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Best 80s Goth Band

Included Joy Division for their sound although they didn't have the goth aesthetic.

by Anonymousreply 26November 30, 2024 4:55 PM

The Birthday Party

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by Anonymousreply 1November 28, 2024 2:07 AM

Yasss Nick Cave

by Anonymousreply 2November 28, 2024 2:14 AM

Siouxsie all the way. Cities In Dust was so catchy and so malevolent all at once.

by Anonymousreply 3November 28, 2024 2:17 AM

Oh - oh

Oh your city lies in d-u-u-st

My friend

by Anonymousreply 4November 28, 2024 3:09 AM

Bauhaus. Can’t stand The Cure or that pig smeared with lipstick, Robert Smith. Grossly overrated. I love Joy Division, but I don’t think I’d consider them goth.

by Anonymousreply 5November 28, 2024 3:11 AM

Bauhaus invented gothic rock. There is no band that did it better. Despite his tendency toward androgyny at times, I find Peter Murphy to be one of the sexiest men to ever have walked the planet. That deep, low, booming voice, that lean body, and those prominent cheekbones. He looked like a vampire, and had the mysterious sex appeal of one too. I finally saw them perform live a couple of years ago, and they still sounded fucking fantastic. It was an excellent concert. "Dark Entries" is easily in my top 10 list of favorite songs.

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by Anonymousreply 6November 28, 2024 3:19 AM

Does Goth still exist as a subculture?

by Anonymousreply 7November 28, 2024 3:44 AM

Bauhaus/Siouxsie/Sisters, and I'm putty for She Sells Sanctuary to this day - liked The Cure as well, and you can't talk goth without Diamanda coming up sooner or later. Ditto Specimen.

by Anonymousreply 8November 28, 2024 3:54 AM

and Peter Murphy was basically Lestat at this point. Hubba.Hubba.

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by Anonymousreply 9November 28, 2024 3:59 AM

those Peter left behind, before morphing into Love & Rockets, making Bauhaus the undisputed champion goth band.

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by Anonymousreply 10November 28, 2024 4:05 AM

"Spellbound" is THE anthem, as far as this long-ago Babybat is concerned. From the moment Siouxsie appeared undulating like a cat to the sounds of John McGeoch's haunting guitar lick, I was hooked--she had created herself out of whole cloth into the very persona she wanted to project, and it was both captivating and wonderfully intimidating.

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by Anonymousreply 11November 29, 2024 12:33 AM

Siouxsie and the Banshees would be far behind The Cure.

by Anonymousreply 12November 29, 2024 12:35 AM

Another vote for Siouxsie and the Banshees. Subversive and unique. Siouxsie was a badass trailblazer. And I like that she said fuck it, I'm retired in France now with the cats but still pops occasionally to do shows.

by Anonymousreply 13November 29, 2024 1:02 AM

Is it true that Siouxsie's longtime companion is iconic stage costume designer Pam Hogg?

by Anonymousreply 14November 29, 2024 2:00 AM

That was the rumor R14.

by Anonymousreply 15November 29, 2024 2:18 AM

R11 Oh brother! Mary!

by Anonymousreply 16November 29, 2024 8:15 AM

I like all of these bands (though I feel Sisters of Mercy are a bit overrated). I'm not a huge fan of later era Cure, but I do think they had a period in the 80s where they were hugely influential and almost everything they put out was excellent. I would have to rank them first.

Another good group that didn't really get their due was Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.

by Anonymousreply 17November 29, 2024 9:12 AM

If I can mash-up a definite goth act with the goth-adjacent/miserabilist act of all time...

I have always thought that Diamanda Galas should do a gothed-out cover of The Smiths' "Shakespeare's Sister." Just her and the piano and that voice, "I going to meet the one I looooooooooooove."

I think it would be iconic.

by Anonymousreply 18November 29, 2024 10:38 PM

Also...add me to the list of people who found Sisters of Mercy overrated. They were just hard to embrace. Kind of an LA vampire/"club goth" sound. Too slick for my liking.

by Anonymousreply 19November 29, 2024 10:40 PM

Latter period Sisters were harder to embrace longterm for me, but No Time To Cry and Walk Away are in my sacred lot, and oddly enough, my husband resembles Andrew Eldritch, so I guess that makes me a fan boy, hence my Top 3.

Siouxsie is and always has been a force of nature and an icon of cool.

by Anonymousreply 20November 30, 2024 1:01 AM

Early Sisters is superb. Temple of Love and the whole of First, Last and Always.

by Anonymousreply 21November 30, 2024 4:24 AM

The Cult and singer Ian Astbury. Uh huh!😛🤩

by Anonymousreply 22November 30, 2024 4:41 AM

Pete Murphy was the hottest guy in goth, although painfully skinny. Robert Smith quickly morphed into a monster. Andrew Eldritch was another emaciated waif who hid his terrible acne behind huge sunglasses. Ian Curtis was handsome with great bone structure and haunted pale blue eyes.

by Anonymousreply 23November 30, 2024 4:21 PM

Siouxsie referred to Robert Smith as Fat Bob. Made me love her even more.

by Anonymousreply 24November 30, 2024 4:24 PM

These bands are new wave, not goth.

by Anonymousreply 25November 30, 2024 4:26 PM

[QUOTE] These bands are new wave, not goth.

They're all British bands classified as goth in the UK. Your American terms don't apply to them. 'New Wave' lmao.

by Anonymousreply 26November 30, 2024 4:55 PM
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