A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box CD3 Poll

if they'd picked "requiem" instead of "tomorrow's world" it'd be killing joke in a walk. if they'd picked "deathwish" or "dogs" or "evening falls" or really anything off "catastrophe ballet" it'd be Christian Death but they picked the song I won't rep for despite its killer riff because fuck off rozz with you lol n-word crap. throbbing gristle will get best-band-on-list votes and the sounds are creepy for sure but "hamburger lady" isn't really so much to listen to. "dieche" is OK but it's no "mauritia mayer." wtf if "morning dew" doing on here instead of anything off "drawings of patient o.t." rubicon played at cal jam II. the bolshoi = the alarm with a different tailor. I like skinny puppy fine but can't really tell any one of their songs from any of the others. who doesn't love the misfits? but no way. kommunity fk gets the win from me even though again this comp has the wrong song. I would do more exgoth nitpicking but I see that it's raining so i have to stare idly out the window now.

"Assimilate" for me.

Might've been Kommunity FK if the selection were "Something Inside Me Has Died," but it wasn't.

the bolshoi = the alarm with a different tailor.

LOL, okay I'm not a big fan of either of them, but I'm really not sure that comparison works. I like your stream-of-consciousness monologue, though, John. :)

I bought a Kommunity FK album in the 80's and only liked one song on it. Recently, a friend happened to have the record and put it on and even that one song didn't do much for me now. I don't even remember the name of it.

I don't know what the hell I'm going to vote for on this one. Might just have to give it to the Damned even if it isn't one of my fave songs of theirs.

The right Damned choice would have been "The Dog."

Would love to vote for Throbbing Gristle or Christian Death or something, but though I basically agree with J0hn, re: Skinny Puppy, "Assimilate" RULES. By far my favorite song on the list. So that.

I almost voted for the Bolshoi because I remember it and it seems to fit the time and style, but when I saw "Melody Lee", I went to the shelf and put on Machine Gun Etiquette.

Who cares about a scene and style that was never defined or claimed until it was over. Melody Lee is my second favorite song on my favorite Damned album.

Einsturzende for me.

Who cares about a scene and style that was never defined or claimed until it was over.

the only time any scene's even worth a second look is prior to its definition/claiming/standardization/freezing-in-amber! true with "goth" even more than other scenes, hence its early vitality - when it was "death rock" or just punx with more makeup

Went the prunes.

This CD is actually way better than CD2

I'll probably vote for Christian Death but "So What", "Pagan Love Song" and "Assimilate" are tempting.

Also, I love "Morning Dew" but it doesn't really belong here.

James K OTM: 'Melody Lee' will do nicely, though I might have gone for 'Plan 9 Channel 7' from the same album.

I don't want to get into the argument over whether Neubauten were Goths or not, but I will assert that, in his day, Blixa sported the best Goth hair that any male human being ever had, and undoubtedly taught Nick Cave a thing or too about personal grooming.

Xtian Death tune was a lot better when I thought it was "burning crosses on a neighbor's lawn."

Also "Dieche" is "the used CD no one ever wants to buy from me."

This CD is WAAAAAYYY better than CD2.

Aaaah, Sex Gang Children.. though I can't actually remember how that song goes. VIRGIN PRUNES!!!! Oh, I want to vote for them, but alas, alack...

I was actually singing Christian Death on the walk home from the bus stop ("new moon shining like the untouched ASS of the boy next door...") and Romeo's Distress has such a KILLER bassline.

Neubauten, however, were never EVER goth. WTF? Blixa Bargeld's hair has so much to answer for.

("new moon shining like the untouched ASS of the boy next door...")

That is so Prufrock, I'm surprised it wasn't an influence on Morrissey!

new moon shining? even morrissey knows a new moon doesn't shine.

Virgin Prunes. Second place: Neubauten.

...really like Party Time by 45 Grave.

Neubauten, however, were never EVER goth. WTF?

Sigh. Again, they were part of the scene. As were Skinny Puppy, Nurse With Wound, and a load of other industrial bands.

