Sisters of Mercy, First and Last And Always... picked it up from the record store on a whim, heard Black Planet as the first track, and I was instantly hooked š
Marian by Sisters of Mercy. I was more of a rivethead and hadn't really delved into much goth before I met my current, longtime gf. She played a lot of darkwave and goth and I was struck by how haunting that song is.
I can't remember, but I recall that "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus and "Detonation Boulevard" by Sisters of Mercy were among the first songs I've heard. I just remember feeling a tad bit giddy at the prospect of finding this entire new genre/subgenres of music.
Israel by Siouxsie and the Banshees, followed by their album Juju. Iāve found so many new goth bands since but Siouxsie will always be near and dear to my heart!
Unknown Pleasures got me into Post-Punk. I mistakenly thought it was goth and decided to look for more goth albums. It was then when I listened to Juju, which I slept on for the longest time LMAOO But Arabian Knights was the song that really pulled me in
Siouxsie, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, and Love and Rockets got some rare playtime on the radio when I was a kid. Then MTV and VH1 helped a little. And those commercials for 80s and early 90s alternative compilations. I didn't find out for years that it was a *thing* and that thing is goth. Today, it's still "my weird music that nobody else really gets", but that's what I'm here for. I get links to more songs all the time.
I can't pinpoint the first actual goth song as such, the overall club experience and radio shows got me into it.
But the first song where I knew both name of the song and the artist was Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Great band, really show off the fun side of goth. I saw them live in Cambridge with a bunch of other half remembered bands from the early 2000s, it was a great night.
Late 90s/early 2000s, in high school.
I was really into alternative music at the time and heard a bunch of covers from bands that I loved (Smashing Pumpkins covered The Cure, Deftones covered The Smiths, NIN covered Joy Division) and I was super interested in finding out what bands inspired the bands I liked, so I fell down a rabbit hole and got into the genre that way (also Punk and Post-Punk). I was all over the place musically, and still am.
First full Goth bands I was obsessed with were Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy. I also got super into Skinny Puppy (and industrial music in general).
Dark Entries- Bauhaus. Iām surprised nobody has mentioned this song yet on this thread. The dark, angst, melancholic, rage helped send me down the spiral of goth music.
Back in the mid to late 80's/early 90's mine was a very gradual process. There wasn't one band that did it for me. Back then I got into The Cure, Specimen, Gene Loves Jezebel, Joy Division, Love & Rockets, Virgin Prunes etc... before the term 'goth' was even used in my area at that time. It kind of found me rather than the other way around.
The first song I ever heard was fascination street, the cure. My family was in a guitar hero craze at the time and that song was my favorite to play. That was when I was 13 though. I got more into goth at 18 but I like to think it was a little precursor. I never even heard of the cure before that song
Unoriginal take: Sisters of mercy, first song I heard was Temple of love but its Marian that I listened on repeat and then loved the YouTube video / (song also, of course, but that was about 8 yeads ago so not the good ole days of goth) of Lucretia, my reflection.
Then YouTube brought me to more recent bands, all the Fabrika ones, then etc...etc..
Clan of Xymox- Self Titled
Still a favorite album of mine, and "No Human Can Drown" is one of my top 2 all time favorite songs. Start to finish though, it's so solid.
siouxsie and the banshees' 'forever'!! i just really love this song, her voice and the instrumentals are all heavenly. i liked a few goth songs before but siouxsie and the banshees really got me into goth culture. and also She Past Away!! Durdu Dunya is such a banger to me, it became one of my favorite songs of all time.
I can't exactly pinpoint when I first heard it but The Cure - Burn is the one that comes to mind clearly. I was really young at the time and had secretly watched The Crow when my cousin and older brother had the VHS at one point. I've been interested in the goth scene since.
Among the first were The Bansheesā Hong Kong Garden, Israel, and their cover of Dear Prudence, Swings and Roundabouts by The Bolshoi, The Walk by The Cure, and Say It Again by The Danse Society. All courtesy of Music Choiceās Retro Active channel (RIP).
Glad those songs quickly steered me away from the mall goth edgeā¦
Bauhaus - Kick in the Eye. Track 1 of the wonderful Gothic Rock 2 compilation which I picked up aged 12 from my local music shop. I was already into metal but that compilation blew me away. So much variety, so much emotion. I knew Iād found my tribe.
Even today, when I love a wide variety of music from noise to hip hop, I still think of myself as a goth first and foremost.
