First Gothic Song - Page 3

Aaroneet · 06-18-2007, 08:17 AM

It's ironic that people can be drawn into a subculture through a maintstream (i.e radio). Then again, if there was no mainstream exposure, many would be left in the dark as to certain subcultures (no pun intended).

Vyvian Blackthorne · 06-18-2007, 09:35 AM

Good goth

, the Cure was only exposed after there style altered because of Robert Smith's un-needed paranoia. Then they apparently were at the 'POP' Billbaords #1 with the release of the worst album ever, the Top. G'oh well...still I love them.
Goth Forever

Aaroneet · 06-18-2007, 10:01 AM

Oh..didn't other "outside hands" take control of the band initially?

As for "the worst album ever", the 'POP' Billboards tend to pick up on those. Anyway, this is turning into a "Contributions of The Cure" thread. I'll try to stop interfering.

Vyvian Blackthorne · 06-18-2007, 10:04 AM

Good goth...anything they did after 1982 with the execption of Disintergration and Bloodflowers is crap. I love them, but I Kyoto Song was just...ugh...ALIEN SEX FIEND BEATS THE SMITHS. HA.HAHAHAAHA.
Goth Forever

Aaroneet · 06-18-2007, 10:11 AM

I'll take your word for it. The album reviews didn't seem too bad for their later stuff, but I trust you.

Vyvian Blackthorne · 06-18-2007, 10:17 AM

Geessss...that's because they just lack emotion. Those album reviews Rolling Stones and other Gimmick mags do are just as bad as the film critics that thumb-up every G-rated family movie. Plus, the Sisters' mainstream stuff is surpirsingly better than the Cures'.
Goth Forever

the-broken-harlequin · 06-18-2007, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaroneet

It's ironic that people can be drawn into a subculture through a maintstream (i.e radio). Then again, if there was no mainstream exposure, many would be left in the dark as to certain subcultures (no pun intended).

I must admit that it's not a good start.
Before I started going deeper into the gothic swimming pool I would wear a black shirt with jeans, a beanie hat with my fringe swept across my eye and Plain boots with blue laces.

thedoll · 06-18-2007, 11:59 AM

I cant remember the song, but a girl in my math class used to tell me that Wolfsheim reminded her of me, and then i went into the wonderful world of dark wave. I honestly never listened to 80's goth bands until this forum.

The_Terror_of_Death · 07-05-2007, 09:21 PM

Being new to the goth subculture, my first gothic music experience came only a year ago. Everything started when I heard Fallen Angel by the group Haunted by Angels.

rose. · 07-06-2007, 06:46 AM

My mum listened to The Cure a lot when I was little, but that doesn't really count.

The first song that made me interested in Gothic culture, though, was Figurative Theatre, which my friend made me listen to one day. From there I started listening to more Christian Death and so on.

Smile · 07-06-2007, 06:51 AM

epicentre by vnv nation, awesome song. I

Linen · 07-06-2007, 06:59 AM

When I was 14, I bought a CD entitled
"Tales from the Crypt: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas".
(featuring songs like "Deck the Halls With Parts of Charlie").

LMAO.

Other than thinking that some of the darkest classical music (such as the Funeral March, Moonlight Sonata, Requiem, etc) was beautiful, this was the first CD I bought that (even though it's not a "goth band") could be considered dark at least.

HumanePain · 07-06-2007, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linen

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(featuring songs like "Deck the Halls With Parts of Charlie").
LMAO...

CHAAAAAAARLIE! Come with us to Candy Mountain CHARLIE!
It is full of JOY, and JOYNESS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYahflz8Jk

Linen · 07-06-2007, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HumanePain

CHAAAAAAARLIE! Come with us to Candy Mountain CHARLIE!
It is full of JOY, and JOYNESS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYahflz8Jk

Dude, you are awesome. I LOVE that movie. I showed it to my husband & friends, and they all looked at me like I was insane (as I laughed my ass off).

Tha Duckman · 07-06-2007, 08:44 AM

I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, ELO, all that stuff, then I discovered punk. It just kind of went on from there. And now I'm bored.

Aaroneet · 07-06-2007, 06:06 PM

I love how my thread was suddenly resurrected from the pits of oblivion

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My parents actually brought me up listening to classic rock as well.

Miss Happy Cat · 07-07-2007, 11:45 AM

I was also raised on classic rock, until I entered junior high school, met some new friends who introduced me to the The Cure. A Forest was my first gothic song.

biohazard · 07-12-2007, 09:51 PM

Mine was the first song I heard, "Windbringer" By The Cruxshadows. It is a masterpiece from beggining to end.

evilpoppy · 07-13-2007, 10:20 AM

Tough one.

As a kid I really like Adam and the Ants. Kings of the Wild Frontier was the first album I bought at 6 or 7, and I guess the tribal drum rhythms and glam aesthetic stayed with me. But the Ants by then were pop pop pop.

Joy Division was pretty mainstream back then. I always liked the post-punk sound.

As a teenager I was into the greebo indie scene. Pop Will Eat Itself, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Carter USM. Goth rock was in a sorry state (Sisters of Mercy etc.) A friend of min introduced me to Alien Sex Fiend and Rozz era Christian Death, but I wasn't really into it. I was too busy going to riot grrl gigs to follow Goth in the early 90's, and then I got all grown up and stopped listening to music.

Late 20's I separated from the wife and started getting into music again. I got back into Joy Division and with a wonderful Post-Punk compilation from Rough-Trade started to rebuild my record collection.

I just ended up in a Goth night after meeting some Goths at the church I was working in at the time. Really I went for the Post-Punk (not that much gets played), so me being an eye-linered art-punk is really all down to Christianity and some Manchester Lads in Raincoats.

If I was going to pick a Joy Division song it would be Transmission.

If I was going to pick a Goth song it would be Barbarossa by Sex Gang Children.

psyches_reflection · 07-14-2007, 11:47 AM

Just to be wholly original... The Cure, Boys Don't Cry. By that time I was already interested in finding out what Goth really was, having listened to a lot of mainstream rock and metal and stuffs.

I googled Goth and came across a big internet essay someone had done about it's origins and came across a few band names. Before I started downloading anything the video for Boys Don't Cry came on MTV2 during one of my insomnia sessions and I fell in love.

Aaroneet · 07-14-2007, 11:53 AM

"Boys Don't Cry" was perhaps one of the first Cure songs that I heard. It's ironic that you picked that one.

She_Is_My_Sin · 07-14-2007, 11:53 AM

A teacher made me a tape of some Sisters Of Mercy songs after I told him I liked Nightwish.

He handed it to me & said "Now here's some REAL goth music."

The first song on it was 'This Corrosion'.

I never got to say thank you to him.

Edward · 07-14-2007, 12:40 PM

The first song that got me influenced into the scene was "Romeos Distress" by Christian Death, I vividly remember sitting in my friends basement, in his room, with the walls covered in velvet, fishnets, and posters of The Mission UK, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, The Cure all over the walls, and he played that song, and at that moment, I was hooked.

††BlackRose†† · 07-14-2007, 03:48 PM

The first gothic song that I heard was by HIM and Lacuna Coil. I remember liking the Lacuna Coil song a lot that I wanted to get their CD. LOL. Yes I still like getting CDs. LOL.

Godslayer Jillian · 07-14-2007, 05:03 PM

Uh... try again.
Those are not gothic bands.
It's ok if you like them, but they're not gothic bands; ergo, they cannot have played your first gothic song. (unless they did a cover on Sisters of Mercy or something)