Share with us the finest songs by the also-ran goth bands of the 80s

I stand by GLJ's first overall album Promise as utterly unhinged in the best goddamn way. Dare you to play this loud at work if you're still there and see what happens, one after the other -- "Screaming for Emmalene/Scheming."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0EesVsgc9Q

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

i am at home. i made it three minutes into the second song before my wife started yelling at me from the other room. thanks for posting those though, i really enjoyed them. sounds much better to me now than it did to my 14 yr old ears, kind of like my experience with 'the top'

i am liking this thread, possibly way more than is socially acceptable

thinking of other 80s things which might fit here either sonically (the bleaker end of post-punk/looser end of coldwave) or in amounts of eyeliner worn (silly vampire synth-pop i love you) but y'know I wasn't therrrre man* and do not wish to diminish the realness of this thread by my dumb post-hoc connections

* by only a handful of years, in case this seems like a "o i am just barely on the other side of <Real 80s Goth cut-off age>" humblebrag, but a whole lot of earth-salting happened in those years

anyway thanks very much, great thread, please keep it up!

trying to think of more US bands that fit in here... Spahn Ranch? Christian Death? TSOL circa Dance With Me?

also some of the bands here:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Hell-Comes-To-Your-House-Part-II/release/979347

les vampyrettes has been a favourite of mine for years tho its a little strange to see such an alpha as fuck lineup as conny & holger in amongst these minority interest types

thinking of other 80s things which might fit here either sonically (the bleaker end of post-punk/looser end of coldwave) or in amounts of eyeliner worn (silly vampire synth-pop i love you) but y'know I wasn't therrrre man* and do not wish to diminish the realness of this thread by my dumb post-hoc connections

there was lots of bleed round the edges i think. i mean, this to me is as goth as fuck and you can bet that the everyone there owned a siouxsie album or six but also it's something else entirely...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClInH1P7q14

that's pariah by danielle dax btw crut

more birthday party swamp punk types:

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

Inca Babies - She Mercenary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2JWl9O8YpA

Bone Orchard - Shall I Carry The Budgie Woman?

minority interest, pah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWKv_O0vzQ4

Play Dead - Walk Away

didn't like these dingles much but this performance is yer authentic chicken dancing goth rock plod

trisomie 21 the last song

only heard it for the first time recently and am *really* into it (mainly that bass)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ZVZVMIG7g

This youtube is really crappy, but the Thing from the Crypt version of Sad Lovers and Giants' "Clint" is the perfect midpoint between "Just Like Heaven" and "They Walked in Line". Which is everything I want from second-tier goth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGsUZD99kk

yeah in no way was I calling holger and conny "also rans", but Les Vampyrettes as a release was pretty low-profile because of the pseudonym and (maybe?) distro at the time of its release? At any rate that band under that name wasn't "Famous" in the Goth canon in the way that other things were.

I assume Christian Death were so popular that they don't belong in this thread either, honestly. Gonna blast "Spiritual Cramp" now in honor of Rozz.

Does this count as also-ran? (Also how do I get the YouTube to embed?)

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http://youtu.be/5IbhQFmXsZc

Here are a few of my favorite synth pop hits for goths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4gBCSY7UtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqNoulVpE4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htTvjk0FvoI

This actually came out 2 years after "Inbetween Days"

The Essence - "Only For You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeieB08pwAA

i find it hard to be particularly strident before 8 in the morning but that trisomie 21 song is fucking great. bassline plus the thin metal sheets of sumner-esque guitar that come in every now and again. also it goes on for about 100 years, stuck in loop like yr trapped in a goth hall of mirrors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcU3oiPh-8

more danielle dax, moving away from the artier stuff and trying to break through

gah, wrong song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6dIBK7_ig

danielle dax - cathouse

trying to think of more US bands that fit in here... Spahn Ranch? Christian Death? TSOL circa Dance With Me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0ibrQ2JQQ

Mighty Sphincter - Ghost Walking

Teahouse Camp - To Kill, Stab in Back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPufR5bNQU

As for American bands - here's a song by Eleven Sons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoprinou0WQ

Stiff Kittens - Contempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxE5gYtLhsg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U9M6e4bOpc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iXfM0ZSmPY&list=PL6DA530F0763B78A3&index=33

Academy of Unrest - Hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3LH9JqHkbs

These 2 songs by The Arch were big at our local goth night:

"Ribdancer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehJ55xbcX4

"Babsi Ist Tot"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cOX0wO92Lc

The Neon Judgement also had huge club hits here:

"Tomorrow In The Papers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvYpFw474Ss

"Miss Brown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJiH-IxqG_U

"Chinese Black"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736B1FWm1AM

and probably their biggest one, "TV Treated"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRSz-qECBXE

I remember this period like it was yesterday. Have 1919 shown up yet, my brother liked them (they sounded like Killing Joke basically)

Trisomie 21 also had "La Fête Triste" and "Logical Animals"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfxf8PQi5B4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzTvUlI96E

(xp) ... and Play Dead, yeah he liked them too!

on the borderline as they were v popular but hey

x-mal deutschland "polarlicht"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8cmQ-nXYU

or x-mal douchebag as some ilxor once renamed them. need to check the last batch on a computer that works, but in honour of this thread I bought a death cult ep today - one pound! passed on a philip boa & the voodoo club album though, did I do wrong?