My husband and I met early 80s and this is one of our songs and to this day we are still married and every night comes to me he says kiss kiss and I give him two 💋💋 then I say bang bang. It's Goin on 35 + year tradition . Damn that makes us old.
Is it just me or does this music make y’all feel like you can rule the world? Like imagine walking around in the dark night as you listen to this song. O_O
Bat Cave is not a sub genre haha. It was a goth London night club in the 1980’s! I saw some discussion about that. Anyway Specimen is an amazing band that I think of as a wonderful mix of goth and glam!
True, originally the Batcave was a Goth nightclub. However, a lot of people grew to associate the name with a specific subgenre of Goth that was played there, and the definition morphed.
Honestly, in my experience it was more broken up into Jocks/Popular Trendy kids who usually hated us Punks and Goths and New Wave/New Romantics, who usually went to the same parties and intermingled pretty freely. Then their were Heavy Metalers also known as Hessians. I liked metal and was sometimes called a traitor for that. If there was a fight and a goth or punk was in trouble then the others would usually help out. We all pretty much stuck together.We didn't get too obsessed with the real subtleties of genres and subgenres back in the day. There was NO internet so it was a lot less easy to verify what someone else was calling stuff or what they were doing or wearing across the country or world. It would be more like you look "goth" because you wear all black/black nail polish whatever (which was way rare) and you are generally spooky and stuff and people would ask what bands you liked. I might describe myself as really digging some of that bat cave type stuff like Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend and just death rock stuff like Christian Death. The sub genres were not written in stone yet. But Bat Cave was definitely used to describe a style of hair. clothes and music. Specimen is the ultimate Bat Cave band because Ollie the singer, started the Bat Cave. Even glam rock metal heads would hang around with thrash metal fans (Believe me I know, because I had to listen to some shitty ass glam metal (Bon Jovi, Winger, Ratt) at times. There were labels but they were more descriptive and less restrictive in many ways. Although there were those lines that were rarely crossed like Heavy Metal to Punk and Hip Hop to Rock.
Das stimmt schon, aber man sagt ja auch das z.B. Dark Wave ein Genre ist. . . obwohl es eigentlich ja die Dark Wave Bewegung war, also eine Zeit in der sich etwas musikalisch verändert hat, oder ? Bat Cave ist zwar kein richtiges Genre, aber der Club hatte trotzdem einen gewissen Stil von der Musik her (der sich dann ein bischen verbreitet hat)
i always wondered how did specimen get such big budget for the batastrophe ep. the sound is huge and polished and mixed with great care. every song is catchy and memorable. but they didn't tour much and only got radio play on underground stations in metropolitan areas.
I learned this song as it was played at the club I went to in Seattle 1984ish. I didn't even know what a goth was till someone called me that in the early nineties.
Friends, "Batcave" isn't the sub-genre - it was the London nightclub the band ran in the 80s and focal point for the post punk crowd. I'm sure its mention is in the interest of giving a view of yesterday's scene.
Bat Cave the subgenre is named for the club/night. But yes, it IS a subgenre now, essentially equating to UK deathrock, as opposed to say the Cure or Sisters Of Mercy, or all of that EBM shit that belongs at a rave instead of a goth-night. Like American deathrock, Bat Cave falls somewhere on a spectrum between the post-punk influenced sound of Joy Division, Bauhaus, and the Banshees, and the horror punk sound of Misfits, Samhain, The Undead, Rudimentary Peni, and the Screaming Dead.
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang Kiss, kiss, bang, bang, kiss this and hang Kiss, kiss, bang, bang Kiss, kiss, bang, bang, kiss this and hang A beautiful sight, we lay down inside My head it never believed the tide, tide Kiss, kiss, bang, bang A beautiful sight, we lay down inside Our head it never will leave the tide You understating, understand your undeceiving And it's sad the breach comes with the peace It makes you like you want. hear this Kiss and bang, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Kiss, kiss, bang, bang I know you're watching So why you could wear that leather? Our friends talk talk about the weather I know your waiting, why you waiting to exist? Scar, scar and now you take chances? Since you're a suicide my bro Trash trash my gash, oh it's the gas Kiss, kiss, bang, bang Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
I bought the Batastrophe EP when it was released in '83 (I still have it). I didn't think then that I'd have to wait 24 years for them to finally release their 1st full album, Electric Ballroom (great album btw). Better late than never.