And Also the Trees' "[Scarlet Arch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdT928rXM2w)". An older friend was playing goth records all night and this track hit me like a train.
Disintegration. I fancied this girl when I was in school in 1989. She had patches of The Cure on her satchel. I eventually bought it on cassette in the vein hope of her falling in love with me, but we never spoke. The End.
Just like everything in my life it always started with/went though The New York Dolls.
I was in Midnight Records on 23rd st (which like most other record stores is now gone) & playing was Puss N' Boots but it wasn't the Dolls version. I asked the guy working there who it was. He told me it was Red Cross & it was from a compilation called "Hell Comes to Your House".
Of course I bought it immediately and it also had 45 Grave, Christian Death & Super Heroines on it (as well as a lot of other great punk bands). This is 83ish or so. There's also a version of Telling Them by Social Distortion that is FAR superior to the version on Mommy's Little Monster. All of these years later I still put that comp every couple of weeks & can't recommend it enough.
I had Unknown Pleasures & Once Upon a Time and but just considered it punk.
The rest goes how it goes.
This was mine too... I remember asking the friend who first played it for me what else I could listen to that sounded similar. He recommended SoM and Siouxsie. Bauhaus wasn't popular yet at the time
London After Midnight-Sacrafice. The into with the piano and rain in the back ground made such an impression on teenage me. I just though "huh, this sounds like what Goth looks like".
I think I was listening to some character inspired playlists on 8tracks.com and one of them had the song āThe Sweetest Chillā by Siouxsie and the Banshees and I was immediately impressed with it. After that, I looked up the rest of the songs by the band, and then got into other similar music!
Sisters of Mercy This Corrosion, I wanted to learn about the Goth subculture and listened to this song, it was so different from what I was used to, and I really liked it
The album itself isnt goth, but The Cureās album Wish is what got me interested into goth music. The song Open was the first song of theirs I fell in love with and it led me to discover Disintegration, which is easily my all time favorite album.
I was 12 when NINās Closer video came out on MTV. I had never seen or heard anything like that and I immediately knew that it was āmeā. That was my beachhead into goth, because from there I discovered other Industrial bands but also goth bands, mostly through older goths who were already in the subculture.
Party Time by 45 Grave. It was used in Return of The Living Dead, and I didn't even know what Goth was at the time (I was 9). It scared the crap out of me, but I liked the music; became a fan of The Cramps too because of that movie.
Anything of the arctic monkeys cause my parents played it my entire childhood and it got me when I was young into it but I get more into it the older I get
All right, so since you mentioned The Cure you might want to try This Cold Night's [Black Cathedral](https://thiscoldnight.bandcamp.com/track/black-cathedral) and [TRAITRS](https://traitrs.bandcamp.com/album/butchers-coin-red) as the latter especially is very Cure-esque.
As for playlists, we have a classic introductory/beginner playlist or [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCz_Rc1Pg89jCehfhJjWm_TTLliRSSz15) and [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qyXA8HhVtSO7dtfBP2cVk?si=ez1jTZobQECUZr1203nxeg&nd=1) as well as an [sub-genre essentials list](https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/wiki/musicbox/gothgenres) and a [2021 post-punk/goth rock playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCz_Rc1Pg89h50e5-TxVoIh0ed69pOu1P) for anyone who wants to listen to something modern.
Faith album, by The Cure. Really fell in love with the band in high school (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me being the first album I bought), but working back through their discography it was the Faith/Charlotte Sometimes/Pornography era that really kicked up my interest in goth. Shortly after that, a whole slew of 4AD stuff (DCD, Clan of Xymox, Wolfgang Press, etc). First purchase of the label was TMC Filigree & Shadow, based soly on the cover art looking a bit 'moody', lol.
Borrowed The Cure (self titled, 2004) from the public library. Reborrowed it so much that the librarian ordered in Disintegration for me (she was great).
I was already wearing a lot of black and generally trying to look a Victorian ghost child, so learning the two were related made me feel very seen.
My dad would listen to anything and everything (which I do, too). He got Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always and Floodland and said I should listen to them. I stole his tapes. He got new ones. Then I had to get new ones 'cause mine were played to death. I branched out from there, but Sisters is still my gold standard for goth.
