TOP 100 GOTHIC ROCK
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Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and the Cure.
The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from post-punk. Gothic rock stood out due to its darker sound, with the use of primarily minor or bass chords, reverb, dark arrangements, or dramatic and melancholic melodies, having inspirations in gothic literature allied with themes such as sadness, nihilism, dark romanticism, tragedy, melancholy and morbidity. These themes are often approached poetically. The sensibilities of the genre led the lyrics to represent the evil of the century and the romantic idealization of death and the supernatural imagination. Gothic rock then gave rise to a broader goth subculture that included clubs, fashion and publications in the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 21st century.
Gothic rock typically deals with dark themes addressed through lyrics and the music's atmosphere. The poetic sensibilities of the genre led gothic rock lyrics to exhibit literary romanticism, morbidity, existentialism, religious symbolism, or supernatural mysticism. Gothic rock is an offshoot of post-punk and, according to AllMusic, "took the cold synthesizers and processed guitars of post-punk and used them to construct foreboding, sorrowful, often epic soundscapes." Early gothic rock had introspective or personal lyrics, but according to AllMusic, "its poetic sensibilities soon led to a taste for literary romanticism, morbidity, religious symbolism, and/or supernatural mysticism."
American gothic rock began with 45 Grave and Christian Death. This harder, more punk rock-influenced style of gothic rock became known as death Rock. Christian Death combined "self-consciously controversial tactics" with Los Angeles punk and heavy metal influences. Their singer Rozz Williams committed suicide by hanging in 1998 at age 34. Notable 1980s American Goth bands include Super Heroines, Human Drama, The Wake and Kommunity FK. - Hudba
Decent list. I'm a Sisters guy. The clubs I used to go to did a fair trade in Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Danielle Dax, Nick Cave, KMFDM, NIN, Joy Division, Soft Cell, The The and a bunch of others. I saw Rosetta Stone live in a tiny venue many years ago, so good to see them make the list.
Love all those guys
You must be going to some industrial clubs.
@@chameleon47Watered down industrial clubs .Yanks ruin everything
I'm 64! Disco teen era 70s! Kept up with times! Goth is forever! No age barrier! Thankyou regards Australia!♥️🐨🦘🏄
Bela Lugosi is the original goth record - surely has to be No1
@johardman8651 yep i was surprised when it came up as #3
#1 Bela lugosi is dead - Bauhaus
#2 Sacrifice - London after midnight
#3 Lucretia my reflection - Sisters of mercy
#4 Fascination street - The Cure
#5 Spellbound - Siouxsie & the banshees
#6 The killing moon - Echo and the bunnymen
#7 Lovesongs - Cinema bizarre
#8 Love like blood - Killing joke
#9 She sells sanctuary - The Cult
#10 A strange thing to say - Sopor Aeternus
#11 Moonchild - Fields of the Nephilim
When I saw it at #3 I was really interested to see what ranked higher.
Have you seen Coachella 2005 Bauhaus performance of Bela Lugosi's Dead?
Hahaha wrong screaming Jay Hawkins has the first goth record
How can you have this list without one Joy Division song?
For me, Joy Division is the first goth band ever, without them even being aware that they were goth. The most incredible and legendary concert of my life was Lords of the New Church in '88 at the Markthalle in Hamburg (it's not the one that you can find on CZcams). The concert ended in a mass brawl and the fans continued after the concert by destroying the toilets. It was all in the newspaper the next day.
Totally correct. JD did this, all this before the eighties.
Brilliant riffs too.
I believe you’re right.
Not Post Punk? x
No, post punk, not goth.
JD were def post punk..
I'm 58 and still love this genre of music.
I'm 21 and even though I wasn't alive back in the days I'm absolutely in love with 80s and 90s goth music.
Alomst 60, and it all brings memories. Some I still love ! (Even though FOTN and SOM are just old tosh now…)
54 here. Still love it too but have branched out into symphonic metal, death/black/gothic metal, pagan metal and folk metal.
Weird not to see Type O in that collection.
