The Unofficial Goth Rock Thread

[Shadowolf]

Didn't see a thread... so let's talk goth! 8) Need recommendations? I'm the man!
General post-punk (Gang of Four, Psych Furs, Einsturzende, Clock DVA) and dark post-punk revival bands (Interpol, Xiu Xiu, Editors, She Wants Revenge, Gliss, etc) are also welcome to discuss!

Recent Updates:

1/2 - New thread! I made a Playlist (Link below), please listen, especially if you have no idea what this genre sounds like!
Would like to say RIP to Rowland S. Howard (Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution, These Immortal Souls), who passed away at 50 on 12/30 from liver cancer.

Genres:
[ Post Punk † Positive Punk † Goth Rock † Deathrock † Darkwave † French Coldwave ]
Related Genres:
Punk Rock | Glam Rock | No Wave | Dream Pop | Shoegaze | Ethereal Wave | Synthpop | Minimal Wave | Dark Cabaret | Industrial | Post-Industrial | EBM | Neo-Folk | Horror Punk | Psychobilly | Gothabilly | Southern Gothic-Country | Trip Hop | Dance Punk | Death Disco | Electropop | Witch House | Blackwave/gaze

What is Goth?

Goth rock is an offshoot of post-punk... Its reputation as the darkest and gloomiest form of underground rock is largely deserved, though today that reputation stems more from the visual theatricality of its bands and black-clad followers. Sonically, goth rock took the cold synthesizers and processed guitars of post-punk and used them to construct foreboding, sorrowful, often epic soundscapes. Early on, its lyrics were usually introspective and intensely personal, but its poetic sensibilities soon led to a taste for literary romanticism, morbidity, religious symbolism, and/or supernatural mysticism. Goth rock was generally not a critically acclaimed style, given its penchant for florid poetry, relentlessly mournful dirges, and melodramatic excess.

-- All Music Guide

Bands
(in no way meant to be comprehensive; a few of these are arguable, but open to interpretation)

45 Grave, Alien Sex Fiend, All Gone Dead, And Also the Trees, Audra, Asylum Party, Ausgang, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Big Electric Cat, The Birthday Party, Blutengel, The Bolshoi, Bomb Party, Bone Orchard, Burning Image, The Chameleons, Children on Stun, Christian Death, The Church, Cinema Strange, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Cranes, The Creatures, Creaming Jesus, Crime & the City Solution, The Cruxshadows, The Cult, The Cure, The Damned, The Danse Society, Dead Can Dance, The Deadfly Ensemble, Death in June, The Deep Eynde, Depeche Mode, Diamanda Galas, Diary of Dreams, Eat Your Make Up, Echo & the Bunnymen, Entertainment, Faith & the Muse, Fields of the Nephilim, The Flesh Eaters, Flesh for Lulu, Frank the Baptist, The Frozen Autumn, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Gentry, Gloria Mundi, The Glove, The Grinning Plowman, Handful of Snowdrops, The Horrors, Human Drama, In the Nursery, Into a Circle, Joy Disaster, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Kirlian Camera, Kommunity FK, The Last Days of Jesus, London After Midnight, Lords of the New Church, Love and Rockets, Lycia, The March Violets, Mephisto Walz, The Mighty Sphincter, Miranda Sex Garden, The Mission UK, Mors Syphilitica, Murder at the Registry, NFD, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nosferatu, Pink Turns Blue, Pins & Needles, The Phantom Limbs, Play Dead, Radio Werewolf, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Temple Spirits, Rose of Avalanche, Rudimentary Peni, Scarlet's Remains, Screams for Tina, Sex Gang Children, Shadow Project, The Shroud, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, Specimen, Skeletal Family, Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, The Sound, A Spectre is Haunting Europe, Swans, Switchblade Symphony, Tones on Tail, TSOL, Tuxedomoon, UK Decay, Vernian Process, Virgin Prunes, Voodoo Church, The Wake, The Wolfgang Press, Wolfsheim, Xmal Deutschland, Zadera

Links:
* Playlist.com -- enjoy the huuuge playlist!
* (Stay tuned, I'll make a Youtube playlist too later on)
* (Also stay tuned, 'cause I have a Shoutcast Radio devoted to post-punk and goth rock coming!)
* Post-Punk.com (my friend Joshua runs this site, check it out!)

[neckermanncj]

The Cure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shadowolf]

Hell yeah, three cheers for The Cure! ^.^

[Gowienczyk]

Well, The Cure doesn't exactly have an consistent discography! From the ones I've heard, they seem to progress into different ideas throughout their career. Only ones I've heard and adore are:

Disintegration
Pornography
Seventeen Seconds
Three Imaginary Boys

Which ones are proper goth rock?

[neckermanncj]

Well, The Cure doesn't exactly have an consistent discography! From the ones I've heard, they seem to progress into different ideas throughout their career. Only ones I've heard and adore are:

Disintegration
Pornography
Seventeen Seconds
Three Imaginary Boys

Which ones are proper goth rock?

i'd say disintegration, seventeen seconds and maybe pornography, depending on how you look at it


you should check out "the head on the door" & "wish" not necessarily goth but awesome none-the-less

[Shadowolf]

Yeah, Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, Faith, Disintegration, and arguably Bloodflowers are their goth rock records.
Although their other stuff delve into pop and new wave and such, they usually stick in at least one goth rock song per record (except the last one probably ='( )

[neckermanncj]

Faith

Bloodflowers

this album seems to get forgotten all the time, it's very well done.


yeah i forgot another of "The Trilogy", great album!

[Gowienczyk]

I prefer their straight up post-punk stuff like Three Imaginary Boys, personally. But hey, I like Bauhaus so I make up for that failure, right?

[Fizzeler]

Sweet Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters Of Mercy, Bauhaus, and Gothic Metal

Also I suggest linking some last.fm links I am a personal fan of Darkwave

[neckermanncj]

I prefer their straight up post-punk stuff like Three Imaginary Boys, personally. But hey, I like Bauhaus so I make up for that failure, right?

yes, but...

you should check out "the head on the door" & "wish" not necessarily goth but awesome none-the-less