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XidiouX wrote:
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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
If I remember, it was that he had the record (not sure about two) even though he didn't have a record player. Despite that, he felt it was important to own the artefact as the song was, in his view, so good.
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Wayne's version can now be streamed on Soundcloud or via this link :

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I would put that more in the awful than awesome bucket
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million voices wrote:I would put that more in the awful than awesome bucket
For this time, maybe I should spare myself the usual 0:50 I can stand these efforts ... only thinking of it, but ...... well - 0:43 ... ok, that's more than sufficient ... :urff: ...
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The CARS - Stranger Eyes
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Manic Street Preachers - There By The Grace Of God
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Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
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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I'm gonna do this in installments; feel free to laugh your arses off/disagree! These lists are by no means complete, but I haven't got all year. So, without further ado (in no particular order because I'll be damned if I'll allow my OCD to take over everything):


'60s:
The Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin'
Ennio Morricone (from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) - Il Tramonto; L'Estasi dell'Oro
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
The Doors - The End
Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home


'70s:
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Heart - Crazy on You
ELO - Evil Woman
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Hot Chocolate - Emma (duh)
Elton John - Funeral For a Friend; Have Mercy on the Criminal
Sniff 'n' The Tears - Driver's Seat
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Michael Martin Murphey - Wildfire
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Eagles - Hotel California
The Cars - Dangerous Type
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
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Blue Oyster Cult - Last Days Of May - maybe too much geetar

Gorecki - Symphony No.3, 2nd Movement - maybe not enough geetar
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Japan - Nightporter

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

(or maybe the 2nd one comes under "guilty pleasure")
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VNV Nation - Beloved
Bruderschaft - Forever
VU - Venus In Furs
NMA - 225
The Church - Under The Milky Way
The Nits - Nescio
Calexico - Crystal Frontier
Joe Jackson - A Slow Song
FGTH - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Covenant - Call The Ships To Port

... and many more ...
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million voices wrote:
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

(or maybe ....comes under "guilty pleasure")
both. third best jim steinman composition. (after "bat out of hell" and "more").
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"

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'80s

Adam & The Ants - Dog Eat Dog
The Alarm - The Stand
Big Pig - Breakaway
The Bongos - Number With Wings
Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely
Divinyls - Pleasure and Pain
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party; Just Another Day
Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart
Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill; Wuthering Heights
The Hitmen - Bates Motel
Icehouse - Icehouse; Sons; Walls
a-ha - Scoundrel Days
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Duran Duran - Careless Memories; Is There Anyone Out There?; Planet Earth; New Religion; Lonely in Your Nightmare; Save a Prayer
Rainbow - Stone Cold
Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
Barrington Pheloung - Theme From "Inspector Morse"
Device - Hanging on a Heart Attack
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Chris De Burgh - Don't Pay the Ferryman
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
The Fixx - Red Skies
A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
INXS - To Look at You; Original Sin
Jerry Harrison - Man With a Gun
OMD - Statues
Payolas - Eyes of a Stranger
Planet P Project - Why Me?
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
The Police - Secret Journey
Psychedelic Furs - Dumb Waiter
PIL - The Order of Death
Real Life - Send Me an Angel
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters - When Things Go Wrong
Romeo Void - A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)
Rough Trade - All Touch
The Selecter - Celebrate the Bullet
The Silencers - Remote Control
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety
Tears For Fears - Mad World; Change
Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submarines
Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
Ultravox - just about everything!
U2 - most of the Boy album
Yaz - Don't Go
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SINsister wrote:'80s


Duran Duran - Careless Memories
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Night Boat will do too :D
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Pista wrote:
SINsister wrote:'80s


Duran Duran - Careless Memories
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Night Boat will do too :D
Ordinary World would also make a fantastic goth cover.
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I like this thread . Nice to see what goth can be like. Lets add a few:
Talk talk - time its time
Talk talk - its getting late in the evening
Wolfang ambros - heite drah i mi ham
Suede - to the birds
Air - dont be light
Weezer - only in dreams
Reinhard fendrich - zwischen eins und vier
Billy idol - dont need a gun
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Can't believe that I forgot:

Duran Duran - The Chauffeur

:eek: :oops:

ETA: Oooooh...Friends of Mine *does* have that rather-creepy intro, too, innit? Hmm... ;D
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I remember being pleasantly surprised by The Offspring's one song goth phase :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3AqlKfXbE
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Massive Attack - Angel

Actually pretty much all of Mezzanine
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I was going to put "The Lords Of The New Church" but I have read that they are actually Goth! I always had them pegged as "Industrial Groove".

Could I have a ruling please.
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Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Green Turn Red.
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million voices wrote:I was going to put "The Lords Of The New Church" but I have read that they are actually Goth! I always had them pegged as "Industrial Groove".

Could I have a ruling please.
:eek: You really need a ruling?! :P

...or wait, are you being facetious? Sorry, I can't tell. :von:
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Lords of the New Church are post-punk. Right? But since Stiv is dead, maybe that makes them goth? It is a mystery.

On topic: 1/3 to 1/2 of Ray Wylie Hubbard's output in the last 15 years. And the entirety of Javi Garcia's first record, A Southern Horror.
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scotty wrote:Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Green Turn Red.
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Their cover of The Shop Assistants' "Somewhere in China" is also rather goth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92DLh1WJUY4

I'd also offer:

Gene Pitney: Town Without Pity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCRSB8o3CN4

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood: Some Velvet Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4

Pretty much anything from the first four Scott Walker albums
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I think this might qualify. Maybe not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOfuEnToTc
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Bohemian Rhapsody.
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