Goth: Share Your Faves

[Raman]

More industrial than goth, but with a strong link to it. And perfect for Halloween!

 

[The Owl]

 

[Robot.G]

 

[DivisionLocal]

 

[6-3-2]

A current fave from 2017. A slow build, but the goth influences build as the song develops. Siouxsie-esque voice and a killer hook.

 

[Raman]

I'm not sure this qualifies as goth. (In fact, it's never been clear to me what, exactly, qualifies as goth. In my world, The Cure doesn't because they don't have the fascination for the morbid that I tend to associate goth with. But I know many people disagree.)
But Ladytron have a goth vibe.

 

[Raman]

Now, in my book, this is bona fide goth!
-Dress only in black: check!
-Dark music and lyrics: check!
-References to black magic, sorcery and witchcraft: check!
-Allusions to human sacrifices: check!
-Album cover picture taken in a cemetery: check!

 

[Robot.G]

 

[g-dude]

Managed to get to see SoM in 2001 in Bonn, Germany. Very cool show.

 

[g-dude]

I feel like Type O Negative deserves a mention, even though you could argue they were more metal than goth....

Saw them a couple of times - first time was at Ozzfest, and I was in the third row. The bass was so intense that I had to fight the urge to hit the restroom for the entire set!

 

[evil dewars]

Yes! This thread rocks!
I-I-it rocks!!!!

 

[6-3-2]

I'm not sure this qualifies as goth. (In fact, it's never been clear to me what, exactly, qualifies as goth. In my world, The Cure doesn't because they don't have the fascination for the morbid that I tend to associate goth with. But I know many people disagree.)
But Ladytron have a goth vibe.

If you take The Cure's whole catalogue, for sure, they switched sounds and themes too much to be purely goth. But if you take the early records, especially "Pornography," there's some undeniably goth music in there. "Pornography" opens with a track all about death and ends with a verse about being hung.

 

[DivisionLocal]

 

[DivisionLocal]

 

[Raman]

If you take The Cure's whole catalogue, for sure, they switched sounds and themes too much to be purely goth. But if you take the early records, especially "Pornography," there's some undeniably goth music in there. "Pornography" opens with a track all about death and ends with a verse about being hung.

I'm a huge Cure fan and have been for 30+ years. I'm the type for whom "the real Cure" is in the early albums, with Pornography, Faith and 17 seconds at their pinnacle. So, it's not that I'm looking at songs such as Friday I'm in love and thinking "Hey, that's not dark at all!"

Even so, I don't see them as goth. Yes, Robert Smith, especially in those years, and especially in Pornography, talks a lot a about depression, despair and, to a lesser extent, death. But he does it from an existential perspective. In my mind, Goth has a different outlook on it. Whereas you sense that Smith desperately wants to find a path back to life and happiness in his lyrics, with goth it's more of a fascination for death and for the morbid as an aesthetic ideal. With goth, death, fear and darkness are things that you strive for.

But I stress that I don't think musical genres are rigid categories. I can certainly see how people who identify as goths would want to count The Cure as such.

 

[DivisionLocal]

 

[g-dude]

Yes! This thread rocks!
I-I-it rocks!!!!

Glenn Danzig is a lot shorter in person than you'd imagine. Doyle really needs to lay off the Vitamin T.

 

[Raman]

 

[Sir Nose]

 

[dalahorse]

A bit overplayed in its day. But a favorite of mine, for sure…