I've no doubt lads on here won't like this lad considering he's one of their own,one of my favourite albums of all time when I was a young fella and still now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTTKcrbQog8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CPezSV198
You ought to learn how to post video links. Played the second one for a few seconds - what a voice - like a stabbed cat being dragged across a blackboard. Or colouredboard or whatever they're called these days. Read the lyrics - they appear to revel in the fact that England no longer controls the world. Cutting edge stuff. Try this, it perfectly captures the ambience of a gothic/pagan summer time in North Hertfordshire: [video=youtube_share;GNTH1rhJTLo]http://youtu.be/GNTH1rhJTLo[/video]
That was the '80's,funny enough I could post video links,well I could till last St Patricks day but seem to make a balls of it of late. I'll look at that now and get back to you.
Posting embedded videos is a doddle. I don't expect The Hothouse Flowers or whoever they were ever featured in a German comedy film about school children. Germans are weird to be fair: [video=youtube;dC3xh8540bY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3xh8540bY[/video]
It was The Waterboys and that was Mike Scott singing from their "This Is The Sea" album,Scottish band till they came to Galway but we won't dwell on that 'cos I love that as well,surprised you haven't heard of them at that period.
Did they do that absolutely awful racket "You saw the whole of the moon"? The Nephs did one with moon in the title: [video=youtube;rJWsDpA909c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJWsDpA909c[/video]
Yes it was them and you sound like my dad with that "awful racket".Them Nelphs sound awfully Goth,I delved into that a bit with "Faith" and I have The Southern Death Cult's 12" The Fatman but went more melodic or "jingly jangly" if you like!
I managed to turn this thread into a homage to Fields of the Nephilim Love gothic music: Sisters, Bauhaus, Banshees, Joy Division, Cure, Cult, etc and the birds... please log in to view this image
They were gothic, not goths maybe but then most of those early goth bands probably wouldn't describe themselves as such.
Nonsense,there was no genre at that stage only now are they categorized.There was punk and what followed that was new wave i.e bands with the punk ideal and only then did they get tags.Joy Division,Magazine,The Cure,Bauhaus,Television couldn't be put in little brackets,all Indie in my eyes and that's what attracted me to them."A Forest" and " Bela Lugosi'S DEAD" 2 briliant tracks and of their time and I'd never put them down as "Goth"
Nonsense? They performed songs which were described as gothic at the time. The goth youth cult came later but anything dark/menacing/brooding from literature to architecture to music can be described as gothic. I suppose I should have used the term "protogoth bands" rather than "early goth bands".
