Rhino Goth Box Tracklisting...Revealed!

Speaking of filler-laden...

ooh, get her

BTW:

8. "Melody Lee" - The Damned

While a great song this is a RIDICULOUS choice when the obvious candidate is 1982's "The Dog," which is a slow gloomy epic about Claudia from Interview with the Vampire. How much more freakin' goth can you GET?

"Step into the niiiiiiiiiiiiiight!")

"I Go Crazy" - Flesh For Lulu

Maybe there's just been so many BAAAAD BAAAAD goth compilations that anything that's released that isn't bad seems like gold, but as a goth primer, this is the best job I've seen done with it.. even if it means the likes of London After Midnight go on it. Then again, you kinda need that amateur aspect of it to fill that angle. (Please tell me the liner notes tell the story of the L.A.M. guy being chased into the second floor of Music Plus, please please please!)

And oh the shocker.. a decent goth comp that's NOT on Cleopatra. Who would have fucking thought?

*puts back of hand on my forehead in a forlorn fashion*

that's the biggest irony...

nonsense! total nonsense!

That line of logic means that an eighties metal band comp should include RYL. (Which, I admit, it should.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/alextwo_copy.jpg

The rest of the track listing is pretty solid, even if not the best choices for certain bands. As a whole, I can see this work.

My subtle hint to a certain ilxor to cough up a K-classic U+K story is being ignored, apparently.

Actually I think it kinda did with the inclusion of the Chameleons there.

Anyway, comparison point -- Cleopatra's own Goth Box from some years back (ignore the cut/pasted 'listen' bits from Amazon):

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007OEP.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Disc: 1
1. Boys - Bauhaus Listen
2. Religious as Hell - March Violets Listen
3. Twisting Man - Electronic Cat Listen
4. Control - The Wake Listen
5. Tongue of Fire - Gitane Demone Listen
6. Noxious (The Demon's Game) - Corpus Delicti Listen
7. Flowers Melt Away - Fahrenheit 451 Listen
8. Temple - Shadow Dance Listen
9. Cantique 1 - Die Form Listen
10. God on the Tongue - Executive Slacks Listen
11. Look Away My Love - Advent Sleep Listen
12. Breed of Spite - Cafe del Mar Listen
13. After Dark - Seraphim Shock Listen
14. Masquerade - The Meridian Listen

Disc: 2
1. Tenant - Play Dead Listen
2. Hurricane Fighter Plane - Alien Sex Fiend Listen
3. Dark Place - New Creatures Listen
4. Dissolve - Switchblade Symphony Listen
5. Everything Is Cold - Lycia Listen
6. Angel of Pain - Two Witches Listen
7. Monkey Strange - Usherhouse Listen
8. Stick in the Woods - Rose of Avalanche Listen
9. Below - Bell Book & Candle Listen
10. One in a Million - Eva O. Listen
11. Devil's Little Helper - Wreckage Listen
12. Guilty - Brotherhood of Pagans Listen
13. Diseased - Apocalypse Theatre Listen
14. Ascension - Galaxy Chamber Listen
15. "?" - Lestat Listen

Disc: 3
1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - The Damned Listen
2. Vague Inklings - Edera Listen
3. In Shreds - The Chameleons UK Listen
4. All I Want - Prophetess Listen
5. T2000 - Mephisto Waltz Listen
6. City in the Sea - Love Is Colder than Death Listen
7. Flower - kore Listen
8. Witch Hunt - Incubus Succubus Listen
9. Walking Through the Wonderland - Jack Malaise Listen
10. Mountain Voices - James Ray Listen
11. Resurrection Mary - Ex Voto, Listen
12. So Sure - Skeletal Family Listen
13. Tigerlilly - Beatmistress Listen

Disc: 4
1. Enochian Angel of the 7th Aethyr - David J Listen
2. Angels - Christian Death Listen
3. Legend of Our Origin - Aurora Listen
4. Caged Bird - Shroud Listen
5. Six Before Dawn - Rosetta Stone Listen
6. State of Decay - Death Ride 69 Listen
7. Across a Thousand Blades ['96] - Black Tape for a Blue Girl Listen
8. Blessings - Children on Stun Listen
9. Harmonies Listen
10. Earth as in Heaven - Drumatic Listen
11. Nemesis - Die Laughing Listen
12. Do You Believe in Angels - The Last Dance Listen
13. You Can't Help It

HI DERE I READ YOUR POSTS.

I'll get to it here in a sec. ;-)

That would be part of it. I need to get friend Christofu to tell the story of Penal Colony sometime...

Back in 1992, I was seeing Peter Murphy with Machines of Loving Grace opening (and doesn't THAT take you back) at the Greek Theater. While waiting for the show to start, friend Steve and I ended up chatting with the friendly fellers sitting behind us who, unlike us, were clearly 'in the scene' in terms of dressing the part, which they did well. (Plenty of black clothes, makeup, leather, etc.) But like I said, very friendly and just as cynical as us, so we passed the time chatting.

