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The Bela Session
Bauhaus
1979

There’s much to enjoy about hearing the birth of a new sound and this album definitively birthed the early goth music sound. As a teenager I found it too cheesy but I’ve come around to appreciating it.

Track recommendation: Bella Lugosi’s Dead