Starting point & top 15

Ok, lets begin...

My interest in gothic rock goes back to my high school days when punk and later, gothic bands provided me and a couple of friends with a new spectrum of excitement...

Years passed with endless hours of listening, hundreds of records and gigs, clothes, places, photos, dreaming and even my choice of studies (graphic design) been influenced by gothic and punk fascination with art and atmospherics.

Oliver Vaughan, Chris Bigg (4AD) along with Neville’s Brody’s work on vinyl record sleeves, haunted my walls and my personal work. I can remember that the first poster I ever did as a student, was a collage of xeroxed photos for Bauhaus’ live LP “Press the eject and give 

me the tape”.

“..discover all of earth’s surprises” – Love under will, Fields of the Nephilim

Now, so many years later I know Mc Coy was right when he sang this...

I still feel a strong attraction towards not so much the image, masquerade and paraphernalia 

of this kind of music but to it’s very essence. For each of us it may be somewhat different...

That’s why I bother to upload this blog.

So I’ll start with a cliche.

My top 15 LP’s of classic goth rock.

Please feel free to upload yours.

That’s what blogs are about.

 I think that compilations here are a cheat so I haven’t included any...

Red lorry Yellow lorry - Talk about the weather (1985)

Play Dead - The first flower (1983)

The Sisters of Mercy - First and last and always (1984)

Fields of the Nephilim - the Nephilim (1988)

Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor (1987)

Bauhaus - The sky’s gone out (1982)

The Cult - Dreamtime (1984)

Dance society - Heaven is waiting (1983)

Killing Joke - Night time (1985)

March Violets - Natural history (1984)

The Marionettes - Ave Dementia

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox (1986)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - A kiss in the dreamhouse (1982)

The Mission - God’s own medicine (1986)

Dead can Dance - Dead can dance (1984)

That’s about it...

With no particular order.

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* whenever someone sends a top something I'm going to upload it to this page too instead of leaving it to the obscurity of the comments...


SavaGeo proposes:


Killing Joke - Fire Dances 
1919 - Machine 
Leitmotiv - Carress & Curse 
Southern Death Cult - S/T 
The Danse Society - Seduction 
The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always 
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside 
Play Dead - The First Flower 
Christian Death - Only Theatre Of Pain 
Cocteau Twins - Garlands 
Gene Loves Jezebel - Promise 
Virgin Prunes - If I Die I Die 
Skeletal Family - Recollect