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| 4.1 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | April 7th 20 |
Holy moly, that guitar can wake up the dead while the bass drives the last nails into your coffin. I was expecting some funeral gothic post-punk, but this is a violent, angular and prophetic danse macabre. Bordering on noise rock, especially on the incredible first two tracks, this is one hell of a statement in 1980: while others already have been playing with noise, here it's accentuated by an extreme intensity, an awkward hate, sombre dissonance and pure, honest emotion. It's almost a shame the second half of the album relies much more on traditional post-punk and is overall a tad less ominous and immersing. Yet, when this album hits, it fucking hits.
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| 2.5 average | platttt | April 7th 24 |
Man, I really want to love this. Post-punk with a monochromatic cover had me hoping for Joy Division. When Bauhaus are good, they're fantastic, but this album has, well, oddities that really throw me. 'Small Talk Stinks' and 'Saint Vitus Dance' are total trash. Normally I find it laughable when bands are too reverent, but I find myself wishing Bauhaus would do exactly that.
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| 5.0 classic | Isley Browne | April 15th 19 |
Albums like this make me wonder what the bias is toward debut albums. Coming straight out of the gate into the music industry doesn't mean you can't release something as legendary as In The Flat Field.
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| 3.5 great | ScrappytheHedgehog | December 15th 16 |
A diverse album that benefits greatly from it's extensive weirdness but is also a bit hampered by it at times.
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| 4.0 excellent | mkamrass | March 24th 14 |
These guys really know how to make a creative and experimental post-punk album! This album seems ahead of the time.
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| 5.0 classic | MadBaron | April 24th 11 |
Truly unique and still cannot be topped by the leagues of Goth imitators that this album
spawned. Loaded with intense basslines, restrained, smoldering drum patterns and abrasive
guitar for nervy texture. Peter Murphy's vocals are incredible, ranging from deep, David-
Bowie-Sex-Vampire tones to barking like a lunatic.
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| 5.0 classic | xfearbefore | October 15th 10 |
One of the most influential albums in the entire canon of post-punk acts that swept across Britain in the early 1980s, Bauhaus created the blueprint for gothic post-punk on their debut release. Yet still after all these years, nothing has ever sounded anything quite like Bauhaus or this album, and it holds up just as aggressive, emotional, abrasive, and brilliant as ever. The vocals range from soft whispering to Peter Murphy screaming his lungs out while the guitar has a gothic drone effect that cannot be matched. Yet somehow on songs like "St. Vitus Dance", they take all of these things and make it DANCEABLE! Truly a landmark album and one of the best of the initial onslaught of post-punk acts, highlights include the amazing "St. Vitus Dance", "Stigmata Martyr", "In the Flat Field" and "Double Dare". If you have even a passing interest in gothic music and/or post-punk, you need this album immediately.
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| 4.3 superb | Ryan P STAFF | December 22nd 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hastur04 | November 29th 25 |
| 5.0 classic | Brabiz | August 20th 25 |
| 4.5 superb | Ainso | August 7th 25 |
| 5.0 classic | Lvxfra | July 5th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | facupm | June 15th 25 |
| 5.0 classic | Soifon | May 1st 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Corney | January 9th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | January 4th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Merlijn | November 28th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Grungil | November 14th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gumboot | October 16th 24 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | January 9th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | December 23rd 23 |
| 4.5 superb | heuhe | October 1st 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Samuel | March 27th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | headsaw | February 22nd 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Kuna | February 7th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Timmy | January 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nagrarok | November 10th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | leamhan | October 28th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Bren80 | August 1st 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Peatbe | June 8th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | June 7th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | iGuter | February 19th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | sncold | February 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | KuyJuk | December 29th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | biggzhc | October 25th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | May 10th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Juuso | February 7th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kantala | August 8th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Source | June 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hel9000 | June 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aeternal | February 22nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | peahat | December 20th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Henry | October 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | October 2nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aranox | August 6th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Raqinq | July 18th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | JS98 | March 30th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Moraff | March 5th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | ghworin | February 13th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | RomanLy | January 20th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | bSmith | January 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | bbgames | December 15th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | dvdkmlr | September 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jekub | May 21st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | BeeRyan | April 20th 18 |
| 3.0 good | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | rifkadm | February 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fear | December 26th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | orakst | December 22nd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | elch21 | October 6th 17 |
| 3.5 great | aghast | July 20th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | wub | April 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | kokageni | February 22nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | SeiGor | December 8th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | F1Aaron | November 1st 16 |
| 4.5 superb | tyler | September 27th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | md5 | September 20th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | August 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sebe | August 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | July 31st 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Veldin | June 22nd 16 |
| 3.0 good | dosia | May 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | mzeet | March 28th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | CC | February 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xerian | February 14th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | bobby72 | February 12th 16 |
| 3.5 great | spur55 | February 3rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | espnil | November 2nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | tjare | October 7th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. EMERITUS | October 4th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | wrecked | September 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | airbear | August 10th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | jk2two | June 8th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | swoen | May 17th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | hsb | May 15th 15 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | March 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | ToddDC | February 20th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | December 25th 14 |
| 3.5 great | mxbrady | September 28th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | slarti | September 27th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrfixit | September 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | SkaCali | June 13th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | msm008 | May 28th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Amebix | May 22nd 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Sithese | February 17th 14 |
| 2.5 average | porch | February 4th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cal665 | January 19th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blade86 | January 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | tarkus | January 8th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | dre517 | December 18th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | blurkom | December 1st 13 |
| 4.5 superb | unkle | November 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greem | November 1st 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Aids | October 31st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Spoink | October 20th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Spawnix | October 1st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | heck | August 19th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | alexdub | August 14th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | seifer | July 27th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ralphims | February 24th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | kn2985 | January 9th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Titan50 | December 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atheus | November 20th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | t67 | October 16th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | BlueW | September 13th 12 |
| 3.0 good | quelus | September 11th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | CutMan | June 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | aguzman | April 13th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Host78 | March 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nikkolae | February 27th 12 |
| 3.5 great | kount | January 11th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Oblomov | December 13th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Vesper | November 3rd 11 |
| 2.5 average | stfrnz | August 17th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | krkat | June 17th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom93M | April 27th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jips | November 17th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Centre | October 22nd 10 |
| 3.5 great | Skyler | April 1st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | FLRTE | March 11th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | cubbzor | November 19th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Ceziria | October 12th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Egglord | February 7th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Hewitt | October 27th 07 |
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