Goth Rock

[Johnny Paradox]

I love this awesome branch out of punk. Siouxsie and The Banshees and Bauhaus are fucking amazing! Anyone else like this stuff?

[Dead Boy]

These tunes (versions) of Screaming Dead are pretty good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU6whvPxt1o

[Lachlan William Richardson]

They're not necessarily a goth rock band although the media often tends to label them 'gothabilly' is a more modern band from Brighton in England called The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, their first album Horse of the Dog is awesome dark themed garagey punk and one of my favourites. Definitely worth checking out. Then there's the Vile Imbeciles who was started by the Eighties Matchbox lead guitarist after he left the band which is more in the Birthday Party sort of vein. Both great bands I'd highly recommend.

[Mike Humsgreen]

That just reminded me to listen to Eighties matchbox bline disaster.

[Brian T. Kirchner]

What about Specimen?

[Bill Wellham]

Back in the day...   England, early 80's..  I went to a regular little club that was full of goths, rockabillies, punks and general new wavers.  All the music was just a mixture of everything.  There was no music rule.  Everyone jumped around to everything.  I was a wannabe psychobilly dressed like a rockabilly; and my girlfriend was a gorgeous Goth with big black hair and white make up.  it just didnt matter.  Our record collections would cross over and overlap.  I saw Bauhaus live several times, Souixie numerous times...  while I dragged my poor girlfriend along to wreck to the Guana Batz and Meteors gigs.

 

I still listen to most kinds of music (to a limit, obviously), but I will always have a fondness for the Goth scene.  There is a lot of humour behind the black and white make up and morbid lyrics.

 

I wonder what my gothy girlfriend is listening to now, 25 years later...   will never know.

[Dana V. Hatch]

Big favorite of mine is Kid Congo Powers' post-Cramps band Fur Bible who released one towering 4-song EP then disappeared in the face of widespread derision. Wish someone cared enough to do a Kid Congo career perspective collection.

[Dana V. Hatch]

My top goth rock experience was seeing the Swans in '86 at the Rat in Boston. They were at their peak, hard as nails. One of the most powerful shows I've ever seen. Just for yuks, I dressed all in white and looked like a snowflake in a coal mine amid all the black-shrouded goths. I saw Sonic Youth the next month but they weren't as good.

[BonzoB]

I agree totally with Bill Wellham. Back at the start there was lots of crossover and labels didn't matter (still don't in fact!). The band I was in started as straight ahead punk rock Clash clones and mutated into what would now be called Goth. Back then it didn't even have a name and no real scene outside London to speak of where Sex Gang Children, Southern Death Cult, Theatre of Hate and a few others were "positive punk" (remember that people? Vague fanzine did a big piece...) It was supposed to be a reaction against the nihilism and pointless anarchy-pose of the Pistols and their followers - The Exploited, Chron Gen Anti-Pasti, all things Oi! etc etc. Alternative music with a message of hope, positivity, a "can-do" attitude and anything is possible in a personal and socio-politcal context..Sounds like total wank when all you want to do is dance, play bass, drink and meet girls, but I was only 14....For what it's worth I have quite a narrow view of Goth. Sex Gang, SDC, ToH, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilum, Mission...and maybe a couple of other bands that grew up around The Batcave scene. Remember many Batcave regulars were also psychobillies stomping at the Klub Foot! Does good music really need a label?

[Babylon Street Radio]

Tune in, we play lots of those bands,

also on I-Tunes radio under Alternative Rock

 

Babylon Street Radio

 

[Trixie Malicious]

Jimi by Butthole Surfers? I love how it goes completely different almost pastoral near the end...

Or maybe I'm just thinking its goth rock because I listened to it at the same time I was listening to loads of goth :)

Heehee...and was listening to Rudimentary Peni, had totally forgotten about them gonna go youtube them now...

But my fave goth-y song is "Jack on Fire" by Gun Club

[KK Dirty Money & Las Drogas]

Did anyone mention Forbidden Dimension or any other Jackson Phibes' stuff?
He's a Canadian that totally rips: punky, smart, fun, technically literate, sings about goth/horror stuff non-stop, and even wears make-up and other horror costume/goth get-up.

Check it out:

http://forbiddendimension.exophagy.com/main.html

[dying slowly]

love bahaus tbut the damned blow me away daily