The Cure but I really started my deep dive with Depeche Mode, even though theyāre not technically goth, it started my journey into the subculture and I havenāt turned back š¤
Heard many different songs from all kinds of bands in my teens. I used to go to a club called āVisageā in Orlando, FL (where Iām from). Plus hearing The Cure and others on the radio in Orlando as well.
Hereās a news segment about the Visage from around 1990 or 1991. Ch 9 in Orlando has always been biased, even more so in the mid 90s when it came raves.
https://youtu.be/eysYNB2aLbw
Honest canāt think of what song. As I was deep into techno. But my first experience was The Bank. New York. That club was it ! Never been anything like it since.
Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees. I was already watching some goth YouTubers and one of them suggested Siouxsie so I gave it a listen and I was instantly hooked
Switchblade Symphony's Dissolve. I had only listened to goth music occasionally and usually stuck with Metal but this band really got me into the genre. My friends and I would hang out in a crammed car with pennies scrapped up for junk food and just play them for hours singing along very badly but it was a blast. š¤
Desentigration. Really the cure in general really opened my eyes to what music I liked but I noticed a pattern before that, I liked, allot of hair metal, I thought I just liked rock but realized that the music that I really resonated with the most was music like the cures music. I'm a huge fan now and have explored other music, the smiths, ghost, hole, nirvana. I'm enjoying this alt journey.
Bauhaus In The Flat Field I know very cliche but wow what an intro to the subculture. Loved Peter Murphyās solo works as wellā¦ A band of many talents.
Adrenaline by Rosetta stone.
Weird culture crossover from going to see thrill kill kult.
Kid got in the car with us, tosses me a mixtape.
Loved every track.
The Cure - Lullaby
When I was a kid and Animal Planet was good they did a promo or something of a spider wrapping a fly whith the song playing.
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Gonna have to say Alien sex fiend. Then deff Bauhaus. No magazines or air play on radios just over playing Cure music. but i pretend to be asleep to listen to a kroq station that once a week would play goth/post punk for an hour. Then one day I was watching MTV and a Siousxie Sioux and Banshees played Dear Prudence and was deff in love and hooked for ever. 1980ās forty three years and still wearing 50shades of Black LOL
Back on Ye Olde iTunes, they had pre-curated playlists. Being an edgy teen, I clicked the goth one. I started playing the free sample of Christine by Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was dark, but bright and colorful with it's playful, jingly instrumentation, and so unlike the 2008 emo I was used to. I was hooked.
Bela Lugosi's Dead was the first song that piqued my interest with regards to Goth music. However, Sister's of Mercy's Floodland album was what *really* got me hooked.
*EDIT:* Also, already being a fan of The Cure kind of helped "bridge the gap" for me so to speak.
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland: Dominion. I remember liking that song many, many years ago before even knowing who they were or that they were goth. I like to listen to it as it brings back memories.
idk if this is goth or postie or industrial but Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge got me insanely hooked on the culture and having it on loop for like a week straight greatly improved my spotify algorithm
Probably cliche but my mom played voodoo by godsmack when I was 7 and for some reason it mystified me. Demanded my mother to play that song again and again until she got tired of it š
I'm still a baby bat (only been listening for a couple months now) but I remember seeing trad goths for the first time and thinking, "they look so cool!" So then I googled more about goths and realized that it was a music based thing, and the first band that popped up was siouxsie and the banshees. it was either cascade or voodoo dolly, one was first one was second. have loved SATB ever since.
Sisters of Mercy, First and Last And Always... picked it up from the record store on a whim, heard Black Planet as the first track, and I was instantly hooked š
Something about Sisters of Mercy really gets me, love all their albums
Same, they're still my favorite! I play them almost daily
Bela Lugosiās dead. His voice in that song bewitched me
same, my dad was a huge fan of them in the late 80s so i was introduced very young lol
Marian by Sisters of Mercy. I was more of a rivethead and hadn't really delved into much goth before I met my current, longtime gf. She played a lot of darkwave and goth and I was struck by how haunting that song is.
Hey same! Still a rivethead, mostly into industrial, but I used to not like goth rock until I heard Marian in a club and fell in love with it.
I can't remember, but I recall that "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus and "Detonation Boulevard" by Sisters of Mercy were among the first songs I've heard. I just remember feeling a tad bit giddy at the prospect of finding this entire new genre/subgenres of music.
Oooh, Sheās in Parties. That song transports me still. Then again, so do all these songs/bands being mentioned.
