Comments on: Duran Duran Hussein Obama, Reptile Reptile

by: Todd Seavey

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:09:02 +0000

I’d heard the band — particularly “These Things” — but hadn’t seen the video. Hunger-TASTIC!

by: jenny

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:54:48 +0000

i think murphy went off the musical deep end after releasing wild birds, myself. can’t listen to his new stuff at all. but the last time i saw him in concert he had the most incredible drummer, which made it all worthwhile.

speaking of bela lugosi’s dead, todd, have you seen the video for she wants revenge’s written in blood?

by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:10:10 +0000

Often, yes. Occasionally, as with “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” the throbbing chant-like approach works, but it’s still very flat compared to lovely solo songs like “Cuts You Up.”

Buckley once called the Beatles the High Popes of Anti-Music (though he later recanted), so I guess that would make Bauhaus the Mullahs of Anti-Music.

(And people who click on your name and look at your site will see you’re well qualified to judge any movement calling itself Bauhaus.)

by: Dave Whitney

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:06:32 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with being primitive. The Troggs are primitive; the Ramones are primitive. Bauhaus, though, is antimusical.

by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:32:08 +0000

On the bright side, Murphy’s solo stuff is generally far more beautiful than his old Bauhaus stuff, one reason I’ve seen his solo shows about five times and only one Bauhaus reunion show (with my girlfriend at the time and I dressed as Olive Oyl and Popeye, respectively, just to give the usual goth thing a twist — and to make use of the Halloween costumes we’d failed to use).

I recall you (and/or Dan Greenberg) once said you went to a 90s Duran Duran show at which some teenage girls _didn’t know_ the “old stuff,” meaning things like “Union of the Snake,” which makes me feel as alarmingly old as I will when one of the interns at work, inevitably, sooner or later, says, “Well, Britney Spears is a little before my time.”

I mean, you expect people to say they don’t know the old stuff at, say, a Paul Weller concert or something, but with a band as pop and in as heavy video rotation as Duran Duran, it’s more frightening somehow.

Note: seeing Murphy, the Fixx, and They Might Be Giants each about five times means the acts I’ve seen most are Muslim, Luddite-green, and presumably-liberal-Brooklynites, respectively, so I’m OK with judging aesthetics separately from philosophy. Will probably see Rush one of these days, though.

by: jenny

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:50 +0000

that doesn’t say much for rand-inspired music, does it? liberty bombed - i think i may be the only person who bought it when it came out (and i still own the copy). but then, reviews at the time were more interested in lebon’s rhyming of “jism” with “catechism” than the music itself.

everyone needs duran duran. especially those who think they don’t. and the skeletal mr. murphy now sports a wattle.

*sigh*

all my heroes are sagging.