Saw these guys live at a small club in Waikiki in Hawaii back in 1985? Awesome concert! Lead singer came out on crutches ans looked like he needed them. Dude was so skinny. Maybe it was just a prop. Loved this song to this day.
dude, im from penang, malaysia (its the country between singapore and thailand) VERY few people know about music like this. clubs here all play the same generic mainstream crap. i was born in the wrong place and in the wrong decade
90's baby here with no intent on pushing knowledge on someone, and I just wanted to say that it doesn't matter if youre in love with the darkness or just the music, you can look like anything you want as long as we can be reasonably dreadfully together! 🦇🦇🦇
How exciting that these guys were seriously pushing the boundaries with their music back then. Wow, who knew there was a good eighties song about a gay couple or gay rights? You go guys, for being ahead of your time!!!
Come on humans! You are not afraid of us arachnids, your fear comes from a sutile red spider that walks around your dreams when you go naively across 4D.
Rusty Egan Rusty Egan from Rich Kids, etc.? If so, wow! Ghosts Of Princes In Towers is one of my formative albums. There at one of the most important periods in a person's life. I still listen to it constantly. (I have a few copies in different formats). If it's not you, ahem, sorry.
Sorry I don't comment that much on here, but yes I signed these guys and put them in the studio I was there but let them produce themselves with our team. We had Flood , Mark Stent Clive Martin an amazing teem of producers . We made the album and got them a deal with SIRE.
Oh Phoenix, There was! Back then it was called Positive-Punk and it means the early raw punk influenced goth sound like Southern Death Cult, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and so one.Today there are differend names for the first wave of goth bands. ''Goth Punk'' ''Batcave'' ''Positive Punk'' It all means the same deathrock is a bit differend.
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My husband and I met early 80s and this is one of our songs and to this day we are still married and every night comes to me he says kiss kiss and I give him two 💋💋 then I say bang bang. It's Goin on 35 + year tradition . Damn that makes us old.
Awwwwwn
That's sweet. 💞
@@zetovidillard 💋💋
@@dystopian2153 🥰💋💋
That's so f'n cool. True love.💋
I went to the Batcave regular and privileged to see Specimen perform there. At the time Ollie own it.
Brilliant nights.
🎉 WowYowZa 💀🖤💀
You are living the dream
This bassline is the sexiest thing I've ever heard.
Real :) I learned this bass line cause my boyfriend loved the song and I fricking love to play it
This song is a drug! Playing it perfectly on my matte black Demon Schecter bass is 1000x better than any pharmaceutical drug.....
Slap’n the hell out of it!!
Kinky
That bass though... Ugh! It's beautiful!
cosmic_disaster27 yessss!!
Agree
Maybe that’s the point... to make it sound raw and grimy in other words “Dark”
💖💖💖
Rest in peace Olli. So long and thanks for all the music. 🖤🖤🖤
I just cant....
Farewell Olli. Gonna miss you now and forever.
I love this goth/glam mixture it’s amazing.
Is it just me or does this music make y’all feel like you can rule the world? Like imagine walking around in the dark night as you listen to this song. O_O
for me the song that makes me feel like i can rule the world is my ordinary life by the living tombstone ✨
til you come up against the first group of teens that make you feel insecure and make you double down and go back home.
I can smell the clove cigarettes.
Done it!❤
Done it❤
Bat Cave is not a sub genre haha. It was a goth London night club in the 1980’s! I saw some discussion about that. Anyway Specimen is an amazing band that I think of as a wonderful mix of goth and glam!
True, originally the Batcave was a Goth nightclub. However, a lot of people grew to associate the name with a specific subgenre of Goth that was played there, and the definition morphed.
