Mask

I was hoping this album would feature their cover of Brian Eno's "Third Uncle" as its my fav Bauhaus song, but no such luck. Unfortunately this album didn't have anything to hook me and I think The Cure and Joy Division were much better at the Dance/Goth thingy. I also penalize it for sounding so dated today.

Good but not my fav of theirs

Meh, pretty boring. Sounded a little like devo and talking heads combined possibly?

I'm not a fan of Bauhaus the art movement, Bauhaus the band, or even Bauhaus the font. It's all too tryhard. This album is no exception. It's trying so hard to be dark and gritty but without committing to the bit. Ultimately, this is just bland British take on a boring German art movement. The end result sounds like someone dropped their doomcookie in the schoolyard sandbox. And just like that sand-covered cookie, it's unpalatable.

glad I listened, wouldn't put it on again

Not good at all

Definitely not my style

solid, did not seem to distinguish from other punk rock.

not my thing. discordant instead of nice.

I like this FISH CAKES!

no strong opinions from me

love my sad boi music this album feels so cohesive, there's not a song that feels out of place

I had no idea what to expect, but thoroughly enjoyed the album.

Rating: 5/10

As I approach my mid-30’s, the biggest driver of what I listen to is that I’m a Deadhead - so the great majority of the time that I’m listening to music, it’s jam bands, or the myriad of genres they draw their influence from. Even in such a kaleidoscope of musical styles, goth rock isn’t one of them. However, when I was in high school I listened to a ton of 80’s alternative & indie, so Bauhaus is a band I’ve known of for years upon years, all the songs most people know like “Bella Lugosi’s Dead”, “Stigmata Martyr” or this album’s own “The Passion of Lovers”, to name a few. I’d always figured these guys were more of a singles band than anything else, and for the first five songs of this record the music was mostly background noise in my AirPods while I went about some chores at home. Imagine my surprise when I reached “Kick in the Eye” and a bass line started that sounded like something Phil Lesh would’ve laid down on a version of “Dancing in the Street” from the late 70’s - I sat up straight and the album had my full attention! From that point on it’s more like a melange of goth, funk, and experimentalism, and a far more interesting album than what the initial five tracks suggest.

Very spacy goth music, it was ok but not my thing. Kick in the Eye had a good beat to it; but songs like Hollow Hills were a bit too artsy and dreary for my taste.

Love the first song. Hard, but not too hard. This album's influence can be found all through out punk and hardcore I think. It gets really weird, not in a good way, at the end.

Objectively a great album. Not really my cup of tea.

Det enda jag hade hört från Bauhaus tidigare var Bela Lugosi's Dead, och det är verkligen ett band som faller mig i smaken. Väldigt Joy Division-esque, men lite rockigare och i vissa låtar lite lekfullare. Även om det är överhängande mörkt och gothigt blir det inte alltid 100% depp. I slutet av sista låten på albumet, titelspåret (räknar inte med bonuslåtarna från nyutgåvan), kommer ett förtrollande skarpt gitarrplockande, så olikt allt annat på albumet att det är omöjligt att inte haja till, otroligt bra. Bästa låt: Hollow Hills. Lyssnade bara igenom en gång, och det var denna som stack ut. Här är det dock verkligen 100% depp, mycket stämningsfull och otäck.

While I do not find myself very engaged in the goth-rock theme or aesthetic, I was not entirely unconvinced by this effort. I appreciate the distinguishments shown in their style, in contrast to their contemporaries, Joy Division and The Cure, which I found to be a bit too aggressively poppy in parts of their discographies. However, I do wish Bauhaus went a bit further in vocal energy to showcase their unique style. Only on the Passion of Lovers did I find the vocals engaging, the rest is passable but not enough for me to be greatly memorable. On the instrumental-side, David Jay and In Fear of Dub are absolute highlights in their orginality and composition. Overall I feel a 2/5 is deserved.

most of the songs I didn't like, some for the music, some for the singer

just overall weird. not a great super fun vibe and it was just not my favourite

I don’t know what this is. Wikipedia tells me this band is knowns for their dark image and gloomy sound as one of the pioneers of gothic rock. Its not bad per se but I just can’t see a time I would ever choose to play any of this music. I guess it seems fitting for Halloween or a haunted house. 1.5 starts due to being so niche. The extra half of star is for the weird experience of simultaneously not disliking it while never wanting to listen to it again.

