In rare instances, all members of a band agree they have nothing more to say and part amicably. More often, breakups arise from severe internal conflicts: over creative issues, or simply because they can't tolerate being together in the same room any longer.
This breakup song falls somewhere between John Lennon's bilious "How Can You Sleep?" and Peter Gabriel's philosophical "Solsbury Hill". But closer to the former than the latter.
My guess? Daniel Ash wanted to contribute more to Bauhaus, while Murphy didn't think Ash's songs were worth a shit.
Unlikely the details of this track's history will ever become widely known. Ash used several of the same lines--verbatim, or nearly so--in his song "Movement of Fear" for Tones On Tail.
How can both of them (simultaneously, truthfully) offer it as their own original work? Good question.
In rare instances, all members of a band agree they have nothing more to say and part amicably. More often, breakups arise from severe internal conflicts: over creative issues, or simply because they can't tolerate being together in the same room any longer.
This breakup song falls somewhere between John Lennon's bilious "How Can You Sleep?" and Peter Gabriel's philosophical "Solsbury Hill". But closer to the former than the latter.
My guess? Daniel Ash wanted to contribute more to Bauhaus, while Murphy didn't think Ash's songs were worth a shit.
Unlikely the details of this track's history will ever become widely known. Ash used several of the same lines--verbatim, or nearly so--in his song "Movement of Fear" for Tones On Tail.
How can both of them (simultaneously, truthfully) offer it as their own original work? Good question.