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| Go Away White | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bauhaus
Label: Bauhaus Music
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 17772
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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"Final" album, damn! April 27, 2008
First recording since 1983, damn how their music is timeless. It's a shame that this is the "final" album of Bauhaus. Very mature, very prolific. Not as dark as I wish it to be but,still very inspiring. The very atmospheric "Dogs A Vapor", eventhough not recorded during the same sessions as the rest is very cohesive with the rest of the album. As a whole, the album is great. Cheers to you Bauhaus!
 Don't Go Away Yet May 3, 2008
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Ignore the gloom bringers. This is a good album.
It's so maddening that they've split and we won't get to see these songs performed live. Chanting things like #international bullet proof talent#....
All the Bauhaus albums have their moments but this one is a much much better album to end Bauhaus on than Burning From the Inside.
There are so many similarities in Go Away White with their previous albums. Ash, as usual, gives wonderful guitar work and (dis)harmonises with Murphy memorably. David J's bass is powerful and Haskins' drumming is potent....
The 25 year gap hasn't diluted their ability to make a great album.
So does this album require several listenings you ask? Well, within a couple of listenings I was hooked on several tracks (International Bullet Proof Talent was a rapid hook) and it took a few more listens to absorb the rest. I have favourite tracks here but I guess everyone will have their own favourite from Go Away White.
Some reviewer on another website said that Bauhaus leaves a slightly wiffy corpse in this album. Instead I would tend to think of it as Murphy coming to back life in the video for "Mask".
It compares well May 4, 2008
Although I have been a Bauhaus fan since the first time I heard Bela Lugosi's Dead on KCMU Seattle back in the day, I didn't really get into collecting their catalogue.
I had opportunity to see the boys in black a couple years ago in our local rat-hole theater and THEY TORE IT UP! Since then I have been more active in collecting their recorded works- as finances allow. When I heard that they had a new album out I sought it out, and although it is not the Bauhaus of the 80s, it is still indeed Bauhaus!
Some of the cuts seem thin or unresolved. Undone is almost annoying- I didn't bother porting it to my iTunes library. However, other cuts manage to apologize and make good on your investment.
Black Stone hearts employs very un-goth whistling and hand claps, it made me snicker to imagine a bunch of toe tapping vampyres whistling and snapping their fingers.
Endless Summer of the Damned is a dance hit just begging for some DJ to snag and remix (dear sirrr, please remove the ill-advised backing vocals).
Mirror Remains returns us to the solemn thick Bauhaus atmosphere we all love to wrap ourselves in, and the vampyres regain their dignity.
The Dogs a Vapor is worth the price of admission with its moody prose & soaring and peeling guitar and rhythm bridge. I weep that we may never be able to enjoy this performed live- there is HUGE potential here.
Adrenalin screams and soars as a wonderful rocking drive-by.
Zikir is a nice dreamlike meandering of prose and droning atmosphere to drift away on as the closing cut, artistic yet brief enough to save it from possible monotony.
The live takes provide freshness. You can hear the living beings behind the un-dead. Murphy sometimes pushes notes too far and pays the price- wavers and coughing are left in place. Comments on open mikes are unedited. Imperfectly placed notes and clicks are like fingerprints on a water glass. You can hear the artists in this recording, not a sanitized producer's version.
Yes, Murphy is sometimes indulgent, but the man has achieved a messiah-like status. I imagine it is not easy to remain the humble artist he was in his 20s. As for the rest of the band, time has been their mentor. Like wine they have mellowed and developed those skills that made us enshrine them in our hearts. David J most notably has some really fine moments recorded on this album.
They are Bauhaus in their late 40s, with a quarter century of living under their belts since Bela broke out. They have married, had children, made dozens of records in aggregate and they have all matured as artists.
Go Away White will stand as a quickly jotted, yet perfectly thoughtful, goodbye note left by Bauhaus as they rushed out the studio door and back to their 21st century real-lives.
Although I wouldn't recommend this to a person seeking the essential Bauhaus experience, I would say that those that love Bauhaus with all their scabs and splinters should find something worthy in this recording to add to their collection.
A sad reminder... May 9, 2008
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This is a classic example of going back to the place, but not the time. I love the earlier works of this band. The band had broken up before releasing the album, dousing hopes for another concert tour. Peter Murphy still writes ands sings eerie lyrics, as the rest of the band hobbles along to catch up. Maybe this is the reason for the original break up in 1983. He is just too good to be contained within this band.
This still has all of the facets of a style often imitated, yet never recreated. Bauhaus is legendary in the "gothic set". Now, as music seems to be dead, "Gothic" music seems to be more relevant. The best tracks are Adrenaline and Endless Summer of the Damned. Thanks guys for this final addition to my collection. I cannot wait to see Peter Murphy on tour this summer.
WOW!! May 9, 2008
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IT'S BAUHAUS SOUNDING LIKE SOLO P.MURPHY MATERIAL, LOVE & ROCKETS MATERIAL & A LITTLE ALAH BOWIE ALL MIXED TOGETHER !!!!!!
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