Goth music

Hmm Sunshine Blind, now there's an obscure band for you, as if goth weren't obscure enough as it is. Well obscure by my standards at least, i'm only 22 for crissakes:P Her voice is a nice bit of new blood for my taste buds, Thank you. The only bad part of this is now I have to find some way to get a hold of it.

Funny how odd little exchanges of info like this get started in the first place.

Edit: huh they made it into a Vampire the masquerade accompaniment, I've been forgetting to download that for far too long.

edited 10th Feb '12 9:16:47 PM by Renatus

I've got two of their albums. Liquid and I Carry You. Liquid is the better album, and has a very liquid feel to it. It also has a very good cover of I Ran.

Shame they broke up. I don't know if the singer's really done anything since then. She had a short-lived project immediately following the break-up, but it never got off the ground. Since then, it seems like she's just disappeared. I wish she'd release more music, but I suppose that's not likely now. It's been 8 years, so I think she's probably done with music.

I managed to torrent all the albums. I tend to do that most of the time, and haunt the local used half priced book store to see if any gems pop up. It's worked for me pretty good so far, 3 cds in as many months(those aren't the only cds I have its just the results from the most recent cd hunts). It does make me wonder however why their previous owners sold them. I also managed to get siouxsie's last cd at barnes and noble surprisingly.

edited 11th Feb '12 5:48:21 PM by Renatus

-Thumped-

edited 28th Feb '12 4:01:37 PM by Xandriel

Xandriel the supposed genre "gothic metal" doesn't count as goth music, that band has nothing to do with goth.

edited 28th Feb '12 6:30:48 AM by Renatus

Goth Metal is a thing.

Never said it didn't exist, I merely am stating the fact that it has nothing to do with the goth subculture. Nothing wrong with a goth listening to gothic metal, but unlike gothic rock, listening to gothic metal doesn't make one any more of a goth.

Listening to Goth Rock doesn't really make you a goth either.

Hipster Bauhaus lovers FTW~

Well yes one can choose not to be a goth, but you're not a goth if you don't listen to it.

Good point.

Ok then, how about Christian Death? They're pretty good IMO, especially their early 80's stuff, with Rozz Williams. Here's a taster: Romeo's Distress.

You might also want to check out The Damned. Their earlier stuff is punk rock, but they moved towards a more gothic sound. The album I recommend is Phantasmagoria, and my personal favourite song by them is Sanctum Sanctorum.

Surprised no one's mentioned Concrete Blonde yet. They aren't precisely Goth musically speaking, but a lot of older Goths tend to like them.

And then there's "Bloodletting/The Vampire Song", which ought to have been the True Blood theme.

Also, weird that Nine Inch Nails has yet to be discussed.

> Nine Inch Nails

> Goth

Yeah, I thought of posting something in response to that but couldn't think of anything wittier than greentext.

Hence the greentext.

To shoehorn a meme: I don't usually greentext, but when I do, it is to compensate for a lack of wit.

edited 7th Mar '12 12:54:11 PM by inane242

I'm new to these forums so it's probably why I don't get it, but what does green text mean precisely?

>not knowing what greentext is
>2012

It's a Four Chan thing.

Well to be fair I do find 4chan to be quite detestable, and I avoid it when at all possible. Little wonder I've never heard of such a thing. What does it mean though?

It's where you quote a portion of something to draw emphasis to it in a snide manner.

Essentially, I was mocking the notion that NIN is Goth Music.

...which does not make it not curious that someone hadn't brought them/him up until then. Putting that aside and moving on to the more salient point in Drunk Scriblerian's post: Concrete Blonde are, indeed, one hell of a band, and one I would recommend to anyone with a taste for harder rock music with a slight morbid edge. (Well, them and Come. But Come are harder to look up, and easily confused with William Bennett's pre-Whitehouse project, so the point stands.)

That is because you are too young to remember when they were considered Goth, inane. In fact, I'm fairly certain you weren't born then.

I'm also surprised you can listen to Pretty Hate Machine and tell me its not goth.

edited 15th Mar '12 12:10:20 AM by drunkscriblerian

I was born in '94, so I was around, albeit a bit young for Mr. Self Destruct.

And to me Pretty Hate Machine sounds like a whine-ier Bites.

edited 15th Mar '12 12:40:34 PM by inane242

All unsurprising commentary for someone who completely missed the time when Goth was actually happening.

I've never seen anyone mention Nine Inch Nails in the same breath as Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure (the latter perhaps only as the go to examples of overbearing angst in music), so I'm pretty sure that considering them goth is your own thing. There's no doubt that Trent Reznor was exposed to and influenced by said acts in some measure, but that's something else.

edited 17th Mar '12 8:09:16 AM by Litis