Standing on the headland taking in the scene.

[reddragdiva]

"If people spent 1/10th as much on music as they did on corsets for instance, you wouldn`t see LJ full of bands whinging that the scene is dead." (markeris, on the goth scene, from here.)

I can hardly believe how much money I used to spend on records and how little I do now. Not that I spend it on clothes either. Nor am I making it up in MP3s. Mostly I'm just wishing I had my old vinyl here. With a laser turntable.

Discuss.

(By the way, full points to mickmercer for switching on comments at last. A lot of interesting ones, too.)

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[childeric.livejournal.com]

But the clothes always were what was interesting about the goth scene, and nothing wrong with that. ;-p

As to the music: three or four reasonably good bands who, in their time, consistently produced interesting and innovative stuff, then half a dozen others who had one or two good songs, and the rest are nothing more than fourth-rate imitators.

And that's just talking about the 80s, when the goth scene actually was dynamic. Nowadays, sorry, but musically the scene is dead. Be happy that for a while it was quite amusing, but now just let it go: hauling loved ones out of graves because you can't bear to part with them is a quick way to get arrested... ;-)

But then, I never did like goth music all that much, so I should probably keep my ill-informed opinions to myself before everyone tells me quite how wrong I am.

[reddragdiva]

IMO, the rise in the popularity of EBM in the goth scene is precisely because they have good pop songs and the trad goth rock bands don't.

Eris' comment applies just as well, to my mind, to buying EBM. The EBM bands know their fans are goths, at least of a sort.

(And I know your fondness for EBM. Now you just have to combine it with hair metal ...)

[childeric.livejournal.com]

And I know your fondness for EBM. Now you just have to combine it with hair metal ..

Apop live have practically done that already. Bless, it's so sweet the way they want to be rock stars. ;-)

Yes, you (and markeris) are probably right about there being more money spent on clothes than EBM records (buy one item from Cyberdog and you've spent about the price of 10 CDs). But EBM is relatively flourishing: or certainly gives that impression.

[reddragdiva]

Not compared to, e.g., Germany.