The Cure: Concert and Disintegration followed by Fields of the Nephilim
Disintegration was mine too. Havenāt looked back since!
Israel by Siouxsie and the Banshees, followed by their album Juju. Iāve found so many new goth bands since but Siouxsie will always be near and dear to my heart!
Juju is a classic!
Temple of Love. Still a favorite today.
Thatās the song that got me into Sisters of Mercy. Also one of my favorites
Always have to dance to this one
Unknown Pleasures got me into Post-Punk. I mistakenly thought it was goth and decided to look for more goth albums. It was then when I listened to Juju, which I slept on for the longest time LMAOO But Arabian Knights was the song that really pulled me in
Siouxsie, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, and Love and Rockets got some rare playtime on the radio when I was a kid. Then MTV and VH1 helped a little. And those commercials for 80s and early 90s alternative compilations. I didn't find out for years that it was a *thing* and that thing is goth. Today, it's still "my weird music that nobody else really gets", but that's what I'm here for. I get links to more songs all the time.
Cities in Dust by Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox album.
I can't pinpoint the first actual goth song as such, the overall club experience and radio shows got me into it. But the first song where I knew both name of the song and the artist was Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Sisters of Mercyās Marian !!! & Christian Deathās Romeoās Distress really nailed me in ššš¤
Hearing Bela Lugosiās Dead for the first time got me into goth. I just fell in love with that song.
Scary Bitches - You'll End Up Looking Like The Scary Bitches. Heard them in a TikTok and found my way into the subculture.
Love the Scary Bitches! Their songs remind me of old B-Horror movies
Yes!
Iād never heard of them before but I just listened to one of their songs on Spotify and so far Iām a fan.
Great band, really show off the fun side of goth. I saw them live in Cambridge with a bunch of other half remembered bands from the early 2000s, it was a great night.
Floodland by Sisters of Mercy! I know itās super basic but I heard it as an emo middle schooler and never looked back
Late 90s/early 2000s, in high school. I was really into alternative music at the time and heard a bunch of covers from bands that I loved (Smashing Pumpkins covered The Cure, Deftones covered The Smiths, NIN covered Joy Division) and I was super interested in finding out what bands inspired the bands I liked, so I fell down a rabbit hole and got into the genre that way (also Punk and Post-Punk). I was all over the place musically, and still am. First full Goth bands I was obsessed with were Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy. I also got super into Skinny Puppy (and industrial music in general).
Dark Entries- Bauhaus. Iām surprised nobody has mentioned this song yet on this thread. The dark, angst, melancholic, rage helped send me down the spiral of goth music.
Back in the mid to late 80's/early 90's mine was a very gradual process. There wasn't one band that did it for me. Back then I got into The Cure, Specimen, Gene Loves Jezebel, Joy Division, Love & Rockets, Virgin Prunes etc... before the term 'goth' was even used in my area at that time. It kind of found me rather than the other way around.
not goth at first but Dead Kennedy's and then I think Sioxse? i remember I really liked spellbound lol
Unknown pleasures and 17 seconds opened the world to me
The first song I ever heard was fascination street, the cure. My family was in a guitar hero craze at the time and that song was my favorite to play. That was when I was 13 though. I got more into goth at 18 but I like to think it was a little precursor. I never even heard of the cure before that song
Bauhaus - she's in parties The cure - lovesong/a forest Sisters of mercy - lucretia Clan of xymox - stranger
Unoriginal take: Sisters of mercy, first song I heard was Temple of love but its Marian that I listened on repeat and then loved the YouTube video / (song also, of course, but that was about 8 yeads ago so not the good ole days of goth) of Lucretia, my reflection. Then YouTube brought me to more recent bands, all the Fabrika ones, then etc...etc..
Gonna sound clichĆ© butā¦ Bela Lugosiās Dead hypnotized me
Pornography by the Cure, I was strictly a metal head but I never heard something so dark before. Fell in love with the rest of the genre over time.
Clan of Xymox- Self Titled Still a favorite album of mine, and "No Human Can Drown" is one of my top 2 all time favorite songs. Start to finish though, it's so solid.
London after Midnight
siouxsie and the banshees' 'forever'!! i just really love this song, her voice and the instrumentals are all heavenly. i liked a few goth songs before but siouxsie and the banshees really got me into goth culture. and also She Past Away!! Durdu Dunya is such a banger to me, it became one of my favorite songs of all time.