Raigh DarkHawk Exactly. It IS a sub-genre of goth, named after a goth club night. Bat Cave is essentially the British equivalent to LA's deathrock.
Honestly, in my experience it was more broken up into Jocks/Popular Trendy kids who usually hated us Punks and Goths and New Wave/New Romantics, who usually went to the same parties and intermingled pretty freely. Then their were Heavy Metalers also known as Hessians. I liked metal and was sometimes called a traitor for that. If there was a fight and a goth or punk was in trouble then the others would usually help out. We all pretty much stuck together.We didn't get too obsessed with the real subtleties of genres and subgenres back in the day. There was NO internet so it was a lot less easy to verify what someone else was calling stuff or what they were doing or wearing across the country or world. It would be more like you look "goth" because you wear all black/black nail polish whatever (which was way rare) and you are generally spooky and stuff and people would ask what bands you liked. I might describe myself as really digging some of that bat cave type stuff like Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend and just death rock stuff like Christian Death. The sub genres were not written in stone yet. But Bat Cave was definitely used to describe a style of hair. clothes and music. Specimen is the ultimate Bat Cave band because Ollie the singer, started the Bat Cave. Even glam rock metal heads would hang around with thrash metal fans (Believe me I know, because I had to listen to some shitty ass glam metal (Bon Jovi, Winger, Ratt) at times. There were labels but they were more descriptive and less restrictive in many ways. Although there were those lines that were rarely crossed like Heavy Metal to Punk and Hip Hop to Rock.
Das stimmt schon, aber man sagt ja auch das z.B. Dark Wave ein Genre ist. . . obwohl es eigentlich ja die Dark Wave Bewegung war, also eine Zeit in der sich etwas musikalisch verändert hat, oder ? Bat Cave ist zwar kein richtiges Genre, aber der Club hatte trotzdem einen gewissen Stil von der Musik her (der sich dann ein bischen verbreitet hat)
I always thought of Goth as an offshoot of Glam
i always wondered how did specimen get such big budget for the batastrophe ep. the sound is huge and polished and mixed with great care. every song is catchy and memorable. but they didn't tour much and only got radio play on underground stations in metropolitan areas.
I signed the specimen as songwriters and then got them a deal with London Records and Sire in America . I financed the club and the Batcave Album.
@@RustyEgan cool
England !
@@RustyEgan so you would be well qualified to answer jon hillman's query, but yet ...
They didnt need to tour tjey made the batcave lol
I was lucky enough to see them on their first US tour, very small number of songs but they played them great...!
I remember dancing to this song in like 1987...that bass player is awesome!!! I wish there was a video to this song..so bad!!!
there now is a video on yt for this song:)
Rest in peace Olli. Thanks for the music!
goth never will die ,fuck the haters !!!
Amen 👏👏👏👏👏👏
LOVE IT
bolmsp Death Rock! Goth wasn’t even a word back then.
Fuck those haters hard!!!!!
Im a gen z teen and goth is so cool
I learned this song as it was played at the club I went to in Seattle 1984ish. I didn't even know what a goth was till someone called me that in the early nineties.
@@jasonguild9306 Jason is that you?
Friends, "Batcave" isn't the sub-genre - it was the London nightclub the band ran in the 80s and focal point for the post punk crowd.
I'm sure its mention is in the interest of giving a view of yesterday's scene.
Actually, the term Batcave music is used to describe all the bands which rose to popularity in the club and beginning the goth scene.
ThatBabyBat I agree with you
If you grew up in Seattle in the mid 80's we called ourselves "Batcave." I first heard the term "Goth" in 1990ish.
Bat Cave the subgenre is named for the club/night. But yes, it IS a subgenre now, essentially equating to UK deathrock, as opposed to say the Cure or Sisters Of Mercy, or all of that EBM shit that belongs at a rave instead of a goth-night. Like American deathrock, Bat Cave falls somewhere on a spectrum between the post-punk influenced sound of Joy Division, Bauhaus, and the Banshees, and the horror punk sound of Misfits, Samhain, The Undead, Rudimentary Peni, and the Screaming Dead.