Im 58 still into the original uk stuff & especially Uk Decay still saw them so many times & along with Bauhaus both originators of it all
Am just behind you at 55 and still collecting vinyl
The Chameleons! The Sound!
I adore son much these bands but thé are not really gothic. Actually if I love them perhaps they are a little bit...
Absolutely! Winning by The Sound. Joy Division had plenty of goth songs too...
Could have been an entire Bauhaus 100 as far as I'm concerned!
Yes fuck yeah! 🤘🏻😈🤘🏻
Agree. Excluding Spirit.......
Is it me or do most 90s songs in this list sound like Sisters OM covers?
I think Joy Division must be in your list. It was one of the early goth bands. Without dark make-up, but in the dark mood
No Joy Division no party
I love gothic rock! Maybe you'll make Top 100 Dark Wave/hi-NRG/Eurobeat?
If you love gothic rock you should check out Scheitan from Sweden, they started out as a blackmetal band in the 90´s but is now writing amazing goth stuff. A new album will be released in 2024. Check them here: czcams.com/video/-SRz9CFW0Ec/video.htmlsub_confirmation=1
Interesting how almost all the male fronted bands from the late 90s onwards have an Eldritch/McCoy impersonator on vocals. Good to see one of my favourites (Alice) up there though. I recall being a fan of The Mission back in the day, but can't for the life of my understand why when I hear their stuff now. Still like Sisters though. First and Last and Always is a cracking album.
Good to see Xmal in here three times ,usually overlooked but in my opinion they were probably the best
Seems to me they started this "tribal goff" sub-sub-subgenre…
They are so good! I still get chills listening to them
I now have about 30 new bands to investigate. Thank you so much! Can't wait.
I had listened to this type of music as a child in the 80s.
THE CURE, SISTERS OF MERCY, THE CULT, THE MISSION, BAUHAUS, Siouxsie and the Banshees (in the 80s),
LACRIMOSA and TYPE O NEGATIVE (in the 90s)
and HIM (in the 00s)
were in my opinion the most famous bands in that GOTHIC ROCK movement.
Type O and HIM were METAL bands, NOT gothic rock.
@@chameleon47 Agree and disagree! For the most of the HEADBANGERS were bands like Type O Negative and especially HIM never ever METAL bands, HIM was even POP music for many METALOS! Both bands just made music in the GOTHIC VIBE using METAL arrangements. Type O Negative was partly even PUNK HARDCORE / GOTHIC, and HIM was more GOTHIC-POP / HARD ROCK (I mean, watching that from the point of view of HEAVY METAL person). The same story is about PARADISE LOST, for some people it is just METAL band for another persons - it is pure GOTHIC band. PARADISE LOST did as well albums in different genres from DOOM / DEATH / GOTHIC until SYNTH POP / BRIT ROCK.
The METAL community itself is very wide and different and even "contrary", and what common people call METAL, isn`t METAL at all. I can give you examples: Ozzy Osbourne or Mötley Crüe / Iron Maiden or Helloween / Metallica or Megadeth / Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park / Paradise Lost or Moonspell / Slayer or Kreator / Dimmu Borgir or Cradle Of Filth / Falkenbach or Bathory / The Exploited or The Misfits / Nightwish or Leaves’ Eyes / Heaven Shall Burn or Jinjer / Gwar or Lordi = all those bands people call often with just one word METAL, but in the reality - all that music is very different and it sounds very different from each other.
@@harald-bosh Metal is a "big tent" genre, with many, many subgenres. Gothic Rock is NOT. Goth music consists of FIVE styles: post-punk, gothic rock, death rock, ethereal wave and darkwave. That's it. Metal is not among them.
Metal has its own lineage which is entirely separate from gothic rock. All metal can be traced back to Black Sabbath. (except Nu-metal which is really not metal, because it is literally a fusion of six different genres).
What "most of the headbangers" think is irrelevant. Type O played over 530 shows, including at Ozzfest, Heavy Metal 2008, and Gods of Metal 2007. They played with Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden and a ton of other metal bands, many of which you listed.
