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tiassa said:
"Goth Revival?"

In my day, only the anti-goth Sisters of Mercy ever struck me; "More" (Vision Thing) is one of my favorite songs ever recorded, but I still chuckle at their rendition of "Shout".
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My wife and I love SoM. Got to see them once, but it was the "Vision Thing" tour. "Hot Metal and Methedrine" is more our style. I've never heard "Shout" but the "Some Girls Wander by Mistake" CD has their gloomy version of "Gimme Shelter."

I just realized I'd better play "More" right now and it is indeed a great tune.
Anyway, get me a couple of promising goth-revival bands and watch what happens. It can't be any less entertaining than Depeche Mode. Yeah. Er ... Depeche Mode and The Cure ... I'm still iffy about them.
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L.A. was Depeche Mode heaven in the USA. They had to play a hockey stadium there after doing civic auditoriums in the rest of the country. I rather like them although not enough to go to one of those stadium gigs. I have seen The Cure and like them better. They run hot and cold but that's what artists do.
And if I've managed to not name one legitimate goth band, well, that's part of my point.
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Most of what I've read--admittedly in the popular press--labels the SoM as legitimate goth. They also generally include The Cure but they're befuddled by their versatility and usually end up basing that label on the look and the attitude of the fans. Which is how the Grateful Dead came to be misidentified as something like the forerunners of Death Metal. :)

Sorry I haven't heard most of those bands you mention, but what about Type O Negative? They make even "Cinnamon Girl" sound gothic. And real goths roll their eyes when I mention Drain sth because they are so obviously a cartoon band. But are we supposed to believe those others are serious? Their "Freaks of Nature" CD is really... well freaky.
 
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Fraggle Rocker said:

Most of what I've read--admittedly in the popular press--labels the SoM as legitimate goth.
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I recall reading once, in either Mojo or Q, that Andrew Eldridge of Sisters of Mercy despised the label "goth". He reportedly said, "Fuck goths!" and I recall a short bit denouncing the art-school melodrama thing. Ever catch that episode of South Park where Stan goes goth? Eldridge apparently doesn't like being thought of alongside the pop-culture goth expression.

Type O Negative is, to my memory, quite cool. I must admit I haven't thought much about them in recent years. Probably my loss.

Of the others, I'm developing a quiet love for the work of Peter Murphy:

To the crowd
To the world
You were so dry
And with the token bird I made
Send it to fly right to your side
With the broken wing you sailed
Oh like winter in July
A barren river wide
I'll pray for the flood
To wash on you
It's here I'll be with you

Well if the birds can reach the sky
To this land I'll be with you
'Til the sun bursts from your side
With my hands I reach to you
When you think your chance is passing by
When you blow your moon away
I'll bleed like the reed
Fall with your knife
It's here I'll be with you

"I'll Fall With Your Knife"
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Bluesville

John Lee Hooker - Turnh over a new leaf
David Gogo - Lousiana Blues
Anthony Gomes - going down slow
Scrapomatic - raw head and bloodddddddy bones
John Bonamassa - torn down - i wone be heeee torn down
 
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Go go
Go Johnny go
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go go go go

johnny winter?

It's too ****** hot here
 
John99 said:
Go go
Go Johnny go. . . .

Johnny Winter?
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If you're really trying to figure that out, it's "Johnny B. Goode," written by Chuck Berry in 1955 and released in 1958. In my observation, the bent notes in the riff in that song established the guitar as the lead instrument in rock and roll, rather than the piano or the tenor sax, both of which had been in the running since the genre was born.
 
francois said:
Were you as disappointed as I was by Light Grenades?
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Didn't like it all on first listen but now im really into half of it

Songs like Dig, Kiss to send us off, Anna Molly, Diamonds and coal and Love hurts are excellent.

I've never liked a incubus album from the get go. Disliked Morning View and ACLOTM on the first listen.
 
Fraggle Rocker said:
If you're really trying to figure that out, it's "Johnny B. Goode," written by Chuck Berry in 1955 and released in 1958. In my observation, the bent notes in the riff in that song established the guitar as the lead instrument in rock and roll, rather than the piano or the tenor sax, both of which had been in the running since the genre was born.
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I heard the original only a few times but was listeneing to Johnnys version when in possted, not sure why i piut the ? there. Theanks for the other info though.
 
My iPod right now is stacked with classics: Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper, Tommy, Boston, Ummagumma, an anthology of The Seeds.

The Seeds were just too damn cool. Apparently, they're active in a watered-down form these days. Cool. I wonder if they're still as trippy.
 
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