Goth Bands of Varying Levels of Listenability

What's the deal, CCS?  I haven't ordered a skateboard from you since 9th grade and I'm still on your mailing list.  And now you put this skinny Robert Smith lookin turd on the cover?  Why hasn't somebody seen to it that no new skateboarders emerge since I quit skateboarding?  I fear change and the world isn't catering enough to me.  You goths need to go back to 1985, where I'm comfortable with you.  Wes Eisold, you need to quit Cold Cave and play hardcore again.  Nietzsche, you have to go back to the hands of that weird kid in my English class with the spiky leather necklace.  Willowbrook mall, you need to go back to the days before Hot Topic.  Ah, to be back when industrial meant Einstürzende Neubauten and Nurse With Wound rather than UFO pants...

Beginning with the most listenable in the top left, Starter's serverely Kraftwerk indebted songs Lunapark and Minijupe.  Both songs were originially released on their eponymous 12"  in 1981, but which were reissued in a now out of print CD-R and DVD-R discography in 1992.  Top right is Poeme Electronique with The Echoes Fade from 1982.  Bottom left is Psyche's video for The Crawler, which features Dwayne Goettel of later Skinny Puppy fame.  And on the bottom is some weirdness that goes into deeper depths than Suicide - the Virgin Prunes's Rhetoric.  I'm doing a fill-in for Jason Sigal next Tuesday morning and I'll be back in two weeks with more negative spirited rants.  Watch for it.

Comments

[himem]

very nice :)

[G O D]

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[Zvuki Mu]

What a waste of webspace....this blog posting is!

[JoeTheLion]

What I love about the Psyche song is that it seems it should take off at any moment but it never does. Like any genre, a lot of the goth industrial stuff was self indulgent and over-the-top, but there is some great stuff too. Thanks for posting.

[DD.]

CD-R and DVD-R in 1992?

[jaysen mel]

Great read as always.
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thanks

[em]

quibbling question, nat....none of the songs except for psyche seem to be in the goth category...sp the comparison becomes pretty arbitrary and more of a youtube posting free-for-all?