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| quote: | | For me, if you want to start exploring Gothic music you have to do it from something like Skinny Puppy. I mean, it has the works. Especially something like Last Rites. Thats a Goth record through and through. |
Yea, skinny puppy can be labelled as "goth" but in the "industrial" side of things. In the end of the day if someone wants to explore goth, then he must start with some new-wave/post-punk/gothic rock bands that were active in the beginning of the 80s. (this was it's first most original form.The term "gothic rock" was invented for bauhaus by their manager)
These are:
Joy Division (later forming "new order"...love will tear us apart)
The Cure (first albums)
Bauhaus
Sisters of Mercy
Echo and the Bunnymen
Siousxie & the Banshees
The Chameleons U.K. (one of the best and most underrated music EVER.melancholic and dynamic reverbed quitar lines with amazing lush synth work.A must.)
The Sound
Fields of the Nephilim (Some say that "Elizium" is better than "Dark side of the moon" by floyd...it's surely very "Entrancing" and "Ethereal" with some godly melodies)
Death in June (atmospheric post-apocalyptic folklore)
Current '93 (the same)
Dead Can Dance (dark avant-garde music by 4AD)
This Mortal Coil ("Song to the siren"- yes an ethereal gothic tune that was remixed in the 90s by lost witness was theirs!)
Cocteau Twins
Clan of Xymox
Wire
The Smiths
X-Mal Deutschland
The Mission U.K.
Christian Death
Kommunity FK
Danse Society
killing Joke
Mephisto Waltz
Red Lorry Yellow lorry
Theatre of Ice
Danse Society
Sex Gang Children
Southern Death Cult
Corpus Delicty
+ EBM, synth-pop and industrial genres are very relevant,(depeche mode, simple minds, cabaret voltaire, throbbing gristle blah blah blah) but i'm bored to mention them!!!
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