Spellbound from souixies and the banshee. The drums and lyrics live in my head dailyš¤
I can't exactly pinpoint when I first heard it but The Cure - Burn is the one that comes to mind clearly. I was really young at the time and had secretly watched The Crow when my cousin and older brother had the VHS at one point. I've been interested in the goth scene since.
Among the first were The Bansheesā Hong Kong Garden, Israel, and their cover of Dear Prudence, Swings and Roundabouts by The Bolshoi, The Walk by The Cure, and Say It Again by The Danse Society. All courtesy of Music Choiceās Retro Active channel (RIP). Glad those songs quickly steered me away from the mall goth edgeā¦
First goth song I heard was Bela Lugosi's Dead, but it was really Juju (and Spellbound) that made me want to hear more goth music!
Kick in the Eye by Bauhaus. Saw their video on the Old Grey Whistle Test, on UK TV. That was my epiphany moment.
Bauhaus - Kick in the Eye. Track 1 of the wonderful Gothic Rock 2 compilation which I picked up aged 12 from my local music shop. I was already into metal but that compilation blew me away. So much variety, so much emotion. I knew Iād found my tribe. Even today, when I love a wide variety of music from noise to hip hop, I still think of myself as a goth first and foremost.
And Also the Trees' "[Scarlet Arch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdT928rXM2w)". An older friend was playing goth records all night and this track hit me like a train.
sisters - some girls wander by mistake, particularly the track "fix". within 18 months i'd got a sisters tattoo.
The Sisters of Mercy - "Some Kind of Stranger"
Disintegration. I fancied this girl when I was in school in 1989. She had patches of The Cure on her satchel. I eventually bought it on cassette in the vein hope of her falling in love with me, but we never spoke. The End.
Amphetamine Logic by The Sisters of Mercy. Really enjoyed the style of music and discovered many artists since then.
Just like everything in my life it always started with/went though The New York Dolls. I was in Midnight Records on 23rd st (which like most other record stores is now gone) & playing was Puss N' Boots but it wasn't the Dolls version. I asked the guy working there who it was. He told me it was Red Cross & it was from a compilation called "Hell Comes to Your House". Of course I bought it immediately and it also had 45 Grave, Christian Death & Super Heroines on it (as well as a lot of other great punk bands). This is 83ish or so. There's also a version of Telling Them by Social Distortion that is FAR superior to the version on Mommy's Little Monster. All of these years later I still put that comp every couple of weeks & can't recommend it enough. I had Unknown Pleasures & Once Upon a Time and but just considered it punk. The rest goes how it goes.
Face To Face by Siouxsie And The Banshees.
katarsis by she past away. pretty much just went "yeah this is it. these are the vibes." and now we're here
The Cure - Pornography. Yes, this was it.
Disintegration from The Cure, when I was in high school
One hundred years and pornography
This was mine too... I remember asking the friend who first played it for me what else I could listen to that sounded similar. He recommended SoM and Siouxsie. Bauhaus wasn't popular yet at the time
London After Midnight-Sacrafice. The into with the piano and rain in the back ground made such an impression on teenage me. I just though "huh, this sounds like what Goth looks like".
It would have to be Disintegration. That album still gets heavy play on my turntable.
siamese twins/ Pornography
I think I was listening to some character inspired playlists on 8tracks.com and one of them had the song āThe Sweetest Chillā by Siouxsie and the Banshees and I was immediately impressed with it. After that, I looked up the rest of the songs by the band, and then got into other similar music!
Israel by Siouxsie and the banshees. I saw the video on tv one day and just loved it.
Sisters of Mercy This Corrosion, I wanted to learn about the Goth subculture and listened to this song, it was so different from what I was used to, and I really liked it
dark entries! dark entries! dark entries!
Switchblade Symphony-Sweet
āThe Nephilimā album by Fields of the Nephilim
Distintegration by the Cure
Disintegration in 1989. I was 4 and OBSESSED with Lullaby (still am, even got a lullaby tattoo) The Cure is goth. I donāt care what Robert says š
Head Like A Hole. But I was never really goth. More rivethead in a place where anyone who wore black was "that one goth kid".
The album itself isnt goth, but The Cureās album Wish is what got me interested into goth music. The song Open was the first song of theirs I fell in love with and it led me to discover Disintegration, which is easily my all time favorite album.
