Bauhaus: Crowds
Oh man. This song. Okay maybe the first song on this blog by a known band, but… I’ll bet you’ve not heard this song. Unless you were growing up in Alaska in the 80’s, where, for some reason, we would all listen to it all winter, be totally depressed, and kind of love but kind of hate each other.
My high school friend Carrie and I had a competition to make the most depressing mix tape ever. Recently, at a bar, some Barbarians came up with the same idea, and it reminded me of this song.
It’s crazy to me how… how bitter it is now. Actually, that part’s not crazy, but it’s crazy how I didn’t FIND it so… raw back then. It seemed… well, like… understanding. The same way everyone loves Morrissey when they’re young because he “gets” them, he says what they’re thinking, but when you’re an adult you find him kind of a whiney bitch.
Before this week, I hadn’t listened to this song in maybe five years. Crazy.
