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I've been meaning to post these for a while now, I haven't seen them mentioned - Stylus isn't around anymore but the entire archive is still online. Reading the Quietus article made me remember them. The first link is "England Fades Away: Stylus Magazine's Guide to Goth" and has a nice section on Leeds, including the girls, Salvation, the m*****n, March Violets, etc.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... o-goth.htm

A regular column called "Seconds" featured Some Kind of Stranger and Adrenochrome:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... ranger.htm

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... chrome.htm

And reviews of Floodland and First and Last and Always when the re-issues came out:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/t ... odland.htm

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/t ... always.htm

Thanks! (love the population pie chart!)

Nicole wrote: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... o-goth.htm

Very cool pages ... thank you!

alone this one is great fun, already ... guess that's what you're pointing at, Nadia81 ...

Being645 wrote:

Thanks for making that possible, Nicole.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... o-goth.htm

The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always (1985)
Stop. This is it. Thirty seconds into leadoff track "Black Planet," Eldritch and Co. could have rolled up the reel-to-reels, gone down to the patent office and trademarked this s**t, Goth with a capital "G." Everything after that ain't nothin' but a G-thing, baby, and they owe it all to And-y. Sure, Floodland is the bands masterpiece—Eldritch doing away with all that unnecessary "band" nonsense and focusing on pure dynamics and atmosphere, but First and Last and Always is the stereotype that leagues of imitators (Rosetta Stone, the Merry Thoughts, Love Like Blood, Syria, it goes on) trace their entire component DNA from. The first four songs are variations on the basic theme—doomy strings, key stabs, Gary Marx's godlike bass, dynamite drum programming.

Nork1 wrote:http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... o-goth.htm

...Gary Marx's godlike bass...

Oops.

Well, the 'godlike' part is right, anyway.

7anthea7 wrote:

Being645 wrote:

Thanks for making that possible, Nicole.

From memory that graph is the highlight of that article, along with the point about the Virgin Prunes; that they became acceptable among the gothic scene (are you allowed say "gothic" on here?) as the Prunes became slightly more palatable and the goths became slightly less conservative

this shit is very excellent and full of WIN! Nicole

thankee

I've only peeked at the first article BTW

I wrote an awful lot of that stuff - glad you liked it.

Dunno about the Marx bass thing .. clearly somebody was experiencing head trauma that day. That one wasn't my fault though!

RIP Stylus etc ...

Muppet Boy wrote:I wrote an awful lot of that stuff - glad you liked it.

Very much! I thought they were great pieces - and it was nice to see some positive Sisters articles on a site that wasn't goth-centric. The "England Fades Away" piece is how I found Stylus in the first place, I was doing some sort of random search (probably on Sisters or March Violets) and came across it and was impressed, enjoyable read and thought the writers definitely knew their stuff - unfortunately I found Stylus a bit late, I started reading it almost every day and a month or two later it was over.

So - is this you, by any chance?

Muppet Boy wrote:RIP Stylus etc ...

Indeed. Wish I would have found it sooner, I enjoyed reading it. Thought much more was covered than, say, Pitchfork, which was another site I read often at the time.

Apparently these were already mentioned here on HL - just found the threads. Whoops. Oh well, I figure they're worth another mention.

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... ht=#264894

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... ht=#264906

7anthea7 wrote:

Being645 wrote:

Thanks for making that possible, Nicole.

yes - that is excellent