“Double Dare” by Bauhaus

"Double Dare" comes from In the Flat Field, the debut album Bauhaus cut from December 1979 into July 1980, which 4AD put out later in 1980 as the first full-length record in its catalogue. The writing credit goes four ways, to Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins, and the arrangement is the band's own; John Sparrow produced it and Mike Robinson engineered. Ash plays guitar, David J bass and Haskins drums and percussion, with Ash and David J adding their voices alongside Murphy.

They made the album after their first three singles, "Bela Lugosi's Dead" among them, with Siouxsie and the Banshees and David Bowie in their ears. Critics were split at the time, but the record has since come to be seen as one of gothic rock's founding documents, and one of its most influential.

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