Tag: Daniel Ash

Tones on Tail 'Weird Pop' vinyl best-of to feature rare and unreleased tracks

Tones on Tail ‘Weird Pop’ vinyl best-of to feature rare and unreleased tracks

For a band with just one album and a handful of EPs and singles, Bauhaus spinoff Tones on Tail already has been the subject of more than its share of compilations, and now comes another: ‘Weird Pop,’ a double-vinyl best-of that features at least one previously unreleased cut and several other rarities.

Stream: Peter Murphy, ‘I Spit Roses’ — new single inspired by Bauhaus break-up

Back in March, we brought you a stream of ‘I Spit Roses,’ the first new single in more than six years from Peter Murphy.

Milestones: David J turns 54 today; watch Love and Rockets as The Bubblemen

Milestones: David J turns 54 today; watch Love and Rockets as The Bubblemen

It’s Bauhaus/Love and Rockets bassist David J’s birthday today, and it seems a good as time as any to dig up the video from that one-off classic, The Bubblemen. So here they are, Love and Rockets dressed as giant bees. Dig it.

Slicing Up Eyeballs marks second anniversary

Hey, what do you know: Turns out exactly two years have passed since Slicing Up Eyeballs: The Legacy of ’80s College Rock launched, and here we are — 1,276 posts and 1.7 million pageviews later — still chugging along.

Milestones: Daniel Ash is 53 today; watch Love and Rockets’ ‘Mirror People’ live in 1987

In honor of Daniel Ash — he of the ’80s trifecta of Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets — who turns 53 today, we dug up one of the only vintage Love and Rockets live clips we could find on YouTube, this admittedly grainy, but certainly rare, footage of the band performing ‘Mirror People’ at London’s Town & Country Club in 1987.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 7/25/10

Tonight’s installment of ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave features some pleasant surprises, including My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult’s ‘And This is What the Devil Does,’ The Cure’s ‘Screw’ and not one but two solo Daniel Ash tracks (‘This Love,’ ‘Walk on the Moon’).

Video: Mudkids' Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl song samples Tones on Tail's 'Go!'

Video: Mudkids’ Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl song samples Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and while we here at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ don’t really have a dog in this fight, a reader pointed us to this Indianapolis Colts fan anthem — “Do It Again (Go Colts ’10)” by the Mudkids — which samples the fuzzed-out bassline from Tones on Tail’s classic “Go.”