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We Are: The Guard is the Crowd Sourced Label and Music Filter of Benjamin Groff (music veteran of Kobalt, EMI, BMG), serving up the very best new music hitting the web. As a Music Filter, We Are: The Guard's team (which are indeed humans and not computers) listens to and filters hundreds of new songs released each day.
The extra cool part is you (yes, You!) can become a Guard yourself! We allow visitors to the site to earn Guard badges and status for their new music discoveries. Achieving Guard status also unlocks blogging credentials, meaning you can submit and get paid for blog posts and reviews you create. It’s our view that Music Blogs are fast becoming the new digital record labels. Thus, if we sign one of your discoveries, Guards can make 20% of whatever we receives for a specific signing.
We Are: The Guard's roster currently includes DENM, Dog Orchestra, Butter, and Mother Falcon.
It’s our belief that we don’t need another “5 Million Songs in Our Pocket.” No, what we need today is a trusted Music Filter to help discover and serve up just the handful of most amazing new songs on a continual fresh basis, either signed or unsigned…and to discover and explore great music that will enrich our lives (and get us through Mondays).
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Hi, I stumbled onto your Top Goth Songs list.... and I have to say, this is why the mainstream should never critique counter-culture. Your list filled with songs that are either not gothic (according the the definition of gothic music styles) or is filled with songs that while okay, are not the artist's best work.
So I thought I'd write a darkling's take on your list.
1) IC3PEAK - SAD BITCH
Mainstream gangster rap appropriating counter-culture looks while playing into the sad stereotypes that all goths and darklings are depressed and anti-social. The whole thing is set to the ultra high pitch and whiny voice of the vocalist.
Skip this recommendation and go with Secret Shame's Calm.
2) MXMS - GRAVEDIGGER
....And even more rap. Why, I don't know, but clearly the OP of the article has never heard goth music. Just skip this crap and listen to Gary Numan's The Fall.
3) SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEE - PEEK-A-BOO
First of all, it's Banshees, plural. Secondly, the OP must have gotten this video from MTV in the 90s, because Night Shift (among others) is a way better Souxsie song. and far less played
4) Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Hey, they spelled it right. Good job OP. Being a fan of Sisters of Mercy, I can't argue with this at all, even if it is one of their more overplayed songs, I've never gotten bored of it and I'm 42.
5) ECHO BLACK - RECKLESS HEART
Eco Black is mainstream pop trying so hard to be emo. Huge fail. And FYI, wearing eyeliner, having tats and muted colors in your video does not make you goth or emo. It means you have eyeliner, tats, and muted colors.
You want emo goth? Try AFI - Miss Murder.
(Who the f**k wrote this article????)
6) RAZED IN BLACK - OH MY GOTH
One of my favorite songs, so agreed.
7) SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEE - CASCADE
Again, it's BANSHEES. Really, if you're going to do a list of artists, at least spell their name correctly.
Yeah, okay, but I'd go Bauhaus - She's In Parties.
8) LACRIMOSA -TRÄNEN DER SEHNSUCHT
Actually, the track name is Die Sehnsucht in Mir. . . .And this is actually more of an electro-synth pop/metal mix, but I can see why it's put into a goth list.
I would actually insert pretty much anything Cocteau Twins, Switchblade Symphony, or Dead Can Dance here.
9) BAUHAUS - BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD
Given that this is my sister Myriah and my song, plus I'm a fan, plus I'm super happy Peter Murphy didn't die, I can't argue this. However while this is a staple, it's also the defacto Bauhaus song. There are actually others, I promise.
10) LANA DEL REY - BORN TO DIE
Funniest sentence ever, "In the wake of pastel goth, it's nearly impossible to say what is or isn't Goth."
...Keep telling yourself that. That's why you have genres that have nothing to do with gothic music in any form. Aside from that, just trash this song and pick something that will make you happy. Try Ladytron's Destroy Everything You Touch.
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Seriously, you may like your playlist but it's not goth. Stop presenting it as such. Goth isn't just skulls and tattoos and eyeliner and sadness. That's a stereotype.
Hey love what you guys are doing! Think you might vibe with the new Wake the Wild tracks as well if you have a chance to check us out! :)
Family of Barry's LEILA LICKS from Switzerland, hips you to the fact that you can run from yourself-but you cannot ESCAPE ...
La famiglia di Barry ' Eva ' dall'Italia, sta assumendo l'Europa a causa della sua capacità di potere e versatilità.
Non c'e ' un cantante in musica che possa essere compatibile con Eva.
A dire il vero, fratelli e sorelle, non c'e ' nessuna band in musica che possa competere con la famiglia di Barry.
"L' ultima musica crossover"
http://www.pa74music.com/artist/familyofbarry/