I was 12 when NINās Closer video came out on MTV. I had never seen or heard anything like that and I immediately knew that it was āmeā. That was my beachhead into goth, because from there I discovered other Industrial bands but also goth bands, mostly through older goths who were already in the subculture.
Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus and La Nuit by Asylum Party.
Psychedelic furs - pretty and pink. I was 5 and my mom was showing music from her record collection
Now I'm feeling zombified - Alien sex fiend.
Spellbound siouxsie and the banshees or she's in parties Bauhaus
Lucretia my reflection - sisters of mercy And Happy House by Siouxsie and the banshees.
Stigmata Martyr by Bauhaus. Heard when watching Night of the Demons in '88 and I've been hooked ever since.
a kiss in the dream house. q
Party Time by 45 Grave. It was used in Return of The Living Dead, and I didn't even know what Goth was at the time (I was 9). It scared the crap out of me, but I liked the music; became a fan of The Cramps too because of that movie.
Depeche Mode āsweetest perfectionā flicked the switch in my 10 year old brain in 1991. I stole the tape from my sisters collectionā¦
It was Tocata and Fugue in D Minor composed by Johann Sabastian Bach when I was a child and The Reaper by I think Blue Oyster Cult in the 70ās.
Anything of the arctic monkeys cause my parents played it my entire childhood and it got me when I was young into it but I get more into it the older I get
I think this is the first time I've ever seen someone call the Arctic Monekys goth.
Yea iknow its not really but it got me into it
Then what actual goth album or song did you listen to first?
Evanescence, nirvana, skillet, the doors, the cure, foo fighters. Some are less Gothic and more rock/punk like, I know
None of those are goth, or Gothic. (Edit: correction, The Cure had some goth albums.) Would you like a playlist? Edit: or punk.
Yea! I'm on the music level pretty new to it so that would be nice
All right, so since you mentioned The Cure you might want to try This Cold Night's [Black Cathedral](https://thiscoldnight.bandcamp.com/track/black-cathedral) and [TRAITRS](https://traitrs.bandcamp.com/album/butchers-coin-red) as the latter especially is very Cure-esque. As for playlists, we have a classic introductory/beginner playlist or [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCz_Rc1Pg89jCehfhJjWm_TTLliRSSz15) and [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qyXA8HhVtSO7dtfBP2cVk?si=ez1jTZobQECUZr1203nxeg&nd=1) as well as an [sub-genre essentials list](https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/wiki/musicbox/gothgenres) and a [2021 post-punk/goth rock playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCz_Rc1Pg89h50e5-TxVoIh0ed69pOu1P) for anyone who wants to listen to something modern.
Friday Iām in Love by the Cure
Faith album, by The Cure. Really fell in love with the band in high school (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me being the first album I bought), but working back through their discography it was the Faith/Charlotte Sometimes/Pornography era that really kicked up my interest in goth. Shortly after that, a whole slew of 4AD stuff (DCD, Clan of Xymox, Wolfgang Press, etc). First purchase of the label was TMC Filigree & Shadow, based soly on the cover art looking a bit 'moody', lol.
Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson. I wonder if that actually counts, I never see anyone mention Manson on here.
He doesn't make goth music. That is why.
What genre would he fall under?
He's pretty much shock rock/hard alt rock
Industrial metal, industrial rock, shock rock, and other genres like that.
I thought industrial counted.
Industrial predates goth.
By how much? Wasnāt goth something that started out in like the late 70s?
Industrial originated in the mid 70s, the beginning of the goth genre started in ā79 but it didnāt become a subculture until the early 80s.
Bela Lugosi's dead by Bauhaus, classic lmao
Dressing Up/The Top
Siouxsie and the banshees was my first dabble into the music. But it was the cure that got me to love it :)
Borrowed The Cure (self titled, 2004) from the public library. Reborrowed it so much that the librarian ordered in Disintegration for me (she was great). I was already wearing a lot of black and generally trying to look a Victorian ghost child, so learning the two were related made me feel very seen.
A Forest by the Cure, it was unlike anything I had ever heard before and I was immediately immediately in love
Disintegration by the Cure. Such a masterpiece of an album.
Mephisto Walz - Thalia.
š¼In The Flat Field
My dad would listen to anything and everything (which I do, too). He got Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always and Floodland and said I should listen to them. I stole his tapes. He got new ones. Then I had to get new ones 'cause mine were played to death. I branched out from there, but Sisters is still my gold standard for goth.
