Teen Gothic

ok so I’m not really goth / alt or anything, but I like the style and the music. so I was wondering in general is someone who occasionally dresses that way & listens to the music (but also other genres) still considered goth? Or is it the kind of thing you need to be “all in” for. idk lol I’ve just always been curious ab this

I was wondering if you guys had or remembered any nicknames for different bands, from what I know it was fairly common to have gag names or nicknames for bands, I know of a few- Rosetta Clone instead of stone because they sounded exactly like SoM, KMFDM standing for Kill motherfucking Depeche Mode, and London After Midnight being dubbed London After Hairspray. I was wondering if you guys have more or had similar nicknames for bands?

I'm looking to start a new personal project of collecting obscure/ lesser known goth music on Youtube. My criteria for the playlist is for the music to have less then 5000 views and for it to only be available on Youtube. If anyone has any music that fits this, please send it my way!! I'd love to hear it 🙂

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Come on in and pull up a chair. Every chair has an automatic sympathy machine attached. What it has is a robotic arm with a gloved hand that when turned on pats you on the shoulder and a mechanical looping voice says "There, there… there, there… there, there… there, there…"

The best part is when you get up it keeps going for a minute but the voice turns off. So instead of patting it is now waving you goodbye. That cold, metallic arm… a cold wave if you will.

The other day I thought it would be fun to put together an 80’s playlist equivalent of a cassette mix you would typically find at a mid 80’s U.K. goth house party.

That got me thinking what actually represented it in non-social media age and something more defined by the music press like NME, or listening to John Peel or what your friends thought it was. Sure, it was a definite sub-culture with its own music, look and the fashion was fairly clearly defined even then and fairly much what we have today. However from a music perspective it wasn’t so defined and so many offshoots from it that perhaps would not be considered as Goth. Perhaps, musically it was more just an alternative genre and not defined, just finding its way in a post-punk world.

For example on a cassette mix you would find the Cure, Siouxsie but they were musically lighter than the Sisters of Mercy/Bauhaus. Someone would always pretend they actually went to the Batcave to see Alien Sex Fiend , Sex Gang Children, or they had discovered Christian Death😀, but then you had Depeche Mode, Marc Almond derivates (Soft cell/ Marc and the Mambas), Joy Division/New Order. All more synth based but always on a goth mix somewhere. Add in a bit of German industrial like Einstürzende Neubauten, some weird sh*t like Psychic TV, Jim Thirwell/Foetus, bit of Psychobilly like The Cramps and that was your mix done. All very different styles that I guess you could put under the loose banner of alternative, but maybe not goth today.

Out of interest, how did you see it?

One of my friends recently typed the word goth instead of got in a chat and now ive been using it instead of the word got.

For example: gotha do what you gotha do.

A different one i have is gothkeep instead of gatekeep.

Thought they would be funny to share and was wondering if yall had any similar “terms”