>>2627602
Joy Division is considered as the godfather of "goth"

Sisters Of Mercy
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Cure (Their older stuff)

Lots of old school goths like Dead Can Dance but thats 'New Age'

I know that the Cruxshadows are fairly well known.

Geez no MarilynManson and Cradle of filth? lolz

Joy Division are my life. Hail Ian Curtis.

I think Christian Death is one but I've never listened to them.

Op, what made you interested in knowing some bands? Are you working on a story?

>>2627672
He looks so funny when he's singing. I remember a friend of mine showed me a video of in with jazz playing on the back ground and it was less disturbing.

Tiamat and Paradise Lost are a bit of orright.

Christian Death, early Cure, early Fields of the Nephilim, The Birthday Party, and Xmal Deutschland are a few early goth/post punk/death rock bands worth checking out.

my 50 y/o dad listens to joy division, we had the original vinyl of unknown pleasure. Damn, should've grabbed it before it sold it off lol

Marilyn Manson is also on of the first goth bands, Blahaus kinda suck IMO

>>2627730
I would have paid a shitload for that, best album of all time.

>>2627707
I think he was a genuine Aspergers. There's a quote from Hooky in Touching From A Distance (the biography wrote by Deborah Curtis) saying that the police said he was a textbook case of a schizoid depressive. Schizoid personality disorder is very similar to Asperger syndrome, especially in the cases of higher intelligence, plus the fact that Asperger Syndrome wasn't defined until the year after Curtis' death. His unnerving gaze and awkward dancing scream autism however.

>>2627690
Writing a story? Huh? No, I'm just an audiophile who is a little burnt out on extreme music. I mean, I go and buy this experimental black metal music and there's no lyrics in the insert. I can understand what some of those guys are screaming some of the time, but I usually don't mind if I at least have access to the lyrics. Whatever statement they're trying to make about nihilism and nothingness doesn't need to extend to omitting lyrics. No one would hold it against them.

Back to my original statement: I'm just trying to explore some new musical genres and the goth subculture/genre has always had a romantic appeal. I hope I used the word romantic right.

You also need:

.45 Grave
Nosferatu
Clan of Xymox
ALIEN SEX FIEND (fuck yes)
Sexgang Children
and definitely the early Cure. Try the album "Pornography" to see what I'm talking about.

coil
eyeless in gaza

oh that dates me

Sisters of Mercy also

>>2627740
Peter Murphy will eat your children.

Some that I like:

Velvet Acid Christ
Ohgr
Project Pitchfork
Legendary Pink Dots
Wolfsheim
Dead Can Dance
Depeche Mode (in case you haven't been out of your house in the past 20 years, they are good)
Zeromancer

Early Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees are also good. If you like the 80's and Joy Division, you might like Echo and the Bunnymen too.

>>2627844
>Velvet Acid Christ
>Ohgr
>Project Pitchfork
>Legendary Pink Dots
>Wolfsheim
>Dead Can Dance
>Zeromancer

None of this is goth music. This is all INDUSTRIAL. Completely different genre.

Also, fuck /mu/ and their "rivethead garbage" labels. Those kids are almost as bad as some of the dipshits I ran into while I was in college.

>>2627860
I don't think Dead Can Dance is industrial, but it looks like you just copied and pasted, so that's okay.

Buck-Tick is a good Jrock goth band
Also good are Cinema Strange, Clan of Xymox, Rozz Williams works (early Christian Death, Shadow Project, solo stuff with Gitane Demone).

Some new romantic stuff falls under goth too like Visage and Classix Nouveaux. Dead Can Dance's early stuff is really amazing in terms of originality in the goth scene. If you're into the punkier side of goth (deathrock) i'd give Specimen, Samhain, or even Mephisto Waltz a listening.

>>2627872
Also try Tones on Tail (Daniel Ash's work after Bauhaus) and Mighty Sphincter's album "In the Kingdom of Heaven"

>>2627871
Meh. At least I took out Depeche Mode.
But yes, Dead Can Dance is just some folky crap like Unto Ashes.

OP here. I should mention that I already have every Dead Can Dance album. I'm already familiar with gothic industrial. That stuff is very hit or miss with me. I'm looking for something with a little more emotion, be it rock oriented or somewhat new age.

>>2627860
When I go to the shows, the people there are pale and dressed in black. I don't know what the difference between what these stupid labels are and I don't care.

Get the stick out of your ass.

>>2627894
folky is fine too

Dear OP:

The Cruxshadows.

>>2627907
Goths and Vamps. Know the difference!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZkP7AywlZE

>>2627907
Stop buying everything Metropolis Records shits out. There's a whole world out there.

>>2627891
I actually have a Mighty Sphincter album, though not the one you mentioned. I had no idea it was Bauhaus related. I should follow up on that.

Diabolique. The one and only goth band I would ever listen to.

>>2627925
Thanks, now I can stop being a poser and start acting like A REAL GOTH

gb2 1983
faggots.

My picks:

Alien Sex Fiend
Specimen
Sex Gang Children
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Ausgang
Sisters of Mercy
Tones on Tail
Cinema Strange
45 Grave
Southern Death Cult / Death Cult

>>2627981

That is right. You are all faggots for listening to what is not the most current music. Fuck you all.

Goth music? Has a band called "Bauhaus"?

BAU-HAUS?

BAW-HAUS?

BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHAUS?

amirite? lol

holy shit. i never thought i would live to see the day where there was a bauhaus thread on /r9k/

here are some good bands

death in june
fields on the nephilium
christian death