Heartland

XidiouX wrote:

paint it black wrote:

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:George Michael - Careless Whisper.

Not my own nomination, but that of Wayne and 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.
XidiouX

Wayne's version can now be streamed on Soundcloud or via this link :

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2015/0 ... s-whisper/

I would put that more in the awful than awesome bucket

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 ... ...

The CARS - Stranger Eyes

Manic Street Preachers - There By The Grace Of God

Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin

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

Blue Oyster Cult - Last Days Of May - maybe too much geetar

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

Japan - Nightporter

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

(or maybe the 2nd one comes under "guilty pleasure")

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 ...

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").

'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

SINsister wrote:'80s


Duran Duran - Careless Memories

Night Boat will do too

Pista wrote:

SINsister wrote:'80s


Duran Duran - Careless Memories

Night Boat will do too

Ordinary World would also make a fantastic goth cover.

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

Can't believe that I forgot:

Duran Duran - The Chauffeur



ETA: Oooooh...Friends of Mine *does* have that rather-creepy intro, too, innit? Hmm...

I remember being pleasantly surprised by The Offspring's one song goth phase :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3AqlKfXbE

Massive Attack - Angel

Actually pretty much all of Mezzanine

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.

Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Green Turn Red.

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.

You really need a ruling?!

...or wait, are you being facetious? Sorry, I can't tell.

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.

scotty wrote:Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Green Turn Red.

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

I think this might qualify. Maybe not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOfuEnToTc

Bohemian Rhapsody.