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• Eliseu Carvalho from Canoas, Rs, BrazilIs it just my perception or that drum pattern sounds very "Bossa Nova-ish" (is that a word?)?
• Cyra from Angel City, NyIn the song, Bela Lugosi's name is pronounced incorrectly. The band says "Loo goh see", when it's actually pronounced "Loo goh shee"
• Anna K from Mexico City, MexicoAny song fact about Peter Murphy's "Cuts you up"? Please!
• April from Raleigh, NcI don't think it matters so much about what genre this band was in. i too grew up on bauhaus, cure, smiths, & other similar bands. Whether they are Goth, New Wave, Punk, doesn't matter if you truly love the song. Why argue the genre, when you are commenting on a song that stuck with you all this time. I do agree with Don in San Antonio, TX re: most people only know bauhaus by this song and go around with it's cover labels all over thier books/notebooks. But that is just the change of time. It's very hard to find bauhaus cd's. The new one 'go away white' was the only one i could locate-in stores atleast. The version & video for the hunger is much shorter & the quality isn't that great. I like bauhaus when they were the two other bands + or - band members: tones on tails & love and Rockets. Anyway, for me the song still haunts me to this day. I love it.
• Ross from Leicester, United KingdomThis song only sounds cliched because it helped to invented goth cliches in the first place.
  Goth started with arty punk bands like Bauhaus and the often overlooked UK Decay (not forgetting the influence of bands such as Banshees,Killing Joke and Joy Division- bands that followed included Southern Death Cult(featuring Ian Astbury later of the Cult),Sex Gang Children and Sisters of Mercy who along with the Cult helped take goth into the mainstream of UK rock - this is all long before Marilyn Manson etc.
• Jeff from Columbus, OhSpeaking of the fact that most people don't know Bauhaus beyond this song, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Peter Murphy's solo projects as they are quite good. Check them out...
• Becca from Kansas City, KsActually, Jose, you are quite wrong. The Gothic movement was an art(by art I mean visual art, music, and fashion) movement in the late 70's early 80's that started on the heels of the British punk movement. The term "Goth" was actually first used to describe Siouxsie Sioux of of the Banshees by a journalist in London in 80-81, somewhere around in there. He called her a "delicious gothic fairy". Bauhaus is considered one of the first Gothic bands, however. they themselves don't classify it as Goth.
  
  Personally, I find this song to be so hideously cliché. This was not the first song I ever heard by them, that distinction belongs to "Who Killed Mr. Moonlight" which still is one of my favorite songs. I've never cared for this song, but sadly it's the only by them that's on this site. Go figure.
• Sara from None, United StatesJose: Don't confuse goth and emo. The goth subculture started because of music. Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus are two of the early goth bands.
  Anyway, this is a great song, even though it is over 9 minutes. :P
• Jose from Austin, TxGOTH??? Are you serious? Not to be rude, but you can't call them Goth since that term didn't come around until the 90's. Please, they're punk/new wave and that's their genre, not GOTH. Sorry, but for those of us who grew up on Bauhaus and the like (e.g. Cure, Dead Kennedy's, Circle Jerks, Smiths, etc...) the term GOTH is offensive. Don't categorize this type of music with the emo/goth movement of last 15 years; they are completely separate from each other. It's like saying Green Day is punk--not. Don't confuse the posers for the real deal.
• Colin from Bradford, EnglandBauhaus originate from the town of Northampton in the East Midlands of England, which is also my home town. I first heard them when I was at school and they were just starting up and playing local gigs.
• Craig from Madison, WiOh my God! Bela Legosi is Dead?
• Joel from Columbia, ScAlways thought it was a novelty song.
• Don from San Antonio, TxHave you noticed most people's knowledge of Bauhaus begins and ends with this song? Not only that, most of those people haven't even seen The Hunger. And to top it off, they usually have Bauhaus scribbled on everything.

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