Sky's Gone Out

Bauhaus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fontana a&M
• ASIN: B000002GDX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,268 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An album that should not be overlooked..., April 29, 2000

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B. G. Shultz "pyfr" (Rockwall, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sky's Gone Out (Audio CD)

The usual gripe that people have with this album is that Bauhaus seem to be a little more self-indulgent than on previous albums. Admittedly, this album does take more patience than the first two releases, but it can be a very rewarding listen when given a chance. Songs like Third Uncle, Silent Hedges, Spirit and All We Ever Wanted Was Everything are familiar faces to most, but the album as a whole is a gem. The Three Shadows trilogy is a very dark reflection on something that has to do with fish, urine, Oedipus complexes, and fresh pink babies. A very disturbing and surreal experince. In The Night is a pretty heavy song for Bauhaus and Swing The Heartache boasts some of the strangest music Bauhaus has ever produced. The experimental Exquisite Corpse displays the band's abstract approach to songwriting and a few absurd yet wonderful lyrical passages. The aforementioned Silent Hedges has to be one of the best songs ever written about the onset of insanity and Third Uncle stomps. Spirit will make you want to jump up on the bar with a mug of ale in hand and shout "We love our audience!" again and again. Definitely recommended to anybody disgusted with the current woeful state of modern music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Coloured Lights Are For Christmas Trees", January 12, 2000

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kirkesque (formerly Yellowstone Park, now in Cape Fear) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sky's Gone Out (Audio CD)

What dark cliche has NOT been leveled at these gothic godfathers of sinister shade? This album is the artistic masterpiece of the band as a full unit. It is not as gritty rusty razor blade edged as their pre-album singles, nor their debut "In the Falt Field"; it isn't as creepy as the boogey-man on tiptoes of "Mask"; and not the perfection of solo efforts-combined-to-a-band that "Burning From Inside" was (they lapsed into different drug states by that point); this album begins with the amputee-themed burn-me-again Eno cover of "Third Uncle", and simply doesn't let up for the duration of the side (side? yes, Virginia, this was an "album"). With features like Peter's voices melting black into "His wrist onto the razor slides", and the suicide-scenes of "Swing the Heartache", and a finale of the side, their ironic mantra "We love our audience" from "Spirit". Flip the side (ah, the wonders of digital technology, no sides...), and you as a listener are taken gloriously through a world of dim light and heavy shadow. Factory town seems kelidoscopic after the grim "Three Shadows". Sacrifical infants and drinking tins of piss end with the longing melancholy of "All we ever wanted was everything". `bout sums it up. Ah, yes, "Exqusite Corpse". Like the literary game of the same name, this song seems composed in secections, leaving the listener reeling by the time the band hits their jammin' stride with reggeta le bauhaus. And the added tracks on the import disc is like the tasty clean up after the fix. Music evolved a bit with this album, showing that not only psychedelic art rock can create such perfect soundscapes that draw in anyone with ears. This is Gothic music at some of its best, by its best. If goth and psychedelia were wed in some unholy matrimony, Bauhaus would be playing the wedding march. And it would be "Third Uncle". Save "Three Shadows" for the kids...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's my favorite album too!, September 14, 2000

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"saint_artaud" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sky's Gone Out (Audio CD)

While the whole may off to some as rather inconsistent, I have to say this album is a great testament to what Bauhaus were capable of and all the possibilities of their career.
On this, we have the lightening glam-tinged rock of "third uncle" (a cover of brian eno btw), the melancholy drama of "the three shadows," or "all we ever wanted," and the bizarre experimentalism that marked just about all their work (you really must listen to the last piece).
Over all, it is an interesting album with what appears to be a theme running throughout. But then, I could be wrong. Rather sad that they were so heavily criticized in their own day. Even worse they are rarely given the credit they deserve for influencing so many and remaining so relevant. This is some great stuff.