@@johnstag2030 agree with the OP
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang, kiss this and hang
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang, kiss this and hang
A beautiful sight, we lay down inside
My head it never believed the tide, tide
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
A beautiful sight, we lay down inside
Our head it never will leave the tide
You understating, understand your undeceiving
And it's sad the breach comes with the peace
It makes you like you want. hear this
Kiss and bang, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
I know you're watching
So why you could wear that leather?
Our friends talk talk about the weather
I know your waiting, why you waiting to exist?
Scar, scar and now you take chances?
Since you're a suicide my bro
Trash trash my gash, oh it's the gas
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
This 80, 2?
I have this. Been played once, no scratches. I recorded it to cassette then put it away. memories, tx for the post.
That bass♡
Awesome isn't it ?
@@jcoup1215it totally is
I bought the Batastrophe EP when it was released in '83 (I still have it). I didn't think then that I'd have to wait 24 years for them to finally release their 1st full album, Electric Ballroom (great album btw). Better late than never.
Forever in search of the bass tab
xDD yes
I gave up and now I play by ear
Katarzyna Barejko
Same here, I got it down for the most part, the intro is fun to play on bass.
Ear players rise up
play it by ear.
El tiempo no pasa cada ves que la escucho como si fuera ayer cuando la oí por ves primera......80´s por siempre!
Saw these guys at 17, at "The Scream " club in LA, ....used to live there, great times, great band.
The bass it's awesome!!! I just Love it!
So much elitism in the comments. Guys just enjoy a good tune!
No.
@@moldvox what do you mean no?
@@IncredulousMisanthrope the comment above mine suggested I "just enjoy a good tune" and I don't do what other people tell me to do. Lol.
@@moldvox wow you're so rebellious....
@@moldvox careful with that edge kid, you're gonna cut yourself
I love old school deathrock
Koko B Thank you for not calling it goth! It is death rock yes!!!!!
@@chrismc.893 Specimen is gothic rock band as well. They don't classify into one genre
Dont we all
fr!
Thank you for calling it what it is!
I am elite because I'm 13 and listen to this song religiously
Guitarist John Klein went on to play in Siouxsie and the Banshees from late 1987 to 1995.
I remember Specimen visiting us here in Reno, Nv ('80s).. We All got our freak on at Circus-Circus, Reno 💋🎶
I have this on a Goth and Industrial anthems album. That album introduced me to a ton of awesome groups.....
This fucking Bass...kills me Everytime, just Delicious
Saw these guys live at a small club in Waikiki in Hawaii back in 1985? Awesome concert! Lead singer came out on crutches ans looked like he needed them. Dude was so skinny. Maybe it was just a prop. Loved this song to this day.
Turn UP that BASS
Thought I'd lost this song to the memories. Still love it.
Bauhaus got famous, Specimen got forgotten ...
dude, im from penang, malaysia (its the country between singapore and thailand)
VERY few people know about music like this. clubs here all play the same generic mainstream crap. i was born in the wrong place and in the wrong decade
Don't worry, today they are all about the same here even.
Start a goth scene there
Me too. Except minus the place part...
madhousemortuary sith i’m malaysian yey
omg so true
rest in peace, olli! 🖤🖤🖤
Rest in peace legend Oliver olli Wisdom ❤☯️
I have no words for this, it is just too perfect for words.
90's baby here with no intent on pushing knowledge on someone, and I just wanted to say that it doesn't matter if youre in love with the darkness or just the music, you can look like anything you want as long as we can be reasonably dreadfully together! 🦇🦇🦇
Lost in the world of funds - a poetic reflection on the journey to reclaim them.
The fellow from this band sort of sings in the same style as Rozz Williams
Yes; Yes, he did.
How exciting that these guys were seriously pushing the boundaries with their music back then. Wow, who knew there was a good eighties song about a gay couple or gay rights? You go guys, for being ahead of your time!!!
