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TOOT BOOT posted:I think Melora Creager from Rasputina might have gone from quirky insane to insane insane. She's gone from insane insane to bat poo poo crazy insane now. Apparently, Jack White has been personally identified as her stalker/tormentor. This was posted on her blog in early November... Trust that I am focused on my art (I've completed a whole album), and real experiences with real people. I'm not a "victim", but I've been victimized, and can get no justice. The FBI only accepts complaints through their website, and they get thousands of "tips" a day. The physical crimes happened over a year ago. I didn't report them for fear of retaliation by the hacker/stalker. (He was in our bank accounts- our money was in danger), and because I wasn't believed. (Interestingly, I hear from joking men who think this is a PR stunt, and sympathetic women who completely understand because something similar has happened to them.) Maybe he became obsessed with me from my videos. Last Fall, he demanded that I make a pornographic video for him. I refused to do it, but really fell apart at that point. Experts write to me saying that all this is possible with micro-cameras (that are easy to get), key-logging, root-kits, and a remote access program. My paranoia comes from real cause, not from delusions or mental illness. How could I possibly entertain the idea that Jack White is the culprit? Listen to his last album. The stalker later indicated he was drunk when he asked for pornography from me. He seemed to be someone who was angry because I spurned him. Take the song, "I Think I Found the Culprit" or "Just One Drink". These songs describe my situation last summer. The whole album is about watching and tricking women, drinking, and being spurned. But I'm just like you. I'm just a struggling person. I have no way to ask him about this, and a criminal would never admit to their crime anyway, especially a famous person. But I was never really able to tell who I was talking to. At one point, they indicated it was more than one person. Hackers are known to sit quietly after they get in, sometimes for years unnoticed. They told me they'd been in my system for a year before the trouble started. Was it a number of people? Did they have a profit motive? Was the porno request intended blackmail? That's what I felt. It's hard to get past something so violating and unsolved. Most of us, most of the time, don't realize that we can say what we want in this world. I am saying these things. I can. I never hurt anybody with what I say. I'm putting forth theories, ideas and questions. Thank you again for listening, and sharing your own true stories with me. Please keep writing to me at rasputinaville@mac.com Love, Melora
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Unfortunate her fans are enabling this by trying to be supportive and telling her she's not crazy.
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# ? Jan 14, 2015 03:47 |
Once upon a time, when Kazaa was the favored program for sharing music on the internet, I downloaded a song which later disappeared in a fatal HDD crash and which I have never found again. What I remember:
It was labeled as being by Christian Death, but Kazaa being what it was this may or may not be the case. I swear I have listened to every song I can find by them. It had some pseudo-egyptian instruments / melodic ornamentation. The verse or bridge ended with the line "And the bell... strikes [four?]" The lyrics of the chorus went "My, my, where am I, or will you not tell? This is too dark for heaven, and too bright for hell." which oh-so-cleverly changed in the last chorus to "Too bright for heaven / too dark... for hell." If I could just find this goddamn song which has haunted me on and off for the past decade, I would be so happy my goth card would be permanently revoked. Anyone?
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a kitten posted:Is it wrong that I would wear this shirt? I've got the version where the text says WHAT IS THIS I'VE SEEN IT ON TUMBLR Since neo-folk has a pretty big crossover with goth, I suspect some of you might like Rome. He's one of the neofolk artists who doesn't have a whole suspiciously right wing/outright Nazi worship thing going on as well, so that's a bonus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYZGG7q2K4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrjEPjJp18 And if you're familiar with Neofolk, you should really check out Death In Rome, who do neofolk-style covers of pop songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beP82Vd9N_I Danger - Octopus! fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I've got the version where the text says WHAT IS THIS I'VE SEEN IT ON TUMBLR Rome is excellent and holy poo poo Death In Rome is so good, especially their cover of Wrecking Ball. Bit awkward that I now know all the words to that song though... LowCityRain is one of the better recent goth bands in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtguZizrhNk
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nomapple posted:LowCityRain is one of the better recent goth bands in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtguZizrhNk That's pretty good, but I think I'd call it shoegaze more than goth. It's like She Wants Revenge -- a lot of their stuff is some of the gothiest music to come from a not-goth band in the last decade or so. Not that there are many identifiably goth bands left in the world, to be honest.
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Floodland is the best album.precision posted:One major problem with goths, and I know/have known way more goths than anyone ever should probably, is that in my experience they won't listen to music that clearly sounds like it shares the goth aesthetic but isn't a band that literally looks/labels themselves as "goth". Prosymna is the best gothiest band right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQlGzy8ZGc Alter Der Ruine is cool and good. From Tucson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR4sA2-7rZQ Some cliche goth music (that's also good!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbH9mNRDFDs Ok Mylene Farmer isn't a "goth musician" but a popular French pop star, but she's also the gothiest goth that ever goth'd, and I'll defend that until I'm buried in the cold, dark, unforgiving ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-vC7d2T4i0 BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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I also think this is goth as gently caress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQwLltUNcEM Some of the local goths in Austin keep them on rotation. Filmed during the horrible drought in Texas a few years ago. Goth is a mood, attitude, aesthetic. That's all it really is.
