20 Best: Goth

[Joey Deadcat]

http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/02/20-best-goth/

This was actually decent and inoffensive. And bless them for rightfully including the brilliant, artfully manic entity that was Sex Gang Children.

Edited May 12, 2011 by Joey Deadcat

[phee]

Good list well thought out.

[Destroit]

IT WAS OFFENSUVE BECUZ THERE WUZ NO MARLIN MANSEN AND WE ALL KNOW THAT HE IS THA DARK LLORD WHO INVENTUD IT!!!!11!!!

IT WAS OFFENSUVE BECUZ THERE WUZ NO MARLIN MANSEN AND WE ALL KNOW THAT HE IS THA DARK LLORD WHO INVENTUD IT!!!!11!!!

[phee]

IT WAS OFFENSUVE BECUZ THERE WUZ NO MARLIN MANSEN AND WE ALL KNOW THAT HE IS THA DARK LLORD WHO INVENTUD IT!!!!11!!!

This is true.... I can only assumbe dat thhey left em off cuz it waz impyed

[DJ Nocker]

still think sex gang children is bad, LoL...

not a bad list though.

[Joey Deadcat]

Would have been nice if the author found a place for Death In June in there.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Judging from his selections I don't think Death In June had a chance, to melodic. Joy Division apparently also anything like that.

What most people would think of as "classic (modernish) goth sound" with a bit more meody and wispy-longing (and less punky) aren't to his taste apparently.

Its what I'd term a "classic" academic street cred type list. The sort of bands your supposed to like if you want to be known as someone with good taste, even if you don't like a one of them, the cool old school people will backhand you.

I had to go hunt down:

14: RUDIMENTARY PENI

DEATH CHURCH

Which I'd never heard of before nor had I ever heard that "various artists" compilation he lists (ill hunt that down after i get done with this...decent album but really I can think of 20 bands just off the top of my head that should be in place of this thing. Listening to it now. Inevitable with any list people are going to quibble, lists are just that , lists.

His defintion of goth "for the purposes of this list" is cute although lacking in anything any meaning you could read on its own and say "oh, hes talking about goth" if you didn't already know. Even just: darkly tinged punk/new wave cross pollination. Which is really what he's using as his definition judging from the list would have been more helpful, although less poetic.

Not that thats bad, just unusual.

[when i was 16 in 1999]

Activated as if by remote control, the sextet of black-clad folk who I’ve mistaken for a wall troop off in the direction of the music, still not uttering a single word to each other. I follow them at a short distance. When I reach the dancefloor they’re there…dancing. Well, I say dancing; more accurately they’re stomping, or sluggishly waving their torsos without moving their feet, or holding their heads in their hands as if in a rapture of pain, or pleasure, or both. It’s like some kind of demented exercise video. Other groups of similarly attired characters arrive at the dancefloor at the same time, and a few of them exchange words, dance together, get off with each other. Then ‘Alice’ stops, and every single one of them returns to the corner of the club they came from, to continue their necking or simply resume brooding in silence.

These characters, you will have gathered, are the Goths.

haha. Nice.

[victoriavengeance (1)]

IT WAS OFFENSUVE BECUZ THERE WUZ NO MARLIN MANSEN AND WE ALL KNOW THAT HE IS THA DARK LLORD WHO INVENTUD IT!!!!11!!!

This is true.... I can only assumbe dat thhey left em off cuz it waz impyed

i totalee want 2 hav his bebes u guise!!11!111!!1one!11o1ne11!!uno1!!

[Joey Deadcat]

Oh man, Troy - you've been missing out on Rudimentary Peni.

Great band with an interesting story.

[DJ Nocker]

Oh man, Troy - you've been missing out on Rudimentary Peni.

Great band with an interesting story.

Another band I never really got into... I agree with it being an interesting story.