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Artists: David J |
Song: The Promised Land |
Song type: Studio |
Year: 1983 |
Version: single version |
Length: 2:55 |
First known live performance: 1983-11-17 - Rockgarden, London, England, United Kingdom |
Last known live performance: 1983-11-18 - Fulham Greyhound, London, England, United Kingdom |
This version released on: |
On Glass CD [Album] |
On Glass LP [Album] |
The Promised Land 12'' [Single] |
The Promised Land 7'' [Single] |
Alternate versions: |
The Promised Land [Live] |
The Promised Land [Studio] |
The Promised Land - back room acoustic demo 83 |
"'The Promised Land' is a bitter song. It's about Bauhaus, and what went wrong. Funnily enough it has got a few unkind things to say about journalists too. Is the song an exorcism of the Bauhaus period? "No, I wrote it while I was still in Bauhaus. I gave an early version of the lyric to Pete to look at, but then I decided that it wasn't quite right, so I took it away to revise it and then the group disbanded, so it was never recorded. The song is about things that happened that were outside our control. It's a condensed biography of Bauhaus, as well as a critique of the music business." Etiquette and Epithets, ZIGZAG (January,1984) |
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