[Closed] ultimate Goth anthems

Anything by Slipknot obviously

Could you call UK Decay goths????? Maybe proto goth, I hope I haven't come up with some new music genre there.

I will say UK Decay - For my country

Slipknot don't count. nor cradle of filth or any of that sub-metal genre

The various incarnations of Foetus?
Alien Sex Fiend

marylin manson - beautiful people

marylin manson - beautiful people

+1 - Marylin is the King of Goth anthems... I quite like his stuff, and I don't have a penchant for white makeup and black cloaks...

Type O Negative - Black # 1

Sisters of Mercy This Corrosion - on Top of the Pops!

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and a much loved The Mission do Neil Young

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Foetus All Nude Revue
anything by Clint Ruin
Fields of the Neff - Preacher Man (which still sounds good)

The Dammed - Elouise?

The Swans

Burning World or White Light From the Mouth of Infinity albums.

If you're still feeling cheerful after that try Greed,Time is Money/Bastard or Raping a Slave.
That will sort the men from the floppy fringed Emo wusses

the cult - spiritwalker
balaam and the angel - love me
sex gang children - sebastian
lorries - walking on your hands
nephilim - power
sisters - marian
play dead - sacrosanct
this list could go on and on!

If we're doing anthems as opposed to 'ooh look how trendy I am by dropping some never heard of before band name'

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

The sisterhood - rain from heaven/colours

Young men - SOD
The Tenant - Play dead
Lagarija Nick - Bauhaus
Valentine - Sisters
Tension - Killing joke

Friday night down the D & T in Cov... 25 years ago.

Psalm 69 era Minstry? What no Susie?

not really goth

but i love

ministry
marylin manson
tool
nin

and perfect circle very goth

and goth hip-hop country n western spin off [url=www.puscifer.com/]puscifer[/url]

Vision thing!

Bauhaus - Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Voodoo Dolly
Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine
Wiseblood - Stumbo
Killing Joke - Pssyche
Rema Rema - Rema Rema

Do the Cocteau Twins count? In which case sugar hiccups and pearly dew drops drops

Sugar Hiccup most certainly does count 🙂

Keep em coming

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy.

(are they goths?)

JAMC can fit into goths, but you can't have the whole album!

How about a couple from Jesus and Mary Chain, probably Never Understand and Just Like Honey? Not strictly goth either, but seemed close enough at the time.

Edit: beaten to it by the three minutes in which I've watched five of their videos on Youtube.

More nearly goth than Slipknot anyway 😉

All good stuff, and a few that I'll have to research when I get home, cheers folks

Damn. I meant Some Candy Talking

Because of the Half-Man-Half-Biscuit thread this morning, I went out and bought Back Again in the DHSS. I can see another trip up-town this afternoon!

If I can remember correctly I think there was a collaboration between Bob Smith from the Cure and some of the Banshees.
Band was called The Glove(maybe) and LP was Blue Sunshine.
Don't have my vinyl anymore-long time since I heard it.

Alien Sex Fiend-great blast from the past.

First Banshees album The Scream is very good too.
Love and Rockets (post Bauhaus)worth a listen and if the Cocteau Twins are in then check Dead Can Dance for some beautiful sounds

Eloise was ok but there's much more gothic stuff in The Damned's back catalog.
Anything from The Black Album, for example, or The Limit Club, Sanctum Sanctorum, etc

When I were a lad, Robin Guthrie used to come in and see his brother who's office was across the corridor from my dad's in Grangemouth. He was a really nice guy. I made him tea a couple of times and he gave me some CD's.

If I can remember correctly I think there was a collaboration between Bob Smith from the Cure and some of the Banshees.
Band was called The Glove(maybe) and LP was Blue Sunshine.
Don't have my vinyl anymore-long time since I heard it.

I'm sure I have that album on Mp3. Want a copy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glove

The Forest, by the Cure

DezB

I do (I have the vinyl in the attic somewhere)

Thanks DezB-I'll be ok.

Managed to catch the first Bauhaus reunion gig at Brixton...maybe 10 years ago....That was great.Just a little too young to have seen them first time round.

theotherjonv - Member
DezB
I do

I'll get it uploaded tomorrow.

1969 - SoM or Mish, both classics in their own right.
Phobia - Neph
Dark Entries - Bauhaus
Radar Love - Ghost Dance

Contemporary, but not really Goth

In Shreds - The Chameleons
No Rest - NMA
Feel Like Making Love - The Hunters Club
Sweet Sweet Pie - PWEI
Good Technology - Red Guitars

Rosetta Stone - Leave me for dead
Every New Dead Ghost - Killing Time

erm...Creaming Jesus anyone? The Ancestry?!

lol

For me

Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love (or) Alice
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Southern Death Cult - Moya (or, I prefered) Faith
Skeletal Family - She Cries Alone (or) Trees

ok, an update:

