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Sep 6, 2017 · As the 80s drew to an end, post-punk and goth rock were going overground, subverting the mainstream and turning everything but the water black…
May 22, 2020 · Goth eventually became an amalgam of unlikely influences: the theatrical glam of Bowie and Bolan, the unhinged garage rock of The Stooges, the nihilistic electro-noise of Suicide, even the cavernous echo of dub reggae. But, like so many other subcultures, it all initially sprang from punk.
- Dave Everley
As well as this (and into the 90s) if your local DJs said it was goth or played it in a goth club you went along with it. Synthpop and industrial were pretty much there from the beginning alongside glam and even some rap. Alternative music was seen as close enough in the 80s and 90s.
The 90s emergence of the Gothic aesthetic into mainstream pop cultural awareness was a revival, the original Gothic scene was born from offshoots of the 1970s British punk scene (which explains why its always been about music and a distinctive aesthetic together).
- A Certain Ratio - All Night Party (1979 single) Described by Steve Coogan’s Tony Wilson in the movie 24-Hour Party People as having “all the energy of Joy Division but better clothes”, ACR – their name taken from a Brian Eno lyric – evolved into post-punk funk, but their beginnings (this second single followed Shack Up, in 1979) were distinctly Bauhaus-like.
- Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (1980 album) Bauhaus were the band that perhaps first articulated gothic music. On this, their stunning debut, the focus is precise and monochrome, the attack powerful and anarchic, the feel bleak and unforgiving.
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju (1981 album) The fourth Siouxsie And The Banshees album bewitched and bewildered the post-punk generation, proving the band to be much more than just punk-era chancers and establishing them as serious, transgressive artists with a unique voice and vision and a sound that entranced with style and subversion.
- The Cure - Pornography (1982) “I wanted to make the ultimate fuck-off record,” said Robert Smith of his band’s fourth album. “And then The Cure could stop.”
May 22, 2024 · As a commercial force, goth peaked during the late 80s, but continued to exert its influence during the 90s alt.rock explosion.
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Those of you who think Goth music is not as big as it was back in the 80,90s and early 2000’s, I’ve got news for you, the Goth music genre and movement is still growing strong underground to this day.
