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Goth Dance Party Playlist
Uber Ritter:
The girlfriend and I came up with the brilliant idea of getting me and the two other people we know on campus that really, really like Bauhaus to get together and DJ a goth dance party. I was also thinking I'd play industrial since there's so much overlap and a lot of the more recent (post-KMFDM) stuff is so danceable.
I've got the following in my CD collection that I think will be useful:
The Vanishing-Songs for Psychotic Children
The Cure-Pornography, 17 Seconds, Kiss me...
Bauhaus-Crackle and The Sky's Gone Out (plus their vinyl Singles collection)
KMFDM-Adios
Joy Division-Unknown Pleausres and Closer (I'm thinking "She's Lost Control" is a must)
VNV Nation-Empires and Burning Empires
The Sisters of Mercy-Floodland
I know I'm missing some classics from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Christian Death etc. but what songs would particularly add to the above assortment? Anything by the Legendary Pink Dots accessible and dancey enough? I like them and they're prolific, but don't know much of their music. Anything from the above or elsewhere that would be a 'must?'
Johnny C:
BELA...
LUGOSI'S...
DEAD...
Uber Ritter:
Man, I forgot about that. I already have a tailcoat that it would be a shame to waste but it's sooooo tempting.
KharBevNor:
Key question here: are you after goth music you can dance to, or music you can goth dance to?
Looks like you're after a fairly wide selection. I'd find and consider the following tracks, based entirely on my own personal biases. Depends on how eclectic you want it maybe:
:wumpscut: - Black Death
:wumpscut: - Funeral Diner
Alien Sex Fiend - Clockwork Banana Banana Moon
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine
Angelspit - Nurse Grenade
Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Cat Rapes Dog - Motordead
Christian Death - Romeos Distress
Combichrist - This is My Rifle
Covenant - Call the Ships to Port
The Cure - Burn
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Current 93 - Crowleymass
E Nomine - Mitternacht
Edge of Sanity - Sacrificed
Funker Vogt - History
Gothminister - Devil [Icon of Coil Remix]
Hanzel und Gretyl - Disko Fire Scheiss Messiah
Icon of Coil - Access and Amplify
Icon of Coil - Floorkiller
Inkubus Sukkubus - The Leveller
Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampyre Erotica
The Invincible Spirit - Push!
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
Laibach - Tanz Mit Laibach
Laibach - War
London After Midnight - Where Good Girls Go to Die
Ministry - Every Day is Halloween
Mortiis - Marshland
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL)
The Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Tiamat - Nihil
Wolfsheim - Approaching Lightspeed
Wolfsheim - The Sparrows and the Nightingales
XIII. Stoleti - London After Midnight
Zombina and the Skeletones - Horror Highschool
Zombina and the Skeletones - Nobody Likes You When You're Dead
Jackie Blue:
Having DJ'd a lot of goth nights in the past 8 years, I think the key question here is: Do you guys want to hear all the "classics" that you have heard ninety thousand times before, or do you want to play lots of diverse stuff that might surprise people?
Because see, when I DJ, I avoid like the plague all the "must play" songs. That means no fucking BiiGod20's cover of "Like a Prayer", that means no Sisters of Mercy period, no Ministry, no "Beers Steers and Queers", no "Headhunter", no "Bela Lugosi's Dead", etc.
Instead I always focus on songs which may not be typically labelled "goth" but which fit the mood of a "goth dance night" - PJ Harvey's "Down By the Water", Portishead's "Sour Times", pretty much anything off Maxinquaye (or "Christiansands"), The Real Tuesday Weld ("The Ugly and the Beautiful", "The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell Kid"), a decent amount of electroclash (Peaches' "AA XXX" or "Fuck the Pain Away", Miss Kittin's "Frank Sinatra"), IDM (Future Sound of London's "We Have Explosive" or "Elysian Feels").
And I don't stop there; Hell, I'll play fucking Belle and Sebastian if I want to, or Bardo Pond, definitely My Bloody Valentine's "Soon" which is a killer moody dance track, I have played Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, even Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
And that's why they keep asking me back and keep paying me. And hell yes people dance, except for the retarded close-minded "I don't know the lyrics to this song by heart so I will not dance to it" sheeple.
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