Paradise Lost is a gothic metal/doom metal band, just like Type O was.
HIM was "love metal"- I think Ville's coined phrase is appropriate. Or they fit in "alternative/hard rock", but NOT gothic rock. Metalheads can dislike HIM, but it does not change that stylistically, their music fell within the "metal" genre. Goths can love Type O, but this does not make Type O a gothic rock band.
People's opinions and feelings about a band has no effect upon what genre a band's music falls under.
@@chameleon47 If you are considering music only STRICTLY like the genre, your opinion is of course CORRECT! But if you see the whole thing "like a movement", or "like a consumer product" = HIM and Type O were as well "GOTHIC". And many the same listeners back days had: THE CURE, SISTERS OF MERCY, THE CULT, Siouxsie and the Banshees, DEPECHE MODE, NINE INCH NAILS, MINISTRY, HIM, TYPE O NEGATIVE or even SMASHING PUMPKINS, THE CRANBERRIES and GARBAGE in one CD, Vinyl or TAPES collection ... considering all that bands (for themselves) as a "GOTHIC".
One genre can to evolve as well and change in its own sound. Today, those typically 80s GOTHIC ROCK is actually not present anymore, even the "underground bands" is sounding in other ways. If that "gothic audience" from the 80s (where I was a child and teenager, I am now 47) could be young again now-a-days, maybe for them GOTHIC MUSIC would be: Lebanon Hanover, Boy Harsher or Molchat Doma. But for many "old classic gothics" such new current bands have nothing to do with "GOTHIC". Do you understand what I mean? After 35 years we have now other "people" (generation) with another mentality, and our current life is as well "other life". The VIBE and the TIME has changed (that happens every 10 years actually)! Anyway, it was interesting discussion with you! THANKS!
P.S.: Try to listen into my german SYNTH POP / DARKWAVE album - HARALD BOSH - Die Sonne scheint für alle umsonst, if you have the nerves for the german lyrics.
@@harald-bosh Yes, I understand what you mean. And you are incorrect on a few things. Other people with another mentality are also incorrect. NIN, and Ministry are absolutely not goth- in no way, shape or form. Nor are The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage or The Cranberries. Depeche Mode is not goth either, but goths tend to like them. Goths also tend to like The Smiths, but this does not make them goth, either.
It does not matter if the same people who like goth music also like these bands. Listener opinion has no effect upon what is within a genre, and "goth" is a MUSIC-BASED SUBCULTURE- based on the goth music genre.
Lebanon Hanover and Boy Harsher are goth, and I still don't know with Molchat Doma. Have not listened to enough of it to know.
HIM and Type O were metal bands. Type O was gothic METAL, and HIM was just labeled "gothic" because they wore makeup and so looked "goth" to ignorant people, just like Marilyn Manson did and so got mislabeled as "goth" (which is how NiN came to be similarly miscategorized).
No amount of or change in a "movement" makes non-goth music change genre. It just makes the bulk of said "movement" ignorant schmucks who trashed the scene and nearly killed it, as more clubs kept shifting over to industrial because rivetheads had infiltrated them and demanded it.
If a large amount of metalheads all start liking new wave, would new wave become metal? No. Same goes for goth, or any other music genre or subculture.
Most of the "goth" subculture today are actually industrialists/rivetheads and metalheads, who mistakenly think their "dark" music is goth, as well as thinking themselves to be. This does not make them so.
I don't want to listen to synth pop/darkwave, but thanks. Since you were cool though, I will try to check it out. I seriously gave up on "goth" clubs though in the early 2000s because they'd play stuff like Rob Zombie, or just endless darkwave, where the vocalists all sound like Eldritch copies and the songs just blur together due to their lack of originality.
Tolle Auswahl, super Musik und Stimmen. Szene noch intakt und beste Outfits❤
Il dark gothic rock nato dalle ceneri del pank rock con pezzi di valore che ancora oggi si fa sentire con nuovi artisti e vecchi ricordi che sapientemente siete riusciti nel far sentire pezzi che le nuove generazioni non conoscono bravi ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
Joy Division, Minimal Compact, Rose Of Avalanche, This Mortal Coil... & From Austria "A Wedding Anniversary" 1988 And last thing, Stiffkittens should be in the Top 10 !!!