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Omi-Polari posted:I also think this is goth as gently caress: Whoa this is rad. Also hot beatz.
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Oh the '80s bassist from Fields of the Nephilim is in this band now, and I think the Elysium producer (the Pink Floyd guy) did one of their albums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfswRjttHvM Rhythmic. If you're over 30 and goth, you'll like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1HLA1Rq68 BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Can't wait to check out all these links. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more goth-influenced music in the near future as the 80s seems to be popular again. It's definitely already happening with metal. A lot of black metal bands are trying to bring in a post-punk sound, or have a goth side project (like Beastmilk, now known as Grave Pleasures).
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Omi-Polari posted:Prosymna is the best gothiest band right now: I'll second this. Broken Waters of Mykines is a such a good album.
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nomapple posted:Can't wait to check out all these links. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more goth-influenced music in the near future as the 80s seems to be popular again. It's definitely already happening with metal. A lot of black metal bands are trying to bring in a post-punk sound, or have a goth side project (like Beastmilk, now known as Grave Pleasures). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuoQgkPKplQ The interesting think about that video is how dark and gloomy it is, and how goth it is, but it's like ... a 19th century goth. It's not the cobwebs-and-candelabras thing that's been so played out (though I do love that stuff). But the themes in there are like old-school goth-as-gently caress occultism. You expect they'll start burning witches or something. I dunno. Maybe some self-identified goth types don't like it because it's more popular. I've heard the derisive term "hipster goth," like oh please! Did they think this stuff was obscure in the 1980s in Britain? It wasn't incredibly popular, but goth bands were charting at the time, on pop TV shows, etc. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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That Austra track is quite nice. Here's James Ray's new band, Black Hearted Riders: https://soundcloud.com/black-hearted-riders It's much more organic then Gangwar or the Performance were (while maintaining his spaghetti-western tendencies), and much more rock than the Longfolk were.
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polpotpotpotpotpot posted:Whoa this is rad. Also hot beatz. Yeah, I just bought the record. Quite nice.
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These are both fantastic.
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# ? Mar 31, 2015 05:44 |
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Just discovered Zora. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pifB7dKZDrA Downtempo dark industrial/ethereal, with just a little bit of a Faith and the Muse feel.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I've got the version where the text says WHAT IS THIS I'VE SEEN IT ON TUMBLR King Dude are amazing gothy Neo-Folk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjvYTPQ25-4 Lucifer is the Light of the World - urgh this song is so good There's an Australian group called Veloceraptor! who have a track called "Leeches" that I mistook for an Echo and the Bunnymen jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIBC6RpVyvg Scanning through my goth playlist there's a lot of 'dark industrial' stuff than I realized mostly because they were always monster dance floor fillers at our terrible local Goth/Dark Alternative club 'Faith' things like Distillat by Das Ich (usually the VNV remix which is tight but not as good as the original mix), "Like a Prayer" a Madonna cover by BiGod20 got butts on floors like crazy and Dead Stars by Covenant. What Wolfshiem "Once in a Lifetime" was always a playlist staple, they always meshed well with New Order. And before I forget - mother loving - INKUBUS SUKUBUS, lovingly known by my older goth/pagan mates as 'Inky Sucky' - I always found their 'Vampyre' schtick more tolerable than say 'London After Midnight' perhaps because lyrically they were a tiny bit more creative but I do love LAM as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMihBYEVBec Lucifer Rising - Inkubus Sukubus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTtPg15tBQs London After Midnight - Psycho Magnet
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lt_kennedy posted:And before I forget - mother loving - INKUBUS SUKUBUS, lovingly known by my older goth/pagan mates as 'Inky Sucky' - I always found their 'Vampyre' schtick more tolerable than say 'London After Midnight' perhaps because lyrically they were a tiny bit more creative but I do love LAM as well. I always thought Inkubus Sukkubus' schtick was more paganism than vampires. Decent music, though, and they were pretty good live.
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Omi-Polari posted:
I tend to write-off a lot of the "newer" goth bands because they're way too campy for me (though that's kind of hilarious of me to think since goth is campy as hell) and lack that post-punk/deathrock sound. Though at the same time there are people that prefer the more poppy side of goth, so I guess it just depends on your preference. Usually I'll try to listen to a newer band that's described to have a goth sound and it just doesn't interest me, which is a bummer because I could sure use some new bands.
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Edit: Dumb Rant, Ignore.
