>You will never listen to trad Goth music for the first time again

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The Scream [Polydor, 1978]

Hippies were rainbow extremists; punks are romantics of black-and-white. Hippies forced warmth; punks cultivate cool. Hippies kidded themselves about free love; punks pretend that s&m is our condition. As symbols of protest, swastikas are no less fatuous than flowers. So it's not surprising that Siouxsie Sioux, punks' exemplary fan-turned-artist, should prove every bit as pretentious as model-turned-rocker Grace Slick or film-student manqué Jim Morrison. Nor is it surprising that while the spirit is still upon her she should come up with a tunefully atonal, modestly sensationalistic album. B+

Once Upon a Time/The Singles [PVC, 1981]

Like Jim Morrison, greatest of the pop posers, Siouxsie Pseud disguises the banality of her exoticism with psychedelic gimmicks most profitably consumed at their hookiest, and voila. Although two of the four unavailable-on-album 45s on this compilation go nowhere, most of these nightmare vignettes are diverting placebos, of a piece even though they span three years of putative artistic development. B+

Twice Upon a Time--The Singles [Geffen, 1992] *bomb*

Subjects for Further Research [1980s]: She has her cult--an army of black-clad college students eagerly waiting for the world to end. But though many Johnny Rotten fans proved smarter than Johnny Rotten, Siouxsie Pseud wasn't one of them. Since like Jim Morrison she disguises the banality of her exoticism with psychedelic gimmicks best consumed at their hookiest, the nightmare vignettes on her 1981 best-of were of a piece even though they spanned three years of putative artistic development. After that I kept waiting for Siouxsie to end. But she left a lot of product in her wake, and for all I know it conceals another best-of.

Peek-A-Boo was their biggest US hit, but the accordion ruins it for me.

>>71045416
Listen to spellbound .

>>71045269
no problem with that

I found it really lame the first few times around and it only slowly grew on me.

I'm still not sure if I really like it on its own and not mostly because I fantasize about floofy trad goth girls.

>>71045465
I was getting into the subculture, reading gothic literature and whatnot. The timing was perfect. 2011

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still my favorite band probably

>israel
>the killing jar
>peek-a-boo
>fireworks
>spellbound
>kiss them for me
>stargazer
>happy house

so many good tracks that never get old to me

>>71045492
Yeah I've also been tempted to go into the subculture for a long time but I'm a metalhead/rivethead first and foremost, so all the spooky edgy goth stuff is nothing new to me. What's new to me is the glamorous appeal, but going full goth would still feel like a downgrade and I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off because I'm ugly as shit.

>>71045322
>Siouxse Pseud
lyl good one, Bobby.

The whole Goth thing was kind of rooted in the nihilistic British culture of the 70s-80s which is why most of those bands didn't go anywhere in the US.

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>>71045610
fortunately there was death rock, which was more fun

>>71045610
Two songs, same year. One American, one British.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJV2va9V9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGFlP5Duuw

>>71045322
>>71045331
i'm so sick of old man pitchfork

>>71045610
And after the early 90s, it became functionally obsolete and got replaced by Britpop.

>>71045716
Triggered progfag detected.