A Forest

I was reading the first chapter of The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth by John Robb, and I was reminded of a lot of songs that I hadn't heard of in some time. I won't inflict most of the them on you, though I have included some things by Post Punk artists that went on to be Goth, and at one point featured "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus. (That is often called the first Goth record.)

Goth emerged from Post Punk^‡, but as a separate genre. It was generally darker and more brooding.

Let's listen to a song.

This song is "A Forest" by The Cure from their 1980 album Seventeen Seconds.

‡ Post Punk is what the suits running the American Music industry called New Wave. They hated Punk, even when they were selling some CDs or cassettes, and didn't want anything to do with it. New Wave is mostly a meaningless term.

As for The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth, I don't think I will be purchasing it. It is a bit rambling for my tastes even if it does seem to hit all the high points. The Visgoths' sack of Rome, Gothic style through the ages. Gothic literature from the likes of Mary Shelley. The Doors as the first Rock & Roll band described as gothic (in a 1967 concert review), Velvet Underground, and more that led up to Goth. Bowie, Cooper, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus. The section of the book I have access to doesn't mention Nico and her album The Marble Index from '68. I can't even tell if her association with The Velvet Underground is covered. It probably is, but I do know most of that history already.