Teen Gothic

I was wondering if anyone could tell me any more songs that use a choir as an instrument – here's some examples:

For You – HIM, at 1:01

Saraband – Corpus Delicti, at 2:28

Hi I’m doing a radio show with just goth music so I want to know what y’all’s favorite clean songs are at the moment! Also any fun facts about the band/song?

I want to make a playlist of songs that I can hug my partner and dance to it. Any recommendations?

a couple months ago i was at the punk/goth bar i used to go often and i was having a convo with some people, and most of them didnt really care or paid attention to the lyrics of songs.
I kept asking online and around for that and lotta people were indifferent to it.
Am I weird for paying close attention to them? lyrics can make or break a song for me, can be a nice toon but shitty lyrics will ruin it, same with not so good songs musically but great and relatable lyrics will make me listen to them again.
I always liked poetry and literature so that might influence this situation a bit but not sure, i think lyricis is a very important part of a song but for some people vocals are just another random instrument.
I know this is a non issue but i tend to overthink stuff like this lmao
Am I the minority in this? I mean in paying a lot of attention to the lyrics?

Please Help 🙂 Gotta expand my playlist.

A list of songs that I find to be high energy are Greensward Gray by Cinema Strange, We Lose the Night by Then Comes Silence, and This Corrosion by the Sisters of Mercy.

Do you guys know any goth songs that are energetic in mood? (I hope this post makes sense. I have an awkward way of speaking)

I'm compiling a cold wave playlist on Spotify. My problem with the ones I usually find is they seem to be entire albums (sometimes entire discographies) thrown together seemingly without any criterion other than make the playlist huge, and using basically the same dozen artists Spotify already suggests when you create a cold wave playlist.

So I decided to ask for help in my research: I already started it with almost two hours of some of the classics of the genre, but there's a lot of room for expansion. This time I'm looking for artists of 1990s, for now I won't add revival/contemporary stuff (though I will definitely add it in the future). I think synthesizer based Dark wave/goth (which used to be called synthwave before the term was hijacked by edm heads) would also fit, so suggestions are appreciated.

P.S.: here's the link for the playlist I have right now: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DVLAqqnNzQn2ek2SU2UsE

I know that "convert" isn't the word I'm looking for here, but I couldn't think of a more succinct way to put it! I'm trying to compile some songs together that might get some of my friends hooked on the genre as much as I am; I have shown them some Pink Turns Blue because I'll be seeing them in September (so, so, so excited…!) and they liked them, but I was wondering if anyone had any more songs that they had used to get someone hooked on gothic rock.

I know that other people are (ugh!) independently-thinking human beings who might not like the same things that might have changed my life, but I want to at least give it a shot!

So, do you have any songs or albums that you've played for people and had success in getting them hooked on the genre, or what do you think could? I'm thinking the classics are an obvious choice (especially Siouxsie is very popular even with those who have never heard of goth rock), but am incredibly partial to smaller bands myself, and those were the bands that really made me addicted to the sound and sought more of the genre.

I hope this post is alright! I'm just brainstorming songs and playlists right now, and am curious about this in general.