Teen Gothic

I'm talking new, old or both. I'll start with what may be a controversial one, but I don't like Joy Division. I appreciate their influence on the scene, but their music isn't anything to write home about and it's just boring. If I never heard them again, it'd be too soon.

Also, we as a society need to move past the Unknown Pleasures cover. We're better than that.

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YAMA UBA (goth/post punk duo) interview in Decaycast fanzine

https://decaycast.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/decaycast-premieres-yama-uba-breaks-down-the-walls-with-facade/

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love this quote:

We might not individually have the power to stop the world’s most advanced military in history, but we do have the ability to state that institutional narratives are outright lies, and to simply refuse to be brainwashed. We can say, “We see you, the richest and most elite people in the world, using all the world’s wealth without our consent, to kill the poorest and the most powerless. You employ weapons of mass destruction to purposely target and kill children, poets, doctors, and teachers, and then you claim a moral superiority.” That has to happen for any other change to take place, and it’s something we’ll always have the power to do. The crack in the facade, and the tumbling of the tower, starts within each of us.

I've only listened to (and liked) The Birthday Massacre, Molchat Doma, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Samhain, and I'm not sure if these last two count, but I also like HIM and Aurelio Voltaire. I really enjoyed all of these, although I've tried checking out deathrock and hated everything I've heard, so I guess I'll take the more post-punk/pop inspired sides of goth music. Also, I already know where to start with The Cure, but I'd love to know where to start with Nick Cave, cause I've heard he's good but never heard he was goth outside of this community. Feel free to recommend super well-known recs and obscure ones too!

TL;DR- Give me anything but deathrock.

Some recent finds from record stores over the past ~ 6 months.

Anna Von Hausswolff – Dead Magic🕷️ Corpus Delecti – Twilight 🕷️ Dead Can Dance – Aion 🕷️ Lords of the New Church – Is Nothing Sacred? 🕷️ Boy Harsher – Lesser Man EP 🕷️ Clan of Xymox – Medusa 🕷️ Black Tape for a Blue Girl – Remnants of a Deeper Purity 🕷️ The Chameleons – Script of the Bridge 🕷️ Pink Turns Blue – META 🕷️ Pink Turns Blue – If Two Worlds Kiss 🕷️ Peter Murphy – Deep 🕷️ The Sisters of Mercy – First Last and Always 🕷️ Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende neu 🕷️ Nick Cave – Tender Prey 🕷️ The Sound – From the Lions Mouth 🕷️ 45 Grave – Sleep In Safety 🕷️ Scott Walker – The Drift 🕷️ Molchat Doma – Этажи 🕷️

I could post this on r/lastfm but since it’s pretty much only goth music i felt like this sub may fit better

Hi everyone, most likely this post will look like a whine, but I hope someone responds. I'm 20 years old, and I'm graduating from university this year, and I'll be 21 in a few months. I spent all my teenage time at home in the rhythm of home school. I became interested in the Gothic subculture relatively recently, but everything is limited exclusively to reading about it on the Internet, listening to music and communicating with Goths on the same Internet. Deep down, I want to party and move from the internet to the real world, but sometimes it feels like it's too late.. Looking at people who are 18.19 years old, it becomes sad that at their age they have so many interesting things, and I started getting involved in it so late.. Do I need to come to terms with this, or is it not too late?

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