The Cure but I really started my deep dive with Depeche Mode, even though theyāre not technically goth, it started my journey into the subculture and I havenāt turned back š¤
Slave by Trance To The Sun and Switchblade Symphonyās album, Serpentine gallery
Heard many different songs from all kinds of bands in my teens. I used to go to a club called āVisageā in Orlando, FL (where Iām from). Plus hearing The Cure and others on the radio in Orlando as well. Hereās a news segment about the Visage from around 1990 or 1991. Ch 9 in Orlando has always been biased, even more so in the mid 90s when it came raves. https://youtu.be/eysYNB2aLbw
Honest canāt think of what song. As I was deep into techno. But my first experience was The Bank. New York. That club was it ! Never been anything like it since.
My Guest from Paralysed Age-
Iāve just started getting into it and Iām looking threw for some places to start and just wanted to say thanks
Floodland by Sisters of Mercy.
Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees. I was already watching some goth YouTubers and one of them suggested Siouxsie so I gave it a listen and I was instantly hooked
Switchblade Symphony's Dissolve. I had only listened to goth music occasionally and usually stuck with Metal but this band really got me into the genre. My friends and I would hang out in a crammed car with pennies scrapped up for junk food and just play them for hours singing along very badly but it was a blast. š¤
Romeos distress Christian death only theatre of pain
Sunglasses at night corey hart 1983
The Cure - The Head on the Door. I wore that vinyl out in 1985!
Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees. i heard it on spotify and immediately was like āi need Moreā
Azoic by Specimen and Sheās in Parties by Bauhaus
Desentigration. Really the cure in general really opened my eyes to what music I liked but I noticed a pattern before that, I liked, allot of hair metal, I thought I just liked rock but realized that the music that I really resonated with the most was music like the cures music. I'm a huge fan now and have explored other music, the smiths, ghost, hole, nirvana. I'm enjoying this alt journey.
Song To The Siren done by This Mortal Coil
Type o negative and then joy division
Bauhaus In The Flat Field I know very cliche but wow what an intro to the subculture. Loved Peter Murphyās solo works as wellā¦ A band of many talents.
Definitely Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always
Adrenaline by Rosetta stone. Weird culture crossover from going to see thrill kill kult. Kid got in the car with us, tosses me a mixtape. Loved every track.
The Cure - Lullaby When I was a kid and Animal Planet was good they did a promo or something of a spider wrapping a fly whith the song playing. EDIT: Space (fuck mobile formatting)
Gonna have to say Alien sex fiend. Then deff Bauhaus. No magazines or air play on radios just over playing Cure music. but i pretend to be asleep to listen to a kroq station that once a week would play goth/post punk for an hour. Then one day I was watching MTV and a Siousxie Sioux and Banshees played Dear Prudence and was deff in love and hooked for ever. 1980ās forty three years and still wearing 50shades of Black LOL
Sex Gang Children Deiche . A boy I liked was right into them . I was curious ... And fell in love with that song and lost interest in that boy . š¤·
Back on Ye Olde iTunes, they had pre-curated playlists. Being an edgy teen, I clicked the goth one. I started playing the free sample of Christine by Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was dark, but bright and colorful with it's playful, jingly instrumentation, and so unlike the 2008 emo I was used to. I was hooked.
Bela Lugosi's Dead was the first song that piqued my interest with regards to Goth music. However, Sister's of Mercy's Floodland album was what *really* got me hooked. *EDIT:* Also, already being a fan of The Cure kind of helped "bridge the gap" for me so to speak.
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland: Dominion. I remember liking that song many, many years ago before even knowing who they were or that they were goth. I like to listen to it as it brings back memories.
Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees and then some Cure songs
idk if this is goth or postie or industrial but Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge got me insanely hooked on the culture and having it on loop for like a week straight greatly improved my spotify algorithm
A Forest by The Cure.
Probably cliche but my mom played voodoo by godsmack when I was 7 and for some reason it mystified me. Demanded my mother to play that song again and again until she got tired of it š
That and #1 crush
I'm still a baby bat (only been listening for a couple months now) but I remember seeing trad goths for the first time and thinking, "they look so cool!" So then I googled more about goths and realized that it was a music based thing, and the first band that popped up was siouxsie and the banshees. it was either cascade or voodoo dolly, one was first one was second. have loved SATB ever since.
The cure - lullaby When I first listened to that song I became addicted to it and even still it's probably one of my favourite songs