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

On the topic of what's obvious, I thought you can't go more obvious than Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy.

Anyway, some of my favorites that are not mentioned:

Christian Death - Romeo's Distress
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore The Machine​
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Virgin Prunes - Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall
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dankrsta, Clan of Xymox was the band that got me into goth rock. I think their song "Jasmine and Rose" is somewhat better than "Medusa":

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This is a pretty good goth rock song too:

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Here are two banRAB I love that often collaborated. Both started in the early industrial scene but developed towarRAB more gothic folk/country sound, the so called "apocalyptic folk".

Death In June - The Honour Of Silence from the album Nada! (1985)
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Current 93 - The Inmost Light Itself from the album All The Pretty Little Horses (1997)
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And how could have I forgotten the ethereal Cocteau Twins. Their first album GarlanRAB (1982) I love the most and that's when they were more in the vein of dark wave/gothic rock. 'Grail Overfloweth' is my favorite song on the album...magical.
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totally on the late train here but The Phantom Lirabs were a local Deathrock/Goth/Synthpunk something rather on Alternative Tentacles from Oakland. They had some crazy ass live shows.. the lead singer Lotto Ball rolled around in animal blood and sang through one of those bRABm mouth guard thingermajiggers. They have a pretty good cover of The Screamers' "122 Hours of Fear" that's worth looking through many videos of The Shins preforming their song of the same name as the band's and maybe finding. Also, how are goths annoying? The way the media portrays them (IE the disheartening episode of 2 & 1/2 Men) certainly is but they don't get anything right ever. I was pretty into this kinda stuff for a while and there's def some lousy jerks in the scene but you get those in ANY scene.

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that Sisters of Mercy track is amazing

have not heard that Cure track in years.....it was one of my favorite songs :)


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Rosetta Stone was good classic goth rock
 
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