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Posted: September 27 2017 at 18:09
Bauhaus because of The Hunger -- used to be one of my five favourite films. I did buy the Volume One 1979-1983 compilation CD back in maybe 1990, but haven't listened to in many years. A friend of mine offered to pay me double the album's worth if he could use it a as a Frisbee and smash it to bits. I refused on principle.
Haven't heard Human League in ages.
EDIT: Incidentally, the Bauhaus song "In the Flat Field" has one of my most quoted lyrical couplets, which I liked to break out in various awkward or boring social situations. And if it wasn't awkward already, it usually would be when I intoned:
"Yin and yang lumber punch Go taste a tart, then eat my lunch"
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Posted: September 27 2017 at 18:28
Not a big fan of either one but I distinctly remember listening to college radio in the early 80s and getting bored and annoyed whenever Bauhaus came on (which was way too often). They seemed so pedantic and unnecessarily maudlin. I felt they took themselves way too seriously.
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Posted: September 29 2017 at 09:41
@ Logan, the first Human League albums have some hints of being a band whom have heard there share of Amon Duul - Wolf City and enough of obvoius eclectic prog supertrio (KC, VDGG and GG) influence so Human Leageu aint afraid of angulare directions of songs nore dissonance
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Posted: September 29 2017 at 14:30
Icarium wrote:
@ Logan, the first Human League albums have some hints of being a band whom have heard there share of Amon Duul - Wolf City and enough of obvoius eclectic prog supertrio (KC, VDGG and GG) influence so Human Leageu aint afraid of angulare directions of songs nore dissonance
Thanks, I'll look into that. Perhaps if I didn't have an attachment to The Hunger, then knowing those would have changed my vote. Like with Cat Sevens and Harold & Maude, the Graduate with Simon & Garfunkel, or A Clockwork Orange and Beethoven's 9th and Zardoz with Beethoven's Seventh, or The Hunger with Delibes' Lachme and Schubert's Trio in E Flat (both of which would beat the Bauhaus for me), a filmic association often makes music resonate more to me. Which is interesting in a way, since I listen to a lot of soundtrack music where I haven't even watched the movies.
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Posted: September 29 2017 at 15:12
I don't ever again listened to none of these but in the old radio days I enjoyed some Human League while driving with the window down (while completely indifferent to Bauhaus - and hated Eurythmics, btw)
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