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Tones On Tail (Music)

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Tones on Tail was a Post-Punk side project by Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash, composed of him with friend Glenn Campling and later Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins. The group took Bauhaus' gloom and doom and warped it into what they called "doom-and-dance-pop", fusing several different styles and sounds together into a unique take on Post-Punk and New Wave Music. They released one LP, Pop, and several singles and EPs before splitting in 1984. A 1998 compilation, the aptly named Everything!, gathered up... everything.Ash and Haskins attempted to reform Bauhaus with bassist David J, but singer Peter Murphy declined, so the three instead formed Love and Rockets to commercial and critical success. Love and Rockets broke up in 2009, and after a period of Daniel focusing on solo work, he and Kevin formed Poptone in 2017 with Haskins' daughter Diva Dompe on bass. While they played songs written and sung by Ash from all three previous bands, their live shows leaned heavily on Tones on Tail material.
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Synth-Pop: "Performance".
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Psychedelic Rock
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Psychedelic Rock: One of the more prominent influences, and its different styles can be heard throughout Pop.
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Goth Rock
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Goth Rock
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Epic Rocking: "Rain" runs to 8:27.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Subverted with Everything!. It's a collection of all of their music... except for three alternate versions of "Go!", "Burning Skies" and "Twist", which were instead included on the EP, Something!. The original version of "Performance" and the studio version of "Heartbreak Hotel" were also left out and later appeared on the Weird Pop compilation.
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Studio Chatter: "Right, let's do the "yah-yahs" now" at the end of "Go!".
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Word Salad Title: "The Never Never (Is Forever)".
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The above picture shows the band in front of drawn representations of themselves as bees. In 1988, Love and Rockets would release a one-off single as The Bubblemen, in which they dressed up as bees.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Peter Murphy believed "The Movement of Fear" was a shot at him, but Daniel never confirmed or denied this. Peter later wrote an Answer Song, "The Answer is Clear", which featured Daniel on guitars.
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Rock Trio
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Rock Trio: When Kevin joined. The first few singles were with a drum machine.
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A cappella
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A Cappella: "Slender Fungus", composed of vocals and mouth noises.
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Genre Mashup
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Genre Mashup: The band played and fused together whatever they wanted, from airy gloom Pop ("Lions") to funky Post-Punk ("War"), club Synth-Pop ("Performance"), heavy Goth Rock ("Christian Says"), Ambient Electronica ("Rain"), and A Cappella nonsense ("Slender Fungus").
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Cover Version: A live version of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" on Everything! and a rare studio version on the Weird Pop compilation.
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Deliberately Monochrome: Some of their promotional pictures are grayscale, and the band performed while dressed entirely in white as a counterpoint to the all-black of Bauhaus.
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New Wave Music
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New Wave Music: The band claim to be important to the genre's development.
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Word Salad Lyrics: Much of Ash's lyrics are stream-of-consciousness incomprehensibility. From "Slender Fungus":
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Solo Side Project: The band was this for Ash while Bauhaus was still active.
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