Do goths ever get funky?

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this whole siouxsie album is pretty funky.

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

jaxon, Thursday, 10 September 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link

produced by jah wobble
http://www.discogs.com/Joolz-The-Kiss/release/603682

jaxon, Thursday, 10 September 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link

and tons of early killing joke is terribly funky

jaxon, Thursday, 10 September 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link

I listened to this today, some of it is abrasive but has dance beats.

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-717131-1172296607.jpeg

I want more stuff that goes well with the hip-hop and funk on my computer.

The Worst Chef in America!! (u s steel), Thursday, 10 September 2009 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Virgin Prunes are a good example, I was listening to them too. I like reggae / dub with "goth" too.

The Worst Chef in America!! (u s steel), Thursday, 10 September 2009 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah def go for Bauhaus then.

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 10 September 2009 07:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Despite all their Crowley/esoteric inclinations, dont know if 23 Skidoo can qualify as "goth": but they knew a thing or two about funk.

Also some Clock DVA.

Marco Damiani, Thursday, 10 September 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Skidoo definitely new a thing or two about goth, even if they did precede it by a couple of years.

ch4rlie fr4m3, Thursday, 10 September 2009 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link

The Wolfgang Press surely are worth a mention ?

mark e, Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Can't stop binging on this nonsense today. Bimble would have loved this thread eh?

Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link

hang on, didn't the Mission do a dance styled album, with funky drum loops ?

and yes, i too thought that nick.

mark e, Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link

hang on, didn't the Mission do a dance styled album, with funky drum loops

This sounds deeply horrific. Hook me up someone.

Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Skidoo definitely new a thing or two about goth, even if they did precede it by a couple of years.

Not sure how 23 Skidoo precede goth by a couple of years, since they were formed in 1979, the same year Bela Lugosi's Dead came out, and they were playing DIY post-punk then anyway.

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link

ah ha ..

"The Mission, for some strange reason, went for a little bit of everything. "Never Again," the opener on Masque, sounds like the Mission really trying to go big-league '90s U2-Achtung Baby style, but ending up a bit more like a dance remix of themselves than a multi-styled stadium filler. "

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:5dq7g4ettvoz

no idea as to whether its 'funky' ..

mark e, Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link

"regiment" by brian eno/david byrne isn't strictly goth, but it would probably fit in nicely on a "funky goth" itunes playlist

messiahwannabe, Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link

the Mission really trying to go big-league '90s U2-Achtung Baby style

Yikes, didn't order that.

Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5js8J6_qqaE

'Never Again' indeed

Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Worth it for the clown playing the cello though. Literally.

Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Worth it for the clown playing the cello though

surely that was the inspiration for psychoville

mark e, Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Not seen Psychoville but if it involves someone repeatedly hitting Wayne Hussey in the nuts with a banjo, then the music of the Mission probably did inspire it.

Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link

oooh yes :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpb3torm0Q

time to fig that cd out of the archives ..

mark e, Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link

fig !?

dig of course

mark e, Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Einstürzende Neubauten - Yu Gung (A. Sherwood mix)
Tones On Tails - War
Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Medium Medium - hungry, so angry

Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 10 September 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Gosh, Wolfgang Press of course.

Mind you, their gothier stuff's closer to Nick Cave.

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 10 September 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDJOGA2zC8&feature=related

LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 September 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkfzXq0tA3c

Lord Crutsos Omicron (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 11 September 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn7P7G2_Nw4

Lord Crutsos Omicron (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 11 September 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Tones on Tail - "There's Only One"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1HINqDZ2NU

Lord Crutsos Omicron (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 11 September 2009 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9Z7BySFbY

^ one of the most hilariously bad Alien Sex Fiend songs ever, fast-forward to 3:53 for a funky treat

Lord Crutsos Omicron (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 11 September 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link

"Go!" by Tones on Tail would be a better funky example wouldnt it? Still, theres that Bauhaus connection again...

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link

What about any Severed Heads? Seems like they could've come close to this.

QuantumNoise, Friday, 11 September 2009 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link

not very gothy

surfin on my face (electricsound), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Pah! They used to be played all the time at clubs I went to.

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link

The hey nonny no song was, anyway (lol I forget what its called)

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link

halo

surfin on my face (electricsound), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovH46-o0rLw

Add the video and Shriekback become goth enough to count.

Squash weather (Eazy), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Goth voice/face + High NRG =

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

Squash weather (Eazy), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh ok if we're getting into new wave/disco then that opens up the floor completely (and for creaky old ex-goths like me, that stuff totally does count).

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link

I dunno if I'd call Dead or Alive/Visage/Bronski Beat funky though.

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 11 September 2009 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqhym59ypUI

Alex in NYC, Friday, 11 September 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/R9iZuL9z6sI/AAAAAAAAHZo/x_DCDV7f5EQ/s400/dead+or+alive+ep

Oh yes they (we)re

Alex in NYC, Friday, 11 September 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh whoops -- I thought you meant not goth. Were Dead or Alive funky? I think so. I mean, Bootsy Collins didn't lose any sleep, but they certainly tried to be.

Alex in NYC, Friday, 11 September 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link

COLD... LIFE!

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 11 September 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Alex in NYC, Friday, 11 September 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

and tons of early killing joke is terribly funky

Very true, but NOT GOTHY

Alex in NYC, Friday, 11 September 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

psychic tv "ov power"

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 11 September 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah as already mentioned there's a legion of Wax Trax! stuff begging to be included here.

"So messy!" (HI DERE), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link

yep but "everyday (is halloween)" strikes me as the ultimate funky goth track

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh Alex. I gave up defending bands like the Cocteaus as notgoth years ago, just relent on the KJ thing ;)

Dearth Disco (Trayce), Saturday, 12 September 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link

what was that psychic tv track where they spliced up canaries singing and made it funky as hell? that one.

messiahwannabe, Saturday, 17 October 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

pic.twitter.com/J3IFxT2HyP

— the dumpster (@thedumpster4) August 22, 2020

willem, Friday, 11 September 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link

Amazing.

Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 11 September 2020 07:30 (three years ago) link

that is cute. and the influence of funk on industrial music is v underappreciated IMO

davey, Friday, 11 September 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link

I've been waiting for someone to redo that video with "Release The Bats"

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 11 September 2020 07:45 (three years ago) link

Wow, I have been to this nightclub.

Specific and Limited Interests (Branwell with an N), Friday, 11 September 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link

love that video so much.
also, re the original question some new additions : Black Strobe.
their 'burn your own church' album : very goth, and very funky.
also, the brilliant, but short lived band, O Children, totally did the goth dance thing.

mark e, Saturday, 12 September 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link

Wow, I have been to this nightclub.

― Specific and Limited Interests (Branwell with an N), Friday, September 11, 2020 12:56 AM (two days ago)

hahahahahah me too!!!

sarahell, Sunday, 13 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link

Same. The Cat Club. Some weird memories

healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link


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