music advice needed

[baratron]

Today I have been mostly sleeping. Now I am ripping CDs to the MP3 server, and downloading more (legal) MP3s.

I need some advice about goth, industrial & darkwave music. Haven't heard anything new since 1996 or 1997, because of my dire smoke allergy preventing me from going to clubs. What the hell should I get/download? I like Star Industry, Merry Thoughts, Suspiria, Nekromantik, Manuskript, er... I think there was a Killing Miranda CD that Alexa left in my house for ages that I quite liked. Industrial I like includes Cop Shoot Cop, Front 242, KMFDM, NIN (well, duh) and Terminal Power Company. Give me recommendations, people! Even including recommendations for albums released after 1997 by any of the bands mentioned ;)

Feel free to tell me about other kinds of music I might like as well, but I can't be bothered to type in a complete list of all the albums I own :) Bands I am currently obsessed with include Freezepop, Compulsion, Pixies, Erasure, Muse, Blink-182 and Pulley (found them on eMusic and have been acquiring all their albums - I'm even going to go out & buy them on CD). Synthpop, punk & lo-fi seem to be the defining genres at the moment.

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[pir.livejournal.com]

Random band suggestions based somewhat on what you said above:

Curve
The Birthday Massacre
And One
kidneythieves.

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

I can second And One.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

There's a Curve track called "Worst Mistake" on Frequency. It's bloody good. But the album I have ("Doppleganger") is mediocre at best. Should I check out more of their stuff?

I think And One are one of the bands my mum likes, which always puts me off ;)

[pir.livejournal.com]

I'm not that fond of 'Doppleganger', I like 'Gift' far more than their other albums and quite like 'Come Clean'. Don't know where 'Worst Mistake' is from.

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

That link is broken.

There's a new-ish New Model Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Model_Army_%28band%29) album; I haven't listened to it yet so I can't recommend it, though it would be extremely surprising if it turned out to be rubbish. There have been two other releases since 1997 as well. There's also a new Fields of the Nephilim album; allegedly good but again, I haven't heard it.

Industrial - Front Line Assembly are somewhat similar to Front 242 and I generally prefer them. I'm not aware of any post 1997 releases though. Skinny Puppy seem to be quite similar to FLA in turn, though somewhat more fluffy.

What do you think of Kate Bush, out of interest? I like the new album but it might not be quite your cup of tea.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

What link is broken? There wasn't a link in my post.

Fields of the Nephilim have 2 songs, one of which I quite like, and then all the rest. Not a fan. (I pretended to be one for over 2 years while dating a guy who used Nephilim/Nefilim as net handles. So I heard a lot of FotN.)

Kate Bush makes me want to kill things, I'm afraid ;) So does Tori Amos, and most other "kooky" female singers. (This is probably where my mother's assertion that I "don't like female singers" comes from, btw). I have nothing against female vocalists as long as they don't "warble".

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

Not liking Tori Amos I can understand!

I'm sure your post said something about "bands listed here" when I first read it but it doesn't now. Maybe I hallucinated it. ;)

I forgot to say that you might like Maruta Kommand on the industrial side of things.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

It was an underline, not a link. I realised after I posted my comment that it looked like a link, so I went back & reworded that part of the post to clarify :)

[ceno.livejournal.com]

Covenant, Icon of Coil, Juno Reactor, Nick Drake, Anathema, Stabbing Westward, Epica, Therion. I've been researching a lot of stuff at AllMusic which you might also find useful.

[ceno.livejournal.com]

Um, not that all of that is exactly 'goth' - especially Nick Drake - but good recommendations nonetheless :)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

I think you would like at least some Chaos Engine stuff.
Have you encountered Project Pitchfork at all?
I'll affirm that all three KM albums are worth a listen.
I find the best way to recommend music to people is to bring a slice of my collection into the same place as them, really.

[erik]

I really like dba (there appear to be two bands with this name; I'm talking about the English duo who record on Howard Jones' dtox label). Bouncy synthdancepop. NOt as bouncy as freezepop, but pretty bouncy.

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

If you can find thier stuff (Especialy thier later stuff) try the Dream Deciples.

Also I really must recommend the opening band at novembers WGW. They are called The Modern. Belive it or not they have have just charted with thier first single.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I rather like The Modern, too.

Also, of course I'm going to suggest My Chemical Romance. *g* :) (But you knew that, right?)