Best oldschool Goth bands?

chrischris

G.O.A.T.
Is it Bauhaus or Echo and the Bunnymen or some one else?

Peter Murphy seems to be a fav with many .. any nocturnal creatures around??
 

dParis

Hall of Fame
Goth Bands - Sort of a loose label. Not sure if Echo is "Goth", but if so, then they are top tier. I think you'd have to put The Cure and The Cult in the top tier as well* with everyone else following.

* And Bacon
 

BuggyDub

New User
Bauhaus/Peter Murphy/Love and Rockets/Tones on Tail
The Cure
Sisters of Mercy
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Damned's stuff after the 70s. "Phantasmagoria" I guess would be their big goth album.
The Cult's album "LOVE" is sort of gothy hard rock, but I think that's as close as they get.
 

chrischris

G.O.A.T.
Bauhaus/Peter Murphy/Love and Rockets/Tones on Tail
The Cure
Sisters of Mercy
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Damned's stuff after the 70s. "Phantasmagoria" I guess would be their big goth album.
The Cult's album "LOVE" is sort of gothy hard rock, but I think that's as close as they get.


Good call.
 

kiki

Banned
well, nobody has mixed up Obscurantism and Rock like the unique Black Sabbath, the band that invented heavy metal on its own code.
 
Is it Bauhaus or Echo and the Bunnymen or some one else?

Peter Murphy seems to be a fav with many .. any nocturnal creatures around??

My wife and I are middle aged Goths. I never considered the Bunnymen to be Goth (post punk in my estimation) but they are my all time favorite band. Just saw them a week or two ago and while Mac is sporting a comb over his voice is the best it's been in years. I MUCH prefer Love and Rockets to Bauhaus. Joy Division has some Goth aspects but I also consider them post-punk. If I were gonna do a Goth list it would go something like this:

Sisters of Mercy
The Cure (Pornography era)
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Damned (Phantasmagoria era)
Bauhaus
Christian Death (Rozz not Valour)
 

JW10S

Hall of Fame
Lords of the New Church: Stiv Bators (ex the Dead Boys), Brian James (ex the Damned)--c'mon.
 
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