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lt_kennedy posted:
drat, and here I thought you were posting a cover of this classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g51OD6CPwQ
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precision posted:I'd say Voltaire is just as bad though. I hate that guy. So much. It's OK to be absolutely incorrect sometimes, I guess. Which you are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFkOYRl5hTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Xm7P5jego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6UtsPa13o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcON9ZmGDBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwiTPOzPJu4 And man, it's a shame to hear about Melora. Rasputina is one of my favorite acts, and losing such a wonderful musician to mental illness is an incredibly sad turn of events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5dSfD6snpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnft-pJ2PUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHUWgTzLLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztx_Vj1Txmo Silhouette fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Silhouette posted:
I really love Rasputina too, so it's definitely sad. She has some tour dates set up now, I guess, but she recently put this up and it's pretty weird though not as bad as that prior post she made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnW3JqGOck I mean that video isn't exactly that far afield from stuff she's said historically but I dunno... Okuyasu Nijimura fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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That Publicist UK album that just came out seems appropriate to discuss here. They're like a slightly more violent sounding Echo and the Bunnymen with some Gun Club and Nephilimy moments. Anyone else hear it?
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Angular Landbury posted:That Publicist UK album that just came out seems appropriate to discuss here. They're like a slightly more violent sounding Echo and the Bunnymen with some Gun Club and Nephilimy moments. Hadn't heard about it. Sounds intriguing.
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# ? Aug 27, 2015 16:27 |
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Listening to them now. It's like the unholy child of post-punk and doom metal. Not bad. On the topic of goth-ish post-punk, the Chameleons ("Vox") are about to tour North America, playing their Script of the Bridge album. I'm seeing them in two weeks. Should be fun. http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/12/29/chameleons-script-of-the-bridge-us-tour-dates/
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Siouxsie has a new song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodPtK1tpXc
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Listening to them now. It's like the unholy child of post-punk and doom metal. Not bad. I'm seeing them in Chicago and it's a dream come true.
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 19:48 |
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I don't think anyone's mentioned Chelsea Wolfe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49MYJkEazIg 20 years ago this would probably have been called "ethereal".
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Last time I went clubbing I got treated to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBN-1Q0_Fiw Apparently it's "witch house" whatever the hell that is. And here's a classic I haven't seen mentioned yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYxIMOODrvg
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Yeah I've been hearing about witch house too. It even has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_house_(music_genre) ††† (which you linked to -- yeah there's a tendency for band names with weird Unicode characters in them) is actually a side project of the Deftones' lead singer, and apparently there's some debate as to whether it qualifies as "true" witch house (lol). Then again, people seem to be classifying Zola Jesus and Crystal Castles as being in the genre, so
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have you guys been in a coma for the last 5 years or something. the whole "what is witch house" freakout was a while ago also the correct answer to the question "can X artist be qualified as true genre Y?" is and should always be "who gives a gently caress shut up". Genres are useful terms as general descriptors of an artist to give a general idea of their sound while describing them. but once it gets taken to a level of debating whether any artist "truly belongs" in a genre or not, it's time to stop because that is an entirely pointless ego-driven endeavor about categorism, not music. also anything involving Chino is usually pretty great Earwicker fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Earwicker posted:have you guys been in a coma for the last 5 years or something. the whole "what is witch house" freakout was a while ago Something like that. Does a somewhat co-dependent marriage (now ended) count? Earwicker posted:also the correct answer to the question "can X artist be qualified as true genre Y?" is and should always be "who gives a gently caress shut up". Genres are useful terms as general descriptors of an artist to give a general idea of their sound while describing them. but once it gets taken to a level of debating whether any artist "truly belongs" in a genre or not, it's time to stop because that is an entirely pointless ego-driven endeavor about categorism, not music. Well, yeah. Hence "lol". Earwicker posted:also anything involving Chino is usually pretty great Not gonna disagree.
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# ? Sep 14, 2015 17:40 |
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If witch house is being brought up, might as well post this, I always liked it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCaR8teExu0
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# ? Sep 15, 2015 05:28 |
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I didn't especially care for the crosses song, but I watched the whole video to see if that was really Norman Reedus. (I don't think it was.)
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# ? Sep 15, 2015 12:24 |
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Pretty sure this qualifies as goth. I heard this song on a Sunday afternoon outside a Starbucks of all places: Grave Babies- Something Awful () https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHLMDbhWqg The rest of the album is really good, too!
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# ? Oct 28, 2015 02:43 |
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I really enjoy Emma Ruth Rundle's solo stuff: https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean Her work with Marriages is a bit more dreampop/alt-rock but in the same vein: http://marriagesmusic.bandcamp.com/ As far as classic goth-rock/post-punk, The Comsat Angels don't get enough credit for being as influential as they were. Yeah they turned all New Wave pop after their first couple albums, but their first couple were really cool and diverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHOfjemCuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYXixknFbs
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I often get the impression that goth music isn't very innovative any more these days, but then sometimes I find an artist like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuX87BBCh_8 Good stuff!
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I have a new album out and it's definitely got a lot of goth-ish influences. Especially early 90's Swans and the first DCD album. Check it out: https://disparition.bandcamp.com/album/faite
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