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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's not an easy (or for that matter profitable)practice to release an album firstly after 25 years and secondly with no tour or related promotion.And to complicate matters further they've nailed the lid down for good this time!!
For me "Go Away White" seems like a distant cousin to "Burning From The Inside". As one earlier reviewer pointed out there is a slightly fractious feel of four musical intellects at work. Easier for me to decipher having been a lifelong fan (cue groans of instant 5 star review!)
"Go Away White" is certainly not an instant fix. It takes time.Something of a lost art in this Download/Delete force-fed exsistence that's bullying our ears constantly.It's a Bauhaus album for 2008 NOT 1978.I have my favourite tracks but that's down to personal choice.All I can say is it stands up as a testimony to one of the most inventive bands of my early teens.At least they haven't slavishly and embarrasingly tried to sound like the industrial acts they've influenced whilst totally destroying their trademark brilliance, as certain other artists from this period have.To me they've come away with their credibility intact.
R.I.P.
For me "Go Away White" seems like a distant cousin to "Burning From The Inside". As one earlier reviewer pointed out there is a slightly fractious feel of four musical intellects at work. Easier for me to decipher having been a lifelong fan (cue groans of instant 5 star review!)
"Go Away White" is certainly not an instant fix. It takes time.Something of a lost art in this Download/Delete force-fed exsistence that's bullying our ears constantly.It's a Bauhaus album for 2008 NOT 1978.I have my favourite tracks but that's down to personal choice.All I can say is it stands up as a testimony to one of the most inventive bands of my early teens.At least they haven't slavishly and embarrasingly tried to sound like the industrial acts they've influenced whilst totally destroying their trademark brilliance, as certain other artists from this period have.To me they've come away with their credibility intact.
R.I.P.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I suppose everybody has a band that they consider to be "theirs" and Bauhaus were most definitely "mine"! After seeing Bauhaus on Top of the Pops performing She's In Parties I bought the cassette of Burning From the Inside and everything changed for me and my taste in music. Sod's Law, the band split up a couple of months after I got what was then their last studio album. After bumping in to a seasoned Bauhaus gig veteran on holiday at this time I soon realised my knowledge was woefully limited to the one album and decided to try out their back catalogue. There isn't a single poor Bauhaus album and each one sounds different from the ones before. If Go Away White is your only experience of what Bauhaus are capable of I would recommend dipping in to their other albums.
As they split in 1983 I never managed to see them in their prime and pomp but when they reformed in the late 1990's I saw them at the Brixton Academy and was moved to tears. Here they were almost 20 years after their former heyday and the performance was stunning. A few years later and another attempt at reforming saw the band playing smaller venues but still as vibrant as ever. At this time Bauhaus recorded Go Away White and if I have any criticism it is that the production quality sounds at times rather like a demo session, certainly not up to the standard of their 80's offerings.
This minor glitch aside I'd have to rate Go Away White up there with the better Bauhaus albums. The lads are all on form, Pete Murphy's vocals are as stirring as ever, David J's bass lines are immense (you can hear his influence on Jane's Addiction) Kevin Haskins takes a more straightforward approach to the rhythms and Daniel Ash lets his riffs wash over the tracks, never too much and never too little.
Bauhaus, I thank you. "Oh to be the cream!"
As they split in 1983 I never managed to see them in their prime and pomp but when they reformed in the late 1990's I saw them at the Brixton Academy and was moved to tears. Here they were almost 20 years after their former heyday and the performance was stunning. A few years later and another attempt at reforming saw the band playing smaller venues but still as vibrant as ever. At this time Bauhaus recorded Go Away White and if I have any criticism it is that the production quality sounds at times rather like a demo session, certainly not up to the standard of their 80's offerings.
This minor glitch aside I'd have to rate Go Away White up there with the better Bauhaus albums. The lads are all on form, Pete Murphy's vocals are as stirring as ever, David J's bass lines are immense (you can hear his influence on Jane's Addiction) Kevin Haskins takes a more straightforward approach to the rhythms and Daniel Ash lets his riffs wash over the tracks, never too much and never too little.
Bauhaus, I thank you. "Oh to be the cream!"
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Ok, so this is not vintage Bauhaus. But would you want them to sound exactly the same - or worse, attempt to sound exactly the same? There are trademark Bauhaus moments that totally do it for the enthusiast in me, and then there are less-expected moments of equal merit. Perhaps lesser merit. I enjoyed this album, but I find myself continuing to listen to the original Bauhaus material rather than this, its successor. An effort of some merit, though not sufficient to displace the original in my affections.
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return to form? Perhaps it isn't... but this album is really good!
Return and "say good bye" by bauhaus after 25 years... jumping 2 reunion... the final album (say bauhaus site)... this album is unexpected very good....
Published 2 months ago by Barnabas
Great Cover......not white, but black!
It's a dark,gothic of a album. Bauhaus manage to write a good album especially since their hitting theire 50s. A young album for a legendary old punk band. Read more
Published 13 months ago by luckyboy
Bela Lugosi is dead and Bauhaus are also now well rotten
Was a Bauhaus fan of the early 1980's and the music is still very evocative of my teenage years. I really wanted to rekindle something from this album although truthfully I had no... Read more
Published 17 months ago by joismostlyreading
Old in the tooth, but new on the ears
Bauhaus were one of my favourite bands of the new wave ere, and it was with a sense of trepidation that I first listened to their new album. Read more
Published on 24 July 2009 by Mr. Christopher Lancaster
Good sound
Delivers pretty much what you want from a Bauhaus album, but barely a handful of songs really make the grade.
Published on 24 Dec 2008 by Christopher Morris
Didn't do much for me
This is a very difficult item for me to review. I didn't really enjoy it but I am sure a traditional Bauhaus fan would love it. Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2008 by McColey
Not what I was expecting - a pleasant surprise
I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this. Whilst I enjoyed the Bauhaus tracks that I heard on my teens (the eighties), I don't think I ever sat down and listened to a whole... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2008 by F. Pearson
Bauhaus- Go Away White LP Review (7.5/10)
As excited as I was for the Bauhaus reunion tour over the last couple of years, I don't think I could say the same for a new Bauhaus studio album. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2008 by experimusicdotcom
Surprisingly good.
A new Bauhaus album that actually sounds like Bauhaus was the last thing I expected when I signed up to receive this, but I was more than pleasantly surprised. Read more
Published on 15 May 2008 by J. Charlesworth
Don't go away....
Oh this album is SO good.....it's such a shame that Bauhaus have split up and won't be around to promote it.....oh, to hear these songs played live.... Read more
Published on 2 May 2008 by L. Middlehurst
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