Except for some Rose Of Avalanche songs, I wouldn't call any of those goth rock. All inredible bands though!
@@Gekneveld Joy Division not goth? They should be number 1! Closer is classic goth!
@@105glenny Oh yes, true! I somehow missed them in the list 🙃.
@@105glenny Joy Division is more like pre-goth. Very influential, but they are very much a post-punk band.
@@ThreadBomb Most indeedy !
Luckily for me I managed to skirt the edges of goth without becoming fully immersed. Those that fell into the goth hole never really managed to climb out. My favourite memory of the scene was going to see the Sisters of Mercy at Brighton Top Rank in the mid 80s. I didn’t know the band used a drum machine and whilst the crowd was relatively quiet before the main event, I decided to ask the question out loud “WHERE’S THE DRUMKIT?” I never lived that down… Derision all round. That was a bloody brilliant venue for us. We saw a lot of great bands there - The Cult, The Cramps, Killing Joke, The Cure, more that I can’t remember now. Echo & The Bunnymen was a favourite band of mine in the early 80s but I never saw them as goth really.
Anyway, The Sisters of Mercy “First and Last and Always” remains one of my most favourite vinyl albums from the era, along with Love by The Cult and Nighttime by Killing Joke. But before we knew it something new & exciting was happening in Manchester and bang it kicked off big-time and acid came along. Followed by several years of not being able to remember very much….. Still here!
Such a great list!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Whoever you are, you've made my day. Thank you.
She's in parties is my favourite😍
Mine too, all time best goth song
I love this video. I have most of those bands in my collection and actually learned a few new names.
Great lesser lnown goth rock songs for another list: This Vale Of Tears - Higher Spirits, Erato - The Irreplaceable One, Diva Destruction - The Broken Ones, Elusive - The Circle Never Ends, The Merry Thoughts - We Love To, The Breath Of Life - Nasty Cloud (!!!), Madre Del Vizio - Amore, Fede, Speranza, Mephisto Waltz - Kokoro, Corpus Delicti - Noxious
For me, as far as Corpus Delicti is concerned, their masterpiece is "Saraband"…
@@pateris Saraband surely is a classic!
@@Gekneveld Most indeedy !
Great video!
Some debatable choices/positions, but overall pretty faithful to the topic. Nice compilation
So much great music. Thanks.
The Sisters of Mercy: Marian & Burn.
Hoping to see The Sisters next weekend
Best music!!! I knew there was more! For someone born in 1978, we did no get to know lots of bands :( thank you so much for teaching, and sharing❤ at least a few I knew
This was a cracking good list. I’ve been reliving my youth and just discovered the siouxie song Israel. What a tune!
would make a great Spotify playlist
No ‘Temple of Love’ by Sisters of Mercy! Tut tut! 🖤
I know, right? Or "More" or "Vision Thing".
El top 1 debería ser one hundred Years de the Cure
No, debería de ser Bela Lugosi is dead que es la canción gótica por excelencia. Pero viva The Cure una de las bandas más grandes de las últimas decadas.
Adam Ant, Klaus Nomi, Theatre of tragedy, My dying bride, Paradise lost, Birdseatbaby, Dead can dance.
I would not have been able to contain myself at this show had I been there. These guys were onto something.
Great stuff.
She's in Parties turned me onto Goth. I saw the video, and it was like somebody flipped a switch.
That video also had a strong impact on me back in the day.
Nice! Thx
Bauhaus, Crristian Death, Souxsie are my top 3.
Top 3 goth songs (in my humble opinion): Marian. Red Light. Bela Lugosi's Dead. In no order.
Where is Joy division?
24 H
The origin of all
Disappointed that Fields of the Nephilim only had 3 songs on the charts. Very happy Charlotte Sometimes and A Forest made it close to the top!
