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The context: Born of punk, glam, and what must have been some seriously twisted Catholic upbringings, Bauhaus entered the world fully formed with its 1979 debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead," a torturously distended track of lurking mood and menace. The band followed that up with two near-perfect full-lengths, 1980's In The Flat Field and 1981's Mask, which congealed its reputation as gothic rock's guiding black light. In the midst of post-punk's jerky robotics and worship of the amateur, Mask introduced a fluid, accomplished, and morbidly graceful style that dared to celebrate florid showmanship and mystery. But where Mask dipped its toe in Grand Guignol-esque perversion and theatricality, 1982's The Sky's Gone Out did a belly flop: Incorporating everything from proto-thrash to dub reggae to Tchaikovsky, frontman Peter Murphy and company turned their penultimate album into a disjointed yet extravagant sprawl of warped, sinister beauty.
Tracklist
1. Third Uncle (Brian Eno cover)
2. Silent Hedges
3. In the Night
4. Swing the Heartache
5. Spirit
6. The Three Shadows, Part I
7. The Three Shadows, Part II
8. The Three Shadows, Part III
9. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
10. Exquisite Corpse
CD ONLY BONUS TRACKS:
11 Ziggy Stardust
12 Party Of The First Part
13 Spirit
14 Watch That Grandad Go