Bela Lugosi's Dead

[Reinart der Fuchs]

Bela Lugosi was buried in a Dracula outfit. Note the leftmost picture on the record below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_lugosi

Bela Lugosi's Dead

White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...519AF832772117

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi's_Dead



Filmography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000509/

Grave Matters
http://www.riprense.com/Bela.htm



From Ed Wood:

[Bela Lugosi is trying on coffins.]
Bela Lugosi: Too constrictive! I can't even fold my arms.
Coffin Salesman: Gee, Mister Lugosi, I-I've never had any complaints.
Bela: This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time!...
Ed Wood: Mister Lugosi, why are you buying a coffin?
Bela: I'm planning on dying soon.
Ed: No!
Bela: Yes. I'm embarking on another truck and bus tour of "Dracula". Twelve cities in ten days, if that's concievable....
Ed: You know, you're, you're much scarier in real life than you are in the movies.
Bela: Thank you.

Ed Wood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood_%28movie%29

Bauhaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus_%28band%29

Rest in peace "Beloved Father"

[Oren]

It's ironic that Béla Lugosi is known today probably mainly because of the Bahaus song! He's one of the few Hungarian that made it in Holywood. Another ironic fact is that Lugosi was born in Lugos, which is in Transylvania where, of course, Dracula resides according to the stories. I guess he had intimate knowledge with him

[Reinart der Fuchs]

It's ironic that Béla Lugosi is known today probably mainly because of the Bahaus song!

I don't know how accurate this is. The Dracula movie is iconic. In Los Angeles, not a year goes by that it hasn't appeared on one of the Hollywood television stations in it's full black and white glory. I haven't seen it in 15 years here in Seattle, so there may be truth in what you say.

[Mespheber]

Bauhaus and Lugosi are only known by specific audiences. Probably that many goths wouldn't know the existence of Bela without them, but many vampire film amateurs wouldn't have pay interest to this band without this song which was used in the first sequence of The Hunger by Tony Scott. Crap movie, this only part remains interesting...

[Oren]

I don't know how accurate this is. The Dracula movie is iconic. In Los Angeles, not a year goes by that it hasn't appeared on one of the Hollywood television stations in it's full black and white glory. I haven't seen it in 15 years here in Seattle, so there may be truth in what you say.

Oh it was just a hunch. I can't really be certain. Come to think of it, the song itself is also several decades old already, but I think that Bauhaus is still active. Anyhow, for me Bauhaus will always be the architectural style which is quite prominent in central Tel Aviv

[Mespheber]

Oh it was just a hunch. I can't really be certain. Come to think of it, the song itself is also several decades old already, but I think that Bauhaus is still active. Anyhow, for me Bauhaus will always be the architectural style which is quite prominent in central Tel Aviv

Bauhaus made a tour lately but we're still waiting for a new release. On the other hand, I invit you to listen to Peter Murphy's Dust. One of this world wonder.

[lemec]

Is this quote from Bela Lugosi in Dracula? (1931)

[3:24] A year ago exactly on this same night we were assembled here in this very room. I your pastor and you my beloved flock. With hopefulness in my heart, I told you then that with Lucifer's aid we might look forward to a more succulent occasion. Cast back your mind. There we were, gathered together gloomy and despondent, around that single meager woodcutter...

Skinny Puppy uses audio bites in their songs and this one is from Rivers off the Rabies album.


It's been a long time since I saw the Bela Lugosi Dracula. Maybe it is a different movie, I think it sounds like Lugosi though.


thanks,


-Lemec

[johneffay]

It's ironic that Béla Lugosi is known today probably mainly because of the Bahaus song! He's one of the few Hungarian that made it in Holywood.

Huge fan of Bauhaus though I am, I too would have to dispute this. On the other hand, I bet that most people who have heard of Lugosi don't know that he was Hungarian...

[Typhoid_Mary]

Is this quote from Bela Lugosi in Dracula? (1931)

Skinny Puppy uses audio bites in their songs and this one is from Rivers off the Rabies album.

It's been a long time since I saw the Bela Lugosi Dracula. Maybe it is a different movie, I think it sounds like Lugosi though.

That's a sample from Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers. It's an actor called Ferdy Mayne.

Nice to see another Puppy fan on the board.

[David Mosley]

I'll join Berry and John over there in the corner if I may. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Bauhaus are in fact still only known of by the man on the Clapham omnibus because of the Bela Lugosi track. I mean, how many other Bauhaus songs can any non-fans name?

[Reinart der Fuchs]

By the way, it hasn't been "several" decades. It's almost three decades. I'm sure others have noticed that the timbre of Peter Murphy's voice really changed between the recording of interest and his stuff in the early 90's.

Did you guys miss it? Bela Lugosi's Dead was done in a single studio take. Unbelievable.

[lemec]

That's a sample from Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers. It's an actor called Ferdy Mayne.

Nice to see another Puppy fan on the board.

Thanks, Typhoid_Mary!

I never knew that, had the tape in my car for so long, then upgraded to the cd.

The audio samples from A Clockwork Orange were much more easy to spot,haha.

I later learned the bit about the barrier and it having the "strength of a million souls, power of the dead."- came from The Dungeonmaster

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089060/


cool idea though about the barrier, almost 'Moorcockesque'. haha

It's so cool to know where that came from, at last!



-Lemec

[Oren]

I'll join Berry and John over there in the corner if I may. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Bauhaus are in fact still only known of by the man on the Clapham omnibus because of the Bela Lugosi track. I mean, how many other Bauhaus songs can any non-fans name?

I disagree. I mean, I'm not a Bauhaus fan and yet I can name many other song, for example... err... well... let me think... nevermind

[Mikey_C]

"Ziggy Stardust" was the biggest hit, was it not? But I guess their cover version's long-forgotten now.

I was a great fan, particularly of Bela, but I had a mate who was a Goth drummer who insisted on playing it over and over again until I became sick of it. Sad really.

[Reinart der Fuchs]

Huge fan of Bauhaus though I am, I too would have to dispute this. On the other hand, I bet that most people who have heard of Lugosi don't know that he was Hungarian...

I worked with a couple of Transylvanians at the Mc Donalds in Würzburg both of whom were very friendly with particularly round faces. Lugosi from Transylvania, imagine that.