First Gothic Song
 

This is very simple. Describe the first song you heard that inspired you to immerse yourself into the Gothic subculture. How did you come about finding the song? Was it through a friend, or did you just stumble upon it by accident? Try to specify.

I would probably have two choices:

1. "Enjoy the Silence", which I described in another forum
2. "Bela Lugosi's Dead", which my friend made me listen to.

"Temple of Love" by Sisters of Mercy. I found the name of the song on a forum and it sounded intriguing. So I looked it up on the Internet and fell in love with it!

Dark Entries by Bauhaus. It was the first track on "Syn's Doom" --a gothic compilation CD I burned. By the end of the first riff, I knew goth was something I was destined to obsess over.

I'm thinking mine was "Stigmata Martyr" by Bauhaus in which Underwater Ophelia invited me to listen to. Bauhaus, as well as other goth bands soon consumed me.

Though not really "gothic" I first got into discovered the gothic subculture through Marilyn Manson, the song was Tourniquet and my friend made me listen to it... about 4 years ago. My friend said he was Goth and back then I didn't know any better.

Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus. I was watching some music show that had the lead singer from The Used as a guest, and they let him pick the "retro video of the day" or something like that. Anyway, Bela Lugosi's Dead just happened to be the video that he chose; and it opened my eyes to so much wonderful music.

Probably This Corrosion by The Sisters of Mercy. I remember listening to that a lot way back Freshman year of High School.

Flood 1 - Sisters of mercy.

A regular and ex-goth at the pub I used to work at copied Floodland, I accidently skipped Dominion and ended up listening to Flood 1 as the first track. Love at first listen.

Cuts you up by Peter Murphy

When it first came out, I liked the music, then later I saw the video and loved the dark trench coat theme. Been here ever since.

Welly, welly, well...

Temple of Love was the first song that pointed me in the right direction
Or was it Monsters with Crüxshadows? Don't quite remember... anyways, I started to listen pretty much to SoM and Crüxshadows, still do, but I can listen to everything between heavy metal and pop... Postpunk/Goth is the best, though. I feel sad for everyone who can't enjoy gothic music.

I think you were watching the same TV Show that I was, because that's exactly how I discovered Bela Lugosi's Dead.

The first gothic music I listened to properly was probably the album Psycho Magnet by London After Midnight. At that time I did some more research into the music and gave Bela Lugosi's dead by Bauhaus and Dominion/Mother Russia and Temple of Love by Sisters of Mercy.

Probably the Cure, but it's been a while and I don't remember a defining moment of discovering goth.

I was like 15 at the time and I heard my neighbor playing TypeO Negitive's version of Summer Breeze, from there I found a whole new world of music. I still am never sure of the proper genre of most the music I listen to. I tend to listen to anything I like.

Might have been. If it aired a year or so ago, then it most certainly was.

Something by The Cure, I think.
I was watching a show of the 80's back when music channels were cool.

I'd been listening to a lot of gothic metal before I became really interested in 'proper' gothic music. The first gothic song I listened to was either 'Pictures of You' by The Cure or 'Metal Postcard' by Siouxsie, can't remember which one I listened to first.

That's exactly when it aired. This is ironic...

For some reason I was flipping the channels and came across Muchmusic (canadian version of MTV).
It was on a Halloween night and they played these videos:

Master and Servant by Depeche Mode.
Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus.
Peek a boo by Siouxsie.
This Corrosion by The Sisters of Mercy.
Cuts you up by Peter Murphy. (I think).
Misfits (couldn't remember the song).
Love song by the Cure.

After watching all these, I was hooked and wanting to find more of this kind of music.

I think it was Switchblade Symphony actually.
I still had some on my iPod from my 'posuer goth' days and I found myself reading Colin Wilson's Big Book of Crime to 'Chain' and 'Morning Girl'.

And then I just started digging.
For music obviously.
I didn't just start to dig a hole in the common room.

It was in London at the Virgin Megastore. I heard the Cure were pretty cool and I liked AFI's cover of The Hanging Garden, so I picked out the cheapest Cure album they had, which just happened to be 'Wish'. It didn't leave my discman for weeks, and if ever there was a turning point in my musical interests it was then.

Good goth ;) thank you for making this thread. My first would be when I was very young, I was watching a film my friend had made, he was a big fan of the Cure's depressive era. The song Untiteld by the Cure came on. Gothling, looking for real goth rock and not trying to be fallen into the MCR/HIM gimmick that was fooling everyone (which I never thought as goth, and had looked up Bauhaus, etc.) and I had to get Disintergration, and then of course I got the Sky's Gone out, and the rest is dark history :)
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Okay I know this band isn't very Goth or anything but when I first listened to Evanescence.

Their sound and Amy's voice just made me want to immerse myself more than I already was. But then I moved on from them into other music.

I think when I listened to "When You're Evil"~Voltaire on the Project Gothic cd. I tried to learn all I could about gothic music then...oh shiiii.

Great topic!

Siouxsie's "Spellbound" is the song that pushed me over the edge.

Before that, I'd been interested in bands like The Cure, ASF, Bauhaus, Sisters, etc., but hadn't yet gotten over my obsession with punk/hardcore.