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10-29-2008, 02:14 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Original Goth
Bauhaus,Sisterhood,Siouxsie & the Banshees,Alien Sex Fiend,Sex Gang Children...These are a few of the bands i love,i was there when these bands first started and i think since then gothic has lost its way,ive been a goth since 1979,Bauhaus(Pete Murphy & co)got me started and i havent looked back since,but now the boundaries have blurred...whats an EMO?? Gothic is a passion,art literature poetry and music,i have to say goth is in the heart,in itself an art form,its not about doom and gloom..see the girl in the red dress...eyes of fire yet lips so tame (Fields of the Nephilim) no doom or gloom there just poetry to music,take a listen to crowds by Bauhaus...its a love song...gothic has lost its way,The sisters of mercy,the mission(NOT the mission uk)thats an american interpretation..all these bands put poetry to music.i admit some gothic is doom and gloom but i think its been taken too far.But i rant,books Edgar Allen Poe,H.P.Lovecraft,Mary Shelly,Bram Stoker and even Charles Dickens.Films Near Dark (grown up Lost Boys),John Carpenters Vampires,Dusk Til Dawn,and of course Nosferatu.i am a passionate gothic,to end i have to say i never lost touch with the scene,Blood and Roses, Hearts and Flowers,Love and peace,romance and passion all contribute to being a goth.
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10-29-2008, 04:12 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Welcome. And Edgar's middle name is spelled Allan, not Allen. Made the same mistake myself. I like your taste in music, but I like Mission U.K. too.
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10-29-2008, 05:01 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: CA
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Wellcome to gnet , hopefully Ill see you around here . Original goths are the exception (not only here) , and you all have a lot to share with us ...
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10-29-2008, 05:05 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: London.
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Shit man, those words are just flying everywhere.
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10-29-2008, 06:01 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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Hrm. I'm a bit skeptical about your age, but I'll put it aside for now. Welcome to G.net! ^_^
I rather enjoy The Mission UK, though they aren't my favorite. I haven't been able to find just The Mission, though.
As for the genre 'losing its way', I don't think it has at all; you have bands like The Birthday Massacre who still have that same sound, but are newer. Besides that, I don't really think the artists from back then were gung ho about starting a movement; they were just playing the music they liked to play.
Besides, if history is any indication, the bands that 'started' the Goth movement will last a long long time, and will still be available several centuries from now, as long as we don't blow ourselves up.
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10-29-2008, 08:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Houston, Texas
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Welcome to the forum!
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10-29-2008, 08:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: somewhere, I suppose
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Hey, nice to meet you. I like your attitude. Hopefully you'll be around here a lot.
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10-30-2008, 06:10 AM
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#8
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: CA
Posts: 667
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bat Attack
Shit man, those words are just flying everywhere.
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Do they?
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10-30-2008, 07:22 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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Yeah, they really do unfortunately. But I have a feeling that a rather interesting person is under all that bad grammar.
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10-30-2008, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
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That wasn't an introduction. It was a rant...but it was interesting anyway. Glad to see you mentioned the movie Near Dark; it's underrated.
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Originally Posted by Nosferatu-1967
whats an EMO??
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Emo is "goth lite" for 13 year old wanna-be goths who don't want to make the full commitment. They mistake "emotional" for "gothic" as if any passionate display of any given emotion is gothic. They also seem to be woefully ignorant of any other aspects of either scene other than the music. IE: they can't discuss gothic literature or even any gothic movies made before they themselves were old enough to see them in the theater. Their desire to be emo and wrapped up in their own little emotional drama trips means they seldom look at the scene objectively or in the long term.
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Originally Posted by Nosferatu-1967
and even Charles Dickens
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I wouldn't put Dickens into the gothic column just because he wrote tear-jerker emo novels. A few years ago I gave away all my Dickens novels and then asked for them all back shortly later. Looking at them now, I can't imagine why I ever asked for them back. Huysmans called Dickens's works "charming novels which are so satisfying to invalids and convalescents who might grow fatigued by works of a more profound and vigorous nature" and I have to agree.
Anyway, welcome to Gnet.
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10-30-2008, 08:09 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Namibia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Man In Room 5
Emo is "goth lite" for 13 year old wanna-be goths who don't want to make the full commitment. They mistake "emotional" for "gothic" as if any passionate display of any given emotion is gothic. They also seem to be woefully ignorant of any other aspects of either scene other than the music. IE: they can't discuss gothic literature or even any gothic movies made before they themselves were old enough to see them in the theater. Their desire to be emo and wrapped up in their own little emotional drama trips means they seldom look at the scene objectively or in the long term.
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Emo takes more from punk than Goth, in my mind. Emo Music, for instance is essentially a genre of hardcore punk (with a mix of pop and metal thrown in). Plus, the style generally involves tight pants (another punkish thing). Wannabe Goths are wannabe Goths. Emos aren't.
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10-30-2008, 08:22 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The arse-end of nowhere
Posts: 470
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Welcome to gnet fellow newbie
You have great music taste
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10-30-2008, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
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Hello and welcome, I hope you enjoy your time here !!!.
You have a brilliant taste in music !!!.
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11-10-2008, 05:09 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Under a pile of red satin sheets.
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You seem like an enormous ass.
Case and point: ImariginalGgoth!
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11-10-2008, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Lansing, Iowa. Come visit me, yes, no?
Posts: 1,033
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This site is a fucked up horrific shithole with people sick in the mind. They will make your life miserable.
Please, please please get out while you still can.
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11-10-2008, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Namibia
Posts: 2,526
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Beware the Ides of March!
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11-11-2008, 01:38 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Raxacoricofallapatorius
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Man In Room 5
That wasn't an introduction. It was a rant...but it was interesting anyway. Glad to see you mentioned the movie Near Dark; it's underrated.
Emo is "goth lite" for 13 year old wanna-be goths who don't want to make the full commitment. They mistake "emotional" for "gothic" as if any passionate display of any given emotion is gothic. They also seem to be woefully ignorant of any other aspects of either scene other than the music. IE: they can't discuss gothic literature or even any gothic movies made before they themselves were old enough to see them in the theater. Their desire to be emo and wrapped up in their own little emotional drama trips means they seldom look at the scene objectively or in the long term.
I wouldn't put Dickens into the gothic column just because he wrote tear-jerker emo novels. A few years ago I gave away all my Dickens novels and then asked for them all back shortly later. Looking at them now, I can't imagine why I ever asked for them back. Huysmans called Dickens's works "charming novels which are so satisfying to invalids and convalescents who might grow fatigued by works of a more profound and vigorous nature" and I have to agree.
Anyway, welcome to Gnet.
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Dickens is amazing. Hard Times for These Times for the win.
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11-12-2008, 03:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
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