History Music / TonesOnTail

* ExcitedShowTitle: The single "Go!", and the compilations ''Everything!'' and ''Something!''.

Tones on Tail was a PostPunk side project by Music/{{Bauhaus}} guitarist Daniel Ash, composed of him with friend Glenn Campling and later Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins. The group took Bauhaus' gloom and doom and warped it into what they called "doom-and-dance-pop", [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly fusing several different styles and sounds together]] into a unique take on PostPunk and NewWaveMusic. They released one LP, ''Pop'', and several singles and [=EPs=] before splitting in 1984. A 1998 compilation, the aptly named ''Everything!'', gathered up... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everything]].

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band played and fused together whatever they wanted, from airy gloom Pop ("Lions") to funky PostPunk ("War"), club SynthPop ("Performance"), heavy GothRock ("Christian Says"), Ambient Electronica ("Rain"), and ACappella nonsense ("Slender Fungus").

* {{Mondegreen}}: The remix of "There's Only One" is titled "Now We Lustre" after a mondegreen of the song's title when it's reversed.

Ash and Haskins attempted to reform Bauhaus with bassist David J, but singer Music/PeterMurphy declined, so the three instead formed Music/LoveAndRockets to commercial and critical success. Love and Rockets broke up in 2009, and after a period of Daniel focusing on solo work, he and Kevin formed Poptone in 2017 with bassist Diva Dompe. While they play songs written and sung by Ash from all three previous bands, their live shows lean heavily on Tones on Tail material, and they perform in largely-white glow-in-the-dark outfits, making it an in-all-but-name revival of the project.

Ash and Haskins attempted to reform Bauhaus with bassist David J, but singer Music/PeterMurphy declined, so the three instead formed Music/LoveAndRockets to commercial and critical success. After Love and Rockets' breakup in 2009, Daniel and Kevin formed a new group in 2017, Poptone, with bassist Diva Dompe. While they plays songs written and sung by Ash from all three previous bands, their live shows lean heavily on Tones on Tail material, and they perform in all-white glow-in-the-dark outfits, making it an in-all-but-name revival of the project.

Ash and Haskins attempted to reform Bauhaus with bassist David J, but singer Music/PeterMurphy declined, so the three instead formed Music/LoveAndRockets to commercial and critical success. After Love and Rockets' breakup in 2009, Daniel and Kevin formed a new group in 2017, Poptone, with bassist Diva Dompe. While they plays songs written and sung by Ash from all three previous bands, their live shows lean heavily on Tones on Tail material, making it an in-all-but-name revival of the project.

Ash and Haskins attempted to reform Bauhaus with bassist David J, but singer Music/PeterMurphy declined, so the three instead formed Music/LoveAndRockets to commercial and critical success.

[[caption-width-right:330:From L-R: Glenn Campling (bass, keyboards), Daniel Ash (guitars, vocals), Kevin Haskins (drums)]]

Tones on Tail was a PostPunk side project by Music/{{Bauhaus}} guitarist Daniel Ash, composed of him with friend Glenn Campling and later Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins. The group took Bauhaus' gloom and doom and warped it into what they called "doom-and-dance-pop", [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly fusing several different styles and sounds together]] into a unique take on PostPunk and NewWaveMusic.

They released one LP, ''Pop'', and several singles and [=EPs=] before splitting in 1984. A 1998 compilation, the aptly named ''Everything!'', gathered up... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everything]]. Ash and Haskins attempted to reform Bauhaus with bassist David J, but singer Music/PeterMurphy declined, so the three instead formed Music/LoveAndRockets to commercial and critical success.

* CoverVersion: A live cover of Music/ElvisPresley's "Heartbreak Hotel".

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Subverted with ''Everything!''. It's a collection of all of their music... except for three alternate versions of "Go!", "Burning Skies" and "Twist", which were instead included on the EP, ''Something!''.

They released one LP, ''Pop'', and several singles and [=EPs=] before splitting in 1984. A 1998 compilation, the aptly named ''Everything!'', gathered up... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everything]]. Ash and Haskins went on to form Music/LoveAndRockets with Bauhaus bassist David J.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Some of their promotional pictures are grayscale, and the band performed while dressed entirely in white.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The above picture shows the band in front of drawings of bees. In 1988, Music/LoveAndRockets would release a one-off single as The Bubblemen, in which they dressed up as bees.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band did and fused together whatever they wanted, from airy gloom Pop ("Lions") to funky PostPunk ("War"), club SynthPop ("Performance"), heavy GothRock ("Christian Says"), Ambient Electronica ("Rain"), and ACappella nonsense ("Slender Fungus").

* WordSaladLyrics: Much of Ash's lyrics are stream-of-consciousness incomprehensibility.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Subverted with ''Everything!''. It's a collection of all of their music...except for three alternate versions of "Go!", "Burning Skies" and "Twist", which were instead included on the EP, ''Something!''.

Let's fish around, free air again"
* WordSaladTitle: "The Never Never (Is Forever)"

->"Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah-yah, yah"\\
"[[StudioChatter Right, let's do the 'Yah-yahs' now...]]"\\
-'''"Go!"'''

* WordSaladTitle: "The Never Never (Is Forever)"

* TakeThat: Music/PeterMurphy believed "The Movement of Fear" was a shot at him, but Daniel never confirmed or denied this. He later wrote an AnswerSong, "The Answer is Clear", [[SelfDeprecation which featured Daniel on guitars]].

"[[ThrowItIn Right, let's do the 'Yah-yahs' now...]]"\\

* PsychedelicRock: One of the more prominent influences, and its different styles can be heard throughout ''Pop!''.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band did and fused together whatever they wanted, from airy gloom Pop ("Lions") to funky PostPunk ("War"), club SynthPop ("Performance"), heavy GothRock ("Christian Says"), Ambient Electronica ("Rain"), and A'Capella nonsense ("Slender Fungus").

They released one LP, ''Pop'', and several singles and [=EPs=] before splitting in 1984. A compilation, the aptly named ''Everything!'' gathered up... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everything]]. Ash and Haskins went on to form Music/LoveAndRockets with Bauhaus bassist David J.

They released one LP, ''Pop!'', and several singles and [=EPs=] before splitting in 1984. A compilation, the aptly named ''Everything!'' gathered up... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everything]]. Ash and Haskins went on to form Music/LoveAndRockets with Bauhaus bassist David J.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Their LP ''Pop!'', the single "Go!", and the compilations ''Everything!'' and ''Something!''.

* PsychedelicRock: One of the more prominent influences, and its different styles can be heard throughout ''Pop!''.