Are The Sisters g*th or not

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OMG I really wish you hadn't reminded me of 'positive punk' :lol:

It's all lazy music-journo pigeon-holing anyway in the final analysis.
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sultan2075 wrote:The Neph I guess are a little too weird, even for 'goth,'
Ever heard Garden Of Delight? It's like The Neph, only with the occultism amplified by 11.

Anyway, Sisters never had any of the lyrical imagery related to the stereotypical idea of goth (i.e. coffins, crypts and cobwebs), Von seems more like an aloof spectator commenting on life, the universe and everything (and, occasionally, politics), whereas McCoy was dabbling in thelema, Crowley and Lovecraft. None of them really fit the stereotypical idea of goth (The Neph didn't even look like goths, at least Von had the long and thin as a straw with sunglasses thing going on, and Patricia.. well, she DID looke like a goth), but both are considered goth music nonetheless. So, are they goth? Musically, yes. Image-wise and lyrically, no. Or, maybe. Depends on what you'd consider goth, I guess.

And positive punk is a really f*cking horrible name for a genre.
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sultan2075 wrote:I proudly have too little exposure to the Mish to know where it falls in that regard.
It's called hippy scum. ;D
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sultan2075 wrote:I proudly have too little exposure to the Mish to know where it falls in that regard.
It's called hippy scum. ;D
Hippie scum making boring gothpop ;D

Severina wasn't half bad, though.
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markfiend wrote:OMG I really wish you hadn't reminded me of 'positive punk' :lol:

It's all lazy music-journo pigeon-holing anyway in the final analysis.
Agreed.

"positive punk" is almost as oxymoronic as "neo-Luddite". I'd better give th back story to that particular one I guess...

While on the road crew for The Levellers one tour, a band approached me with a CD of their's to pass onto The Levs for a possible support slot. I asked them what style it was...they replied, "We're neo-Luddites. All our instruments are acoustic..."

"Hang on," says I, "you're neo-Luddites??"

"Yeah. We hate everything the modern consumerist industialised world stands for and <I tuned out at that point>"

"So why the feck are you handing me a CD?"

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'Neo-Luddite'. That is pure comedy gold. :lol:
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markfiend wrote:Image

'Neo-Luddite'. That is pure comedy gold. :lol:
Isn't it just? How the hell I managed to keep a straight face I'll never know. You should've heard the howls of derision from the rest of the crew that followed them as they departed feeling rather confused.
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EvilBastard wrote:The voice alone can’t carry it, in the way that it can with blues, for example, which only really needs a rhythm line to provide tempo.
disagree, the sung/spoken intro to Bury Me Deep is goth as feck
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There's a difference between what goth was and what it became. 1983 was the turning point - before then it was very different:

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mh wrote:There's a difference between what goth was and what it became. 1983 was the turning point - before then it was very different:

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Not to forget:

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:wink:

But yes, UK Decay, Southern Death Cult and Sex Gang Children seems to have been more into Joy Division and such, at least visually (of course, Southern Death Cult/Death Cult had the whole indian thing going on).
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Totally g*ff, that. :von:
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All right, kiddies, that's quite enough. :roll:
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There's a difference between what goth was and what it became. 1983 was the turning point - before then it was very different:

Yes it developed like everything else does. Different people in different bands brought different influences to the table

'Goth' was nothing but a brief shift in mind sets ,another stop on a journey to who knows where
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I still see the Sisters as a goth band, although they're not goth at all nowadays.

In the Netherlands they were definately a goth band in the eighties, together with Siouxsie, The Cure etc. In the Goth scene where I hang out in those days (late eighties, early nineties), everybody loved black clothes, lots of hairspray and ofcourse The Sisters :wink:
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Where was that Paul? Femina, Bluf, Scarlet, Rock Fabrik? :D

Loved those days especially in Femina though I was one of the few non goffs... :lol:
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Ozpat wrote:Where was that Paul? Femina, Bluf, Scarlet, Rock Fabrik? :D

Loved those days especially in Femina though I was one of the few non goffs... :lol:
Hey Patrick,

Friday in Input (Filmhuis Akerstraat) or Rockfabrik
Saturday mostly Femina and Bluff, or B52 in Hulsberg or Spuugh in Vaals, later Flesh Temple and Obscura in the good old Oefenbunker.

Yeah, I was one of the dodgy darklings wandering around in the Heerlen scene :roll: (and sometimes still missing those days :wink: )
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paul wrote:
Ozpat wrote:Where was that Paul? Femina, Bluf, Scarlet, Rock Fabrik? :D

Loved those days especially in Femina though I was one of the few non goffs... :lol:
Hey Patrick,

Friday in Input (Filmhuis Akerstraat) or Rockfabrik
Saturday mostly Femina and Bluff, or B52 in Hulsberg or Spuugh in Vaals, later Flesh Temple and Obscura in the good old Oefenbunker.

Yeah, I was one of the dodgy darklings wandering around in the Heerlen scene :roll: (and sometimes still missing those days :wink: )
Those were the days...*nods*
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DasPerltAber wrote:
paul wrote:
Ozpat wrote:Where was that Paul? Femina, Bluf, Scarlet, Rock Fabrik? :D

Loved those days especially in Femina though I was one of the few non goffs... :lol:
Hey Patrick,

Friday in Input (Filmhuis Akerstraat) or Rockfabrik
Saturday mostly Femina and Bluff, or B52 in Hulsberg or Spuugh in Vaals, later Flesh Temple and Obscura in the good old Oefenbunker.

Yeah, I was one of the dodgy darklings wandering around in the Heerlen scene :roll: (and sometimes still missing those days :wink: )
Those were the days...*nods*
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Until he calls himself ANDREW TAYLOR he is goff.

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