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Anyone remember this? I remember seeing it briefly on TV, though I think it was a late one. Also remember seeing it in a full spread in magazines, where the guy is seated and is blasted by the sheer power of the tape. What i didn't know was that Peter Murphy singer of Bauhaus was in this. He was in the Hunger, but surprisingly not as an actor. He should have played Lestat, not freaking Tom Cruise!
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Riptide, that might be one of my fav commercials ever. I remember the print ad in Rolling Stone as well. Good call on Lestat.....that guy in the chair was the essence of vampire chic. I often attempted to recreate that powerful moment....much to my Mom's chagrin.
Come to think of it, she was more of a "Is it live or is it Memorex?" type person it seemed.
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I think I even still have some old Maxell mix tapes I made back then. Been a big Bauhaus/love and Rockets/Tones on Tail/Peter Murphy fan for ages. I saw Bauhaus once and Peter Murphy solo once, great shows. You could tell he was Bowie-influenced(who wasn't?). One of the coolest looking performers ever.
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don't get me started on my love for Bauhaus. it would get embarassing. my second favorite band of all time.
i love the Tones On Tail reference. "OK This is the Pops", "There's Only One", "Now We Lustre", "Instrumental" "Copper", and "Go!" are some of their greatest songs.
when i was in college my friend gave me this 12" by Love and Rockets called Motorcycle. It's only 4 songs but it's incredible. seventh dream... is my favorite album.
and after watching the movie control, it looks like my man ian curtis was a bowie fan too.
i used to work at this local market when i was a teenager back in the 80's and i would steal, er, borrow, maxell tapes all the time. i think they were maxell high bias 120minute XL-II or something like that. the tape box had like a gold trim to it. they were the best for their time. most of my comp tapes have since disappeared, but i still have some that i keep in my truck with all of my other cassettes.
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Unbelievable how much talent was in Bauhaus and all it's offshoots. I even have some David J/Jazz Butcher albums. I remember hearing Double Dare for the first time and being speechless as I never heard a song like that before, Mask is my favorite album, although the debut comes close. L&R I like too, so Alive got all the ariplay, but I like no big deal and Kundalani Express as well.
I love Psych Furs, Virgin Prunes, Cocteau Twins, Dead can Dance, everything but the girl, Specimen, Skeletal Family, John Foxx, Adam Ant, Siouxsie and Banshees, Section 25, Smiths, JD/New Order, Fall, Happy Mondays, early Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Teardrop Explodes, Stone Roses, Fields of the Nephilim/Sisters of Mercy, Echo and the Bunnymen, just a plethora of the eclectic alternative 80's.
I just watched Control last weekend along with a Joy Division Documentary, amazing stuff. Seeing that was a reveletion, especially the persepective of the "other" woman in IC's life Annik Honore. I heard some disturbing news last week that some deranged fan stole Ian Curtis's gravestone, have they no respect? I really hope they give it back.
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without gaying up this thread any more than i have, i am not lying when i say that "Double Dare" was the first Bauhaus song i ever heard and it absolutely blew me away. i had already just started listening to bands like the Dead Kennedy's, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies and bands like that and i was on my way away from the metal that i listened to up to that point in my life. but when i heard Double Dare, it just flipped some switch in me that i couldn't explain. i still rememeber the next group of songs my buddy gave me on the comp tapes he made for me: "Dark Entries", "Stigmata Martyr" and "In The Flat Field". he finally followed that up with the knockout song that was "Bela Lugosi's Dead". i couldn't believe how incredible these songs were and he then went on to make me copies of the full albums(probably on maxell tapes to keep this post thread related). this is one of the only bands where i can honestly say they have only one or maybe two songs out of their entire collection that i don't like. there will never be another band like them again.
and because i knew a lot of goth girls in the 80's , i was way into all of those "alternative" bands. i'd like to include from your list bands like The Cure, The Mission UK, New Model Army, Killing Joke, Kate Bush, Sinead O'Connor, Buzz****s, The Damned, The Clash, Christian Death, Dead Milkmen, Depeche Mode, the Foetus albums, Swans, 45 Grave, The Cramps, Einsterzende Neubauten, Husker Du, Janes Addiction, Fishbone, the Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths/Morrissey, Modern English, Naked Raygun, Pailhead, Pixies, PIL, REM, Squeeze, The Cult/Southern Death Cult/Death Cult.
not to mention hundreds of punk and hardcore bands i love.
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