Archive for September, 2023

is there a term for new goths other than ‘baby bat’?

I’m brand new to the subculture and loving it here so far but I’m not really comfortable describing myself as a baby bat. definitely get the appeal of the term, I think it’s just personal preference; wondering if there are alternatives. If there aren’t I’m content to just call myself “new” lol but I was just curious

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Altar De Fey in the 80s

I’m a HUGE fan of Altar De Fey and I think they’re one of the best Deathrock bands around. It’s awesome that they reformed to create new music. But I also feel they are criminally underrated. Is anyone else a fan?

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technically I’m more emo than goth but I drew an eye in class and it reminded me of siouxsie. I wanna start listening to her again so any song recommendations?

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Went to see Harsh Symmetry in Columbus and got a pic :)

Opened for Twin Tribes and it was such a great show

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Was looking through my parents old cds and found this, but I can’t figure out if this era of their music is considered goth. Help!

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Don’t be weird at shows please

I was at The Mission and The Chameleons last night in Seattle and at one point confetti went off during a song. A piece settled into the hair of a girl in front of me. The man standing next to me who WAS NOT WITH THE GIRL started to reach over to pick the confetti out of her hair. I pushed his arm away because don’t fucking touch strangers like that. Yeah it’s a show and you’re going to be pressed together to an extent but there was just something so gross about it.

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Why did goths have such a significant pop culture/media presence in the 90’s and then just stop?

Bear with me as I'm a babybat. Around the late 1980's and early 1990's, movies such as the Lost Boys, the Craft, the Crow, Interview with a Vampire, etc. were sensationalizing the goth scene, and I think this really gave them a brief period of significant presence within popular culture. I think the Goths of the 90's were a really pivotal point for the scene's history.

Then around the early 2000's we started seeing this "goth" or "gothic" stock characters appearing in media, which more or less still exists in the 2020's, with each incarnation of this stock having lesser and lesser resemblance to its roots.

I cannot really remember a movie in recent time that's meant to resonate with our scene. There was that one movie (name I forgot) where a man becomes a popular Goth singer, and then moves to Europe because his father might have been a nazi or something, but I think that film was trying to more or less mock the subculture because the protagonist "sheds" their Goth-ness by the end.

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Christian Death discography

On every app/website I’m on a lot of the release dates are messed up or just not even there, on Spotify it says “The Wind Kissed Pictures” came out in 2013 or something, yet on allmusic and Amazon it says 1985. Not to mention everything after “Ashes” seems misplaced. Has anyone else noticed this?

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Goth – A History – Lol Tolhurst

I highly recommend this book.

I get some folks don't know who Lol Tolhurst is or how important he is as an observer on the front lines of the Goth movement but here we are. Read the book or not. It's fantastic.

Bonus – listen to Lol and Budgie's podcast if you really want to experience things:

https://curiouscreaturespodcast.com/

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Dead Artist Syndrome – Mirror (2015) [US]

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