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The Most Ungoodly
Alex C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 06 Mar 2010, 21:30 ---Have we ever had a goth rock thread? I would be rather excited about that.
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I would enjoy one although I don't know how I'd really contribute. I rather like all the goth rock I've heard, but I don't really know anything about the genre and my experience with it is pretty limited.
Besides, I'd be forever grateful if someone could just explain to me how the fuck the world at large decided goths have no sense of humor whatsoever. The Bauhaus alone were entertaining as hell and there's no way someone could convince me bands like Christian Death came up with all of that stuff because they were navel gazing about being miserable all day. I guess the obvious answer would be a few stereotypical fans and people who jump to conclusions all the time, but I'd rather like to believe it's more nuanced than that. It bums me out when it turns out people are as dumb as I fear they might be.
amok:
Nope that's pretty much it. Sorry
Alex C:
Dammit.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 18 Mar 2010, 00:40 ---The Bauhaus
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No 'the', unless you're talking about the architects.
Goth music is all about theatre. Like theatre, it can be comic, tragic or both simultaneously. It bears a lot of similiarity to metal in the sense that (in my opinion) to truly appreciate both you need to be able to willingly suspend your higher critical faculties at points, and deal with the music both seriously and knowingly, though not with ironic detachment; it is critically important to engage. Ideally, you should be able to appreciate the music in a number of different ways depending on your mood and inclination. Every subculture of course attracts both poseurs, who adopt what they think are the subcultures modes of action and presentation as a gesture, and people who take the whole thing far too seriously, both of whom, in the case of goth culture, can often fit into the mopey stereotype. Not to mention, that you do get a few people who are attracted to goth culture because they are melancholic. However, central toa lot of goth music is the idea that wallowing in exaggerated melancholy and self-pity can be extremely enjoyable.
A lot of people are just in it for the boots and the hair though.
David_Dovey:
Also the fact that goths are mad promiscuous
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