Turns out these two were sick of the posturing idiocy of the lead dude in London After Midnight, who had already made a name for themselves in LA goth circles as being, well, lame. Which they were (and I suppose still are, I haven't paid attention, I don't WANT to), especially the lead guy, who apparently went around trying to convince people he really really REALLY was a vampire. You know, never out in the sunlight, pass the blood, the whole bit.

So these two guys we were talking to didn't think much of all this, and therefore were utterly delighted to discover that in fact dude's regular job on those sunny LA weekdays was to work at a Music Plus or a Wherehouse somewhere in the Valley. Armed with this knowledge, they found the store and went in one day, asking if so-and-so (John, I think) was around. They were pointed in his direction as he stacked up the latest copies of Nevermind or whatever and approached him.

Dude saw them and apparently freaked and tried to escape to protect his image. But they cornered him, saying something along the lines of, "Oh my god, it's a vampire! Quick! Exorcise him!" Then they held out crucifixes and sprayed him with holy water.

Much hilarity was had upon hearing this story, as you might guess.

We did actually RECORD a Maybelline Messiah song, I should note, with lyrics from Donut. Chorus:

"And the dead will rise
And the blood will call
A million faces from the screaming wall
Brings disease, doom, despair
AND DEATH.")

putting london after midnight on there is cute and stuff but are you really going to tell me that that nick cave/kylie minogue duet is more goth than "enjoy the silence"

While a great song this is a RIDICULOUS choice when the obvious candidate is 1982's "The Dog," which is a slow gloomy epic about Claudia from Interview with the Vampire. How much more freakin' goth can you GET?

OTM, though I'd have gone for Anything, a song made for goths to flail to if ever there was one.

And on The Damned song Choice, my vote is for 'Plan 9 Channel Seven' with a secondary choice of 'Nasty.'
What album is The Dog off of?
I'm sure I have it, but I rarely pay attention to individual songs unless they're really important(like I know the entire tracklist for Machinegun Ettequite.

Strawberries

Something from RZA/Wu-Tang, easily. Actually, something from Gravediggaz would be even more obvious.

NIN, no brainer. "Hurt" is the kinda obvious choice but it works.

Whichever song on Hole's debut album is the one cloning "Dark Entries" by Bauhaus

Mylene Farmer (Ally or Spencer to thread)

Portishead, "All Mine"

Smashing Pumpkins, probably "Disarm" or "Zero"

Something from La Britney. I keep thinking "I'm a Slave 4 U" just because of the goth fascination with Prince.

Any number of possible nineties-and-after metal selections but for now Metallica's "The Unforgiven"

Suede, probably something from Dog Man Star

Prodigy, "Breathe" (maybe "Voodoo People" instead)

Something by DMX, probably. (Assuming, as Dan has suggested, that DMX is the hip-hop KMFDM.)

An Antony and the Johnsons track, I'd guess. (In fact anything feeding into the line of descent among psych/freak via the Marc Almond/Coil/Current 93 axis.)

Linkin Park, "In the End" (goth-via-Depeche)

Etc. etc. Any other/better choices?

Well, except for the rights issues.... and everyone definingly goth differently.

(Sorry. Killjoy here. Ignore. Move along!)

Some of the bands on the Cleopatra box suit having "listen" appended to their names.

Here's picture of a lad with stupid hair:

Proof they were more about Important bands/albums: no Shadow Project.
Love that band, but not very influential. I hear echos of them in Deadsy, but I think that's coincidence.

You seriously think "The Dog" is happy?

"Tristana" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtlkus9yY3g&search=mylene%20farmer

"Sans Logique" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlsfwiJgfIM&mode=related&search=mylene%20farmer

"Beyond My Control" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTKLNgbEKhQ&search=beyond%20my%20control

"Je Te Rends Ton Amour" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBzfo9sj1Q&search=je%20te%20rends%20ton%20amour

*reads story*

...oh my.

Actually it's very true. I DJed a goth night for three years and we played "When Doves Cry" almost every single week. It always filled the floor.

What country/city were you in?
What years were these?

These could all factor into hat.
Hell, it's a good song at it was VERY popular and it's dancable.
I odn't think that alone can constitute a "goth fascination with Prince"

Also, roots in glam. The band photo poster from Purple Rain, I ask you. (Then there's folks like Trent and Mr. Corgan and many others who are admitted Prince freaks...)

Have you checked your pulse lately?

Perhaps you truly are one of the Undead.

it made me feel very old indeed

Perfect!

^ can you do that? Are they trying to make it seem like there's only one Cure song in this set?

I have to say, I kind of want to kick Christian Death in the nuts right now.

I know, that's why I said "Are they trying to make it seem like there's only one Cure song in this set?"

Time to dust off that Wax Trax! Black Box for companion listening...

see, my promo did not come in an actual box - just slipsleeves, xeroxed liner notes, no corset

http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/ftp/BIODIDAC/Renaud/RENA001P.jpg

hahahaha ... there should be more stories that end with the punchline, "and then I showed her the corset."

Now picturing a disastrous pre-all-black load of laundry where the Sisters Of Mercy's cotton Y-fronts are tuned grey by indiscriminate sorting.

OI!

To be dead honest I dont think I like about 4/5 of the tracks listed :/

Just got this, £15 in Fopp...