http://www.rhino.com/gothicbox/
Has anybody seen this? Excellent packaging. Good lineup for a goth set - it has Sisters of Mercy, Siouxie, Misfits, and the Cure, whom I’ve never seen on a goth comp before. The Ministry track is “So What,” which is an odd inclusion - I’d’ve gone with “…Halloween,” but maybe they couldn’t get that one.
I noticed that Stigmata is on the DVD, too. Good collection of songs, but I own most of them already, so I don’t know if I’ll buy this one. I have two other Rhino boxes - Left Of The Dial and No Thanks!, both really good collections. There always seems to be some questionable choices on these box sets, but that’s how it goes. So What is a decent inclusion, though hardly ‘goth’. Halloween would definitely be a more sensible choice (though it’s probably made the rounds on plenty of compilations already…New Wave Halloween comes to mind).
So, is this the first box set where they were actually able to license some Cure music? They’ve been noticeably absent from past box sets of this kind.
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This is a rather impressive collection considering all the big names they managed to rope together under the “Goth” banner (particularly Sisters Of Mercy). The choice of Ministry songs to use was puzzling, but Ministry’s inclusion makes sense. There are a number of bands who aren’t “Goth” per se, but who were influential as well as being a staple in every good goth’s record collection: The Jesus And Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dead Can Dance, etc.
There’s only one band in there that just stuck out like a sore thumb. Look through all those bands, and they all make some kind of sense, somehow. And then you see… AFI.
To which I respond, “WTF?”
–SKot
Yeah, I wondered about the inclusion of AFI as well. I suppose different strokes… Personally I think “So What” fits just fine, there’s a wide range of material on the set and “So What” shows Ministry’s influence from Killing Joke and PiL, neither of whom are capital g Goth but both of whom had moments of suitable gloom.
I think AFI is just on there to show where all the influences on this box wound up in the present. Notice that they’re the only newer band on there.
It has Tones on Tail, Christian Death, 45 Grave, Bauhaus, and one of my favorite Cocteau Twins songs on it.
Didn’t see any Anne Clark, though.