any great "Goth" band or song can be recommended?

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"aya ya ya ya ya ya yaya yaaaaaaaa..."

Did you mean Xmal Deuthland???

brg30, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey whats that Current 93 song where Tibet Screams "Antichrist" over and over thats pretty "goth".

brg30, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought Brian was talking about Tones On Tail.

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elysian Fields "Fright Night"- jazz-goth!

tacit, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"aya ya ya ya ya ya yaya yaaaaaaaa..." = "Go" by Tones on Tail

Alex in NYC, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
A few suggestions from hapless me:

- For rage goths, the Apotheosis rmx of "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" from *Carmina Burana* - For creepy-graveyard-techno goths, Icon of Coil, "Floorkiller" - For thrash-out and bust-it-up goths, Rob Zombie's "Dragula"; for actual mosh-pit goths, almost any Rammstein, but especially "Engel" and "Du Hast"; Static-X, especially "Push It" - For goths who can cha-cha angrily: "Red Right Hand" - For decadent-sensual goths: Garbage, "Milk" or "Number One Crush"; Dead Can Dance, "Song of the Dispossessed" (though "Lovegrove" belongs here, too); some Portishead - For desperate goths: "Born Slippy" or Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" - Personal favorites, though not so danceable: "Cry, Little Sister", "Glass Spider", "Paper Doll"

The goth DJs in these parts spin lots of other stuff, too, much of which straddles generic lines. Just for reference: 'round here, we get a lot of cruxshadows, noisex, einsturzende neubaten, neuroactive, theatre of tragedy, paralysed age, project pitchfork, carfax abbey, die krupps, sunshine blind, seraphim shock, marilyn manson, e nomine, london after midnight, tapping the vein, the cure, front 242, ministry, the smiths, type o negative, star industry, apoptygma berzerk, lords of acid, wolfsheim, fictional, rosetta stone, kraftwerk, endanger, the dreamside, vnv nation, kmfdm, behind the scenes, skinny puppy, fleshfield, neuroticfish, thrill kill kult, iris, feindflug, nine inch nails, :wumpscut:, merry thoughts, misfits, juno reactor, haujobb, LOTS of bauhaus, funker vogt, camouflage, suspiria, mesh, a perfect circle, cradle of filth, covenant, siouxsie, alphaville, joy division, klf, and jesus & mary chain. And we consider it all more or less goth.

*shrug*

(For the record: We do have bona fide red-wine-and-lace goths, but usually they're identifiable more by their dizzying heels or, on occasion, their characteristic single tear.)

Hope this helps --

Eamonn in Philly, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eamonn, those are GREAT suggestions! Not at all hapless.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are they -all- great, though? Hence the emphasis on the adjective ... Tapping the Vein, Thrill Kill, Lords of Acid et. al. surely have some lesser-than moments ... but maybe that's just my personal bias!

Dare, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tapping The Vein I don't know about, but TKK is one of my favorite bands of all time and I really haven't really paid attention to Lords of Acid since _Voodoo U_. I think their highs make up for their lows, easily.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Inkubus Sukkubus: Its Wiccan Gospel Rock...its Hair-Metal for a Vampire Rennaisance Faire....its the band that The Cult would be...if the Cult didn't suck. Find It, Hear It, Learn It, Live It.
Wytches - Unnoffical Site
Official Site

Lord Custos III, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Addendem... Tracks to download by above band: "Wytches Chant", "Away with the Faeries" and "Belladonna and Aconite" will give you some idea of what you're dealing with.

Re: Tapping the Vein... also of note from the same musical scene: Carfax Abbey. Tracks to download from this band: "Crooked", "Breath of Reptile", "Ketamine"

Lord Custos III, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The second proper Christian Death album, Catastrophe Ballet, is quite wonderful. The EP before it, Deathwish, is pretty great too. But the best goth song isn't even by a goth band: it's "It's Luxury" by Cindytalk.

Oooh I'm dating myself here.

John Darnielle, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Close Italic, Open Italic, Close Italic, Now Form a Goth Band.

Lord Custos III, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi, we're Close Italic and this song is about how death is all beautiful and stuff.

John Darnielle, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nico: It was a Pleasure Then. The mother of Goth.

Dave225, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nico: It was a Pleasure Then. The mother of Goth. (Or was it Clara Rockmore?)

Dave225, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

This Mortal Coil? I just started listening to them 'cos i heard their covers of Big Star and Tim Buckley. And "I wanna live". I've often heard their name mentioned in the same breath as Dead Can Dance. But.Are.They.Goth. ?

paul B, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

I couldn't find a rolling Goth thread for 2017 (and the 2016 version has, like, eight posts) so I'll tack this new (to me) discovery here.

I saw a band named Bestial Mouths was playing Philly so I checked it out. After listening to half of their last album Heartless, which came out last year on the ubiquitous Cleopatra label, I am going to the show.

The singer, Lynette Cerezo, gets compared a lot to Diamanda Galas and Siouxsie Sioux which is a little lazy (and not entirely accurate as she is not nearly the vocal lunatic that Galas is) but fine, it's still dark, occasionally twisted and very classic synth-propelled Gothic music that will make my wife dance and me do what metalheads do approximating dancing. They apparently hail from Los Angeles.

http://bestialmouths.bandcamp.com/album/heartless
http://open.spotify.com/album/6lDn5UbUPtbkchSrSh7rPg

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link

I still wouldn't call Front 242 goths.

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link

This is some proper goth stuff right here...

https://youtu.be/niIFIsqGq_8

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link

Although I hear the Diamanda Galas reference much more prominently with this very strange video.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link

Just got back from the Philly show for Bestial Mouths. Strange show, a Monday night, kinda early as far as these things goes (the venue has an Indie Dance thing on Mondays that was going on after the show), sparsely attended by people who would not dance. If I, the aging metalhead, is dancing more than anyone else in the room, there's a problem.

The singer, Lynette Cerezo, was great though I would have preferred she didn't use as many effects on her voice live. Spoke with her briefly after the show, she was very nice, seemed appreciative of us being there. When I told her I was an old metal guy who still picked up on Diamanda Galas and The Banshees, she gave me a big hug. Picked up the last CD from last year (they just did a remix album which is only available digitally for $5 at BandCamp - I may pick it up). It was nice to see a band perform as they had a live drummer (who was quite good) and a guy playing synths.

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17426165_10158392412610597_87703655585724304_n.jpg?oh=0fa9a37920d5737ce1135d413f0a89b7&oe=59551E9B http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17425952_10158392412615597_4338204759924528137_n.jpg?oh=359637a11aa2db53c32e403d924f9512&oe=595751F6
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17358934_10158392412620597_8059909975145400235_o.jpg?oh=324a7053b65d53b91a7a91e34c8a767f&oe=59662A10

The remix album can be found here: http://bestialmouths.bandcamp.com/album/still-heartless

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSkktZL7zk

Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 05:46 (seven years ago) link


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