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DroppinScience
09-18-2006, 11:37 PM
http://www.rhino.com/gothicbox/index.lasso?p=RHfpg

This box set looks cool! Yeah yeah yeah, there's lots of bands on this set you could debate whether they're "goth" or not (I'm looking at YOU, Norcen), but who gives a shit? Any excuse to have The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, etc. is a good one.

Thoughts?
cosmo105
09-18-2006, 11:49 PM
just say no to goth.
DroppinScience
09-18-2006, 11:58 PM
But you have to say yes to Rhino.
QueenAdrock
09-19-2006, 10:52 AM
just say no to goth.

Agreed.
kaiser soze
09-19-2006, 11:06 AM
Echo & The Bunnymen are goth?
DroppinScience
09-19-2006, 12:27 PM
Echo & The Bunnymen are goth?

Exactly, I'm not so sure why they're on a goth box set, but their music falls under the "gloomy" and "dark" category, so they're trying to use goth in the most general sense. Which is fine by me.
kaiser soze
09-19-2006, 03:35 PM
whoa, just checked out the list of acts on this set and it should have been called "Darker New-Wave/Industrial & Alternative Rock"

It's all the popular but yet darker alternative music, not very gothy at all

Wait....No "Cuts you Up" by Peter Murphy??
SwimFinFan
09-19-2006, 09:31 PM
Peter Murphy and Gerard Way (from my Chemical Romance) talked about this box set on Subterranean on MTV2 this past Sunday. You can go here to see the show:

http://www.mtv2.com/#series/10897

After it loads, click on Videos (on top) to see clips, or Overdrive to see the whole episode. It's kind of interesting how they try to explain what Goth is.
DroppinScience
09-19-2006, 10:38 PM
whoa, just checked out the list of acts on this set and it should have been called "Darker New-Wave/Industrial & Alternative Rock"

It's all the popular but yet darker alternative music, not very gothy at all

Wait....No "Cuts you Up" by Peter Murphy??

This is what the summary says:

The artists featured on this 3-CD + 1-DVD collection, the most comprehensive of its kind, indeed created affecting music about what mattered to them, and what started as intense personal expression evolved into a “lifystyle” for the core audience that most embraced its dark ethos.

So basically you can call this set "music that begat goth or goth-influenced/pioneering stuff."

Since something like this is so hard to pin down, that if they were to be absolutely rigid on what could possibly be called goth, there'd basically only be "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus and maybe a track off The Cure's "Pornography" and that's about it.

Debate all you like, the packaging is ace! (y)