#90
1984 Housekeeping
Tones on Tail
Pop
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
War
Hey, look! It’s ANOTHER Bauhaus member side project! This time it’s Daniel Ash. And he’s not NEARLY as depressed as David J. he’s alllllmost as weird as Peter Murphy’s Dalis Car, but who’m I kidding? That was bad.
Remember when The Cure suddenly stuck their tow in some strange rockabilly “Love Cats” sound? That’s what this makes me feel like. But, not in a bad way. This is a bridge between the darkness of Bauhaus and the pop of Love & Rockets but only if everybody took a LOT of acid on that bridge and decided to become a dance band for half a minute. But just that minute cuz, boy does this get weird.
When Ash and company stick to the twisting of musical styles to bend them to their will, they hit it out of the park. When they miss, though, like on “The Never Never (is Forever)” it’s by a mile. But here’s the thing: All the bones of Love & Rockets are in that song (and “Real Life”). Earth, Sun & Moon is where he gets this right. But, ya gotta wait a few years cuz the taste of this song has to leave your earholes. In the meantime you get to listen to Bauhaus doing their best impression of The Residents in “Slender Fungus”. They fail, but, hey, they try.
The link is for a double album release. The first 9 songs are Pop.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2HLe3MOLEKEhuGIbrGSN3i?si=YH_Cka3xTd-4TP-3xmigVQ
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