Monday, August 13, 2012

The Passion of Lovers - Bauhaus

From 1981.  By many accounts, these guys originated the goth idiom in rock in pop, although it is arguable that hard rock in the late 60s and 70s had a lot of the elements lying around (Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, the black magic references in Led Zeppelin, just to name a few).  Bauhaus injected punk/raw-postpunk elements, which was novel.  (I don't see the aesthetic connection with the Bauhaus artistic/design style, but that's OK). The vocal (and deep, echoing production) is there, which seems to have started everything off.

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