Teen Gothic

This has been bothering me like hell. I haven't found anything by personally googling and digging (that, and a huge chunk of goth bands don't seem to have lyrics up at all online – this seems to be one of those cases), so I figured this would be the best place to ask.

The only lyrics I managed to memorize are something like "Sorrow / Where the light shines for you / There's no tomorrow / You will sing me a(new? bruise?)". I'm almost certain it was second wave goth & something I've heard on the Nightbreed online radio before. It sounded very similar to Malaise, but I don't think it's actually them.

That said, I was plastered and have an auditory processing disorder. There's a very decent chance I'm missing something of note/getting things slightly wrong. If someone, by any chance, somehow recognizes this song, thank you so much in advance!

I listen to not much of a lot of music as I have a bad time with words and spelling, but I'd like to know what everyone likes 🙂

This guy popped up on my tik Tok and I really vibe with it. Would you guys say this is post-punk?

https://youtu.be/VMncoNQ891o

Inspired by Vision Video covering Lady Gaga's Bloody Mary what would you pick?
I'd like a Goth cover of Don't Fear the Reaper

I'm working on a goth album right now and I'd like to have one more song to fill it out. Wanted to get some of your ideas for a theme for the song please. I thought it would be fun to sort of have the last song idea be from the community, as like a homage to the goths!

It can be about anything. Album sub-genre is goth rock sounding, similar to TSOM.

Thanks! 🙂

Background info: Originally recorded in 1987. Released as the second single from Floodland in 1988. First of all, a link to the video. Here's yet another opportunity to watch Patricia Morrison rocking her glam look. Lyrics – Extended Version.

You've heard this song five hundred times. You might have idly wondered what Andrew Eldritch is rambling about. So I did a little bit of sleuthing. Oh my, this song did not age well at all. Once again, Eldritch proves to be insufferable. From this article on Songfacts.com:

Written by Sisters of Mercy lead singer Andrew Eldritch, this apocalyptic track was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 sonnet Ozymandias. Eldritch told MTV: "The song is about erecting monuments in outrageous places to one's own personal power and then crumbling away."

The 7-minute album version was remixed and released as "Dominion" in the UK.

The "Mother Russia" segment was influenced by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in which an explosion at the Ukrainian nuclear facility sent dangerous levels of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, endangering the [former] western USSR and Europe.

Eldritch told The Melody Maker in 1987: "I made the mistake of getting caught in central Europe when Chernobyl started sprinkling it's residue over the land. It's sort of a carry on (and 'Carry On') from 'Black Planet' – part of my hate/hate relationship with America. I just had this idea of all them huddled in their mobile homes while Mother Russia rained down on them. They deserve it. I suppose the song is really about the prostitution of Europe by the Americans." The music video depicts a tale of intrigue with Eldritch passing information to bass player Patricia Morrison. But what does it all mean? "It means absolutely nothing," director David Hogan laughed. "Just the impression of a story."

It was Eldritch's idea to shoot the clip in Petra, Jordan – not the safest idea considering Iran and Iraq were warring on the Gaza Strip. Hogan told Songfacts in a 2015 interview: "We were told by the State Department that they never recommend Americans going over there at the time because it's a war and because of all the stuff going on in Israel. So we said, 'Okay, well, tough titty, we're going.'" Luckily, the location manager was friends with the king's brother. "So they hooked us up with the king, and they said, Well, if they're coming, we're going to supply them with bodyguards. So I had an armed bodyguard with me with a machine gun at his side the entire time following me everywhere, even into the bathroom."

He added: "And the helicopter shot, we didn't have a helicopter budgeted, and I said, 'Man, it would be great to get a helicopter shot of this place.' And the location manager said, 'Well, I'll call the king's brother.' He called the king, and he sent a gigantic helicopter for us, just landed in the middle of Petra, and I thought oh, this is cool."

Hey community,

I make my living as musician/producer/mix engineer, a position I consider myself very lucky to be in. Last year, I offered free mixing of one song to one artist on the shoegaze board that is in need, and I’m once again offering the same thing this year, but also posting this here to get more possible entrants.

Some goth or goth-influenced/adjacent artists I've done work for include Fearing, House of Harm, Tamaryn, Topographies, Cold Showers, Glaare, Second Still, The Harrow, The Sea at Midnight and more. I truly want this to be an altruistic gift and don't want any personal benefits from this, so I won't be posting links to my sites or anything, but if you want, DM me and I can send you examples so you know I'm for real.

To submit yourself for consideration, just reply to this thread with a little background info on your project/the song you want mixed (maybe a link to the demo if you’re comfortable sharing it, or you can just dm me). Please nobody who is on label that provides budget support, or who has the financial means to get songs mixed professionally already – I really want this to help an artist that otherwise could not have their music professionally mixed.

I will pick a winner December 24 (using a random lottery system, which I will post a video of) and I will deliver a final mix within two weeks of receiving the stems/project file.