Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Bauhaus
In The Flat Field
(4AD, 1980)
Undead goth godfathers play the number one songs in Devil Heaven.
Yes, Lord Sutch, Black Sabbath, The Cramps and plenty more had mixed music and scary films before them, but it was Northampton's Bauhaus who were present when the Gothic Horror tendency in rock'n'roll was birthed. Glam-Bowie fans on post-punk with future Maxell cassette ad star Pete Murphy declaiming actorly at the front, their ghoulishness-with-backbone debut was a tasty mix of the serious and the daft; see how the tribalistic title track makes reference to both the Labyrinth of Greek legend and sorting out index cards (Murphy was working at a printing firm at the time) in a breakneck song about being bored, or the exuberantly demonic Stigmata Martyr, where Murphy channels The Exorcist and gets in hysterics as Daniel Ash's guitars scrape and clang and bassist David J plays four notes, evilly. It all, surely, relates to that regional condition of tedium and the self-generated imaginative escape from it, and the LP's best enjoyed with a side order of debut 12" Bela Lugosi's Dead, the band's spectral tribute to the oft-married Hungarian actor who famously played Count Dracula. Bela's most famous line in the 1931 film that made him synonymous with the role: "Listen to them. Children of the night - what music they make."
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 20/05/2010
Further Listening
Bauhaus – Mask (Beggars Banquet, 1981)
The Cure – Pornography (Fiction, 1982)
The Sinister Ducks – The March Of The Sinister Ducks (Situation 2, 1983)
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A record of astounding beauty.
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