#314/1994 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
1986 Housekeeping
The Lucy Show
Mania
Genre: Rock
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Land and the Life
View from the Outside
New Message
Woah.
Talk about shifting gears.
I really liked that first album but this is a 180 turn from that moody Joy Division-esque stuff. It’s like the doors blew off and The Lucy Show walked in, saying, “Really, U2?? U-fucking-2???? Here!”
And threw down an explosive record that is a harbinger of what’s to come from those Bauhaus kids in a couple years with one of my faves of the era by Love & Rockets.
It’s not just the original Bauhausians that turned their frowns upside down and found the beat but even the kids who were influenced by them.
Everything that REM would be doing and L&R and others is already being attempted by this band.
And then they broke up, apparently.
Great album.
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