Good but how forget Marian The Sisters le Mercy ?!
Yes! And Burn
wow, dead can dance sure switched it up. great list!!
Bela Lugosi and many other songs are regarded as Post-Punk and not Goth. It's hard for many people to distinguish between Post-Punk and Goth. But that doesn't matter anymore, because the gothic scene has absorbed all the influences that corresponded to their imagination.
Bela Lugosi is definitely regarded as goth, the definitive goth song for many. Goth was originally part of a broader post punk scene, so a lot of early goth records fit both labels quite easily.
Riders on the Storm, change my mind
she past away, lebanon hanover, boy harsher....goth's not dead....but listening to this compilation you'd think it was.
Yep, Ye Auld Goff has not buggered off for good… (See also Rhombus and Channel Zero…)
The 69 eyes, type o negative, power man 5000 she wants revenge????
Linea Aspera, Selofan, Twin Tribes, Odonis Odonis, Hante, Molchat Doma etc. So many good newer bands around.
Jeez
Some of these bring back memories
Jeeeeez! I forgot about so many of these songs.
The Cult🖤
This is a great youtube vid. It hits home to me how everyone is different. Which I have known for years but refused to accept it. When i was younger (30 years ago) i couldn't understand how my mates at home, and my college friends, didnt like Lagartija Nick. I've never known anyone that likes Lagartija Nick as much as me, even at goth clubs. And you've got it at number 20. Im dead chuffed. Plus you've got Alice at 5. And Spellbound, which is perfect and goth, as opposed to my Siouxsie choice, Red Light. I'm picking goth songs as I hear them myself, which I think means they should emanate desolation, but have a perfect melody, so for example She Sells Sanctuary is one of my favourite songs but I dont class it as goth. In fact i dont class any Cult, or the rest of the Death Cults, as goth. I love that youve got Resurrection Joe in there, because I thought it had been lost basically. I don't reckon its goth though. Sorry for waffling.
J’ai eu la chance de voir en concert Bahaus, Killing Joke et Siouxie au début des années 80. De beaux souvenirs ! 😊
Lacrimosa.type o negative.. bauhaus. The sisters of mercy.the cure. SAO AS UNICAS BANDAS QUE COMHEÇO 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷. A primeira musica do bahaus amo.
Thank you, for digging up the hidden talent. Spooky seasons upon us.
Very good
Siouxsie and the banshees - Spellbound deserved the first place!
Israel
I miss Joy Division & Kaelan Mikla, but that was an enjoyable wander through the years. Thank you.
Amo la escena oscura 🖤🖤🖤
Im a huge pop fan but metal and goth is my guilty pleasure.
Reverse guilty pleasure LOL
Good list overall. You did a good job including most of the best Siousxie songs but I feel Melt is up there. Black Planet by Sisters should be on there somewhere. Missing a few bands Death in June definitely. Concrete Blonde and early Jesus and the mary chain almost verge on Goth. TSOL also. . again, nice list.
Rad video. FYI, decades are written with the apostrophe before the number, denoting the 19 or 20 part. So the '80s, '90s, '00s.
Very good variety and avoiding cliche at every turn. Guitar should be standard issue which is clearly reflected. I would love to know your criteria because I don't want to judge but I am a Dino and have my version of (like everyone). Either way, loved the experience. Thanks.
Great list! But I missing Joy Division and Mors Syphilitica.
*YOUR CHALLENGE:* There are so many bands here. Besides the obvious, Siouxie, Bauhaus, Sister of Mercy, The Cure, The Damned and March Violets, who among the OTHER, lesser known bands created at least one entire release in which every song is amazing? For every band you name, include at least one LP title each act released as proof they are essential listening. Reply to this comment to keep the list growing and to encourage others to include their input.
I don’t know if you use Spotify or not but I have a Goth playlist and I put one song per band, before i choose a song I listen to many of the bands songs, so this list has taken me a few months but its nearly complete
@@voodooopaque6357 That's awesome. You know what's interesting is how you will notice your own choices change over time too. Many favourites will be there years later, but some new discoveries will pop in there too.
