Warm Leatherette - Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy
And here's another video for your enjoyment. Keeping the "goth" in Priestly Goth Blog: Trent Reznor, Jeordie White and Peter Murphy performing a cover of Warm Leatherette originally by the Normal
Ah good question Jim. and it originates out of a variety of factors. One being that I use "goth" is it tends to be used in L.A. as an umbrella term of a number of alternative music styles that include what I think your expectation of "goth" but includes industrial music like that of Trent Reznor and NIN and some New Wave and electronic music,as well as shoe gazer etc.
The other point of confusion is that Warm Leatherette by the Normal is an electronic song and not goth except that Warm Leatherette was a staple in goth clubs for quite a long time and has been covered by a few bands also played in goth clubs but not narrowly speaking goth. Also, I think what you think of Goth music is perhaps more properly labled "dark wave", and "goth rock" or "death rock" emerged out of punk rock and so retains the heavier sounds. But as for this post I meant "goth" simply to indicate that those covering Warm Leatherette in the video are associated in soemway with the goth scene: Peter Murphy was singing this song, and as the lead singer Bauhaus one of the seminal goth bands along with Sisters of Mercy and many others. Trent Reznor is more or less is Nine Inch Nails (NIN) an industrial band that is played in goth clubs and liked by most goths I have known. and Jeordie White (under various pseudonyms) has been part of a number of goth acts including Marilyn Manson.
All to mean that "goth" music is and is not what you imagined, at least for the above reasons.
Is this goth? It occurs to me that I don't even know what goth is. This sounds heavier and more electronic-y than I imagined goth music.
ReplyDeleteI thought goth would be as dark, but more space-y.
-- Neighbor Jim
Ah good question Jim. and it originates out of a variety of factors. One being that I use "goth" is it tends to be used in L.A. as an umbrella term of a number of alternative music styles that include what I think your expectation of "goth" but includes industrial music like that of Trent Reznor and NIN and some New Wave and electronic music,as well as shoe gazer etc.
ReplyDeleteThe other point of confusion is that Warm Leatherette by the Normal is an electronic song and not goth except that Warm Leatherette was a staple in goth clubs for quite a long time and has been covered by a few bands also played in goth clubs but not narrowly speaking goth.
Also, I think what you think of Goth music is perhaps more properly labled "dark wave", and "goth rock" or "death rock" emerged out of punk rock and so retains the heavier sounds.
But as for this post I meant "goth" simply to indicate that those covering Warm Leatherette in the video are associated in soemway with the goth scene: Peter Murphy was singing this song, and as the lead singer Bauhaus one of the seminal goth bands along with Sisters of Mercy and many others.
Trent Reznor is more or less is Nine Inch Nails (NIN) an industrial band that is played in goth clubs and liked by most goths I have known. and Jeordie White (under various pseudonyms) has been part of a number of goth acts including Marilyn Manson.
All to mean that "goth" music is and is not what you imagined, at least for the above reasons.