Can hear a lot of ways that they influenced later artists. Interesting stuff!

Was mildly interested in listening to this - I think the only song I'd ever heard from Bauhaus was "Bela Legosi's Dead" which is 9 minutes that should be 2, but I'll give them a pass since I think they were each like 7 years old when they recorded it. Quick research shows this is their second album and being Goth "pioneers" this was apparently where they expanded their sound. It's ... weird. Which was expected. It's also very 1981 which is neither good nor bad but the sound/production alone makes it very much of its time for what that's worth. "Of Lilies and Remains" reminds me a little of some old Gang of Four with the aggressive guitar parts. Overall it's definitely appropriate that I'm listening to this in my darkened basement :) - it's not bad at all, although I can see how some people might loathe this. I prefer [vocalist] Peter Murphy's later highly melodic and darkly catchy solo hit "Cut You Up" much more as this album is more experimental and aggressive/noisy. In the end it definitely does what it set out to do and invoke a very cold/dark mood - i.e. they're good at what they do but aside from a knowing nod if I hear it anywhere I doubt I'd go out of my way for this outside of Halloween :P 5/10 2 stars

Absolutely loved it. I only give it 4 stars because The last songs of the album felt quite weak for me

Amazing. Not

Pretty good album. Never heard of it, but it's a solid mix of goth rock and pop.

It's interesting hearing the roots of joy division and the cure but didn't really think too much of the album, and the second to last song was super out of place

I kind of love how bad the production is on this. It can't destroy how much I like these songs. Not an album I was familiar with before, but will listen again.

the fathers of goth rock, they're certainly influential, but it's not really my taste

Nichts schlimm wie befürchtet

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Nope, didn’t finish didn’t like it.

Pretty much passed me by. It was on while I was in the garden, I don't remember hating it, but I wasn't comfortable making the neighbours listen to it. I did have sudden urges to do some south park goth dancing though.

Early 80s goth

Started with a 4 star and by the end of it I was ready to rip my ears off.

Sounded like bad Joy Division. 2 star for some of the bass playing in it, singing and lyrics are not for me.

Made it half way through. Not half bad.

Gets annoying rather quickly

Really enjoyed this

Take a Bau, son

Goddamnit Bauhaus. It's 80F on a Wednesday, the sun is high, the birds are chirping, and I wanna listen to LA BAMBA. I've been one album behind on 1001 for weeks, and I want to catch up so I can chop it up with the Mayo crew. No one wants to chat about Bauhaus the day after Bauhas was supposed to be reviewed. I try not to do this, but cheated and read Bauhaus' Spotify description, which says they're the founding fathers of goth rock. Well Bauhaus, get your architecture straight. Bauhaus is quirky and utilitarian and has nothing in common with Gothic style. Your music is Dada. C-

Wow, that sure was weird, intense, experimental. It had sine high points, but ultimately kind of jarring and annoying. A lot of cool things happening with instrumentation, there’s industrial, reggae, new wave, post punk, I hear Japanese drums, synths, weird distortion. I hear the roots of cure, echo abd the bunny men, devo, B-52s. I have trouble trying to imagine what context I’d like to listen to this album. They’re doing really interesting things, but the singer is annoying. C

That was an interesting journey.

A solid post punk album, one that made me want to hear live.

🐼

The Godfathers of Goff sounding not very goffy. Presumably there was already a goff backlash by 1981 that they were trying to avoid. The album is fine but is very post-punk by numbers in comparison to the originality of their early output. The change of direction is pretty understandable though, once you've released Bela Lugosi's Dead, toured in a hearse and risen out of coffins on stage every night you're probably just about running out of goff road to run.

V. poor indeed

Gothy. Kind of interesting but sounded like shit production wise

Not for me

This whips ass. They've got a dude who's probably a worse vocalist than me, the thinnest, shittiest production imaginable and they've swathed the whole thing in reverb. It's simply majestic as to the degree that this sucks, therefore it gets a maximum score from yours truly.

