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Every music genre starts somewhere and this playlist is focused on the first wave of Goth music, the decade that started it all!
The Second Wave... is the Gothic Rock music from the late 80s to the late 90s! It was then when the goth rock identity got completely separated from other d...
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A playlist full of Goth bands who released music during the 1990s, also dubbed the "Second Wave" of Goth music.
May 22, 2020 · A parallel goth scene, dubbed ‘deathrock’, had sprung up in the US in the early 80s, centred on bands such as Christian Death and 45 Grave. But American audiences were hungry for British bands. A steady stream of British groups crossed the Atlantic for much of the decade – and it would ultimately change goth at a genetic level.
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- 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.”
Since the the early 1980s Goth made its presence known in the music scene , beginning in the United Kingdom with Post-Punk a nd Goth Rock which is otherwise known as Death Rock. The name Goth has many origins in which it was used to describe many things. from Germanic barbaric tribe, to architectural structures, to literature, to movies, to ...
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May 22, 2024 · Goth music made its first stirrings in the late 70s and early 80s, coming into the light with the likes of Siouxsie Sioux and The Cure. ... Goth in the 90s and beyond. As a commercial force, goth ...