KJ - Requiem, Wardance, Pssyche, Pandemonium
Skellies - Promised Land, She Cries Alone
Sisters - Temple (as mentioned), Heartland, Floorshow, Walk Away, FALAA
SDC - Moya, Fatman
The Cult - Spiritwalker, God's Zoo, 83rd Dream
Play Dead - Shine, Promise, Sacrosanct, Propaganda
SOD - The Hop (OK, TOH then), Liberator
TOH - Westworld, Conquistador
The Chameleons - Tears, Swamp Thing
Bauhaus - She's In Parties
FOTN - Moonchild (as mentioned), Last Exit For The Lost, Dawn Razor
Ghost Dance - Fool's Gold
Banshees - Spellbound, Israel
Cocteaus - Sugar Hiccup
The Damned - Curtain Call
The Sisterhood - Giving Ground
Balaam and the angel - love me - forgot about that one
sex gang children - sebastian, that too. Song & Legend is very good too
The Mission - Wasteland, Kingdom Come, Severina

and of course, while not 'goth', NMA - well, where can I start? Green & Grey of course.

virgin prunes - if I die

not Goth but played at goth clubs a lot
wasted youth - wish I was a girl

Does anyone have a copy of The Gift they could do me some MP3's of?

Its impossible to find now...

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FOTN- last exit for the lost and chord of souls
Sisters- No time to cry
The merry thoughts- Pale emporess
Southern Death Cult -Moya
Cult - she sells sanctuary
Alien sex fiend- New christian music
Creatures- Right now
Siouxsie and the Bannshees- Eve white/eve black
Creaming jesus- Lillies
children on stun- whisky a gogo
rosetta stone- adrenaline
virgin prunes- baby turns blue and walls of jericho
The marionettes- Like christabel
rebel christening- Tribal eye
The mission- wasteland
bauhaus- bela lugosi's dead and hollow hills

I could go on for ever, manky old goth since hearing bauhaus cover of ziggy stardust in the early 80's at a very young age.

MARYLYN MANSON IS NOT GOTH!!!!! nor has he ever been. Jesus, some people get their sub-cultures mixed up

Bauhaus listed yet no mention of The Sanity Assassin? Has Psychonaut by Fields of the Nephilim had a mention?

The Mission - Tower of strength.

Room for any Queen Adreena?

Pretty Like Drugs
Kitty Collar Tight
Suck

Or am I mixing my sub-cultures? 🙄 😉

Tootallpaul - I can help you with that, I just copied it onto my pc last night

[i]The Birthday Party - Release the Bats[/i]

Excellent! I was singing that while walking the dog last night! (A bat was flying around me) 🙂

I'm making my ulitmate playlist from all of these.

The best thread in weeks...suddenly I'm 17 again, I can smell the Patchouli oil.

Glad to be of service 🙂

Ooh, some I completely forgot about; not all strictly 'Goth'...

The Cramps - Human Fly, Goo Goo Muck
Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning
The Cult - Resurrection Joe
The Meteors - My Daddy Is A Vampire
Psychosurgeons - Chasing The Dragon

bauhaus- bela lugosi's dead

Awesome song. And it sounds like it shouldn't work but Sepultura's cover of said song is also truly awesome!

Moonchild - the Neph
Dr Jeep - Sisters
Millenium - Killing Joke
White Wedding - Billy Idol
F-1-11 Love Missile - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

Joy Division - Atmosphere

Rosetta Stone? Bloody hell, I used to go round to Porl and Carl's flat, get s**tfaced and stagger around Birkenhead and Planet x in liverpool with them.Bought their first drum machine off me they did, Porl is still knocking around the music scene producing top forty-ish(Elbow actually) acts here and there, and working with his own band miseryjab.

verses- definately mixing your sub-cultures, but katy jane did sing backing vocals on a couple of creaming jesus tracks so I'll let you off 😉

followed rosetta loads and miserylab is rather tops as well.

Also forgot to add
susperia - assassin soul
killing joke- eighties
sex gang children- oh funny man

god i miss my crimpers

not buying into the marylin manson stuff or slipknot but i've been belting through youtube for all the good stuff...sisters at leeds this year were astronomical 🙂 some great playlists coming out of this thread! slightly ot but got to admit their support (goldblade) were rather good too!

for all the old goths out there, check out the eden house, project with bits of neph, altered states, all about eve, faith and the muse, this burning effigy etc... It's bloody top banana

http://www.myspace.com/theedenhouseuk

<sigh>
Many blasts from the past there. I have nothing new to add but I think I am going to listen to some Nephilim now....
Who knew there were so many goth types on here. 🙂

Tn- it's obvious, skinny legs, tight clothing, vain and slightly bitchy, all goths are xc racers!!

forgot to add the need to be different form the "norm" therefore it could be argued that goths are also singlespeed nichewhores 😀

[i]sisters at leeds this year were astronomical [/i]

well they were better than they were in '06, but still not a patch on the line up c1985 😉

Bloody hell,you lot of got a funny idea of what goth is. Goth is code for shite!
Foetus/Clint Ruin-not goth
Killing Joke -ditto
Proper goth - Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy,Fields of Nephilim and the rest of the sad chancers that sprang up. A truly abysmal genre of music.
Oh,and the Virgin Prunes weren't goth either.....or Siouxsie and the Banshees.

so what are you doing in here then Dave? and what genre of music floats your boat?

