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[arethinn]

I feel curiously trapped in between. (Apply that statement with what wryness or irony you will, according to how much you know of me, if you are reading this.) By no means do I feel able to call myself "old school", or whatever the opposite (or sidewaysness) is of "neo-goth". Yet I'm fond of the sort of music that tends to go with "neo" and I like cybery and rivety aspects of fashion. (Yay for steel plus velvet!) The people that I tend to find more personally interesting fit into the former category most of the time, but I'm not sure I can do the same. Truth be told, I think some of the older (true) "gothic" music ranges from boring to slightly dreadful (in a disapproving sense of the word, heheh). While I'm happy to be exposed to more to see what there might be that I do like, the facts remain that I just don't think Bauhaus is all that thrilling (I much prefer Peter Murphy's later work; I don't have a big enough sample of Tones on Tail to really tell, although I approve of the one singles compilation I've briefly listened to), I have so far found Byron nearly impossible to stomach, and forget the damage crimping would do to my hair. ;)

I dunno, I think I had a point when I started this, but I lost it by being distracted by watching one of the discs of the 7th seasion ST:TNG set. (Oh, was that the sound of goth points falling off that I just heard? *silly grin*)

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[zaecus.livejournal.com]

"(Oh, was that the sound of goth points falling off that I just heard? *silly grin*)"

Depends. Was it a borg episode? Were you rooting for the borg? };->

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Well, "Descent: Part II" is kind of a Borg episode, I guess.. :)

[unseelie.livejournal.com]

i'm a geri Goth.
sort of.
by some measures.
i got like 15 years invested into it... 13 anyway...

old school bauhaus sucks.
don't i feel guilty for actually not being a big fan.
but it's true.

bella legosi's dead
is in fact
not the best song evah.

but i still like alien sex fiend
and leather strip
go me.

g33k-fu

[gaelfling.livejournal.com]

you know, at first I thought your icon was a cylon kitty, then I though 'doh! K.A.T.'
silly me ;)

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I actually like "Bela Lugosi's Dead"; it was the first Bauhaus song I ever heard. And I like a few others, "Kick in the Eye", "Hollow Hills" of course, I forget what exactly I have on my hard drive... but I can't sit down and listen to a whole album of it. I just get bored. (...in the flat field?)

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

I prefer the old gothic stuff which spawned off of the punk movement, which would include (in my book) Joy Division and to a lesser extent Bauhaus.

As far as *really* digging, the only "goth" band I have CDs of, period, is Dead Can Dance. So it goes. (I don't even know if Dead Can Dance really count.)

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

If loving ST:TNG is ungoth, Voltaire should probably be notified immediately so that he can destroy all copies of Banned on Vulcan. ;)

What of Concrete Blonde, btw?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

If I'm thinking of the right band, not too fond of it. I don't like thrashy, gritty stuff very much.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

see, there's two levels of "classic" goth - the crossover mainstream stuff that everyone knows and the music that was the foundation of the movement but appeared on small labels (or before Cleopatra got the scratch together to reissue it) and is therefore obscure even by goth standards.

get ye a copy of The Black Bible (excellent first wave compilation), The Goth Box (4 CDs of goodness), or any This Ascension, Die Laughing, or Nosferatu you can get your hands on. (More or less in that order of preference...I expect you'll only find half or so of Nosferatu interesting, but they have a very sci-fi bent on some of their songs, namely "Farewell My Little Earth" which is about as close to a "hit" single as they ever had)