What do you know about it? What are your thoughts based on these facts?

Uh...

"She Wants Revenge" is an okay band, I guess (if you consider them goth/emo)

Wow, I don't think you could have done a worse job explaining that to me.

The only reason to listen to goth music would be to attract goth chicks.
Goth chicks are fricken' HOT!

I thought that was a rave chick.


I'm chronically unhip, you see.

No, the difference is raver chicks wear baggy pants and beads and suck on pacifiers

yeah, she's not a real goth chick... if she was a real goth chick she'd look like this,..

Now that's the ugliest "goth" chick I've ever seen.

Fat goth girls aside, all i have to say is, "Bauhaus". A badass goth band that more or less started the scene and made it cool to wear sunglasses at night and wear all black. Luckily i got to actually see them live when they showed up to open for NIN during the spring leg of the "with teeth" tour. Peter Murphy came out hanging upside down like a bat and fucking rocked the Stadium.

As old as they are now, they still kick ass. It's a shame they got back together to make a new album, released it, then broke up again hehe. I always liked the dark undertone in Peter's voice that made every song eerie as hell.

Heh, I'm wearing my Bauhaus t-shirt right now, and it's signed by David J., the bassist. Anyways, yes, Bauhaus are generally considered the first goth band. In short, Gothic Rock/Deathrock (it's early title, in the U.S.), started around the end of the first wave of punk, '78 or '79. At this time, post-punk popped up, and out of this loose collective came gothic rock, industrial, and other new genres. Musically, gothic rock took the punk playing style, and slowed it down, making it creepy, morose etc. In the early days gothic rock was still pretty much attached to punk, garnering names like Death Punk, Positive Punk (no empty promises of revolution etc.), and Punk-Gothique. (Horror Punk while related, is generally it's own separate thing) Also, where as punk was outward and angry, gothic rock was more introspective and gloomy. The gothic tag, was attached, because the themes the bands wrote about, loneliness, isolation, madness etc. were common in gothic literature. That's the short history. I highly reccomend Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture by Gavin Baddeley. He starts all the way back at the goth tribe in Germany, and treks through gothic architecture and literature, and to the music. Also, DeathRock magazine is great, as is Radio Ghoul School. Feel free to check out my retrojunk article on Bauhaus. Also, the next time I hear Emo attached to either Goth or Punk rock, I might have to disembowel someone. Deathrock 4 ever!

-vladdt

Yes!! Bauhaus is awesome!