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nomapple
Apr 27, 2012

a kitten posted:

Dead Can Dance is one of my favorite groups, I was just listening to a bunch of their stuff today.

For me, I tend to lump a lot of things that aren't necessarily "goth" in with it mainly because of what they'd play at the various spooky clubs I used to hang out at. So, goth, industrial, some synthpop and that sort of thing. It's funny, even though I don't really go there any more (and haven't regularly for around 4 years)this playlist from a few weeks ago has a whole ton of music on it that I easily recognize from when I did.


Also, wow I totally forgot about This Mortal Coil and just now learned that they somehow didn't survive my transition to digital music however long ago that was.

Time to rectify that!

I need some help getting into Dead Can Dance. Tried the most recent album, gave it several listens, didn't really get anywhere with it in the end other than the first couple of tracks :( A load of my friends love them, so maybe I just need to start elsewhere?

My favourite song off JuJu is definitely Arabian Knights. My listening of purely gothy/post-punk stuff is limited to the obvious stuff like Bauhaus/The Cure/Fields of the Nephilhim/The Sisters of Mercy. I would have put Pornography as the essential goth album by The Cure in the OP.

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nomapple
Apr 27, 2012
 TSoM sound like the archetypal goth-rock band to me. If the stuff mentioned in the OP isn't goth, I have 0 idea what goth is, haha. To be fair, this could well be the case as my knowledge of the genre is very surface-level.

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nomapple
Apr 27, 2012

Gorgar posted:

Agreed. Also, seconding the Legendary Pink Dots, Clan of Xymox, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Pink Dots in particular are insanely prolific and easy to get lost in.

Rosetta Stone were a goth rock outfit sort of like Sisters of Mercy between First And Last And Always and Vision Thing.

Adrenaline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YTXX7PAnGM
Summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5zZQ7YmNVk


Abney Park, before they went steampunk, did some goth stuff.

Twisted & Broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WwnLIfDOQ
Breathe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsxDOFWTbk0


Gossamer did some really good stuff. I don't see it on YouTube, but there's a version of Shell Full of Sand with the flute player from Black Tape For A Blue Girl that's worth tracking down. It clocks in at 6:59 instead of 7:10. About half of their songs have multiple versions, either because they were rerecorded for the album Closure, or because of Wayne Hussey remixes. It's all worth tracking down. These guys had haunting and beautiful really well nailed.

Her Ghost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHkUyzxo3I
Shell Full of Sand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_9CRyF-M3A
Run (Wayne Hussey remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLXU4qIt8Ho


VNV Nation call themselves futurepop instead of goth and are a bit dance-oriented but worth exploring.

Darkangel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-IPG-XnaU
Standing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4gZEAmOLk

Will definitely have to check out Rosetta Stone on that description! Oh man, I love VNV. Glad I'm not the only one! Wouldn't have necessarily put them in this thread, but I don't really know where I'd talk about them either, so I'm not complaining! Empires and Futureperfect are great records.

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nomapple
Apr 27, 2012

Danger - Octopus! posted:

I've got the version where the text says WHAT IS THIS I'VE SEEN IT ON TUMBLR

Since neo-folk has a pretty big crossover with goth, I suspect some of you might like Rome. He's one of the neofolk artists who doesn't have a whole suspiciously right wing/outright Nazi worship thing going on as well, so that's a bonus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYZGG7q2K4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrjEPjJp18

And if you're familiar with Neofolk, you should really check out Death In Rome, who do neofolk-style covers of pop songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beP82Vd9N_I

Rome is excellent and holy poo poo Death In Rome is so good, especially their cover of Wrecking Ball. Bit awkward that I now know all the words to that song though...

LowCityRain is one of the better recent goth bands in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtguZizrhNk

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nomapple
Apr 27, 2012
 Can't wait to check out all these links. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more goth-influenced music in the near future as the 80s seems to be popular again. It's definitely already happening with metal. A lot of black metal bands are trying to bring in a post-punk sound, or have a goth side project (like Beastmilk, now known as Grave Pleasures).

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