I was born in a very strick mormon family. I never really got to explore the darker things in life although I was very curious about it and I had heard the word Goth before, but didn't really understand it. When I was 17 and moved out my neighbor was a goth and I got to know him very well. I saw him outside reading one day and I notice that he was in black combat boots, a pair of ripped up black that were almost completely destroyed with blood red tights underneath them, a cure t-shirt with a ripped up fishnet shirt underneath it, a bondage collar, eyeliner and the works. As I got to know him I got to know what goth is and I realized that without the music and the black clothes I was already goth and that man became my husband years later. Imagine my moms shock when she met him.

sweet!

You make me laugh- i wasn't even born in 1994!
Not that that makes them old- i agree with you, because they are still performing and releasing albums. Gosh i love them!

I'm sure I've said this several times, several ways on the board over the years, but I guess once more won't kill me...I hope

I started getting into the classic goth bands through researching the influences of The Smashing Pumpkins, but I had no idea they were goth.
At the time I associated goth with Marilyn Manson, Stabbing Westward etc. and I hated it, and so, thought I hated goths, despite the fact I was walking around essentially dressed as an androgenous goth, listening to goth anthems and reading gothic literature, it never, ever, dawned on me.

I associated my look with Bowie and Placebo, in my head it was just Glam, without the colour.
The music was just how I assumed almost all 80's bands sounded,
and the books...well they were just books I enjoyed.

It wasn't actually until I joined this forum back in 1852 that I realised I'd been an idiot the whole time, this allowed me to embrace the scene more completely, going to clubs, finding more artists to listen to etc.

These days I probably don't look goth at all, as I base my aesthetic on post-punk/mod, though sticking mainly to a dark colour pallet, but thats still "God in an alcove" blasting through my headphones

Now THIS is fascinating! Would that, then - because of the time-frame we're talking about - centre around the bands influenced by The Jam (eg, Secret Affair, Purple Hearts, Squire, and the like) or does it go back to the sixties originals - The Who, The Small Faces, et al?

Milky, you're epidermis is showing!

For the last time: Smashing Pumkins =/= Goth, so...there..

I would call you a poseur, but anyone who can double as Peter Murphy gets 1,000,000,000 Goth Points aoutomatically.

Both actually, I looked to the early image of the first mod bands and even The Beatles to some extent, aswell as the later bands, but my change in style really originated from the post-punk revival, specifically Interpol, who's image was pretty hard to tell apart from the mod look.
I just really liked the look, and felt I could pull it off, so I dived right in .
I try to make it my own as much as possible, but theres only so much you can do with suits, shirts, waistcoats and skinny ties

I don't think I look totally out of place amongst other goths, I think it's just another style to bring to it, but then...I would say that, wouldn't I?



Lol, Wolfy I know they aren't, but they were heavily influenced by bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure and Joy Division
Billy has also performed live with New Order, Depeche Mode and Bauhaus, while Robert Smith performs on Billy's solo album

Thanks for the points, though, I really look nothing like him

Actually, I have to agree - you could go all-black, except the shirt, but then you'd get accusations of going for the Two-Tone look... Whereas if you experiment with elements like collars and jacket lapels, you run the risk of taking your look away from the post-punk/mod look...

Funny that you mention joining this board really early, as I just noticed yesterday (by the info left to all posts) that you have been here a long time (along with some others, like thetragicclown). I don't think it's stupid to don't know about the goth scene or your own 'gothness' before you actually find a proper introduction into it. Getting to know about it seems to be a necessary condition for understanding that your belong here...

You do, too!

I kinda like Cherub Rock.

Ever since I was small I had this goth streak. I read the old eastern europeanfairy tales and scared the hell out of myself, tattoed my raggedy ann with a purple marker and gave her a silver satin dress from one of my dad's old dress shirts... cut my babydoll's hair and called her "Werwolf Pinecone''...loved my socks with black lace, voluntarily dressed in black on easter, drew goth people, wrote about goth people in my stories...pretty much every one of my characters were goths, the less goth ones faded out gradually. The one tried and true character who has lasted since i was 12 is a cynical, androgynous necromancer/scholar man with waist length black hair, and occasional multiple personality disorder... books are like drugs to him, a trait we both share. the landscapes in the stories i tell myself are always ruined castle, dark forests, dusty, book ridden apartments, huanted manors and abandoned churces...even when i dressed as a hippie i my mind was full of spiderwebs and bats, as it were...then i started to sew my own clothes, making the things my drawings wore. Discovered dark rock (started with apocalyptica) and the rest is history.

Hatred and lack of empathy for all of society....teenage angst...vodka...and the fact that i look dam sexy in black. Don't wanna be apart of your mickey mouse club and try to be want you want me to be. Im a working class hero as Lennon would say...im not your jock, cheerleader ,or your honor roll yuppie. Don't care about you rat race to work ill drive 60 miles on the highway and if you're behind me and don't like TOUGH! Don't care about promotions, your 100,000 dollar bonus while other americans can't even make enough money to feed themselves. Those on top only care about feeding their whole pockets with greed and bombing colored skin people in the middle east. Thus..i hate society and my style is a reflection of that darkness

"He can’t be bought, bullied or negotiated with… some people just want to see the world burn.”

Hell yea..Alfred

You obviously know squat about what's really been going on in the war. It has nothing whatsoever to do with skin color so quit crying racism where there is none.

I don't understand why you're contributing to this thread when you have nothing coherent to say.

It was about...a year ago...actually. i had always known i was different. my friends in school would come in to school wearing short fashion skirts and showing off the latest trend from Primark, and i would come in wearing black jeans and gloves showing off a new peircing or a new band i had discovered. i was different even as a small child. i would never wear pink and pefered much darker colours, boys clothes even.

I never really realized i was different 'till last year when i met a girl my own age who liked wearing black like me, listening to death metal like me, and she told me she was a goth. i didnt really get it. my parents had always told me that goths were in cults, doing drugs, smoking and all they think about is death and horrid stuff. when i really looked into it, i found this was not true at all. and so, i took the name of Goth into my own home and now, feel much better for having found the reason of my childhood lonlyness.

Sure it doesn't were just over there looking for weapons of mass destruction something we been looking for for the last 8 years now...im sure they'll show up sooner are later. And dick cheney's friends at Halliburtion and KBR just happened to get exlcusive contracts for Iraq...how interesting. Ohhh and don't dare say that they don't have weapons of mass destruction..cause if your like that one man who wrote a report to say that the entire WMD thing is Bullshit, they might oust your wife as a CIA operative thus putting yours and her life endanger. What a an excellent group of people we have running this nation.