Goth

When I went to high school in California, I was a card-carrying, black-eyeliner-wearing, Robert-Smith worshipping, super-pretentious goth. I read far too much into lyrics, never knowing that they were mostly about a) hard rock metal sex or b) the fact that the singers were not getting hard rock metal sex.

Gawd, it's embarrassing now. But if I had a picture of me with my purple (dark, dark purple, not punk purple) hair and my Cure t-shirt on, I'd post it for all to laugh.

So I was reading the AV Club part of the Onion, and came across an addition to its Permanent Records Hall of Fame: The Sky's Gone Out by Bauhaus. I was not a Bauhaus fan. I didn't get the genius, and to be honest, outside of Bela Lugosi's Dead and the Bowie cover, I actively avoid listening to the band.

But the interesting part of the article was the comments. I am a major music junkie, and it's been a long time since I've read people's comments who were as knowledgeable, and in most cases more so, as I am about 80s goth music. Man, I miss talking about music the way I did as a teenager. Music evolution was my soap opera addiction.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/65119