Bauhaus
The Sky's Gone Out

THE REVIEW

This was the only review missing among the Bauhaus album reviews, so even though it's not my favorite, to keep you happy, I am about to analyze the album "The Sky's Gone Out". Certainly, it won't go down in history as one of the best, but in my opinion, it still deserves to be appreciated, not so much for originality, but for the writing of the lyrics which, in my humble opinion, is better than previous works (not an easy feat).

The first track is the cover of "Third Uncle" (Brian Eno). A beautiful and dynamic song that maybe suffers from excessive monotony. Next is "In The Night". From the title, one might expect something fairly ethereal like "Hollow Hills", but instead, it's pure punk that increases in tempo towards the end, almost turning into British pogo punk. Then there is "Silent Hedges", which in my opinion (and here I will incur the wrath of Robert Smith fans) is the neo-romantic song that The Cure never managed to make. Now that you hate me for this rash judgement, you will read my words with a more critical and demolishing eye. The following "Swing The Heartache" is terrifying, heart-stopping, with a riff that seems like that of "Nerves" but acidified to the nth degree. Another famous track "Spirit", which differs from the others and has a decisively less goth sound, but is still pleasant. Next is the famous triptych of shadows (The Three Shadows Pt. I, II, III) with the second one standing out, poignant and melancholic (the Fahrenheit 451 version is also beautiful). "Exquisite Corpse" almost sounds like a much more depressed and drugged Pink Floyd. And then there's her... "All We Ever Wanted". Without a doubt, "Bela Lugosi's Dead" will remain the best, but the lyrics of this song are truly stunning (all we ever wanted was everything/all we ever got was cold/get up, eat jelly, sandwich bars and barbed wire/squash every week into a day). I think any adjective would be reductive, and that everyone has a special relationship with this track, which I recommend even to those who do not like goth rock, given its melancholic universality (what the hell did I just say?).
Worth noting is the cover of "Ziggy Stardust" (Bowie, of course), one of Bauhaus' most successful.