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04-28-2009, 08:43 PM
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Trying to explore goth music
Hello!
I am new to this forum and am hoping that one or several of you can help me out.
I wouldn't consider myself a goth, but I'm a person who likes a wide variety of musical genres and likes to explore. I've been interested in looking into goth music lately, and since I haven't been able to find any particularly good resources for doing so, I wanted to ask where I should start in terms of bands and/or specific albums, and possibly where I should go once I've started.
To explain where I'm at, I have listened to and enjoy bands like Joy Division, Disintegration-era The Cure, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees...I guess some of the very early stuff. I know a few darkwave bands (Provision, Faith Assembly), and a few symphonic metal bands (Epica, Leaves' Eyes, Nightwish), although I know that neither of those are really goth. Beyond that...it's pretty new to me.
Thanks very much in advance!
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04-28-2009, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Originally Posted by ceremony07
Hello!
I am new to this forum and am hoping that one or several of you can help me out.
I wouldn't consider myself a goth, but I'm a person who likes a wide variety of musical genres and likes to explore. I've been interested in looking into goth music lately, and since I haven't been able to find any particularly good resources for doing so, I wanted to ask where I should start in terms of bands and/or specific albums, and possibly where I should go once I've started.
To explain where I'm at, I have listened to and enjoy bands like Joy Division, Disintegration-era The Cure, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees...I guess some of the very early stuff. I know a few darkwave bands (Provision, Faith Assembly), and a few symphonic metal bands (Epica, Leaves' Eyes, Nightwish), although I know that neither of those are really goth. Beyond that...it's pretty new to me.
Thanks very much in advance!
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Well, since you're familiar with the big guns...
The Last Days of Jesus
Frank The Baptist
Sex Gang Children and anything Andi spat upon
The Bolshoi
The Chameleons
Cinema Strange/The Deadfly Ensemble
Danielle Dax
Danse Society
Savage Republic
Strawberry Switchblade
GRUDGINGLY Switchblade Symphony (Serpentine Gallery only)
Malaria!
The Church
Skeletel Family when Anne-Marie was around
Mnemonic Devices
Sadie Sads (Japanese deathrock)
The Marionettes
The Meteors
Einsturzende Neubauten
Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party
Blessure Grave
Kitchen and The Plastic Spoons
Bone Orchard
Blank Dogs
The Cramps...
I think you can see where I'm going with this, right? Now get cracking and have fun!
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04-28-2009, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Kommunity FK
Christian Death
Superheroines
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
X-Mal Deutschland
Phaidia
Nosferatu
Sleeping Children
Fields Of The Nephilim
Bloody Dead And Sexy
And Also The Trees
Theatre Of Hate
Theatre Of Ice
Scarlets Remains
and I adore Strawberry Switchblade...
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04-28-2009, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Here are some more suggestions:
Christian Death, Shadow Project, Faith and the Muse, Mephisto Walz, Vendemmian and Burning Image.
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04-28-2009, 10:45 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Mephisto Walz...Forgot about them. Good call.
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What's that moving in the basement?
What's that moving in the attic?
Who's that walking in the shadow?
Who's that walking in the streets?
-Christian Death
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04-28-2009, 10:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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I forgot aboot Theatre of Ice, Scarlet's Remains and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry! I'm soooo ashamed.
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04-28-2009, 11:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Cardiff
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Did everyone forget The Sisters of Mercy?
Other than that -
Alien Sex Fiend
Specimen
45 Grave
Virgin Prunes
The Shroud
Rudimentary Peni
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04-28-2009, 11:58 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
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In a more experimental direction there's stuff like the Vanishing, Sixteens and Subtonix.
And I'm only mentioning those because all the other bands I'd recommend have already been listed. Except for Eat Your Makeup and Neva. And coldwave like Opera de Nuit and Trisomie 21.
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04-29-2009, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Thanks very much everyone for your help!
I didn't have much time today -- my last.fm only works at work, because we have satellite internet at home  -- but I started by listening to the Chameleons, who seem like a band I could certainly get into.
I was also pleasantly surprised by a few of the names on the list. I'm a HUGE fan of both The Church and Strawberry Switchblade, and I always liked Einsturzende Neubauten. So I guess maybe I'm a little farther along than I thought 
I'll be making my way through the rest of the list!
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05-01-2009, 10:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: PHOENIX
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Send me your address and I'll send you one of my CDs. Better to have it in the hands of someone exploring Goth music than gathering dust in my garage.
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05-01-2009, 11:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Osaka, Japan
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Lolly and Rozz mentioned the Japanese bands Sadie Sads and Phadia. Sadie Sads are pretty industrial/no wave sounding (very noisy in other words), you might not be into that thing.
I would also recommend the bands G-Schmitt and Madame Edwarda, on the Japanese front. I put a few CD's on Mediafire/Rapidshare, I'll track down the links and post them if you're interested.
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05-02-2009, 05:27 AM
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05-02-2009, 06:27 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Osaka, Japan
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Nobody mentioned Brotherhood of Pagans.
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The Beginner's Quick Guide to Goth: 1 2 3 4 5
"Now some of you may encounter the devil's bargain if you get that far. Any old soul is worth saving at least to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment."
-William S. Burroughs
You're not entitled to your opinion.
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05-04-2009, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Thanks, and thanks. Added to the list!
Mouseblood -- I'll send you my address as soon as I've got enough posts to send PMs.
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05-06-2009, 06:20 PM
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Location: Harlem
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Pink Turns Blue
Leitmotiv
Chants of Maldoror
Miguel and the living dead
The Knutz
The March Violets
Zadera
Radio Scarlet
Red Wedding (Not Goth, but was very incestuous with that scene in the 80s. More of a broadway meets post punk thing. But an honorable mention no less.)
...Yeah. That should cover a few more that haven't been mentioned.
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05-14-2009, 07:44 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Originally Posted by viscus
Nobody mentioned Brotherhood of Pagans.
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Or Corpus Delicti.
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05-16-2009, 02:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
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György Ligeti.
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05-31-2009, 02:40 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Backwoods hick town, NC
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Sentenced.
Dear God, Sentenced.
Oh and My Dying Bride.
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05-31-2009, 02:57 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Sentenced.
Dear God, Sentenced.
Oh and My Dying Bride.
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She said goth, not metal. Please refrain to answer to this post under penalty of ridicule.
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