Ask and you shall receive.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Song sample: "Shadowplay"
The Cure - Disintegration
Song sample: "Love Song"
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Song sample: "Summoning the Muse"
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Song sample: "Spiritual Cramp"
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peepshow
Song sample: "Ornaments of Gold"
Sunshine Blind - Rewind
Song sample: "Cold from Fever"
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery
Song sample: "Doll House"
The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven
Song sample: "Sonny's Burning"
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Song sample: "Silent Hedges"
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride
Song sample: "All My Lovers"
Cinema Strange - The Astonished Eyes of Evening
Song sample: "Catacomb Kittens"
Emilie Autumn - Opheliac
Song sample: "Dead is the New Alive"
Faith and the Muse - Evidence of Heaven
Song sample: "Scars Flown Proud"
Katzenjammer Kabarett - Grand Guignols & Varieties
Song sample: "Hidden & Sick"
Mors Syphilitica - Feather and Fate
Song sample: "My Virgin Widows"
Unto Ashes - Saturn Return
Song sample: "Serve Me"
Switchblade Symphony. Now that brings back memories.
ReplyDeleteMe too. Spent a glorious summer listening to Serpentine Gallery on TAPE.
DeleteWhat, no Sisters?
ReplyDeleteAn honest mistake, but somehow I don't like the Sister as much as the above bands anyway!
DeleteFab. I'd have to add Corpus Delicti, Lisa Gerard's solo stuff and maybe Love is Colder Than Death to my version of this.
ReplyDeleteAnd Sopor Aeternus of course.
DeleteCorpus Delecti's "Saraband" was always a favorite song in the London goth clubs. Fond memories there. D'ya know I used to be a really big Sopor Aeternus fan, but they've fallen off my radar over the last bunch of years because the constant stream of limited edition fancy box sets that were getting progressively less fancy was kind of wearing on me.
DeleteHow about:
ReplyDeleteKilling Joke - Night Time(1985) Love Like Blood
And maybe a bit further afield:
Tiamat - Skeleton Skeletron(1999) Brighter than the Sun
And even further:
Cocteau Twins - Treasure(1984) Lorelei
All good stuff. (Though I don't know any Tiamat as I'm not much of a metal guy, really.)
DeleteGreat list. I'd have to add some Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, and Clan of Xymox.
ReplyDeleteAll classics, really.
DeleteIt's almost astonishing to see anyone mention goth music on the internet in 2012, and then list music that actually -is- goth. Thanks Jack :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I am a bit old and nostalgic, according to my D&D preferences at least.
DeleteHere it is in handy playlist format via the YouTube links you embedded in your post.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02688DC5F5B208B0
I assume that will work like I think it does...
Woah! That is brilliant; thank you for taking the time!
DeleteThis makes me happy. I own about half of these, and the other half I don't. Take me back to my college days (back in Goth's heyday in the year...2000...okay, so I was a bit late, but still). Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds as though our college experiences were quite similar!
DeleteWonderful list, truly old school. & a sweet little thrill to see Black Tape for a Blue Girl get some internet love is these sadbad days.
ReplyDeleteI trade emails with Sam from Black Tape now and then, he's still putting stuff out there!
DeleteI have no idea what any of you are talking about. I recognize Cure, but this all went down during my Van Hagar and Metallica period. How I got from there to Swing and Ska is anyone's guess.
ReplyDelete*looks at his wardrobe of black jackets* I'm such a poseur... huh... that gives me an idea for a post...
Heh, at least it gave you an idea?
DeleteI have to join the "what, no Sisters" chorus as well as a lot more, but I can say this. I have played every one of these on the radio back in my days spinning Lessons Dark Etiquette and reading the list made me wish this Wednesday I was going to be in the booth at the station.
ReplyDeletePS. Excellent BtfaBG choice. That remains my favorite album by Sam and is, interestingly, the only time I saw them live (one of two warm up shows for Projekt Fest given Lisa was pregnant at the time). Plus, that particular song of one of the best on the album. I also have a fondness for the cover of Shadow of A Doubt on it as well.
DeleteHerb, I was at that show too! Philly, right?
DeleteNope, they did a warm-up in Mass in a VFW hall, believe it or not. I was scared Lisa was going to pop right there.
DeleteThe DJ (who was one of the DJs for Bound Hartford) had the hall longer than the show so we stayed and danced. For a while Elisabeth even came out onto the floor and danced with us.
Great show.
Wasn't the Philly show Projekt Fest proper?