Bauhaus - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape

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Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape is a live album by the British gothic rock band Bauhaus, released in 1982 on Beggars Banquet Records, and recorded in London and Liverpool in 1981 and 1982. Recorded live at various venues between 1981 and 1982, 'press the eject and give me the tape' is a muscular set of some of bauhaus' best tracks. Incidentally, these tracks were recorded on the same tour that was filmed for the band's on-screen performance of 'bela lugosi's dead' in the 1983 film, 'the hunger'. The album features a striking version of john cale's 'rosegarden funeral of sores', a particularly spooky run-through of 'hollow hills' that out-creeps the studio version on 'mask', and the punk rock fuzz-out of 'dark entries'. Of course, 'bela' appears here as well, in a luxurious nine-and-a-half-minute version. Washed in feedback and ever-so-subtly accelerating and decelerating, this song is the true center of goth mythology. Some live albums are not worth the energy required to listen to them. 'press the eject and give me the tape' is not one of those albums.