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Bela Lugosi's Dead
Bauhaus

Name: Bela Lugosi's Dead
Description: Bauhaus’s Bela Lugosi's Dead (1979) appears on 2 of our lists — Post-Punk and The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms, highest at No. 9 in Post-Punk. Every verdict, in full.

Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released: 1979
Label: Small Wonder
On: Post-Punk and The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms
Updated: 2026-08-29

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Ranked No. 9 in Post-Punk
Nine minutes of dub delay, brushed drums and vamping, recorded live in one take. Absurd and completely committed, and gothic rock begins the moment it finishes.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms
Nine minutes of dub delay recorded live in one take. The guitar records that survive on a dancefloor tend to be the ones that were secretly dance records all along, and this is the clearest case.

Bela Lugosi's DeadBauhaus

Ranked No. 9 in Post-Punk

Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms

Bela Lugosi's Dead
Bauhaus