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Re: Who's Your Goth-Daddy? Posted by Dr. Frostus on 1/27/2009, 3:12 am, in reply to "Who's Your Goth-Daddy?" 70.112.249.51 Wow, I've often hated MM ever since seeing "Tourniquet" on MTV back at university. I eventually came to adore Rasputina's version MUCH better. Love him or leave him, he was good at what he did, and it's a same that he kind of faded away or watered himself down. Instead of turning pop music on it's head, I feel that he became pop personified. He may have tried to keep his outsider status intact, but in a twist of fate, he became one of them just tad different. He wasn't suppose to be taken seriously, but I think he started to take himself more seriously. He let the band define him instead of defining the band, and that brought on the pop world defining him more than he was trying to make fun of it. Again, it's a sick and unfortunate turn of events. I guess it couldn't last forever, though. I'd have to say, as a kid though, that Alfred Hitchcock was my favourite purveyor of things Gothic growing up. That's what I'm most nostalgic of even more than "The Twilight Zone" or even my personal favourite "Tales from the Darkside." No, Hitchcock wasn't Goth in the least, I don't think, unless you can count that his stuff was mostly in black and white. Haha. But seriously. That theme song still invokes spine raising chills. ...Ashe --Previous Message-- : Today I spent a lot of time -- maybe too much : -- watching a Twilight Zone marathon on the : Sci-Fi channel. Suddenly, a thought came to : me. : : Here's Rod Serling, some-time writer and : full-time host to one of TV's spookiest : shows. Downright eerie, some of the tales : could be considered . . . well, gothic in : nature. : : But look again at Rod Serling. The man did : not have a gothic bone in his body. Maybe a : slight turn of gothic in his mind, but most : of his stories were sci-fi, not gothic : tales. : : Knowing nothing else of the man than his TV : presence, I'd have to say he was far and : away more Beat than goth. : : So, by extrapolation, I wonder if all, or : indeed any, of the "gothic" : masters -- Lovecraft, Stoker, Poe, Shelley : -- I wonder if they considered themselves as : having a "gothic" personality. : : So, the point of this post is down the this, : my friends: of all the bands you know who : perform gothic stuff, which are NOT : considered -- either by themselves or by : their followers -- to be gothic. : : Don't bother with Marilyn Manson. He's a : joke on the scene. Talented, yes, but a : joke nonetheless. : Message Thread: Who's Your Goth-Daddy? - Old Grey 7/3/2008, 8:33 pm Re: Who's Your Goth-Daddy? - Dr. Frostus 1/27/2009, 3:12 am marilyn manson is GREAT yeehaw - chris 7/22/2008, 6:43 pm Life imitates art - faith 7/23/2008, 6:33 am well... - Tass 7/29/2008, 2:18 am Re: well... - V 8/21/2008, 2:08 am Re: well... - Janus 9/11/2008, 10:34 am Pappa - faith 7/8/2008, 6:36 pm « Back to thread Post a Response