All day today, we’re playing celebrating Robert Smith’s (April 21) by playing your favorite songs by The Cure and other goth favorites. As a genre and a style, “goth” is pretty easy to stereotype (see The Damned’s “Grimly Fiendish” for a particularly campy version), but the truth is its influence spreads far and wide. Goth is a thread that connects industrial bands like Einstürzende Neubauten to romantic new wavers like Gene Loves Jezebel (though you’d never find their fans in the same room!) through all manner of dark if not mopey music. Gathered here you’ll find indisputable Goth pioneers like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and The Banshees and Joy Division mixed with offshoots like The Cramps and Pixies along with modern practitioners like The Horrors, Zola Jesus and The Soft Moon. So spike up your hair, smear on some eye makeup, throw on that pirate shirt you’ve kept in your basement and come with us... in to the trees...
The Cure - A Forest
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead (live)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Spellbound
Joy Division - Atmosphere
The Cure - Shake Dog Shake
Lords Of The New Church - Dance With Me
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (live At The Batcave)
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma
Gene Loves Jezebel - Heartache
The Cure - Lovesong
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Pixies - Debaser
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns
Zola Jesus - Vessel
Trust - Bulbform
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
The Cramps - Garbage Man
The Horrors - Still Life
Grave Babies - Gouge Your Eyes Out
Clan of Xymox - A Day
The Soft Moon - Total Decay
Einstürzende Neubauten - Sehnsucht
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
Love And Rockets - All In My Mind
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Fields of the Nephilim - For Her Light
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Zambri - ICBYS
Austra - Spellwork
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
CREEP - Animals (ft. Holly Miranda)
Chelsea Wolfe - Mer
One Comment
This day was so awesome!!!! Please do Goths in Trees day every year = :}