Thanx Joanie, i´ve just discovered Skeletal Family and Play Dead.  i guess i´ve never heard them before. Better late than never! :)

Joanie Lindstrom said:

I saw Tuxedo Moon open for Bauhaus in London in 1980 (on Halloween).  Also saw a show there w/ Wasted Youth, Sex Gang Children and UK Decay.  Pretty cool. Not sure if anyone's mentioned Skeletal Family, an overlooked band from the era. And Play Dead.

Tuxedomoon were great! They use to live in Italy in the 80s, I´ve seen them many times live. :) Did someone mentioned Devo or the Residents? Important bands back then.

I saw Tuxedo Moon open for Bauhaus in London in 1980 (on Halloween).  Also saw a show there w/ Wasted Youth, Sex Gang Children and UK Decay.  Pretty cool. Not sure if anyone's mentioned Skeletal Family, an overlooked band from the era. And Play Dead.

Yep, I love goth too (Bauhaus live ´82? was simply fantastic!) but not only ... In general love most stuff from the 80s. It´s my time, my music and Kopper´s list could be my list too! In there i would add bands like Sonic Youth, Pere Ubu, Tuxedomoon, Pixies, the Sounds, Beasts of bourbon, Foetus, to mention very few more... 

One band who devastated me (about ´81) was Circus Mort, just 4 songs but WOW!!!!!!!!!! (I was also really impressed by their drums). Unfortunately i´ve never seen Circus Mort live just few years later, Swans (was great too:)

 C.M. live:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feccv97AYt8  C.M. live

Is this in response to something in particular or you just think this is a good record or what? It seems to be a pretty random comment.

Erik Johannes Matze said:

Join Hands is the second studio album by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released by Polydor Records in September 1979. It reached number 13 in the UK albums chart.[1] Guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris left the band shortly after the album's release.

Join Hands is the second studio album by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released by Polydor Records in September 1979. It reached number 13 in the UK albums chart.[1] Guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris left the band shortly after the album's release.

Wow! Kopper really hit the nail on the head with all those bands!!! I've never heard of Magazine so I'll have to check them out.

I totally still enjoy some of that old goth-y stuff. I booked a show with Peter Murphy a few months ago and he was awesome. It was so great to see some of the old Bauhaus classics live.

Jimi by Butthole Surfers? I love how it goes completely different almost pastoral near the end...

Or maybe I'm just thinking its goth rock because I listened to it at the same time I was listening to loads of goth :)

Heehee...and was listening to Rudimentary Peni, had totally forgotten about them gonna go youtube them now...

But my fave goth-y song is "Jack on Fire" by Gun Club

Tune in, we play lots of those bands,

also on I-Tunes radio under Alternative Rock

Babylon Street Radio

Back in the day...   England, early 80's..  I went to a regular little club that was full of goths, rockabillies, punks and general new wavers.  All the music was just a mixture of everything.  There was no music rule.  Everyone jumped around to everything.  I was a wannabe psychobilly dressed like a rockabilly; and my girlfriend was a gorgeous Goth with big black hair and white make up.  it just didnt matter.  Our record collections would cross over and overlap.  I saw Bauhaus live several times, Souixie numerous times...  while I dragged my poor girlfriend along to wreck to the Guana Batz and Meteors gigs.

I still listen to most kinds of music (to a limit, obviously), but I will always have a fondness for the Goth scene.  There is a lot of humour behind the black and white make up and morbid lyrics.

I wonder what my gothy girlfriend is listening to now, 25 years later...   will never know.

Did anyone mention Einstürzende Neubauten ? Guess you should check their 80's stuff (even if some call it more indus than goth).
And what about Killing Joke first 2 lp and singles ?
Early Wall of Voodoo (Stan Ridgway period) should be tried too if you ain't afraid of mixing Suicide with country music !

About Bauhaus, I really loved them when I was a kid but I can't listen to them anymore...much too arty and Bowiesque to my dirty old ears...
About the intro of "Bela Lugosi's dead" picked up by The Dirtbombs in their "Kung-Fu" version, Jay Reatard did the same thing in "Blood visions" (the song).
About The Sisters of Mercy, if you ain't dead of too much laughing after listening to their "First and last and always" lp, you'd better try the first eps, especially the one with "Alice" and their cover of "1969". Those eps are also gathered in the "Some girls wander by mistake" cd. But, once again, you may laugh more than cry... which is quite a pity for a wannabe dark and romantic goth !

About the bands that deals with dark and horror themes, you can't forget the kings of Psychobilly : The Meteors !

At last, I would say better forget about all these not so great bands, who probably used to spend more time fixing their dark mascara and blood red lipstick than practicing witchcraft in spooky cemetaries under the full moon, and please check each and every stuff with Steve Pallow or Haunted George in !!!