First Gothic Song

[Saphyra Runa]

In college one of my best friends made me a cassette tape. This was the eighties yanno. He mixed up a bunch of songs on there for me.

Depeche Mode
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Front 242
The Cure
Joy Division
Bauhaus

I originally just wanted Dead or Alive's You Spin Me, but Ed, my friend, had ulterior motives.

[Vyvian Blackthorne]

Originally Posted by Saphyra Runa

I originally just wanted Dead or Alive's You Spin Me, but Ed, my friend, had ulterior motives.

Good song...it reminds me of two things. Meatspin and Party Monster...

Goth Forever

[Saphyra Runa]

ahhh, not the Meatspin I am thinking of is it?

bawhahahaha

[Vyvian Blackthorne]

Gees...I'm afraid it IS the meatspin you're thinking of. Next time you see it, turn the volume up all the way. You 'fuken' rock Runa. I am starting a thread on how much you are just so plain and very very very 'fuken' awesome.

Goth Forever

[Aaroneet]

"Fucken" does actually remind me of "chicken"...

[homo-adonis]

Mine was "Heaven street " By Death in June.

[Saphyra Runa]

Originally Posted by Vyvian Blackthorne

Gees...I'm afraid it IS the meatspin you're thinking of. Next time you see it, turn the volume up all the way. You 'fuken' rock Runa. I am starting a thread on how much you are just so plain and very very very 'fuken' awesome.

Goth Forever

Yup, that's me. 'fuken' awesome. At least my dachshund seems to think so anyway. 45 spins=You are officially gay :-)

Originally Posted by Aaroneet

"Fucken" does actually remind me of "chicken"...

I don't even want to know. Well ya I do, but I don't.

*wanders off back to her oblivious little world of post-it notes*

[Aaroneet]

I gotcha...Anyway, this is going off topic.

Back to the original idea of this thread for future posts!

[DeathChii]

Definitley something by The Cure.
My mom liked the band so she would play it in the car... =P

[Aaroneet]

Many people here seem to have been influenced by The Cure.

[Dancing_in_rain]

Hmmm...*tries to remember*

I bought myself the "Fallen" CD by Evanescence because I listened to My Immortal on AOL and decided that I wanted to own the song. But that wasn't my "intro to goth music". There is one gothic girl at my school and way back when (two years ago), when I was still a young and impressionable young lass (I still am), we had resumés on our school e-mail provider. Out of curiousity, and pure boredom, I read nearly everyone's resumé and this girl had some lyrics and pictures of SlipknoT on her resumé. They piqued my curiosity and I decided to do a little research for meself. Funnily enough, this same girl, to whom I owe a lot now, is the one who pretty much introduced me to the gothic subculture. I liked the way she dressed, she seemed relatively nice and her music was soooo different from everyone else's. Eh. So voilà. Had it not been for her, I might not be on this website at all.

Oh. And don't go telling me SlipknoT aren't goth and all. I don't care. They were my first alternative band and my "introduction" to a whole different spectrum.

[Aaroneet]

Something similar happened to me too. Bands such as Slipknot were my first "alternative" to the mainstream, before Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, or any other, true Gothic bands. My friend originally instant messaged me, asking if I wanted to go "punk". I accepted, thinking that it would be a cool thing to do. I didn't know anything about punk, and eventually, somewhere along the lines, the title was switched to Goth.

It wasn't until that friend and I went our own seperate ways that I began to do my own research on what Goth was. One strike of fate lands me in the middle of two music videos by Depeche Mode and Bauhaus; the rest, as they say, is history.

[CountSixstring]

"Lovesong" by The Cure. I heard the 311 version and didn't really care. My bud showed me the originial and it was so much better. I was into goth stuff by then, but the right gate into the music had to be The Cure. Before then music really had no solace to me.

[DeathChii]

Originally Posted by Aaroneet

Many people here seem to have been influenced by The Cure.

Well the cure was more exposed. Like they're more known... It's easier to find out about them... Plus they are an amazing band and I love them <3 =D

[Canem]

MM's The Beautiful People

[the-broken-harlequin]

Chop suey by system of a down.
It seemed so emotional and before I heard it all I liked was classical music (wich isn't REALLY goth)
Then I saw these nice spiky bangles at the london dungeon (like a dark ages amusement park to you amricanadians).
Then I saw this goth guy and I just thought that he looked so stylish.
Eventually the goth cancer spread to the rest of my body...
I really have always like Gothic literature and music, so I'm not just in it for the fashion.

[honeythorn]

NO, the first gothic song. By a reasonably goth band?

[the-broken-harlequin]

Originally Posted by honeythorn

NO, the first gothic song. By a reasonably goth band?

OK I thought it was the first song to inspire you to be goth.
In that case It would have to be... You spin me right round by Marilyn Manson.

[Valrys]

Originally Posted by the-broken-harlequin

In that case It would have to be... You spin me right round by Marilyn Manson.

OK, I have to hijack this for a moment, I'm sure Manson never covered that song, its kicking around on limewire and places like that under his name but it was actually done by the band Dope.
However, if I am wrong about this, I will cheerfully retract this post

[Vyvian Blackthorne]

Originally Posted by the-broken-harlequin

OK I thought it was the first song to inspire you to be goth.
In that case It would have to be... You spin me right round by Marilyn Manson.

Good goth...I thought I was going to have a break today. G'oh well...Here I go. Foremost, it's nice to see you ressurected, Harlequin , I never got your message because you deleted your profile first. However, Marilyn Manson is simply not a goth band. He doesn't even consider himself among our subculture, in fact, he's only cited himself as a Shock Rocker (i.e. GG Allin, Wendy O Williams, late Cooper); and with his image it makes the media, who would take a roach for a spider, think he's a goth band. Not that he's done anything to help, but attained his success. Mind you, Manson is a genius, really. And I do reccomend his early work to you for the shock-rock tastes. But please acknowledge he's not a goth musician. I think it's sad we've been too focused on flameing you then we have educating you. I'd reccomend you starting off with real goth music, with the Sisters Of Mercy. If anything, they've inspired Manson with the occulist like imagery (note: their logo). Still, I think Harlequin's answer is still valid, seeing as he's still a babybat, everyone. Also, he covered Tainted Love by Soft Cell, not the Meatspin song .
Goth Forever
Goth Forever
Goth Forever

[the-broken-harlequin]

Ah,well I did send it to everyone.
Well In that case I can't remember.
It was less the music that did it anyway.

[Kitten of the Catacomb]

The very first goth rock song that I ever heard, knowing that it was among the subculture, was Cinema Strange's very own "Speak, Marauder!" brought to me by Haunted House. However, the first goth song that I heard, unaware that it was goth rock, was "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure on the radio a few years ago.

[Aaroneet]

[quote=DeathChii]Well the cure was more exposed. Like they're more known... It's easier to find out about them...


You're right; they do have the most mainstream sound, and I don't mean that in a negative way.

[Minyaliel]

For me, it was a song that I can't remember the title of by a band called Totenbonden. I believed, like many other here, that symphonic metal and similar music was the most Gothic thing in existence. Now I hardly ever listen to music like that, not because it's "not goth", but because I tired of it soon after discovering Siouxsie, Voltaire etc.

[Aaroneet]

Funny, I went through a phase where I liked gothic metal bands. Maybe it's not a phase; I kinda like listening to Type O Negative. But that can be a great way to discover Gothic music.