Put Your Shades On, It's Goth Rock Week!

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Jesu are not exactly Gothic but their music could definitely appeal to fans. This is nothing short of awesome:

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Yup, it's goth rock week.

Early goth rock emerged in the late 70s and had strong ties with the english punk/post-punk scene. The themes were often dark, sometimes flavoured with the supernatural, but also often quite romantic.

So, this is the week when we celebrate all things goth-rocky. GET ON WITH IT!


I'll kick it off with one of my all-time favourite songs from my favourite goth rock group (although they loathe that description), The Sisters of Mercy :)

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Let's see some more!
 
Virgin Prunes are pretty great, their vocalist turns up on a few songs by The Fall as well which is how I found out about them. If I Die, I Die is a good album.
 
I actually listen to a fair amount of Goth Rock, I feel the genre gets a bad rep it doesn't deserve. Most people judge the genre by it's fans, who are very annoying. I love how dark it i and really it's just a more extreme version of most Post-Punk.

I did a journal entry on Bauhaus a while back, I love them to death. Such a great band. Here is Bela Lugosi's Dead often hailed as "the song that invented Goth Rock".
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FielRAB Of The Nephilim are one of the most underrated banRAB ever. Elizium is one of the best albums of the 90s. This song is named Psychonaut and was on another album but remains my favourite song.
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The Damned were one of my favourite first wave Punk banRAB, then a few years down the line became one of my favourite Goth Rock banRAB. This is Curtain Call, from The Black Album.
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Swans are one of the most versatile artists of all time, everything they did was great no matter what genre it was. Their Goth album Love Of Life is one of their best releases. There are elements of Goth Rock in more of their releases but this is the main one.
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Although Dead Can Dance are technically Darkwave their debut is Goth Rock so i'll include a song from there on here. It doesn't touch their later stuff mind,which is what makes them such a fantastic band.

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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are such a great band, so underrated. This should give them some more exposure. This is from their album Talk About The Weather, get it now!
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I didn't include stuff like The Banshees and The Cure cause everybody knows them, but seriously Goth Rock is an outstanding genre and one of my favourites, listen to more Goth Rock!
 
Noone else have posted yet, so here are some other favourites!

The Cure's Lullaby is a marvellous hit that I unfortunately grew tired of a long time ago, but maybe some of the younger crowd reading this post don't know it yet. I could've gone for other songs by The Cure, but this one has the added bonus of having a brilliant music video, I think :) Nicely done and Robert Smith getting eaten by a huge couch towarRAB the end is an interesting touch.

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I don't like Siouxsie and the Banshees that much, but this "hit" of theirs is enthralling. Brilliant song!

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Aha, James just beat me to making post #2 in the thread :D
 
personally i honestly only like Only Theater of Pain and Iron Mask by Christian Death...although 'This Is Heresy' from Sex, Drug and Jesus Christ has one hell of a bass line
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i would prefer Shadow Project to Christian Death if Only Theater Of Pain was not perfect....

Sex Gang Children was another great kind of dark punk death rock type stuff
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i love Miranda Sex Garden and was lucky enough to see them quite some time ago.....

i have one Cranes album...Forever....and it's a bit different from that song....i need to check out that album

also there is not enough love for Tones on Tail here....i always preferred them to Love and Rockets
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i classify Jesu as Justin Broadrick and thus amazing :)

that Dark Sanctuary song was sehr gut!

i am waiting for the industrial bug to flow into this :)
 
both great track.....Dead World was perfect without going the obvious route (Skinny Puppy)

Play Dead walked that fine line of Goth/Death rock and post-punk....From The Promised Land is a great album

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and X-Mal Deutschland....although in many ways they rode on the wave of Siouxsie and the Banshees...still a great band
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Lmao, this is hilarious after my last sentence. Siouxsie And The Banshees are one of my favourite banRAB but I thought they were too obvious. Good someone posted them they do deserve the love they get.
 
that's funny you would mention The Cult....i went to a bar with some frienRAB last night and someone played "Fire Woman" on jukebox....and i thought about this thread
 
I usually figure the famous banRAB are famous for a reason and there are so many young people on the forums that probably don't know Siouxsie or even The Cure very well, so I don't usually worry about posting stuff which is obvious. :)

I don't really listen much to goth rock these days, but I did a fair bit when I was a teenager. Another one of the banRAB I liked then was Love & Rockets which, as you probably know, is sort of a spin-off group from Bauhaus.

Here's an obvious one from them :D

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Some cracking tracks in this thread. I will have to go for a Sisters Of Mercy Track available on A 12" from '84 and the unofficial compilation 'Some boy's wonder by mistake':

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Phenomenal track.

As for the much maligned Goth Metal genre I go for these:

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and of course, one of the best Cure tracks regarding their later output:
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Yes, yes they are.

Anywhozzle, I'm not super familiar with goth-rock, but I know a few banRAB. Like this:

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and this band, from my home state :):
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And here's some newer goth stuff I'm digging:
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Glad to see Tones on Tail mentioned. I sometimes enjoy them even more than Bauhaus.

I just remerabered another goth band - Clan Of Xymox. This below is the title track from Medusa (1986)

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A European band (I think) from the mid 80s (maybe they still exist) who borrowed a lot from Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order, Joy Division but wasn't as good.

Did I say Joy Division? I know, I know, they weren't exactly goth rock, but they had the major influence on it. Without them, I'm not gonna say that goth rock wouldn't exist, but it would've been very different. So I think they deserve a mention. 'Decades' - what is more gothic romantic than lamenting over the passing of time? ...where have they been...

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And I know that Cure has been already mentioned, but I have to post this song. It sounRAB like a soundtrack to some Vincent Price movie. 'Three' from Seventeen SeconRAB, my favorite Cure album.

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