Put Your Shades On, It's Goth Rock Week!

[morph]

Jesu are not exactly Gothic but their music could definitely appeal to fans. This is nothing short of awesome:

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[Mrs. Tracy]

Yup, it's goth rock week.

Early goth rock emerged in the late 70s and had strong ties with the english punk/post-punk scene. The themes were often dark, sometimes flavoured with the supernatural, but also often quite romantic.

So, this is the week when we celebrate all things goth-rocky. GET ON WITH IT!


I'll kick it off with one of my all-time favourite songs from my favourite goth rock group (although they loathe that description), The Sisters of Mercy

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Let's see some more!

[megar]

Virgin Prunes are pretty great, their vocalist turns up on a few songs by The Fall as well which is how I found out about them. If I Die, I Die is a good album.

[Julio Batista]

I always class Jesu as Shoegaze because their Shoegaze stuff is my favourite of theirs.

[Nicole P]

I actually listen to a fair amount of Goth Rock, I feel the genre gets a bad rep it doesn't deserve. Most people judge the genre by it's fans, who are very annoying. I love how dark it i and really it's just a more extreme version of most Post-Punk.

I did a journal entry on Bauhaus a while back, I love them to death. Such a great band. Here is Bela Lugosi's Dead often hailed as "the song that invented Goth Rock".
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FielRAB Of The Nephilim are one of the most underrated banRAB ever. Elizium is one of the best albums of the 90s. This song is named Psychonaut and was on another album but remains my favourite song.
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The Damned were one of my favourite first wave Punk banRAB, then a few years down the line became one of my favourite Goth Rock banRAB. This is Curtain Call, from The Black Album.
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Swans are one of the most versatile artists of all time, everything they did was great no matter what genre it was. Their Goth album Love Of Life is one of their best releases. There are elements of Goth Rock in more of their releases but this is the main one.
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Although Dead Can Dance are technically Darkwave their debut is Goth Rock so i'll include a song from there on here. It doesn't touch their later stuff mind,which is what makes them such a fantastic band.

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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are such a great band, so underrated. This should give them some more exposure. This is from their album Talk About The Weather, get it now!
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I didn't include stuff like The Banshees and The Cure cause everybody knows them, but seriously Goth Rock is an outstanding genre and one of my favourites, listen to more Goth Rock!

[girlfuckedup]

have you all heard the very short lived Rozz Williams project Shadow Project?

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[liz villa]

Noone else have posted yet, so here are some other favourites!

The Cure's Lullaby is a marvellous hit that I unfortunately grew tired of a long time ago, but maybe some of the younger crowd reading this post don't know it yet. I could've gone for other songs by The Cure, but this one has the added bonus of having a brilliant music video, I think Nicely done and Robert Smith getting eaten by a huge couch towarRAB the end is an interesting touch.

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I don't like Siouxsie and the Banshees that much, but this "hit" of theirs is enthralling. Brilliant song!

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Aha, James just beat me to making post #2 in the thread

[Arun M]

personally i honestly only like Only Theater of Pain and Iron Mask by Christian Death...although 'This Is Heresy' from Sex, Drug and Jesus Christ has one hell of a bass line
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i would prefer Shadow Project to Christian Death if Only Theater Of Pain was not perfect....

Sex Gang Children was another great kind of dark punk death rock type stuff
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i love Miranda Sex Garden and was lucky enough to see them quite some time ago.....

i have one Cranes album...Forever....and it's a bit different from that song....i need to check out that album

also there is not enough love for Tones on Tail here....i always preferred them to Love and Rockets
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[setht95]

i classify Jesu as Justin Broadrick and thus amazing

that Dark Sanctuary song was sehr gut!

i am waiting for the industrial bug to flow into this

[md.sahidul]

Your wish is my command!

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