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- From: bthompso@reed.edu (Benjamin Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Top 10 Goth Albums, anyone?
- References: <1992Nov20.054859.6366@Virginia.EDU>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:39:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.113939.10389@reed.edu>
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- You happened to pick some of the least gothic albums from all of these
- artists...
-
- First of all, Burning from the Inside is basically a pop album. It
- was recorded when Peter Murphy was out with mono, and consequently has
- very little of his heroine induced influence on it. A better gothic
- Bauhaus album would be either Press the Eject and Give me the Tape or
- In The Flat Field.
-
- The Dead Can Dance album you recommended is also a shoddy pick in my
- mind. If it is a greatest hits album, trash it, burn it, stomp up and
- down on it... All Greatest hits albums are evil and so is this one.
- Aion is an excellent album, and so is the Spleen and Ideal, and The
- Serpent's Egg. I don't know that you can call any one of them better
- than the other, but they certainly aren't that gothic. Unless you
- consider things in unknown languages gothic by the mere fact that you
- don't know what language they are in.
-
- Third your list also lacks a significant number of true gothics such
- as Diamanda Galas. That is one Gothic woman... Please come back some
- day when you have a more insightful list to offer to the world.
-
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- Benjamin Thompson My views are my own, as far as I know...
- bthompso@reed.edu I go to Reed College --- You can trust me
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