Recent "Goth" quotes in the media.

"I'm not immune to the nostalgia of the retro industry. Moreover, the acts that managed to break new ground were enough to keep me excited for what's to come in the future. Not that this answers the debate over retrograde music. If we're following trajectories, in the next couple of years it could be goth or industrial or synthpop revitalized as the Next Big Old Thing." - Patrick Schabe (Popmatters)

"I remember when I was a kid, before the hyphenated sub-genre explosion that we've been crushed with lately, there weren't that many back then," he says. "You were either a new wave kid, you were a metalhead, you were a Goth kid, or a preppie or a redneck. There wasn't a whole bunch to pick from and I think that saved me, because none of it really interested me enough." - Butch Walker

"We got back home after the Pacifier album and everyone hated us. One day I went walking in Wellington with my 11-year-old daughter, and on the corner there were some goth guys who looked exactly like me at the same age. As we went past they shouted out, Jon, you're a f–king sellout! I wanted to run down to Rebel Sport, buy a cheap cricket bat and come back and explain a few things to them about the complexities of the record industry." - Jon Toogood (of Shihad), Stuff.co.nz

"This first generation of Goth icons were not labeled as such until many years later, but they introduced an untried musical perversion that wove dark, even macabre poetry with disturbing imagery and a sound layered with pounding bass and dissonant melodies. The routinely disenchanted, youthful masses were primed for just such a sound, and the movement exploded in the early 1980s in a flurry of black hair, red lipstick and vinyl." - Erin Ryan, Boise Weekly

¶ Sunday, December 12, 2004 |