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Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n Many artists have made songs popularly associated with Halloween, from Michael Jackson to Oingo Boingo. But there\u2019s perhaps no band whose entire catalog suits spooky season better than British goth rock trailblazers Bauhaus, whose founding guitarist Daniel Ash is releasing a new project today. The band\u2019s 1979 debut single \u201cBela Lugosi\u2019s Dead\u201d remains their signature song, but over the years, the more subdued \u201cAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything\u201d has emerged as one of their most popular tracks.<\/p>\n More from Spin:<\/p>\n The third Bauhaus album, 1982\u2019s The Sky\u2019s Gone Out<\/em>, was the band\u2019s highest charting release, reaching No. 4 in the U.K. The band largely wrote the album in the studio, ending up with a more diverse and eclectic set of songs including \u201cAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything.\u201d The track\u2019s lyrics are as cryptic as any Bauhaus song (\u201cThe sound of the drum has called \/ Flash of youth shoot out of darkness\u201d), but the acoustic arrangement is lush and moving. Bassist David J wrote in his 2014 memoir Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magic and Benediction <\/em>that the song \u201cevokes nostalgic memories of a time of innocence and na\u00efve yearning.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSpirit\u201d was the only single released from The Sky\u2019s Gone Out<\/em>, but with time, \u201cAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything\u201d has become by far the album\u2019s most famous track. It\u2019s been featured in a 2018 episode of The Walking Dead<\/em> and the 2011 film I Melt with You<\/em>, and covered by MGMT, John Frusciante, and Xiu Xiu. The first time Bauhaus reunited in 1998, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins joined the band onstage in Chicago to perform \u201cAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The members of Bauhaus struggled to record a studio version of \u201cDouble Dare\u201d that measured up to a live performance they\u2019d done for John Peel\u2019s BBC 1 Radio program. So the band opted to simply open its debut album, 1980\u2019s In the Flat Field<\/em>, with the Peel Session version of \u201cDouble Dare,\u201d which remains perhaps the most powerful drumming by Kevin Haskins in the Bauhaus catalog.<\/p>\n Bauhaus aren\u2019t always remembered as one of the great dance punk bands. But they could whip up a frenzied disco beat on songs like the live staple \u201cIn Fear of Fear\u201d from 1981\u2019s Mask<\/em>, which features squealing synths and Daniel Ash on saxophone.<\/p>\n Bauhaus had broken up by the time 1983\u2019s Burning from the Inside<\/em> was released, and frontman Peter Murphy\u2019s estrangement from the rest of the group resulted in his bandmates taking on more vocal duties. \u201cSlice of Life,\u201d sung by Ash, feels a little like a preview of Love and Rockets, the band he\u2019d form a few years later with David J and Haskins.<\/p>\nThree more essential Bauhaus deep cuts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u201cDouble Dare\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u201cIn Fear of Fear\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u201cSlice of Life\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n