In the Flat Field (Album)
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October 1, 1980 |
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9 |
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41:06 |
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In the Flat Field is the first studio album by the English post-punk band Bauhaus .
background
In the Flat Field was released on October 1, 1980 under the label 4AD . Despite the almost consistently bad reviews, the album reached high positions in the independent charts and climbed to number 72 in the UK album charts. The band's first album was recorded at Southern Studios in London after a 30-date tour of England. When the band had established clear conceptual directions, they decided to produce the album themselves.
A certain problem arises with the piece Double Dare , which was previously disclosed for the first time in John Peel's BBC Radio 1 program. The band had problems reproducing the distinctive sound of the piece in the studio and therefore applied to the BBC to use the version of the piece played there. This bureaucratic undertaking also took several months.
The album was first released on CD in April 1988, also under 4AD. This re-release included eight bonus tracks including the singles Dark Entries , Terror Couple Kill Colonel and a cover version of T.Rex ' Telegram Sam .
Reception and style
The music is attributed to the original style of Gothic Rock , which emerged in the post-punk environment , which was known as Gothic Punk in the second half of the 1990s and retrospectively was also attributed to previously published publications. In some cases, other stylistic terms based on cultural studies and market economy are and were used to describe the same style.
The album In the Flat Field is considered by many critics to be the first album of the Gothic genre .
In 1980 the British music magazine NME rewrote the Bauhaus debut album In the Flat Field with the headline Gothick as a brick .
"The accompanying text defined Bauhaus as the latest product of a 'tough, punky-modernist black and white crossover' ... on the verge of tapping into a potentially huge market that was opened up by the early work of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Joy Division ."
A year after Joy Division's first single in 1979, Bauhaus also presented itself for the first time with the song Bela Lugosi's Dead and in the following year filled a gap that Adam Ant left with his development into New Romantic pop with In the Flat Field would have. The “theatrical-glamorous […] blasphemy ” of Bauhaus was more attractive than “picture book fairy tales about pirates and Indians”. Bauhaus combined with the erotic and blasphemous texts of Peter Murphys and their look, together with Siouxsie and the Banshees, the appearance and appearance of the emerging scene.
Track list
A side
- Double Dare - 4:54
- In the Flat Field - 5:00 am
- A God in an Alcove - 4:08
- Dive - 2:13
- The Spy in the Cab - 4:31
B side
- Small Talk Stinks - 3:35
- St. Vitus Dance - 3:31
- Stigmata Martyr - 3:46
- Nerves
occupation
- Peter Murphy - vocals, guitar, production & cover design
- Daniel Ash - guitar, saxophone, production, & cover design
- David J - bass, production, cover design
- Kevin Haskins - drums, production & cover design
technology
- Paul Cook - sound engineering
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again - Post Punk 1978-1984 . Faber and Faber, April 2005, ISBN 0-571-21569-6
- ↑ Bauhaus: godfathers of Goth or the ultimate post-punk band - in appreciation. Retrieved July 16, 2015 .
- ^ "Bauhaus | Official Charts Company". Official Charts
- ↑ a b Shirley 1994, p. 43.
- ^ Bauhaus: In the Flat Field. Retrieved July 16, 2015 .
- ↑ 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die , p. 53.
- ↑ Shadow Worlds Heroes and Legends of Gothic Rock , p. 152
- ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again - Post Punk 1978-1984 . Faber and Faber, April 2005, ISBN 0-571-21569-6 , p. 431