James Rays Gangwar's debut LP - can't remember the name , it's in Spanish though.
The Cult She Sells Sanctuary my #1
00:55 Good stuff!
Cocteau Twins could of had a few more, at the expense of pushing lesser known groups out. "Wax and Wane" or "Blood Bitch" come to mind. Also, that first Dead Can Dance album had "Frontier" with a dark ambience and Lisa's otherworldly vocals. Oh, well, cool list with stuff that I hadn't thought about in years like Xymox, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Xmal Deutschland.
What about .... The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, Diamonda Galas, Throbbing Gristle, Nick Cave, 45 Grave and Joy Division? .... and my two favorite local bands : Dark Carnival and The Rope 🖤
No "Black Planet" by Sisters? 😂 Also, "Moonchild" by Fields of the Nephilim is a helluva lot better than # 51. But I do like the respect for Xmal Deutschland. They are woefully underrated.
Ich bin 47 und bin seit 1989 ein Gothic und natürlich auch ein Liebhaber dieser Musik 👍😃💀
Mercury Rain are an excellent metal gothic band too
I haven't heard of a large chunk of these bands. My faves were in there though 😎
In Italy we have had and we have very goods bands, Dark Wave and Death and Gothic Rock, like early Diaframma, Carillon del Dolore, Date at Midnight, Le Vene di Lucretia, Bloody Mary, Svenia...
Hai fatto bene a ricordarlo, ma il nostro movimento goth (ormai defunto) non é all'altezza.
Il che non toglie la passione e talento che gruppi come i Frozen Autumn (dimenticanza grave) hanno sempre dimostrato.
@@HangmaNik i F.A a me non piacciono molto, così come i Limbo… troppo algidi per me, preferisco cose più sul “chitarristico” come le band che ho citato 🙂
@@recensionilibri1986 beh gusti, ovviamente.
Chitarristicamente parlando si sconfina oltre il "goth", detto che queste etichette siano ridicole, infatti nella classifica c'erano i Tipe o negative (metal) & Him (più melensi del peggior cantautore nostrano).
@@HangmaNik degli HIM veramente bello è il primo, non a caso il cd meno famoso che hanno fatto, e anche sentendo le loro prime registrazioni demo, come tipo di sound era molto più lento e underground (basta mettere a confronto una “For You” con tutto quanto fatto uscire da “Razorblade Romance” in poi, decisamente più orientato sul mainstream) il mio gruppo preferito sono i Sisters of Mercy che sono molto più sul chitarristico esattamente come i FOTN e i Mission (per forza di cose… 😅) rispetto a band che sono più sulla scia dei Clan of Xymox che, limite mio, non mi sono mai piaciuti molto.
@@recensionilibri1986 dei Clan mi piacciono i primi due album, poi nulla.
Gli Him li ho conosciuti anche di persona ad un festival a Turku (Finlandia) nel 99.
RR é stato la loro rovina.. ma non sono mai stati un granché.
Chitarre e sound serio li preferisco altrove (dal rock al black metal.. parlando di "etichette"). Pensa che il gruppo che ho amato di più sono stati gli Alice in Chains!
ps: i Sisters li ho visti (per la 6ta volta) pochi giorni fa a Milano
Surprised that UK Decay aren’t featured a bit more heavily. “Unexpected Guest” or “Werewolf” maybe?
Play Dead, Virgin Prunes, Danse Society, SDC, Death Cult and I;d even sling The Cramps in there too!.
Marc Seberg ... i saw ALL ABOUT EVE ❤
Personally I think Goth sounds best with a very deep voiced singer fronting the band. It just adds that little extra gothy touch!
Like with The 69 eyes! I (still) loveeee his voice 😍😍
Mission/Neph/Sisters were always far ahead of anyone else.
The cream rose to the top near the end with 3 of my favorite bands (Bauhaus, Banshees and Cure) featuring heavily, Snakedance by The March Violets should've been a lot higher, mid 90's was disappointing.
