Awesome g**h songs by non-g**h artists

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I'll start with

Mama - Genesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccs2rt0oSzQ


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Nice subject

Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Brian Jonestown Massacre - Dark Wave Driver/Big Drill Car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaD-6dj1q3Y
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Too many early Simple Minds songs to mention. Pretty much anything up to and including the monumental New Gold Dream. For now, let's have This Fear of Gods (which I regard as a kind of prototype of New Gold Dream.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lds_GcdLnc

Similarly with Scott Walker. Even Eldritch says that My Death is one of his favourite g**h songs. I advise every Sisters fan to get a hold of Climate of Hunter. I listened to this album 33 times consecutively (no joke and I kept count) when I bought it, on impulse. It's short and sweet. Here are tracks 5 and 7 called....Track 5 and Track 7. No prizes for guessing which is which.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1S7d6xR1Jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c9-1C1DuM

If you like Bowie circa Let's Dance, esp. Criminal World and Cat People, I'm sure you'll love these. Actually, I'll add those two tracks to the list as well.


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Swans "goth" period.
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Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Comes
Japan - Ghosts
The Doors - The Crystal Ship
Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
The Passions - I'm in Love with the German Filmstar
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Psychedelic Furs - Alice's House
Gabriela Cilmi - Nothing Sweet About Me
Lana del Rey - Gods and Monsters
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Alanis Morrissette - Uninvited
VAST - Touched (although I dunno, maybe VAST are considered g***?)
Woven Hand - Down In Yon Forest
IAMX - I Come With Knives
and uh, Johnny Cash - Man In Black ;D
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Adam & the Ants - Ants Invasion
Kate Bush - Under Ice
Classix Nouveaux - 1999
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Ballad of '32
Peter Gabriel - Intruder
Ultravox - The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned

And, of course, anything by The Sisters of Mercy, who are definitely not a goth band :innocent:
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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The Walker Brothers' finest hour:

Baby it's slow - When the lights go low - There's no help no
He's drilling thru the Spiritus Sanctus tonight
Through the dark hip falls screaming, Oh you mambos
Kill me and kill me and kill me
If I jerk the handle you'll die in your dreams
If I jerk the handle jerk the handle, jerk the handle
You'll thrill me and thrill me and thrill me
Baby it's slow when the lights go low there's no help no

Also Gold Dust Woman, Blasphemous Rumours and I'd go with Domino parts I and II for my Genesis tip!
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Gold Dust Woman.
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Goodbye Horses - Q Lazzarus

Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night

Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme
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David Bowie - Nite Flights (Scott Walker cover way, way better than the original.)

A bit early yet but still, the only Christmas song I like (even if I don't agree with it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZg7tvGN9o

Unless we count

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6na1T2pZI

I tip my eyebrow concordantly about The Electrician, czuczu.

Yeah, and

Cliff Richard - Devil Woman

Insists my inner Rik Mayall. We all have one.


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Another one:

Suede - We Are The Pigs

If I was 17 when Suede were big, they might have been my favourite band. I dunno. The only thing that, perhaps, bothers me about them is that they're very London.


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PIL - Flowers of Romance Lo

The Pogues - Haunted
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Petula Clark - I who have nothing

The Shangri-las (all of them)
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Cerrone - Supernature
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White Noise - The Visitation

(sequel to Leader Of The Pack?)
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Salvation
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Duran Duran - Night Boat
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Anouk - Birds
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDYbuaXlA8
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COCKNEY REBEL - SEBASTIAN

I am not sure whether this qualified but I find it overblown, pompous, indecipherable and rather compulsive - so it ticks some of the boxes
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million voices wrote:COCKNEY REBEL - SEBASTIAN

I am not sure whether this qualified but I find it overblown, pompous, indecipherable and rather compulsive - so it ticks some of the boxes
good call
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George Michael - Careless Whisper.

Not my own nomination, but that of Wayne and :von: apparently.
http://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/li ... ssey/19345
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million voices wrote:COCKNEY REBEL - SEBASTIAN

I am not sure whether this qualified but I find it overblown, pompous, indecipherable and rather compulsive - so it ticks some of the boxes
yeah Von introduced it as one of his fav songs on a radio show back in 84. along with stop dragging my heart and a few other things he's covered since
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:George Michael - Careless Whisper.

Not my own nomination, but that of Wayne and :von: apparently.
http://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/li ... ssey/19345
at the time, a 10 best things interview, he said he had two copies, as anything that good should be owned twice ~ something like that anyway
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