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Was goth a thing?

Started by Meunster, July 27, 2015, 08:17:00 PM

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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Meunster on July 29, 2015, 04:24:35 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 29, 2015, 04:20:38 AM
I was going to answer with a lot of thought, then I noticed who asked.

Then I noticed what you asked.

The scene was great if you loved the scene. Then the scene changed. And you either went with it or you became a hater.

What the hell are you even asking?

What was it like? at a regular goth meeting type thing? The small little details.

It's what you'd expect.  The majority stockholders spoke, and everybody else shut the fuck up and sat in the back.

Unless they could form a bloc making them more or less equal with a majority stockholder.  This wasn't common, because it was easier to kiss up to one of the majority stockholders.  And the CEO, as always, some twit with good teeth and no survival instincts whatsoever.
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Quote from: Meunster on July 29, 2015, 04:24:35 AM

What was it like? at a regular goth meeting type thing? The small little details.


Fishnets, PVC, spooky white foundation, cleopatra eyeliner and massive backcombed hair. Oh and Daniel Ash's echo pedal when you're tripping balls.

Goth ruled. I miss it  :cry:


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hmm, i only know  a few people who are modern goths, one person described her experiences as "deliberately having fun with macabre elements". then again this person happened to be as far removed from a nihilist mindset as a Twilight movie is from actual romance, so maybe this is a slightly different mutation?
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I'm just happy there's no pics from my goth period.
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Seriously. I Wake up every morning overjoyed that all the pics from that period are gone.
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LMNO

It was pretty much this, from 8 until 2, five nights a week.


The other three nights were for gay clubs and early 80s music.

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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 03, 2015, 02:36:56 PM
It was pretty much this, from 8 until 2, five nights a week.


The other three nights were for gay clubs and early 80s music.

Though a couple of nights a month it was this.

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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 03, 2015, 02:36:56 PM
It was pretty much this, from 8 until 2, five nights a week.


The other three nights were for gay clubs and early 80s music.

The exact echo pedal I was talking about.

Quote from: PopeTom on August 04, 2015, 08:35:08 PM

Though a couple of nights a month it was this.


See this is the part I could never resolve. How could white zombie and marylin manson be "goth"? That's kinda like if they called basketball "golf"  :eek:

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LMNO

The whole scene shattered into a million subgenres.

Did you know there was such a thing as a "graver"? Goths who roll on X and go to raves. And listen to Gabber.

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Yeah I get the whole subgenres thing. Happened to metal back in the 80's when it split up into speed and death and thrash and fuck knows all what. Thing is, that shit made at least a bit of sense. You listen to x-metal and there's a family resemblance. Like, yeah, that's metal but goth? What the fuck does the new goth have in common with the old stuff? Like put yourself back in the 80's and show someone marylin manson, britney spears and the london philharmonic orchestra and ask "which one is 21st century goth" I'll be fucked if I could call it.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

The Johnny

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on August 08, 2015, 08:29:54 PM
Yeah I get the whole subgenres thing. Happened to metal back in the 80's when it split up into speed and death and thrash and fuck knows all what. Thing is, that shit made at least a bit of sense. You listen to x-metal and there's a family resemblance. Like, yeah, that's metal but goth? What the fuck does the new goth have in common with the old stuff? Like put yourself back in the 80's and show someone marylin manson, britney spears and the london philharmonic orchestra and ask "which one is 21st century goth" I'll be fucked if I could call it.

The perceived transgressivenes and dark themes?
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Makes sense when you put it like that.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Meunster

Is this thread still a thing?
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