You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
Go to Page...
Thank you for crosschecking our sponsors!
About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Originally Posted by lunchbox
i "so alive"...
and i actually like peter murphy... possibly more than l&r.
i really didn't care all the much for anything after Love Hysteria... initially
i "so alive"...
and i actually like peter murphy... possibly more than l&r.
i really didn't care all the much for anything after Love Hysteria... initially i loved Deep, but going back and listening to it, aside from a couple of songs, OUCH! especially because i could NEVER get over the fact that The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (and that which cannot be repeat) was an absolute rip-off of In the Flat Field... that always burned me.
ges, what's your take on the most commercial of his songs: "cuts you up"?
i was in 5th grade when that came out and is therefore my reference point for all things peter murphy. i discovered l&r in the same nature... so the two are sort of separate entities to me. when i got older, i made the connection that *gasp* they derived from the same band and it was from there that i developped an appreciation for bauhaus. i kind of went backwards, i guess.
ges, what's your take on the most commercial of his songs: "cuts you up"?
i was in 5th grade when that came out and is therefore my reference point for all things peter murphy. i discovered l&r in the same nature... so the two are sort of separate entities to me. when i got older, i made the connection that *gasp* they derived from the same band and it was from there that i developped an appreciation for bauhaus. i kind of went backwards, i guess.
that album came out when i was like a Junior in High School, and then, i hated Cuts You Up because i thought it was pop slag. the songs i really liked at that time are not the songs i like now. now, i find most of those rather boring and unmemorable... i never even listen to that record anymore.
the lyric SAVES that track. although they aren't as dazzling as his lyrics had been in the past (actually none of Peter's post-Bauhaus lyrics are), they were probably the strongest he'd ever written. even more, i'd say than All Night Long. i love the lyrics and i love the phrasing of that song, i hate the f***ing melody... especially the awfully dated, even at the time, string arrangement.
i think the only other song i could live with from Deep is Strange Kind Of Love. the rest, if i never heard them again, i wouldn't be missing anything... especially Roll Call. GOD, that one sounded like the band didn't show up to the studio one day and the engineer had a leftover drum track from the Soul II Soul session from the night before.
Last edited by gescom; February 22nd, 2008 at 04:30 PM.
the lyric SAVES that track. although they aren't as dazzling as his lyrics had been in the past (actually none of Peter's post-Bauhaus lyrics are), they were probably the strongest he'd ever written. even more, i'd say than All Night Long. i love the lyrics and i love the phrasing of that song, i hate the f***ing melody... especially the awfully dated, even at the time, string arrangement.
i think the only other song i could live with from Deep is Strange Kind Of Love. the rest, if i never heard them again, i wouldn't be missing anything... especially Roll Call. GOD, that one sounded like the band didn't show up to the studio one day and the engineer had a leftover drum track from the Soul II Soul session from the night before.
i would have to agree. it's the lyrics that won me over more than anything. otherwise, that kind of music wouldn't have been my cup of tea. would be interesting to see that put to a different tune, hmmm? i wonder how it would work.
agree further on the lyrics for bauhaus' music being better, which is why discovering them after the fact was fun.
lol at the last paragraph.
mcsorleyminute... i miss the ventura theatre.
blotto... heh. at this point i feel the same age as all my older friends i have so what's it matter!?
Last edited by lunchbox; February 22nd, 2008 at 04:44 PM.
Reason: annoying emoticon deleted.
blotto... heh. at this point i feel the same age as all my older friends i have so what's it matter!?
And I feel the same as my younger friends, so looks like we're even-steven. Anyway, getting close to 40 kinda sucks, but junior high and high school in the 80's sure was the shizbitnitsbitchz. DAMN what good times--and great music.
I remember House of Love opened for Peter Murphy...I forget where though. Anyway, I saw Bauhaus on BOTH reunion...or...resurrection tours and they were freaking great. It's too bad that they aren't touring for the new album, but you never know what will happen in the future. I've always loved the song Crowds.
As for Love and Rockets, I never really got into that ambient sound that they headed into with Hot Trip to Heaven. I mean, I remember thinking some of it was kinda cool, but it's been a long time...maybe I need to listen to it again for s***s and giggles. Express...track for track...is my favorite album from them. So many memories with that CASSETTE. Damn...that was in my Walkman for about two or three years straight.
i was in 5th grade when that came out and is therefore my reference point for all things peter murphy.
I recently bought that album for nostalgia's sake; I like some of the songs a lot, but it's true, not as much as I did back then. Agree though, on the "Roll Call" thing-always hated that. And hey you youngsters, I was almost ready to graduate from UCLA when that came out! But I still also feel as young as I did then (except Friday nights when I come home from work and fall asleep on the couch).
p.s. Boy1der, it's actually still an album even though it's a CD.
Pencil me in as being in the Tones on Tail camp. I liked their stuff better then any iother variations/ncarnations. Lions and Rain are just two amazing songs. They should remix all of this stuff in 5.1. If youve never listened to Rain with the Headphones its amazing-almost a Pink Floyd Feel to it.
As for Murphy-his solo stuff is all pretty good. There are actually 2 versions of a Strange Sort of Love-one slow acoustic and one more popish. The Marlene Dietrich song on Deep is actually pretty moving and has emotional ties since that was a tough time for me in a relationship I was in.
"so alive"...
OTTo VoN BLoTTo
