The Sky's Gone Out

The Sky's Gone Out was released in October 1982 by the record label Beggars Banquet. It featured a cover of Brian Eno's "Third Uncle", a new recording of "Spirit", and experiments with ballads, disco, ska and reggae.[1]

The initial limited edition included the live album Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape as a bonus. The compact disc reissue dropped the run-out speech from the final track "Exquisite Corpse" (which, like the snoring on the song itself, was done by the band's sound engineer Derek Tompkins). The Canadian edition of this album also contained a free 12" vinyl single featuring "Ziggy Stardust", "Kick in the Eye" and "Lagartija Nick". This version did not have the distinctive artwork from the US and UK editions, but was instead an enlargement of the cover art from the "Terror Couple Kill Colonel" single.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Alternative Press	favourable[3]
Record Collector	[4]

In his retrospective review of the album, Ned Raggett of AllMusic wrote, "On balance it's quite a fine album, but unlike Mask it misses the infusion of a more positive energy, and simply doesn't gel as perfectly, more notable for individual songs than as a whole."[2]

In their feature on the album in 2001 Alternative Press described The Sky's Gone Out as one of the Top 10 essential goth albums.[3]

All tracks are written by Bauhaus (Daniel Ash, David J, Kevin Haskins and Peter Murphy), except as noted.

Bauhaus

• Peter Murphy – vocals, additional guitar
• Daniel Ash – guitars, vocal on Exquisite Corpse, album cover painting
• David J – bass guitar, vocal on Exquisite Corpse
• Kevin Haskins – drums, congas on "Third Uncle"

• The Sky's Gone Out at Discogs (list of releases)