I think it's fair to say that there was nothing on that list that didn't belong. Have added a few songs from this list to my playlist.
Fields of the Nephilim is the best gothic band.Sisters of mercy and Mission 2nd and 3rd place.
Seriously? The Nephilim were a wannabe Sisters of Mercy tribute act, no matter how much they denied it
@@greva2904Nonsense, the Nephilim were a goth-spaghetti-western mash-up and didn't sound much at all like the Sisters. The Nephilim were definitely original.
fields of the nephilim and the sisters of mercy literally sound nothing alike@@greva2904
Tenple of Love by the sisters (odd ommission) or Bela Lugosis Dead by Bauhaus. Some good bands there and ive probaly seen half of them live.
What about Bauhaus's Passion of lovers!?
next you'll make top 125 90's Alternative/Pop Songs?
tomorrow?
If I counted right, Bauhaus 6, Sisters of Mercy 5, Siouxsie and The Cure 4 each.
If the algorithm HAS to send me here after KMFDM’s ‘No Meat. No Man.’ Then I HAVE to return the favor.
Rozz Williams is hard underrepresented
❤ I bet the original list was way longer 😂
The Editors seem to have listened to a lot of goth records.
Interpol also .. 2 Fantastic Gothic Inspired bands .. Another Band for ya Is Swedens Then Comes Silence .. A Superb band heavily influenced by Gothic Music
Yeah Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy were quite great back in the days. (Christian Death as well)
Rosetta Stone was in the list, but I don't think I saw The Merry Thoughts in it. Both bands made quite great goth songs.
Goth started in 1980 came out of uk punk scene was called Tribal at first due to drum style of bands but Bauhaus & UK Decay were the originators & after 1984/85 not worth talking about had been changed into something it never was & became total parody of itself Just look at most of these bands sad really as at first it was really exciting
We didn’t call it either. We called it Death Rock. I never heard anyone calling it Goth in the 1980s. I was in LA, Atlanta and FL during that time. I also don’t think a lot of these bands fit on this list. And many left out.
@@yournamehere6925 that's the reason then you was in America took a while to get over there obviously & name changed to death rock by them lol & actually it was known as Tribal at the beginning due to the drums & Abbo(uk Decay vocalist) gave it the name Goth by accident in a interview with old UK music weekly music paper in 1980 & the originators of it all were Bauhaus & UK Decay it was so exciting at the start Sad thing is bands for years think you have to sound like Eldritch, have keyboards etc originally every band sounded different Bauhaus/UK Decay/Play Dead/1919 /Sex Gang Children/ Under Two Flags / Blood & Roses etc the Sisters formed when the scene had been going a while but were ok live I saw them supporting UK Decay etc America gets everything 2nd hand from the UK gets most things wrong etc
I think Bauhaus and UK Decay were more theatrical punk, rather than actual goth. They were more on par with bands like The Damned, Killing Joke, Rudimentary Peni, The Adicts etc... and even stuff like The Cramps and Misfits. Just punk bands flirting with lots of horror theatrics. They kinda fell off the radar in the mid 80s (or changed like Killing Joke), because sounded too happy for the goth wave that was set after the first Sisters Of Mercy LP.
Sisters came rather from new waveish, depressive punk. Joy Division, Banshees, The Cure, The Danse Society even very early Dead Or Alive. They already had several EPs and albums before Sisters. Sisters had way more in common with these bands than with horror punks.
So what country is next on your list? Hoping for Sweden myself.
If you enjoy Swedish stuff, then maybe this track would suit you: czcams.com/video/-SRz9CFW0Ec/video.html Wish you a great day!
Karl Hyde first formed Freur than Underworld, they made two Albums in Sisters of Mercy-Style, love them until today. (And everything Karl Hyde made)
Interesting list, debatable like any other, with not too much of that "metal" thingie.Nice to see some obscure band and to have some love for The Damned in their goff period (though I don't know if they endorsed the tag or not.) I would have liked some of the great Children on Stun, but you can't have it all…
Unfortunately, there are the worst "metal thingies" included like HIM and 69 Eyes... and I'm all about few drops of gothic metal here and there, but damn, have some taste! Excluding Paradise Lost but including that trash is a crime. Plus, there was tons of great underground goth metal from the 90s that is totally legit goth stuff.
