Teen Gothic

Sorry for the random-ish dump i was too shy to make 2 posts at once :> lmao

As the title says! Does anyone have any?

Hi! I’m looking for any goth songs that sound big and grand and devastating. Something with a story or deep-seated feelings behind it that’s going to make me feel incredibly bad. A non-goth example might be a song like The Place Where He Inserted the Blade by Black Country New Road or Exit Music by Radiohead. Make me feel empty and awful. New Wave, industrial, etc recommendations also accepted 🙂

Bands and artists that use mostly synths/electronic music too. Hearing music live and not being too pleased on how they sound IRL will not keep me from continuing to listen to them. Just wondering about others’ experiences with live goth music.

From what I've seen and experienced in the subculture, there is a massive fear of making a mistake or not being "the perfect goth" as that happens in most communities and it especially intimidating to newer people. In truth pretty much all of us have made some sort of mistake or mess up at some point in our time here. So why not share some mistakes we've all made to make things seem less intimidating and to also help out others from making the same! No mistake being too dumb, and please be kind to others who share theirs!

I'll go first:

When I was twelve and first starting out, one of my friend's older sisters' was goth and recommended Sex Gang Children. She told me about how they were one of the first and how important they were to the subculture. I wanted to look into them more so I read an article stating that they were the ones who came up with the word "goth" as well as skimmed through their wiki page and majorly misread it. Culture Club was originally going to be named Sex Gang Children but renamed it and then the now actual band then got it officially. However, in my twelve year old short attention span mind I misread it as Culture Club was the same as Sex Gang Children and for a full year I thought that Karma Chameleon himself, Boy George, was the one who came up with name for the subculture. For some reason tween me just went on thinking this without double checking until I saw something about the actual band and it always gives me a good laugh looking back!

I've seen Nick Cave's name appear quite a bit about Gothic music and I've listened to some of his music, but I'm not entirely sure what music of his is goth. Is there a list of his goth albums or songs from him? Its more out of curiosity that I'm asking because I want to compare the sounds of his goth music compared to other songs/albums by him.

I get that we’re all sick of the «tik tok goth» posts, and this might be a bit related so sorry bout that. But what’s the deal with newer goths not knowing what deathrock is? Many of them at least know the basics of goth music, like sisters of mercy and the cure, but in most cases where I discuss music with babybats, very few even know the term deathrock. Is the genre outdated or (un)dead? There’s many goths in my city but the only deathrock band is the one I joined last year and none of the babybats in the scene know of that band either

i got into goth music because of them and want to know more good songs by them! my favorite is doppleganger

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