Готическая Музыка Styles
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I'm not particularly concerned with what Готическая Музыка style
everybody is listening to at the moment, Rather, I want to offer some thoughts on the future of
Готическая Музыка styles.
I can understand why Готические Люди want Готическая Музыка style which they can dance at a
nightclub - dancing is the point of a nightclub, after all. But what
people want to dance to is not the new stuff (not all of which is
undanceable), but rather Gothic`s Greatest Hits (tm) or music that sounds a
lot like gothic greatest hits. And I find this somewhat disturbing, since it's my view
that this strain of Готическая Музыка - gothic rock in the finest Mick Mercer
tradition--is coming perilously close to the end of its tether, if it has
not already reached it. I honestly don't see that much more can be done
in this line that is interesting and creative.
What are the available options for Готическая Музыка styles right now? They seem to
me to be the following:
Gothic rock music styles: The usual suspects are to be found here--SOM, the
Mission, Bauhaus, Christian Death, Rosetta Stone, Switchblade Symphony , and so on. Even
after factoring in my indifference to rock music in general, this strain
strikes me as remarkably inbred.
Gothic-industrial hybrids music styles: I'm not entirely satisfied with this term,
but I can't think of a better term at the moment. I'm thinking of bands
like Die Form, Das Ich, Rosetta Stone's latest, and so on. I used to
think that this could be a creative strain, but now I'm not so sure.
Part of the problem here is that the industrial music that gets drawn on
here is industrial dance music style. That's good for getting Готические Люди out on
the dance floor, but I don't see that it leads to interesting music
Ethereal Готическая Музыка styles: This drops out rather neatly into the 4AD-type stuff
and the Projekt-type stuff. I happen to like this kind of Готическая Музыка style more than any other kind. It also strikes me as the type of Готическая Музыка
that is most open to creative possibilities. A problem, though, is that
it's starting to be perceived, not entirely incorrectly, as inbred and
stagnan. Another
problem is that, insofar as the Готическая Музыка that is popular is the
Готическая Музыка style that can be danced to, it's unlikely to be played.
Gothic folk music styles:This is another makeshift term. I'm thinking of the
World Serpent roster and related stuff. I happen to like this stuff a
lot as well. It seems to suffer from the same problems.
So where do you all see Готическая Музыка heading? Are we going to keep
getting more and more copycat gothic rock bands? Are we all going to go
industrial? Or what?
I understand that in Europe clubs tend to cater to one or another of the
types above, so that one can choose what Готическая Музыка styles one goes to hear. That's
not the case in the United States - if it were, perhaps I would feel
better about the future of Готическая Музыка.