|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
bela lugosi's dead,
By
This review is from: Bela Lugosi's Dead (Audio CD)
what can you say about peter murphy's haunting tones over a background of goose bump inducing rhythms.... they really knew how to make you listen in those days.... and 9 minutes in one take! cant see any bands around these days doing that!!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deliciously Creepy!,
By Asmodeus (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Bela Lugosi's Dead (Audio CD)
I purchased a used copy which, after a little cleaning, sounds as good as new.
This single has more substance than many albums do today! I have yet to be bored with this gothic mini-soundscape. Its sinister tone makes one doubt the truth of the song's title. You expect the black -cloaked shadow of Bela Lugosi himself to be leering back at you from an ill-lighted corner! The gloomy atmosphere is not in the least diminished by the completely different subject matter of the b-side,"Boys" either. I was also impressed when I read that the band's inspirations for this song were silent horrors, "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari" and "Nosferatu" as well as Bela Lugosi's classic 1931 potrayal of Count Dracula and it really captures everything I feel about old vampire films in general, up to and including"Return Of The Vampire" and the Hammer Horror films. An essential buy, even for casual Bauhaus fans. Perfect for Halloween!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Birth of The Weird,
By Erica Bell (Washington State) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bela Lugosi's Dead (Audio CD)
Bauhaus and Peter Murphy, who has long since given up his past and become a Muslim, distilled just about everything great about the era in these elegant, revelatory, and slinky nine minutes. As a young woman in 1981, I stumbled on this EP in Palo Alto, and got a taste of what the REALLY cool kids were listening to...elsewhere. Then, as now, nothing remotely as hip as this was played on the radio in the Bay Area. Later in college, I recognized samples of this seminal tune in other songs. And who wouldn't sample it? "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is like midnight in a really erotic but unsettling dream.
Other bands had done weird before (the UK's Throbbing Gristle, the San Francisco-area Residents, for instance)but Bauhaus used German Expressionist imagery and sleek guitars and actually sounded good. They may have been, in retrospect, the beginning of Goth, but no other band, in my opinion, has sounded remotely like them since. I still have the vinyl, and I'll never ditch it, because Bauhaus was often...what? Listen to the later "Slice of Life", and other tunes from "Burning From The Inside"--"Who Killed Mister Moonlight", for instance. Not timeless, but instead REMOVED from time. "Velvet lines the black box" of this tune and like Dracula, it's literally undead, and will never die.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Passionate about music?
Learn more at SoundUnwound, the personal music encyclopedia, or challenge your friends with our music quizzes.