Unless the goth/industrial marriage is being ignored in history? I dunno.

Assimilate is a really weak Skinny Puppy song. I dont much care for any of the songs on this one.

But I guess I was always more of a synth and new wave goth than a death/swamp rocker.

waht, "Assimilate" is awesome and Bites is the best Skinny Puppy album

^^ this.

I'll probably vote for Christian Death but "So What", "Pagan Love Song" and "Assimilate" are tempting.

These are my choices exactly too.

"Blixa Bargeld's hair has so much to answer for."

"Your hair has so much to answer for" is the B side of the next Morrissey single, but everybody knows it's all about Blixa really.

i have no idea what song to vote for on this CD.

I have never given a single shit about Christian Death.

Oh, Bimblepaws, I might have just stopped liking you.

The first CD album is stone cold classic. There are some good moments on some of the others, but it's diminishing returns from there, but that first one is still great. Basically, the more Valour, the worse the CD album.

Oh alright, I'll give the first album a try, but that is the LAST TIME.

In the meantime I'm listening to The Cult's "Love" album and I don't give a shit what anyone thinks about it.

I will also rep for the 1st Christian Death album.

I voted the Damned in this poll though.

Virgin Prunes! Definitely the right song choice for them, right? I still hear that (and "Baby Turns Blue") in certain clubs and a few people will always go nuts and sing along to all the words ;-)

OH GOD NOW I WANT TO HEAR BABY TURNS BLUE

Hamburger Lady should automatically win any poll it's on.

Colonel Poo repped for the Damned! *high five* Damn, where's Stewart Osborne when we need him?

Hamburger Lady is a great, great track. But it just doesn't belong on this thing. I don't think Einsturzende belong here either, but ya'll were right about the classick-ness of Blixa's hair.

I'd rather listen to any era of the cult than christian death myself

Christian Death are really interesting - on paper. I can't get into their music, but then, I can't get into Kiss either, and I've given both the kind of chin-stroking attention that Wire readers normally devote to Brian Eno side projects. Time and place, I reckon, and that's got a hell of a lot to do with everything I do like on these discs.

Hamburger Lady is too creeps-giving to win things. Go Hamburger lady and all, but no winning for you.

Okay I'm playing the first 12" by The Mission for the first time in over 20 years. I hope you're happy, goth ilxors. Might as well put black makeup on my face.

Playing early Christian Death now and not quite convinced yet...it's okay...

I appreciate Rudimentary Peni, that's all I'm gonna say. Colonel Poo, tell them about "Death Church".

My Death Church poster foldout is framed and hanging in my dining room.

gotta be Gristle

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow. TG fans are, by definition, lurkers, but the Skinny Puppy vote is surprising. The Damned/Misfits/Xtian Death dogfight is interesting - can we talk about that?

the CD album Bimble needs to hear is Catastrophe Ballet - Only Theatre is cool if you were there at the time, but Catastrophe Ballet is good for all time

by the way those of you who hadn't heard "To Blame" but voted against it are gonna feel like dumbasses when you hear "To Blame"

I just remember Catastrophe Ballet being really... well, silly! But then again, what goth didn't seem silly out of context?

well yes I imagine a guy affected an English accent is gonna sound silly to Britishes but so goes all Cali goth :)

affecting, sorry, drinkin'

not agreeing with these results. ILM goths, I love you but you've let me down.

o_O at results

mainly ppl who hadn't heard most of the rest of the tracks I'd guess

Yeah this Hamburger Lady shit needs to GO. That is not goth, people. You've totally missed the boat if you think that's what goth is. I mean you know, I adore Genesis, but please.

Hamburger Lady is not goth, which who cares?, but more importantly is not good for listening to (though props for being super freaky), but COME ON!, you knew it was gonna win. It's the only rock crit pre-approved non-jam in the set. Expected better from Morning Dew. That's the big surprise as far as I'm concerned. And congrats to Assimilate peoples. You did good.