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Onslaught Six wrote:Except NIN was totally there before the goth poseur thing.

Misanthrope Prime wrote:And I'm currently listening to the BGM to Megaman 2's Wily's Castle stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLKuzdxp0UM

Yeah, but the goth poseurs really liked them, and they weren't part of the 'roots' of the movement.

"How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees. Cheesy as hell, yeah, but still a damn good song. Somehow along the way I've really started to enjoy the disco.

And, to try to recover coolness (heh), my favorite NIN songs are "Mr. Self Destruct", "Hey Pig" (I think. Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore?), "Capital G", and "Terrible Lie". Especially "Terrible Lie".

Damn, thinking of it, I'm gonna have to put on "Terrible Lie" now.

Hrm, favourite NIN songs.

Hm. Head Like A Hole, Something I Can Never Have, Last, Ruiner, Reptile, Burn, Somewhat Damaged, The Great Below, Slipping Away, Sunspots, Home, Capital G, God Given, and we'll go with 1,000,000 from The Slip because it's growing on me. Mmyeah.

Incidentally, I'm listening to Suck just now. Suck's a great song, but it's slipping down my list of favourites, gets old after a while. Great lyrics, though.

Never been a fan of Manson nor NIN. Probably because, as a 12 year old people assumed I was a goth poseur instead of a 12 year old nihilist, as such, I decried everything popular within the goth subculture and instead immersed myself in that which was its precursor. Ergo, plenty of Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and Throbbing Gristle.

More a fan of Gary Numan, Joy Division, the Sisters of Mercy, and Swans myself, but I too have experienced the anti-popularity trend to avoid being stereotyped. NIN just happen to be my Favourite Band Evar, alongside Devin Townsend's solo work. Considering I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen and Roger Waters, it's not especially surprising I now enjoy the bands that line of thinking has birthed.

Manson has his place, to be sure. Posy as they may well be, I enjoy his work, and Rob Zombie's too. It's clever and poppy, with a few moments of genius. An improvement over the shallow contemporaries, to be sure.
Heh, and to think Trent Reznor got popular for saying Fist Fuck and I Want To Fuck You Like An Animal. Hooray for social commentary speaking for itself!

Yeah, but the goth poseurs really liked them, and they weren't part of the 'roots' of the movement.

Are we talking mall goths circa 1998's Mechanical Animals? As opposed to, say, circa 1980, or 1985, or..

My grandmother accused me of being a goth the other day! It was epic.

Damn, thinking of it, I'm gonna have to put on "Terrible Lie" now.

It's niftier live, most of the early stuff is. Studio versions are just a leeetle too synthpoppy to have the bite they should.

I hate you because you say everything I want to say, but smarterer.

138 Scourge wrote: "Hey Pig" (I think. Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore?)

It's actually called Piggy. Love the bass in it, and I've tried to unsuccessfully write something that rips it off time and again.

And I hate you because I meant to mention Piggy and didn't.

Other reasons too, but that right now. *shakes fist*

I know, I hate it when I do stuff like that. What's worse is when you know you've forgotten to quote something, but then you go back and cannot find what it is you meant to quote.

Underneath The Ice from Assemblage 23. Awesome.

Recently listening to a few Doctor Who audios from Big Finish. I usually end up buying them when I'm going on a long trip, which I've just done last week. Got "Memory Lane" and "The Girl Who Never Was" with Paul McGann, and "The Settling" with Sylvester McCoy, which I'm still only about halfway through. Despite the new series being on TV, I find I still enjoy the audios with older Doctors quite a bit, particularly the ones with Paul McGann, who only had the TV movie in 96 as his sole appearance playing the Doctor.

All Hallow's Eve by Type O Negative. Great band and a great song. They do ironic metal just as good as SYL.

onslaught86 wrote:

Are we talking mall goths circa 1998's Mechanical Animals? As opposed to, say, circa 1980, or 1985, or...

Seeing as how I wasn't ALIVE in 1980 or 1985, I'm gonna have to go with 1998.

"That Was a Crazy Game of Poker" by ...Of a Revolution.
Something unmetal for once, but not half bad.