Come on humans! You are not afraid of us arachnids, your fear comes from a sutile red spider that walks around your dreams when you go naively across 4D.
our head it will never leave the tiiiiiiiideeeee
i love this song more and more every single time i listen to it, its so amazing
omg, i love this
Ty Madison for Reccomending me this song. Its pretty awesome, so if you ever see this I give you a standing ovation
Long live trad goth!!!!
Love the bass
R.I.P Olli
R.I.P. Olli Wisdom
quarantine days bring me here
R.I.P. Oliver, and thanks for all the bats!
Love de bass
Esse slap no baixo deveria ser um crime :o ♥
sounds so badass !
Kiss kiss bang bang! 👽
I first saw Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend at the Bat Cave. Great times.
r.i.p Olli Wisdom
Gosh, can't leave the replay button :D
The bass 😍
This is wonderful. Thanks for to post
My dad loves this song
I can see why
this takes me way back!
Amo dms essa música
awesome n great sound quality ,ty
Perfect song !
Definitely a Badass tune. 🦇🤘😎 They're playing on a 5 - string bass 🎸 to get that deep rich Gothic sound ...
I love this !
wonderful. thank you
Classic It is under rated And well But still one of my all time Classics in my Record Box
i wish club music could be like this....
This tune is so dam good for lately🇺🇸🎶💀🍀📉💜
We did this at Trident , loved the band, must have cost me a fortune
Rusty Egan Rusty Egan from Rich Kids, etc.? If so, wow! Ghosts Of Princes In Towers is one of my formative albums. There at one of the most important periods in a person's life. I still listen to it constantly. (I have a few copies in different formats). If it's not you, ahem, sorry.
Real talk
Real talk
Sorry I don't comment that much on here, but yes I signed these guys and put them in the studio I was there but let them produce themselves with our team. We had Flood , Mark Stent Clive Martin an amazing teem of producers . We made the album and got them a deal with SIRE.
Its me Johnny . I signed this band and we started The Batcave, once it was open they ran it to support the band. Great guys , loved them .
This is my internal theme song when I’m walking down the street.
Wow freaking awesome song!
soy ENRIQUE..un temazo...como suena el BAJO...me encanta,..suban mas de este grupo..gracias
The bass is deliciously out of tune.
***** but it sounds f'ing amazing!!! the tone, the grit...I would kill for that bass sound on one of my tunes :)
Plasticsoul A J bass with low action can get that feel and sound. 👍
Just a wee bit.
Do you mean out of tune or out of key for a note?
That's not a bug; it's a feature.
RIP Olli wisdom.....
♡♡♡♡I LOVE the list! ♡♡♡♡♡
this song suddenly pooped up in my head without any reason lol i haven't listened to it in years
Oh Phoenix, There was! Back then it was called Positive-Punk and it means the early raw punk influenced goth sound like Southern Death Cult, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and so one.Today there are differend names for the first wave of goth bands. ''Goth Punk'' ''Batcave'' ''Positive Punk'' It all means the same
deathrock is a bit differend.
this is amazing
RIP Olli
I picked up the guitar because of Specimen. Fuck yeah.
Omg this song makes me feel like a shadow in the dark
i loved this music!! :D
From here to Space-Tribe. What a progression ^^
Rest In Peace olli
Brutal bass 🖤. I'm looking for the notes, but there's nothing on the whole internet.
Guess someone gotta made it by ears.
@@syahaz7088 Yes, I have tried it like this :). Tkx.
AAAHHHH YES! Thank you!
Just here to enjoy the music.
Happy World Goth Day 🖤 ⚰️ 🥀
GOTH FOR REAL!
Deathrock is just Goth marinated in Punk, after all.
Klauss Klemann Nope! Death Rock! Goth wasn’t even a word back then.
I love 80s music so much
first time listening to this and i looove it i cant believe i didnt listen to it before
That bass line though ,,,
This song is a good example to proof that Dark Wave originated in punk rock. You can clearly hear the punk influences here, imo. 🔥
This music makes me want to walk the streets playing the 5 - string bass 🎸 to get the proper Gothic Dirge sound ... Yeah Be'be! ... 🍻🤘😎