Taking Dark Sides: Peter Murphy Vs. Daniel Ash

I need to hear this.

But then again, on the downside, Motorcycle

DOWNSIDE? That's a great song! Loud as fuck.

I need to hear this.

Yes you do.

Is Earth, Sun, Moon not actually one of their best, then? Maybe that was the wrong album of theirs to start out with.

x-post. The one you want is [[Express]] - I got the reissue recently and my god, what a gorgeous psychedelic mess of an album. Lovely.

That, I agree, was substandard.

I like Earth/Sun/Moon a lot but it is easily the calmest of their albums, and less kaleidoscopic.

Also, David J relinquished his claim to being the best Bauhaus alum when he released "For Bauhaus Lovers," which is a legacy cash-in if I've ever seen one.

http://www.capricious.org/albums/DavidJ/david_j_at_the_middle_east_march_31_2002b.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/on/darknymph/images/j3.gif

errrrrrrrr..

http://www.werenotafraid.com/images/226/David_J.jpg

http://www.photographersdirect.com/news/200411images/David.jpg

http://www.pauseandplay.com/davidj.gif

xpost...well, that too.

It sounds like an approrpriate song for such a title, which really can't be a good thing.

-- kyle (akmonda...), November 3rd, 2005.

damn, am I glad to be on my side of the generation gap about this one.

Anyone with sense is going to pick "????" off that album.

Daniel Ash in a heartbeat. Peter Murphy has never really interested me away from Bauhaus.

I dare say that "Cry Me A River" by same is also a quadrillion times better than "So Alive".

It's not that the lyrics of "Motorcyle" are anything great -- it's simply THAT huge fucking guitar sound. So unweildy and massive and great -- that you can't appreciate it only underscores your (typical) failure to understand that which rocks.

Anyone with sense is going to pick "????" off that album.

Do you mean "Jungle Law"? It's fucking brilliant.

Daniel Ash in a heartbeat. Peter Murphy has never really interested me away from Bauhaus.

I like quite a bit of Murphy's solo stuff, but sort've lost interest circa Holy Smoke.

That which rocks is usually synonymous with that which sucks.

I disagree with Dan on the worth of "Motorcycle" but I like me the big riffs, as Alex notes. But I do highly agree with Dan on the worth of "So Alive."

Not NEARLY as overrated as "So Alive".

""Slender Fungus" is completely goddamn brilliant!"

Heed Ned well - for he speaks with great wisdom and perceptiveness.

"You'd describe Tom Petty as a shining ball of meat?"

Well, maybe not: but I've long had my suspicions that he sucks the toes that linger round your feet - and indeed, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that has kissed a fish inside a stolen jeep on at least one occasion. Possibly even more often than that.

Thank you, blessed acolyte.

*notes explosion in NYC area*

Huh, odd. Anyway.

Sounds like a cue for a new thread....

TS: Bauhaus vs. Killing Joke

.... and retire immediately

You are correct, sir. Great album cover too:

http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~real/image32.jpg

Me on the album.

Anyway, Ash - no doubt. Pete is a clown.

On planet girl, we go for a whirl... etc. oh yeah, best spin off ever.

Daniel was never involved in the Jazz Butcher. David played on a couple of albums and tours, I think Kevin did one session at least. But usually drums were played by Owen P. Jones (Apparently they woke up one day and found him living in their house "ask him if he plays drums!" said Pat "But he's got a beard!" protested Max. "Well, tell him to shave it off, and he's in," replied Pat - goes the story) and guitar was played the stupendously fantastic Max Eider.

However, Max Eider does rule, and "Drink" is the best song ever about the joys of sweet alcohol.

"Falling apart in bars
I like to suffer for my art
Just one more before we part..."

(For the uninitiated, imagine this being delivered and sung in the kind of light-hearted, breezy 30s jazz that Eric Idle specializes in for his Monty Python songs.)

Any deeper thoughts on the Daniel Ash solo discography? I mean, Coming Down sounds alright enough (if not a patch on anything Love and Rockets released before their last couple), but I can't find much use for Ash's next two solo albums. And it's not for lack of trying, either -- I'm a pretty big fan of Bauhaus (obv.), L&R, Tones on Tail, Dali's Car, Peter solo... just can't get into the Ash solo stuff very much.

peter solo = give me Love Hysteria and Deep and that's all I'll ever really need

Tones on Tail > Bauhaus and I think I appreciate daniel ash's role in bauhaus more than peter murphy's so I have to go with daniel ash here.

i kinda couldn't take any of ash's solo stuff. so much of it was sooooo lazy in that bad later L&R way. lazy rhymes, lazy guitar playing. nothing songs.

i never posted on this thread? then ASH for me! cuz he was in three bands that i love and murphy only in one.

plus, he's one of my fave guitarists. and i dig him as a vocalist way more than murphy too.

I got my public radio member card the other day and the name of the enrollment management guy in charge of writing thank you letters was named Daniel Ash. I thought of this DA and loled to myself thinking of him having a day job like that.

"We really appreciate everything you do for public radio!"
http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_tankboy/2007_09_daniel_ash.gif

My favorite Ash moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jP5S4l1zEc

At least Daniel Ash was not in a Twilight movie.

like he'd say no

Depends on whether or not they'd let him wear leather onscreen.

Depends on whether he proves a nefarious sartorial influence on young Pattinson.

Imagining him with Ash's pineapple hair and seizing up.

Dust and Hot Trip to Heaven are both completely underrated.

Daniel is 55 today.

That...is strange to hear.

Tones on Tail FTW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUbXATC70w

it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does

lol https://soundcloud.com/daniel-ash-383422151