Artists

Peter Murphy – lead vocals
Daniel Ash – guitar, backing vocals
David J – bass guitar, backing vocals
Kevin Haskins – drums, percussion

Written by David Bowie. Produced by John Sparrow (BBC session producer), engineered by Mike Robinson; the members of Bauhaus are also credited as producers. Recorded for the BBC Radio 1 David Jensen Show, first broadcast on 22 July 1982, and released as a single on 5 October 1982 (Beggars Banquet), backed with “Third Uncle.”

A cover of the title track from David Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, taken from a live BBC radio session rather than a studio recording. The late John Peel was lukewarm about the cover, saying he never fully understood its appeal, yet it still reached No. 14 in his 1982 Festive Fifty listeners’ poll. The single later appeared on the compilations The Singles 1981-1983 and Bauhaus 1979-1983, and an earlier rough demo was included on the 1998 reissue of the album Mask.

Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust Lyrics

Ziggy played guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
And the Spiders From Mars
He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man
Then we were Ziggy’s band

Ziggy really sang
Screwed up eyes and screwed down hair-do
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick ’em by smiling
He could leave them to hang
Came on so loaded man
Well hung and snow-white tan

So where were the Spiders
While the flies tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us
So we bitch about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands

Ziggy played for time
Jiving us that we were voodoo
But the kids were just crass
He was the nazz, with God-given ass
He took it all too far
But boy, could he play guitar

Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
We had to break up the band

Now Ziggy played guitar

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Artists

Peter Murphy – lead vocals
Daniel Ash – guitars
David J – bass guitar
Kevin Haskins – drums

Written by Bauhaus (Daniel Ash, David J, Kevin Haskins & Peter Murphy). Produced by Bauhaus. The opening track (3:53) on Go Away White (Cooking Vinyl/Bauhaus Music, March 2008), recorded in 2006 at Zircon Skye studio in just 18 days.

Bauhaus’s first studio album in 25 years and their final one, with the opening track chosen to kick things off with the band’s classic goth-rock sound. The album was made largely in first takes, and Peter Murphy has said it felt like the right time for the band to end. Critics at the time saw it as a summary of their career, with reviewers noting the influence of the members’ later work with Love and Rockets and Murphy’s solo career.

Bauhaus – Too Much 21st Century Lyrics

There outta be
Something better

A better singer
A better actor
Better job

Better money
Better get her
Better lover
Better not

Too much luck
Too much conceit
Give me one religion
It’s too much

Too much
Passing information

Too much selfish
Too much fake
Too much computer
Too much to take
It’s too much

Too much effort
Too much, kid
Too much control
Control
It’s too much

Bet you want to
Be something better
A better singer
A better actor
Better job

Better money
Better got her
Better love her
Better not

Ready?
A better human

It’s too much
It’s too much
Oh, yeah

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