@@paravan2000 Yes, including Children on Stun at least would have made sense…
@@pateris Good stuff. I miss In Excelsis.
What, no Death In June, Current 93, Gargoyle Sox, Fur Bible? I love Christian Death’s Only Theater of Pain album but where’s Ashes (titled track) and Wind Kissed Pictures (titled track)? No Nick Cave or The Birthday Party “Release The Bats” not my favorite from them but it’s iconic.
DIJ and Current are rather not goth rock. I think the list is strictly on the more guitar side of goth with a few exemptions.
@@VINLAND_777 HIM and Type O Negative are not goth rock, either- but were on this list.
@@chameleon47 Type O could be considered as goth rock, not? At least where I am from, people in the goth rock scene where into it.
Not as old school as Christian Death but still not far away from their later releases.
@@VINLAND_777 @VINLAND_777 One could consider them goth rock, but it would be inaccurate and wrong. Anyone considering them to be gothic rock does not understand music genres.
Type O Negative was Gothic METAL. Their music fit the metal genre. IT did not fit the "gothic rock" subgenre due to major stylistic differences. "Dark" does not equal "goth". Having a particular mood or particular lyrics does NOT make "goth rock." This should be enough, but if not, consider the following:
Out of the 530+ shows they ever played, including at Ozzfest Heavy MTL 2008, Gods of Metal 2007, and with Pantera, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Celtic Frost, Cradle of Filth, Queensryche, Motley Crue, Sepultura and Hatebreed- a total of ONE show was EVER played with a goth band (it was with Switchblade Symphony, who was a gothic rock/industrial fusion, and Manhole who is alt metal). The rest were almost entirely metal bands, with a few industrial and punk bands mixed in.
Gothic Rock bands do not play at Heavy Metal shows, nor do they usually play with metal bands.
As for people in the goth rock scene where you are being into it, this does not make the band goth. A band's genre does not change based upon who listens to it. I am goth, and Type O Negative is my favourite METAL band, and on of my favourite bands, but my liking them does not make them a gothic rock band, anymore than wearing black or loving spaghetti makes black or spaghetti goth.
@@chameleon47 oh dear.
You know, I am a musician releasing music since decades and exactly such ideologies and so called „purists“ who have to pick everything apart and policing a genre/scene make me sad.
This happens in every scene and troughout humanity and does only divide everything for no good reason.
This is also one reason why I never felt the need to attach myself to an ideology, label or genre.
A wise man once said:
„There are only two types of music - the one I like and the rest“
The older you get, the less you will hopefully care about ideological prisons.
Take care my friend and relax.
Dang. And I thought you just played the Sisters of Mercy catalog and you're set.
La mejor de Bauhaus
Lagartija Nick
So much alternative rock and post punk from the early 80s there, although you chose the best ones. Nephilim above all and you completely forgot about Tiamat (late 90s) and Paradise Lost (mid 90s) when they played pure goth rock.
Tiamat and Paradise Lost miss so horribly here. These were the key gothic rock bands in mid to late 90s.
The Mission. I grew up with that as my theme LMAO
But I would like to know where all the bands are NOWadays and what they look like and what they're all doing LMAO
Well, The Mission are still around, on and off...recently finished a long tour. Almost original line-up back except for Mick Brown...Craig Adams is bald, Simon Hinkler's a bit fatter and Mr. Hussey has gone grey. Such is life 🤣
@@vallejomach6721 Yes I know about The Mission, but I meant the rest of all these bands on this list LMAO
Going to Balham and the angel supporting The Almighty next month.
Lieben Dank 🖤🕯️☺️👍🖤🖤🖤 aber überwiegend Post Punk kein Gothic Rock...the cure für mich die beste 🌹🌹❤️. Susi 🖤✌️... Bauhaus 👍🌹🖤..damend 🙏✌️