post-goth

The new issue of Library Journal has an article exploring and defining goth rock, so as to aid librarians in user advisory. The list of albums is exactly what I was into around ten years ago. I owned every album on the list. The sun used to rise and set around Nick Cave. It may or may not have helped that my boyfriend at the time adopted a similar appearance. When I watched Wings of Desire for the first time it blew my mind in that excited way when all your interests are assembled into one piece of cultural output.



I have taken to following this tumblr lately out of pure nostalgia. When Rowland S. Howard died there was a great memorial of photos and memories. The anonymous-ish blogger answers questions about goth-dom and it is all very charming. The above mentioned article has a "web exclusive" that includes a list of newer bands in the style. That tumblr is all over such bands.

I got a cassette of Murder Ballads on a whim, but I think a lot of it stemmed from blindly ordering Honeymoon in Red (on which the Birthday Party participate) some time in high school. Lydia Lunch was a gateway drug. I had a copy of Sonic Youth's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, but their collab on Death Valley 69 was it:



At some point years later it all lost meaning.