Bloody hell,you lot of got a funny idea of what goth is. Goth is code for shite!

"goth" was a label thrown onto a load of different bands by the music press as most of it didn't fit any particular genre of the time. It got picked up from a UK decay interview when the interviwer (steve keaton) was stating that the music was going to be a movement and that it needed a name, uk decay just messing about said that they were into "the whole gothic thing" and then messed about laughing about gargoyle shaped vinyl. TADA! goth enters the press as a new genre and anyone who didn't fit the norm got lumped into the genre.

Interestingly most bands listed as goth never wanted anything to do with it. FOTN never wanted to be goth and even in interviews admitted that although their fan base was made up of "goths" they never understood or recognised the term.

so goth can mean whatever the **** the listener wants it to because it was never anyhting other than a press invented genre to describe a loose collection of very different bands with very different sounds and sytles. It sadly passed away in late 80's early 90's when it just became heavy rock/metal with a bit of eyeliner and lippy! 😥

and another thing.......

thanking you mr john_drummer for making me go through hundreds of old vinyls I'm having an ace time.

anyone remember red lorry yellow lorry and altered states?

damn good thread, I just got a USB turn table and have been converting all my old missio, sisters and all about eve stuff to digital

I'm so goth I've gigged at Whitby Goth Fest!!!

No - seriously.

The Cure - 100 Years

[i]In a high building there is so much to do[/i]

http://www.free-lyrics.org/The-Cure/273797-100-Years.html

vdubber if it was early whitby years then I'd have seen you, what bandything were you in? please do not say shadowmaker or nosferatu or I'll have to hunt you down and kill you with crimpers!

Great post! Seems like Balaam and the Angel are being missed out a little here, but there you go! A few additions to some of the others:

FOTN: Dawnrazor (album and title track!)
SOM: Marian, some kind of stranger

The Damned - Curtain Call

good call... can you taste the grit between your teeth?

red lorry yellow lorry reformed earlier this year, played Leeds (naturally); they were actually from Wakefield, and I was in a little known band in Wakey at the same time.
Mick Brown (drums) was later to become a founder member of The Mission

and speaking of 'reforming'; Anne-Marie Hirst, Stan Greenwood & Trotwood played a gig last month in Bradford. That to me equals the Skeletal Family, although apparently they played some Ghost Dance stuff as well

Altered States - name rings a bell but...

I never really heard anything by The Virgin Prunes, Christian Death, UK Decay at the time, and was never struck on Alien Sex Fiend.

There was also a big unsigned band scene in Bradford (Western Dance, Seven Antelopes, Skeletal Family (ok, Keighley then), Requiem - later to join up with Wild Willi Becket & become the Psychosurgeons, to name just a few)as well as Leeds & Wakefield at the time; I played in a few and saw quite a lot - some good, some not so good.

Wakefield had "Raffles" nightclub just off Westgate, that was a cracking night out. I never once went to The Phono in Leeds though.

What A Great Thread Lost all My Goth Stuff years ago when My car got Broken into and had my all My tapes nicked. ITUNES is about to get some of my money.

Nothing really new to add apart from a teniuos link with The Mission

All About Eve

The only band that Me and My mrs will listen to as she is of the BROS, Kylie ilk

Just listening to Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue - on YouTube. I know this song, I just didn't know who did it 🙂

All About Eve are one of my faves - and Mrs_drummer likes them too. The crossover between them & The Mission wasn't entirely surprising, as IIRC Julianne & Simon Hinkler were an item at one point...

what about Flesh For Lulu? I saw them supporting the Sisters c1984

the severina (aquamarina mix) was always jolly, one band I could could never quite get was play dead. always just seemed a bit flat. Most memorable teenage years touring all over following the neph, new model army, rosetta stone, creaming jesus etc.. it was always such a tribal event but you'd always get a place to doss where ever you ended up. 32 people in a one bedroom flat in the arse end of birmingham after a gig at the barel organ was fun. 😀
grotiest venue- princess charlote in leicester
most dry ice ever to obscue a dance floor- chicos in hanley.

happy crimpy days.

THE THE They were another band I was Into

I'll see your Princess Charlotte & raise you one "Manhattan Club, Bradford" 😉

actually, I picked up a 3CD Gothic Collection at Peterborough Services about a year ago; some cracking stuff on it, and something that shouldn't be - Cradle Of Filth. One major omission of course - no Sisters, but I guess Mr Eldritch is trying to protect his revenue stream 😉

john_drummer I'll agree with your shite venue top trumps, the bukley tivoli and the mercat in digbeth were also pretty vile.

I'm currently listening to specimen and looking through some old fanzines. I'm going to be such a grumpy ****er when i have to go back to work and pretend to be a responsible adult again.