Comments on: “Death is totally my boyfriend!”*

By: jon

jon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:45:47 +0000

OK, great! And I will try this mea culpa thing you mentioned. It sounds delicious.

By: jayson

jayson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:03:25 +0000

Jon,

Mea culpa — I had never heard of her before, and made an incorrect assumption. I will look into the book!

By: jon

jon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:22:26 +0000

Cintra Wilson isn’t a NY Times fashion reporter, no more than David Foster Wallace was a columnist for Gourmet Magazine. She wrote a very funny article that the NYT chose to put in its fashion section. Check out her book, “A Massive Swelling”.

By: SaraDevil

SaraDevil — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:24:22 +0000

All these years later I still like my music on the Darker side. It’s just how I am.

Since we are mentioning I’d also toss out that Emusic has a hands down amazing collection of Delirium.

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Delerium-MP3-Download/11597045.html

And the very nice collection of Cocteau Twins…

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Cocteau-Twins-MP3-Download/11530673.html

Also, if you don’t know them, check out the small but totally worthwhile collection of the Cranes.

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Cranes-MP3-Download/11563108.html

I actually joined emusic way back when because it was the one place I could get one of my favorite Goth artists at the time.

By: Jayson

Jayson — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:16:23 +0000

SaraDevil,

Thanks so much for those great suggestions! All super-vital albums — I didn’t make even the slightest attempt at a list, mostly because I couldn’t wait to hear what you guys were going to offer up!

Tom Waits is good — I prefer “Everything Goes to Hell” for sheer unremitting bleakness (“Why be sweet? Why be careful? Why be kind? A man has only one thing on his mind” and “I don’t believe you go to heaven when you’re good/Everything goes to hell anyway” are particularly cheery couplets.)

By: Tom Hilton

Tom Hilton — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:49:20 +0000

I always count on Joy Division to cheer me up. Or Portishead. Or Tom Waits (Bone Machine in particular–Earth Died Screaming is the feel-good song of the ’90s).

By: Televiper

Televiper — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:09:31 +0000

The Creatures – Anima Animus
http://www.emusic.com/album/Anima-Animus-Anima-Animus-MP3-Download/10813287.html

I was going to say Legendary Pink Dots as well, but I don’t know how they fit into the genre.

By: porieux

porieux — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:57:41 +0000

ptolemyclark I think I’m going to have to listen to “Uptown Girl” again there must be more to it than I realized

By: SaraDevil

SaraDevil — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:28:51 +0000

This Mortal Coil absolutely, but I’m surprised you didn’t mention the rather good Emusic collection of The Dead can Dance.

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Dead-Can-Dance-MP3-Download/11530670.html

Toward the within is a great live album and a great live video set if you ever got to see it. The first track Rakim is still an alltime favorite.

And, of course, you cannot get more Goth than Into the Labyrinth! Can you name a goth club where you don’t here the Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegroove?

http://www.emusic.com/album/Into-The-Labyrinth-Remastered-Into-The-Labyrinth-Remastered-MP3-Download/11191934.html

And, then of course, Lisa Gerrard solo stuffs!

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Lisa-Gerrard-MP3-Download/11563253.html

You also failed to mention the good collection of Love and Rockets.

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Love-and-Rockets-MP3-Download/11530931.html

So, yeah, I’m goth.

By: ptolemyclark

ptolemyclark — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:13:50 +0000

I did that too, porieux! Spencer’s was my favorite place in the world as a kid because my parents banned me from it because they had dirty greeting cards (which of course was the reason I’d sneak in). These are the same parents who wouldn’t let me listen to the radio until 1987 because I heard (and loved) “Uptown Girl” in my uncle’s car in 1st grade…a song that my mother claimed was “filthy and satanic.”