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| Go Away White | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bauhaus
Label: Bauhaus Music
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 8997
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.3
MPN: 1
UPC: 891377001260
EAN: 0891377001260
ASIN: B0012IXBPA
Release Date: March 4, 2008
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 From Hollow Hills to Hollow Efforts March 8, 2008
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
Damn. I had hope and I had a feeling and hope didn't win. Bauhaus have remained one of my favorite bands for the last 25 years. Outside of Joy Division and Nirvana, Bauhaus is (was) the only band where I could safely declare, "Front to back, I like every album they made." Not anymore. Go Away White never should have happened. After recently reading that Bauhaus will not tour or record again, I get the feeling they know it too.
Gone are the dark, poetic lyrics of old. Gone is the razor sharp guitar pain of Daniel Ash. Gone is the urgency of a young band, hated by English critics and fighting against all odds to create beautiful, haunting dirges of brilliance. Where songs like Double Dare and Lagartija Nick leave me breathless from its intensity, Go Away White leaves me broken from its boredom.
I don't know the motivation for this album. Whether it was to pay the rent or try and unearth the magic that was once Bauhaus, it failed. (Update - I do know the motivation and it's from Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins themselves on NPR, March 4th, 2008.)
While I was ecstatic to hear NPR covering Bauhaus, their history, importance and new release, I was disappointed to discover that money was the bait from which Bauhaus could not refrain.
There are very few bands that have ever stuck to their principles at all costs in the face of a thick paycheck. Maybe Crass, Coil, Whitehouse, Sonic Youth and a few others that I'm missing. Did I expect Bauhaus to turn down a hefty sum to stick to a moral code? Yeah, I guess so. But I can't blame them. Their library of material is so significant and unique that I will let this slide.
What once was a band of youth, desperation and necessity is now one who can charge money merely for its name. They deserve to be that big; they are that consequential. But this 18 day attempt was dialed in at best. Maybe this album could stand on its own had Bauhaus 1979-1983 not existed. I don't know. I only know they did exist and in that context, Go Away White is a ruptured appendix in an otherwise solid body of work.
 Great rock record March 25, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well, after 25 years without a new album release, its no wonder the mixed reviews for the new (and apparently final) Bauhaus album. Expectations were high. I've been a Bauhaus fan for about ten years and have had their older albums for a long time and I'm familiar with how they USED to sound. I'm a music lover who loves change from artists I appreciate and Bauhaus is no different. I wouldn't have wanted Go Away White to sound like Mask or Burning From The Inside and luckily it doesn't. Go Away White sounds like a garage-rock album, but with clarity. David J's bass is thick and audible, Daniel Ash's guitars are loud and crunchy, and Kevin Haskin's drums are solid and deep. Peter Murphy is as dramatic and crooning as ever. I personally think this album rocks. It's a modern rock "n" roll album with a vintage feel and deserves to be played loud. The only track I found unecessary was the last track, which really wasn't music at all.
Bottom line, the last time this band made new music was 25 freakin' years ago, so why even bother making comparisons? This album stands on its own and I think it's a great record worth repeated listens. Its dark, rockin', and dramatic and that's the way I've always loved Bauhaus. Highlights are Adrenalin, Endless Summer Of The Damned, The Dog's A Vapour , and Saved (weird song but gooood). Fans of the Bauhaus of old owe it to themselves to check this album out. Definitely THE surprise release of 2008 and probably the last decade.
P.S. I don't know about the rest of you guys who actually bought the cd, but I got a cool sticker with mine. Enjoy.
It's as though Peter never got sick... March 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
To me, this is how Bauhaus would sound if Peter hadn't gotten sick and had completed Burning from the Inside. No Love and Rockets as we know it, no Tones on Tail, no Peter Murphy solo projects...or at least not as early as they had arrived. The boys seem to have picked up where they left off, but with 25 years worth of maturity and experience under their collective belt.
While they seem to drift a bit to somewhat familiar waters with a late 90's Love and Rockets feel to "Too Much 21st Century", every song after that gave me that same quiver in my stomach I got when I first picked up "In The Flat Field" as a college kid in the '80's. Each song is mystery to be discovered and unwound with each successive listen. Trace elements of the scars of their 25 years journey become evident to the truest of Bauhaus fans and that's ok because they've never strayed far from their roots in any of their incarnations. So here we have it. The final album. It IS Bauhaus and it's Bauhaus as they have always been and will always be.
Extremely Disappointing March 9, 2008
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was really excited about this album, so I went out the day it came out and bought it. When I played the first track for the first time, I was disgusted. I figured maybe the next song would be better. It wasn't.I don't think the album gets good until around the 6th track, "Saved," and the 7th track "Mirror Remains" is good too. The first 5 songs are just terrible. Track 9 "the Dog's a vapor" is also good- dark and moody, But the last track isn't the song that should have ended the album. I HIGHLY recommend listening to all the sound clips to make sure you want to buy this. Not many of the songs are catchy or worth listening to more than once.
I gave this disc several spins before I decided to review it. I really tried to give it a chance, but the first 5 songs are really unimpressive. The 3 songs I like, I really like. The other 7 songs make me wish they had cut out the filler and spent more time writing something worth paying money for. Make sure this is NOT the first Bauhaus record you buy, because you will be disappointed.
Exitus Pulchre, Dulcis Sanus March 7, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
When one of my favorite bands reunite after an extended break up it's hard not to fear for the worse because most returns never live up to the expectations. The best I might hope for is a sentimental moment from hearing them one last time which takes me back to their glory days. For Bauhaus the glory days ended 25 years ago and to my great and pleasant surprise, they pull off a strong, inventive and relevant work as any before but with a level of maturity most musicians never reach. Wait! Let me put that last statement into perspective for the uninitiated. It's like the Beatles getting back together and making a modern day 'Revolver' instead of 'Free as a bird'. It's like Michael Jackson putting out a modern day 'Off the Wall' instead of "Invincible". It's like Led Zeppelin making an album number 5 as good as album number 4. It's like David Bowie creating another "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" instead of "Never Let Me Down" It just doesn't happen, you never expect it to happen and when it actually does happen you have to just stand back in admiration and wonder.
That said, what review can add to it? Reviewing this album is like trying to explain the ocean to a blind person. The best you can do is take them to the beach and let them sit until they're brave enough to take a step into the great unknown. On this beach titled "Go Away White" we come to the last work by a band with so much originality and inventiveness the music industry needed an entirely new musical category to classify them. Throughout their history they've been pinned as dark, associated closely with early glam and sometimes reduced to caricatures by youthful imitators trying to grasp their essence. Gloom and Glam hardly go hand in hand, which should tell you how pointless trying to label Bauhaus can be. Their side projects offer the best insight into each member's powerful contribution but Bauhaus has always been a band stronger than the sum of its parts. The best I can say is their songs tell stories woven with irony, hope, despair, pain, rebirth, mystery and a kind of spiritualism. Each song isn't just a lot of noise surrounding a catchy chorus, but more like a delicately crafted work for a different kind of church hymnal, a dark ballet, a secret poem. Again, I'm trying to describe the indescribable. It's up to you to take that first step into the ocean.
The band shamelessly told us before that "We love our audience". This album is the best gift of love we could ever expect. The best we can say is we love you too, Bauhaus.
(the four take a final bow to a shower of roses and thunderous standing applause, the red velvet curtain closes and we dream new dreams)
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