaus, buy this and the singles, as you need to hear the classic Bela Lugosi. Bauhaus were the original goths, nothing gets remotely close. Rating: - This is post punk goth at its spikiestWhat a legendary band - and a truly fantastic album. Bauhaus have to be heard to be believed, and this album is as good a starting point as any. They are extremely theatrical, yet without any silly pomp and ceremony. In fact, their music is often stripped right down to the bone - see Spy in the Cab. No goth band since Bauhaus has managed to create such an intense atmosphere, which is why this is a must-have for true fans of the genre. But even the term 'genre' is restrictive, for Bauhaus cast off the shackles of convention and instead do their own thing. Imagine a twisted, demonic David Bowie and you don't even come close. The genius of this band lies in Peter Murphy's incredible versatile vocals, which range from the deepest guttural sounds of Transylvania ... Read More: |
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