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Faintly embarrassing in places, but this was my 80's
I'm in too, not too bad so far
Wonder what strawberry switchblade look like now? #forgottencrushes
Very disappointed so far and many of these I wouldn't call 'Goth'.
recording on Sky+ will be watching later
I remain in a continued state of confusion as to what goth is. I get the dressing like Paradise Lost and all that, but I can't find any coherent musical theme.
Help me to understand!
Currently enjoying the Peej
Don't get why PJ Harvey is in here...
But ongoing crush on Polly Jean resurfaced!
So I missed the first part but no The Damned or The Cult yet?
Cult were on earlier.
Action plan for tomorrow is to research and fill in the pjharvey back catalogue.
Secretary at my old place once bought a pair of glasses because Marilyn told her to in a dream.
Is that goth? Very confused. Just sounds like a load of pop music with a carefully curated style aesthetic.
But ongoing crush on Polly Jean resurfaced!
Me too
What The Cult track did they play?
Definitely watching later. Any Bauhaus?
Yep second song in. Bela.
starts well with Spellbound & Bela. Caught the cr@p at the end though, no way never is that goth
Resurrection Joe by The Cult so far as the intro
Ressurection from the cult then a bit of andi sex gang and the sex gang children, a lot of not proper 80's goth and some good 90's indie stuff
I was always more Goff than Goth.
Depeche Mode? Ok Eldritch got involved with them on the production side, but seriously?
oh, hopefully pick it up later. was a big cult fan back in the day. but seem to be in denial more these days, don't know why apart from Astbury being a 1st class ****t.
And far too much footage from TOTP. Sorry, no. That's cheating
Goth..pah..a few old mothball smelling stalwarts and a load of fluffy bunnkins shite...no sexfiend..or specimen..or uk decay. .or ausgang..or virgin prunes..or xmal...*dissaponted manky old thing* 🙁
Specimen were on.
Bugger and damnation...must have been havin a fag...will re watch later for some camp goth disco 🙂
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And far too much footage from TOTP. Sorry, no. That's cheating
Came across as a Goth TOTP2, with the silly captions. Specimen certainly took the dressing up seriously eh? 🙂
By the way, gotta love the Killing Joke caption "...on bass is Martin Youth.." er, no it's not, you numpty!
My favourite goth on telly was The Mission on The Tube.
It just captured the excitement of the era.
Goth saved me from pub rock.
Which programme was on , just looking through iplayer and I can't find anything
BBC 4 - it is there, I am watching it right now 😉
I wouldn't have included Nick Cave or Polly in a "Goth" show, but they were clearly the class of the field.
Red Right Hand could have been a week old, a year old, 20 years old.. a proper classic.
I wouldn't have included Nick Cave in a "Goth" show,
There were a few I wouldn't have put down as goth, Nick Cave certainly wasn't one of them tho. Nick Cave/The Birthday Party were very much at the forefront of the Goth scene in the 80's. Bearing in mind this was a BBC production, I guess that clip might have been the first/only BBC archive they had of him, I'd have been surprised if he wasn't included.
Any of you goths frequent the Batcave club in soho back in the 80's?, my mate Hamish used to be the resident DJ, if so then i guess you also bopped along to his band Sex Beat.