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- Strawberry Switchblade. The Scottish duo Strawberry Switchblade were a glorious blur of ribbons and lace, frills and polka dots. Despite the sweet, cupcake-goth look of Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson, the duo were able to write sad songs under all that confection.
- AFI. What were you doing in the 2000s if you didn’t have a side lip ring? The Californian hardcore-punk turned gloomy-rockers AFI broke through the emo buzz and ricocheted into the mainstream with their 2003 album, Sing the Sorrow.
- Diamanda Galas. Terrifying is an accurate description of Diamanda Galas. Since the late 1970s, she has steadily released experimental work that can raise tortured souls from the caverns of Satan’s lair, her voice writhing with an evil found only in the possessed.
- She Wants Revenge. They say the best form of flattery is imitation. If so, She Wants Revenge’s self-titled LP from 2006 puckers right up to some 1980s goth ass.
This is the song that got me into Clan of Xymox. The rest of the album is pretty good too.
Hearing the Donnie Darko soundtrack as a kid in the early 00s. I discovered goth culture by spending a lot of time online during the pandemic, and the first song I heard was Temple of Love 1992 version. Friends were making an indie vampire flick. Local metalhead provided tunes for the score.
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Oct 25, 2017 · October 25, 2017. Graphic by Patrick Jenkins. After it blazed through England and New York in the 1970s, the first wave of punk rock left a whole lot of darkness in its wake. As the decade rolled ...
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- Bauhaus – “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (1979) Dracula himself was born in Hungary in 1882, a country he fled after the failed Communist revolution, ending up in Hollywood, where he would get his break as Bram Stoker’s iconic monster, a dark-lipped, exoticized evil that stalked across screen, careening in a stylish black satin cape.
- The Cure – “A Forest” (1980) To call The Cure the greatest goth band in history is a profound and unmatched understatement. This entire list, conceivably, could comprise nothing but the band’s works but, in the interest of fairness, we have deigned to include others.
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – “Cities in Dust” (1985) Siouxsie and the Banshees evolved from a cantankerous group of punks set on antagonizing their audience into a covertly canny pop group in only a matter of a few years.
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – “The Mercy Seat” (1988) The murder ballad is a hybrid owing as much to the blues as it does to Irish folk music and early country.
May 22, 2020 · Here’s how it works. What we do in the shadows: an oral history of 80s goth. As punk’s light faded, something new began to stir in the darkness. And after goth’s early days as a look/fashion/scene rather than a music genre came some of the greatest music of the 80s. The 80s was the decade when musically anything went.
Apr 19, 2023 · List of Best Goth Love Songs. Create the ultimate playlist, and let these songs be the soundtrack to your deepest emotions. Sisters of Mercy – “Temple of Love” – One of the most iconic goth bands, Sisters of Mercy, delivers a powerful love anthem with “Temple of Love.”. Fusing gothic rock with a drum machine, this track has become a ...