“Mask” by Bauhaus (1981) Never heard this album or group. I’m familiar with Bauhaus, the original early 20th century German art movement, and this group attempts to do a similar thing in the 1980s. Formal order to the point of monotony, accentuating the surrounding chaos. It’s cool. Fascinating, even. Proto-goth rock, anyone who enjoys both Jane’s Addiction and David Bowie will enjoy this album, if he or she has the patience for nearly unending minor keys and mechanical proto-disco rhythms. Thoughtful lyrics, even if frequently obscure. For example, in “Fear of Fear”, we get a hopeful message, encouraging the listener to overcome his or her insecurities or anxieties, bringing to mind that strange advice from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, which is the silliest advice ever to receive public acclamation. I think Bauhaus would agree. Nice ‘tribute’ to Debbie Harry on “Harry”, although I’m not sure how she would feel about the line “They'll line you up and strip you down and then you'll see / That you're still the horny two-eyed bitch you used to be”. The song "1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash" is very cool. Actual backmasking as an art form on “4. Daniel Ash”. Wonderful fishcake recipe on “2. Peter Murphy”. Highly recommended. Musically, the album is inventive (this 1981, remember), and it is performed with exactitude, both in the solid grounding of the rhythm section and the sometimes ethereal melodies and harmonic flourishes. Lots of 1980s electronic experimentation. A good album, if somewhat dated. 3/5

This was very....strange. I was expecting something like Joy Division or The cure (things that I like), but it was more...darker and strange. I liked it, but not too much.

A bit weird, it didn't wake up anything inside me, but also didn't bothered me to listen

Funhaus

Meh, wasn't overly into it.

Some good tracks but not for me.

Puro sonido post-punk / siniestro / gothic rock . Canciones como Hair of the dog, Kick in the eye, Muscle in plastic o The man with X-Ray eyes. Pueden gustar más o menos pero creo que definen un sonido que luego se ha replicado con más éxito por otras bandas. El bajo, la batería o las guitarras afiladas. Estos discos en vinilo los estuve buscando eternamente sin éxito. Son 3 estrellas sobradas, pero les voy a dar 4 por que últimamente he estado muy rácano.

Insufferable.

Pretty cool

I like it and I’m really sorry that girl sold all your shit, Andy. Five stars.

Ближе к 4, альбом но не плохой но впринципе прям песен не выделилось

Interesting, fun at times, but also abstract. Electro funk pop, something.

Likely influential

A slow album. I hadn't really listened to Bauhaus before and I was really into the instrumentals, but the lyrics is where it broke down for me. The singing never seemed more than something that was tacked on. It was slow, not very melodic and didn't really flow. A very monotone style on top of some interesting sounds. It just fell flat for me. At times it seems like he was just trying to cram too many words into the songs narrative ("tge passion of lovers"). It all started of great the screeching guitars and nice drum beats ("hair of the dog") but once the singing started I lost interest. Overall an ok album.

Creepily good. The album cover is a masterpiece. Bass and guitar on ‘Dance’ is dope.

Never would have checked these guys out, like it a lot! Other bands borrowed from them for sure

Muziek van Bauhaus is niet echt mijn muzieksmaak, beetje te abstract en vaag

Lyrics were hard to discern and I don't like that. There were a couple of cool riffs but apart from that music was not my style.

Weird hard rock/metal

It was okay

Sucks it wasn’t on apple, but it was surprisingly varied so pretty good

Not really my thing

Second half way better than the first bc of how experimental it is.

Ja, äh, also. NEE! Die im post-punk weitverbreitete Ideenlosigkeit bringt mich auf die Palme. Dieses Album ist furchtbar.

Not bad. Some cool sounds.

Interesting. Not sure what I expected but I liked it.

This is industrial rock, which is ok in my book; however every song sounded the same.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this album.

Not tuneful enough for me but I liked the spikiness and mood.

ziemlich abgespaceder rock

1981. Key Songs: Kick in the Eye, The Man with X-Ray Eyes, Dancing

Haven't heard this record before. Love it. Maybe I should become a goth.

5/19 3.5/5. Dark, experimental, interesting goth-rock album. Standout Tracks: Of Lillies and Remains, Hollow Hills, The Man with X-Ray Eyes, 1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash, Satori

I know of Bauhaus but never heard them. This kinda industrial/EBM/goth stuff is something I'm both interested in and skeptical of. Some of it is cool, some is a real pain to sit through tho, especially the early stuff (and this is 81). Ok this is catchy, has that early industrial ebm kinda rawness but it's almost surf rocky in a way. I know it is at least close to predating the Misfits, but there's a horrorpunk vibe to it almost, at least the more rockabilly kinda end. I think it's just a shame the production is so dated - it sounds almost antique in 2021. Compare to an album like floodland, which was only 5-6 years later etc. Not too bad though, better than expected 3/5.

Nice drum sounds.

Meh