Time to Slit Wrists and Write Dark Poetry: Gothic Music Thread

[HarleyQuinn]

More random Gothic Rock song drops Mixing in more known bands with some deeper, under-the-radar cuts. At some point, I'll try to jump more into the 90s but there's just so much good stuff throughout the mid 80s period. I did throw in a track from 2002 that I had discovered around the mid-2000s that I greatly enjoyed though.

The Cure - A Strange Day (1982)

Blood and Roses - Spit Upon Your Grave (1983)

Blue Hollow - Color of Night (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxS-XTPY2o

Skeletal Family - She Cries Alone (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVZ678sHuo

Dead Can Dance - The Trial (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhcAnbEgnTk

Abney Park - Breathe (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3tBFu1xx2Q

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Trying to hit a good variance with this selection here. Like my last post, more under-the-radar cuts but tried to go a little more contemporary. It's always interesting to see the influences ranging from bass/80s synth/punkish undertones to more industrial atmospheric mood-influenced stuff.

Linea Aspera - Synapse

Twin Tribes - Shadows

Screams For Tina - Graveyard Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV0t_NEvBT8

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Because I can never get tired of classic early Goth Rock... You can see definitely see the influence of the late 70s/early 80s) post-punk scene bleeding into more of the eventual mid-80s New Wave sound as well. It's also interesting to note the definite influence from bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Alien Sex Fiend, and The Cure by the mid to late 1980s on the "Goth" style sound (low, brooding bass emphasis... lots of kick... guitars chiming and sparkly)

Play Dead - Final Epitaph (1981)

Young Weasels - Twist & Burn (1982)

Lost Loved Ones - I Found You (1984)

Girl Under Glass - Rainy World (1986)

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Stiff Kittens - Happy Now (1986)

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Stiff Kittens - Happy Now 12" (1986)

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Alien Sex Fiend - It Lives Again (1987)

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[Brocklock]

The Cure recently released their first album in 16 years called Songs Of A Lost World. Starting it up and the first song seems more in the classic Disintegration/Pornography type of style. The album is getting their best reviews since 1992's Wish. Really excited to listen to this in my current depressive state.

2024 has been a nice year for music comebacks. I still can't believe LL Cool J had Murdergram Deux in him. Robert Smith said they recorded enough songs during the 2019 sessions for two more albums after this, so at least The Cure can keep me sane for the next few years.

 

[Brocklock]

I let this marinate in my head for 10 days or so, and the new Cure album is top five of their discography. I prefer dark and depressive The Cure to the poppy Cure that writes a lot of love songs, so this album is right up my alley. This is the most focused and the best that band has sounded since 1992's Wish. Songs Of A Lost World is also the first Cure album since the 80's to have a majority of the songs written by Robert Smith. The production is fantastic and I love the emphasis on percussion in some songs. The finale "Endsong" is one of their best songs I think. Just an epic.

9/10 (Disintegration and Pornography will always be my top 2.) I love this band overall, and I'm glad they released one more classic. Robert Smith says two more albums are coming, so I hope they can continue this momentum. I've liked a lot of their post Wish material. Even the maligned self titled, produced by Nu Metal master Ross Robinson, has some great songs and a great Robert Smith performance. There's no real album by The Cure that I hate. I just prefer the darker and heavier stuff.

 

[Gary]

One genre I've grown to enjoy over the years is Deathrock, which could best be described as a more Punk inspired take on Gothic Rock (or visa versa). Some album recs from me

-Rudimentary Peni - Death Church and Cacophony (also counts as Hardcore/Anarcho Punk)

-Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain and Catastrophe Ballet

-Samhain - Initium and November Coming Fire (Danzig's post Misfits, pre solo project. I actually like these more than his solo work)

-Grave Pleasures - Motherblood

-Chain Cult - Shallow Grave

-Poison Ruin - Harvest

-Alien Sex Fiend - Acid Bath

-45 Grave - Sleep in Safety

-Cursed Moon - Rite of Darkness (with raspy Black Metal vocals)

-Arctic Flowers - Reveries

-Alaric - Self Titled