''The Sky's Gone Out'' is the third studio album by English gothic rock band

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, released in 1982 by record label Beggars Banquet.

Music

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'' said about the music: "

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Peter Murphy comes across like

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imitating

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declaiming a pastiche of Lautréamont backed by the early iouxsie and theBanshees.

Release

''The Sky's Gone Out'' was released in October 1982 by the record label Beggars Banquet. It featured a cover version of

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's " Third Uncle", a new recording of "Spirit", and experiments with

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and

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. The initial limited edition included the live album ''

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'' as a bonus. The compact disc reissue dropped the run-out speech from the final track "Exquisite Corpse" (which, like the snoring on the song itself, was done by the band's sound engineer Derek Tompkins). The Canadian edition of this album also contained a free 12" vinyl

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featuring " Ziggy Stardust", "

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" and "

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". This version did not have the distinctive artwork from the USA and UK editions but was presented as a white field with the album title and band logo in the upper right corner.

Reception

In his retrospective review of the album, Ned Raggett of

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wrote, "On balance it's quite a fine album, but unlike ''

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'' it misses the infusion of a more positive energy, and simply doesn't gel as perfectly, more notable for individual songs than as a whole."

Legacy

In their feature on the album in 2001 ''

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'' described ''The Sky's Gone Out'' as one of the Top 10 essential

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albums.

Track listing

Personnel

; Bauhaus * Peter Murphy – vocals, additional guitar *

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– guitars, vocal on Exquisite Corpse, album cover painting *

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– bass guitar, vocal on Exquisite Corpse *

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– drums, congas on "Third Uncle"

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sky's Gone Out, The 1982 albums Bauhaus (band) albums Beggars Banquet Records albums Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios