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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, [2][3] Joy Division, [2][3][4] Bauhaus, [2][3] and the Cure. [2][3]
May 22, 2018 · Quintessential goth band Bauhaus formed in 1978, and by the time the brash, shallow decade of the 1980s had kicked off, goth was firmly established.
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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.”
Oct 25, 2017 · Britain’s establishment received the first post-punk and industrial bands as a dismal omen: “wreckers of civilization,” as one Conservative MP helpfully described Throbbing Gristle.
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Sep 11, 2020 · Widely regarded as one of the founding bands of the goth music movement is Bauhaus, who released their 1979 10 minute-long single ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ in 1979. The song with its stripped drum beats, minimal but highly distorted guitar and haunting deep vocals catalysed the first wave of goth.
Aug 18, 2023 · The Doors were the first band the be described as Gothic, in a review by John Stickney in 1967, but the term “goth” as applied to the music and subculture has its origins in the late 1970s, specifically within the punk and post-punk scenes in the United Kingdom.
Jul 13, 2019 · 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.
