Doesn't Anyone Here Understand That Nico was the QUEEN OF GOTH?

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― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

Beating Siouxsie & Liz Fraser in a single bound!

― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

She wasn't a whiny fat bitch.

Siouxsie wins.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

A dragonfly laying in a coat of snow
I'll send to kiss your heart for me

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

IF THAT ISN'T GOTH I DUNNO WAT IZ.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

BLONDE = ANTI-BLACK + HAVING MORE FUN = SO NOT GOTH

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

You're a scholar and a gent, Sundar, but: Nico had fun??

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

her nickname was Funzo

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

MARBLE INDEX = FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

(It just seems like it should be a matter of principle. If you're making a run for Queen of Goth, invest in a can of hair dye, will ya?)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 07:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

I can't decide if the notes to the CD of The Marble Index are brilliant or just dippy.

"In 1963, in a meeting of perfect early-Sixties hairstyles, she had a son by the French movie heartthrob Alain Deon".

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 07:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

i like the despairing last-man-on-earth tone of this question

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 18 December 2005 07:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Delon"

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 07:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

dippy

in a vat of "Dippity-Do" styling gel mixed w/fresh horseshit

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 18 December 2005 12:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

robert smith started goth with 'faith' and ended goth with 'disintergration'.

― retroboy, Sunday, 18 December 2005 12:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

*sigh* Nico is so much better than the total output of Goth...

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 18 December 2005 16:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

You should all go read Nico: Songs They Never Play On The Radio. It's one of the best rock n roll books ever written . . . about Nico and it's very, very funny.

Was Nico goth? No. Goth-ic, yes, Teutonic almost certainly, but not goth.

Siouxsie isn't a goth either - she was punk all the way but with a gothic sensibility. Juju may have been the template for most goth albums that came after, but the Banshees moved their sound onto other things.

― klee, Monday, 19 December 2005 23:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

bbbut I thought Ned was the queen of goth!

*runs and hides*

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

'Songs they never play on the radio' seconded. So funny given the subject matter. Kills a bit the Nico mystique but hey-hee-ho..

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

ASHLEE SIMPSON = CURRENT QUEEN OF GOTH

you know what to do

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

Awww yeah!

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

does anyone know if there will be a US release of Rhino's Nico: The Frozen Borderline 1968-1970 2cd set?

― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Well I doubt it, but who cares, I bought the import and I'm a happy camper and who cares. Because she is still the queen of goth and if you say Siouxsie is, then we'll have to take this outside the pub.

― Bimble, Sunday, 22 April 2007 08:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh my god, do you hear that part in the demo of "You Are Beautiful (Afraid}" at the end where she kindof laughs and says "it's just a demo!" That just kills me. Not as holy as Kate Bush, but I make a hearth for her anyway and get down on my knees just the same. Staggering.

― Bimble, Sunday, 22 April 2007 08:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm reading Songs They Never Play On The Radio at the moment, thanks to recommendations from this thread, and I must say I'm really enjoying it. In fact, though I've been reading music books on the bus to and from work for the last year, including several about other musical topics I would have considered a bit dearer to me than Nico, this is honestly the only one I've found it so difficult to put down I've wanted to read when I get home, too. In some ways I hate the cynicism in which it's written, but the writing style and the way it's told is utterly enthralling. It could be all fiction and I don't think I'd care. The irony of it is that musical material from the tour described is actually some of my fave Nico stuff: the Femme Fatale compilation CD, although I'm quite prepared to believe that some of the shows they did were as bad as the author says.

Did anyone ever see her live ever? Please speak.

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

It almost seems like more from the cookie jar than I should be allowed to be able to read that book at the same time as having this brand new Frozen Borderline CD, too.

Surely I'll get Nico cavities from all this candy.

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh my god, do you hear that part in the demo of "You Are Beautiful (Afraid}" at the end where she kindof laughs and says "it's just a demo!" That just kills me

As an aside, I have the leaked demo of Jeff Buckley/Liz Fraser doing "All Flowers in Time" and at the end of it she laughs her head off and says "oh, GAWD" like she was completely disgusted with her singing. It is awesomely adorable.

― Trayce, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

You're kidding! I haven't heard that! What the hell? I thought I'd got all the unofficial Buckley stuff out there! Is it on s1sk???

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

I found it on some guys website, I can email it to you if you like (does yr ILX webmail link work?)

― Trayce, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

yep it does, thanks!

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

I sent a mail, dunno if it worked.

― Trayce, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

It worked, Trayce.

And I went out tonight and rented all three of the videos of Nico I could find at the local video shop and I am a happy goddamn camper.

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't help it. I know...junkies, bad stuff...sin...horror...

But she's my own private David Bowie.

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

nothing will keep us together

we can be heroes
just for one day

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 10:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Buckley/Fraser = best clash of the titans ever.

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Buckley/Fraser is really jaw-droppingly amazing, 'tis true.

― Bimble, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I really like the remix of "Reich Der Traume"...normally I would shun such updating of the past, but it somehow brings her into the present, as though she were still alive. And I think that song is fair game, not being on any of her proper albums.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

You're a scholar and a gent, Sundar, but: Nico had fun??
-- Collardio Gelatinous (collardio)

her nickname was Funzo
-- jim p. irrelevant (electricsound)

― moley, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 11:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

Nico is too sad for real to be goth. Where are the bats?

― DustinR, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 11:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

seek- nothing song
destroy- the end

― edde, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

SHE IS STILL THE QUEEN OF GOTH BETTER BELIEVE IT

Listen to "Valley Of The Kings" off The End and then tell me David Bowie has a goddamn thing on her.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

Back in the 70's, though, David Bowie had his thing on quite a few people.

― moley, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yes he wrote Heroes for her, didn't he?

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

I can't believe I'm listening to "The End". It's the one album of hers I never, ever play. And it sounds bloody fantastic.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

DERE ARE ROSES GROWING IN DA SNOW

― tramp steamer, Monday, 4 August 2008 05:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

Fuck Yeah.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 4 August 2008 05:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

<3 this goth junkie

― velko, Monday, 4 August 2008 05:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

anybody getting the 2 cd reish of THE END? http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=7bvvws5bt9&ref=index.php
I think I've heard all the peel sessions...
[rip bimble]

― tylerw, Friday, 2 November 2012 15:51 (6 months ago) Permalink

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