Bauhaus - St.Vitus Dance video free download

Carolyne Roy

st. vitus dance is what tourettes' syndrome was called

andrewc2768

It's about chorea, a muscular disease. I'm not going to regurgitate the facts, you can google it. People thought sufferers were possessed by demons.

Remy Leonhart

@albatros777 He stopped doing drugs and got into religion after Bauhaus.

vicdean

read mather arnold and listen to three shadows part II. Murphys influence is there. and by the way. i always thought this song was about death. :/

bricitybrac

I think it's a reference to the dancing plague of 1518. In Strassburg, a woman started dancing in the city square, and she couldn't stop. Within 6-8 days, 30 people had joined her, and in a month it was 400. The dancers sincerely wanted to stop dancing, but claimed they couldn't. Historians think that it was most likely caused by mass hysteria or bread laced with ergot, a heavy hallucinagen.

WoodRatGirl

St. Vitus is considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and epileptics. He is also said to protect against lightning strikes, animal attacks and oversleeping, and is the patron saint of Bohemia. Okay thanks Wikipedia :-P

albatros777

I often wondered what happened to Peter's vocal style after the Bauhaus. It seems, without the influence of Ash and the rest, he decided to not be THAT crazy anymore.

albatros777

Ah, it was also a nickname for seizure activity.

David Liggett

I have loved this song for years, yet never really new what it was about. Can you let me in.

MikaelVincent

Thats funny. I'm eating Marabou. Then I stumble upon this song. Coincidence?

jenlikeshorses

lol wtf? Random pic for the song. But, Peter was pretty random too. Oh wait...wait!!! Peters Islamic!! I get it now. LOL And all I have to say to that shit is..wtf?!

nightly alignment

great song from a great band, but ive got to know. what does this picture have to do with anything.

Matt McMadd

tuuuunnneeee