Disco de Bauhaus: “Sky's Gone Out [Bonus Tracks]”

While the whole may off to some as rather inconsistent, I have to say this album is a great testament to what Bauhaus were capable of and all the possibilities of their career.

On this, we have the lightening glam-tinged rock of "third uncle" (a cover of brian eno btw), the melancholy drama of "the three shadows," or "all we ever wanted," and the bizarre experimentalism that marked just about all their work (you really must listen to the last piece).

Over all, it is an interesting album with what appears to be a theme running throughout. But then, I could be wrong. Rather sad that they were so heavily criticized in their own day. Even worse they are rarely given the credit they deserve for influencing so many and remaining so relevant. This is some great stuff.

I think Bauhaus(the band) became one with Bauhaus(the art school/movement) when they released The Sky's Gone Out. Tracks like "Spirit" and "The Three Shadows(I-III)" bring to mind Kurt Weill, Weimar Culture and German cabarets. The rest of the album is a smart amalgam of post-punk expressionism and good old rock n roll. Their cover of Eno's "Third Uncle" is pricless -- highly energetic and manic...a great way to start off an album such as this. "Silent Hedges" and "In The Night" take the disonant vampiric drama concepts of In The Flat Field and meld them with the ultra-slick production of Mask. And to prove that Bauhaus is not just a gloomy and detatched goth band(but a truly original and innovative rock n roll band), they serve up two diverse tracks: "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything", a rather tender and endearing ballad, and "Exquisite Corpse", a classic slice of the band's quirky sense of humour. All in all, this a great, well-balance album. It's got everything you look for when you go looking for Bauhaus.

The Sky's Gone Out is probably Bauhaus' best, though least appreciated album. The boys clearly reached their experimental peak in these recordings, a great sense of gothic elegance (not eldridge-esque sophista-spook, but a very clean, almost Miranda Sex Garden type classical/rock feel) Silent Hedges, Spirit, and the Three Shadows are total classics. (The Brian Eno cover on track 1 is quite good also) Alot of the other songs are a bit awkward (the ska riffs on exqisite corpse), but all in all, it's a wonderful album.

If you like dark/brooding goth music, and you don't already own this, you might need a visit to the shrink, pronto. ;)

This album is REAL goth, made by real goths, not some people standing around in yarn hair pretending to be GOTH at a stupid music festival full of "industrials" born after 1986.

This rocks.

lots of people say that this band started goth but don't buy into all that without hearing this band for yourself. i remember as a kid seeing reading Thrasher magazine and seeing skaters wearing Bauhaus t-shirts. well, that was enough for me to go check them out. i bought "Bela Legosi's Dead" on cassette and played it endlessly. i played it endlessly not because i liked it; but because i couldn't understand it and i had to keep listening o it again and again. eventually, it all started to sink in...the rhythms, the mood, the strange numbness of it all.

"The Sky's Gone Out" captures the band in perhaps, their most daring creative point in their musical career. alot of Bauhaus fans aren't too keen on this album. why? well.,,perhaps because the first song (a cover of Brain Eno's "Third Uncle") is so fast and rocking? admitingly, it's a rather strange way for a Bauhaus cd to start off...but it's a thrilling first song. once you get to the second song, the brilliant "Silent Hedges" you may feel like you're in more familiar territory. with the creaking guitar ghostly echoing and semi-spooky singing. as the disc goes on, many more faces are revealed, there's the Bauhaus stage show ("Spirit"), the very very creepy and downright psychotic Bauhaus (the entire three parts of "The Three Shadows" trilogy) , the tender Bauhaus ("All We Ever Wanted Was Everything"..which contains one of the Murphy's strangest and most haunting lyrics: "get up, eat jelly...") and the confused Bauhaus (the final cut "Exquisite Corpse" which even seems to contain a reggae passage(?)). so there is quite alot here to divulge and if it all sounds like a bit of a panoramic mess, well, it is...but a bloody good ride from start to finish.