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Goth

Unread post by rhowaldt » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:51 am

a slight disclaimer first: i am not very knowledgeable in this department. i'm just doing this thread because i was just introduced to music that falls in the goth department. mind you, we are not talking about "gothic metal" here (Nightwish, Trail of Tears, etc). we are talking about this.
now, since i don't know much about it, i see it has some connections to New Wave as well, plus a whole bunch of overlap. maybe somebody who knows their shit can clear this up.

anyway, my wife's best friend used to be really into this kinda music, and we were talking about it the other day and he told me about Sisters of Mercy. so i checked it out and i love it.

Sisters of Mercy - Neverland
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia, My Reflection
Sisters of Mercy - More

he told me they have a 15-minutes long track that was being used for Satanic rituals. it is on some obscure EP, and from some Googling we gathered it might be a bootleg. he has it at home and will check it out for me - of course i wanted to hear that track :)

The only referential music that came to my mind from hearing this stuff was an old favourite of mine, this glorious track:
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
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Re: Goth

Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:55 pm

Shameless spam: years ago I wrote something about this kind of music, calling it "dark wave", here it is: http://doyourealize.it/speciali/70-your ... -wave.html :-)

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Unread post by rhowaldt » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:01 pm

ha, all the big names are there it seems! now if only somebody could post some good youtube links... ;)
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Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:19 pm

^ You're right, of course. I'm not into this music anymore, so can't be of much help. I leave you with some of my favourites:

The Cure - Faith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNipumgHpnI
The Cure - Pornography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRA55Om ... CHqBEeO3Sa
The Cure - Disintegration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeWhUL7kS80
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBxaFZq ... -U2tIMrkbT
Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm-MDwC ... egeW_fqQpU

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:33 pm

Sisters of Mercy, definitely. Great band, fantastic music. Everything has its beginnings and later they destroy it with Goth Metal or whatever the like.
Of course, you can count some songs by The Cure, Black Sabbath (they are the reference for almost any kind of Rock music).

I know that Dead Can Dance is not really a Goth/Rock band but they were one of the acts in the Gothic department, too, even though they use unconventional instruments and electronic elements. Sometimes it sounds like some kind of dark world music and I love this group. I think I mentioned them many times here. The voice of Lisa Gerrard is splendid. I share some of my faves from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba2UOm60hcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42ENG79hTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5xfdn5rlo

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Re: Goth

Unread post by maso » Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:04 am

A long tune by Sisters of Mercy? "This Corrosion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obzPPeHgHRQ

This is good a song to drive along with very fast late at night across barren wastes

Not goth exactly, but in the same "dark wave" vein (and funny too):

The Smiths, "Girlfriend in a Coma"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5i8elB2-wY
just say "thanks, man"

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Re: Goth

Unread post by doubledutch » Sat Oct 31, 2015 3:56 pm

I can't believe I haven't touched this thread yet, so in honor of Halloween, a time of year that goths usually have mixed feelings about, I'll post a few links every night until Thursday. The two-fold reason being that I'm sure you guys don't want a perpetually undead/constantly updated goth music thread, but also because November 5th is the 72nd anniversary of the 1943 bombing of the Vatican. 72 being the average heartbeats-per-minute of an adult human, the number of languages spoken in the Tower of Babel (and the number of names of God according to Kabbalah), and also because the axis of the earth moves one degree every 72 years compared to stars and to the vault of heaven.

To start off, here are some tunes from various goth genres:

http://toogl.es/#/view/WPw7nlluRdc

http://toogl.es/#/view/zdeNU2bxX18

http://toogl.es/#/view/pGju9VaQuyg

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Unread post by rhowaldt » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:06 pm

hahaha, nice! wonderful numerological connections always get my dick hard. thanks dd!
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Re: Goth

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:39 pm

Never heard about Lebanon Hanover. Great song.

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Re: Goth

Unread post by vic » Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:44 pm

Sorry guys, no signature for a while, too busy with life. :|

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Re: Goth

Unread post by Theo » Mon Jan 25, 2016 10:48 pm

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No

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Re: Goth

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:24 am

^ When I was 17 years old (and up to 23), this was my favourite song.

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Unread post by Theo » Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:53 pm

^ It's a classic :)

We had some goth/dark wave bands in the Netherlands too.
Probably the best example is Clan of Xymox

Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Musquito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyo9MK-hbfU
Clan of Xymox - Obsession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNJWMvdF1Y
Clan Of Xymox - Louise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rcWQTWvvek

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Re: Goth

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