What was the first band that got you into Goth? For me it was Darkwell, I still listen to them today. :D

Okay, they didn´t dragged me screaming into the underworld, but the first bands of the 'darker' genre which caught my attention were the Sisters Of Mercy and The Cure. :vampire:

It started with the Cult, then went on to Fields of the Nephilim, and finally on to Sisters of Mercy. I don't think I really put up much of a fight. :D

First band was The Cure, then Siouxsie and The Banshees, followed by the Cult, The Fall And Jesus and Mary Chain

The cure was the first band that brought me in. Siouxsie also came to me around the same time, but Bauhaus really really took me deep down. I just loved their Ziggy Stardust. I also listened to a lot of other stuff back then.....and I never knew it was called "Goth" or that there was an entire genre until i started meeting ppl who liked the same bands, etc.....and we all looked alike...and then came the clubs....i still remember my first nightclub. i remember saying, "oh my god....they're playing all my records!! I can't believe this!!" i was in heaven, and from there learned about tons of new bands. :D fun fun times.

*STALK STALK* :D

The Cure first. After searching for Cure stuff for a while, I found this shop dedicated to Goth. After that there was no turning back. The Cult, Sisters Of Mercy and The Mission convinced me that there was in fact life after punk for me. Those two genres has been my only adventures into music with REAL instruments so far. But you never know, I guess. :)

The first two bands that made me notice Goth was The Cure (I really love their early stuff) and Sisters Of Mercy. My sister is totally into Goth and has introduced me to The Nephilim, Joy Division, and other bands through the years.

It probably was The Sisters and equally Bauhaus for me. I remember how we used to anxiously await each Sister's EP before they released First And Last And Always. There was no internet back then. Information about little-known bands was hard to come by. Sometimes you wouldn't even know they'd released a new EP and you'd just come across it in the "record" shop. :) Exciting times - probably more than a little clouded by nostalgia. :D

I probably should note that David Bowie played a role in this too. During the mid to late 70s he softened us up a bit for the stuff that was to come. Albums like Heroes and Lodger were wonderful precursors to the stranger stuff of the early 80s.

Bauhaus, definitely. Peter Murphy's voice...ahhh. I still have one of their vinyls!

Another vote for the Cure. At about the same time, (1987-88) I discovered Love & Rockets, which led me to Bauhaus before long, and then to Peter Murphy's solo albums.

I still need to fill out my CD collection with early Cure albums. I have tape copies of everything before Kiss Me, and CDs after that... but the tapes are starting to kick the bucket, one by one. No wonder, some of them are 14 years old! Yikes.

I would have to say the Cure's song 'Close To Me'.

I don't recall a single group or artist as being catalyst for the obvious swing in my musical tastes as I headed into the mid-1980's. I was too young (for once! man, I'm getting old; I don't get to say I was "too young" for much of anything lately ;) ) by just a couple years to be aware of the ground-breaking that happened the end of the 1970's, so I came late to the table with the rest of the second wave, you could say. I played catch up quite a bit, filling in backwards my Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, etc., collections. Tones on Tail, of course, lead me directly to Bauhaus, and The Mission lead me to Sisters of Mercy, and the four of them, though none strictly Goth, do seem to stand out in my mind as part of my earliest shifting around from Pop-Wave to darker stuff. After that, it's a quick blur of Joy Division, Death in June, Fad Gadget, And Also the Trees...

So many records, so little time ;)

TV Diva

goth...scary. *hides in basement's corner* Hmmm...do the Sex Pistols count?

I was a big Cure & Smiths fan when I was younger, but if you're talking Goffs goff here, I'd have to say it was Christian Death. Rozz! *swoon!* :devil:

Originally posted by Belladonna
I was a big Cure & Smiths fan when I was younger, but if you're talking Goffs goff here, I'd have to say it was Christian Death. Rozz! *swoon!* :devil:

Rozz! Yep, he was fine... :D

I first noticed one of my ex-boyfriends when he was wearing a Christian Death t-shirt in homeroom. We bonded over the sad fact that we were the only two people in our backwoods high school who had ever heard of Christian Death, LOL!

Bauhaus/Peter Murphy (that voice to die for!) , Sisters of Mercy, The Mission (love The Mission), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Clan of Xymox old stuff...The Cult, Lords of the New Church, The Danse Society, early Ministry/Front 242 /Clock DVA stuff which is goth/industrial...I mean there is so much great stuff...

OMG, Lords of the New Church! I have a 12" single of "Like a virgin" where the guy on the cover is wearing a wedding dress and one of his testicles is hanging out (EEEWW!!!). I bought it at the Buffalo record show and the dealer said it was a collectable because on later copies they blacked out the testicle LOL :lol: