Before I Infiltrated The Goth Subculture

[Paper Hearts]

Shocking confessions: we all like them. Here is a thread where we can let the entire scene know just what's ripping us apart from the inside out. I will go first.

In 1983, I had every Duran, Duran album to date and sometimes people call them a new romo band. Plus, I never started dressing like a pirate when Vivienne Westwood actually made that a cool thing to do. Shortly after this brief albeit destructive phase, I went through another lapse in reasoning where I listened to Dead Kennedys with an intense and unapologetic effort which some outside the goth world might compare to actual vigor.

[Msterbeau]

For shame!! We'll have no vigor here!!! That might mean you actually. *GASP*... care!!!

I liked Devo then. I like Devo now. Get over it.

[Head Wreck]

i was a punk

i got into the cramps

[Fierce Critter]

...I was New Wave, with Cyndi-Lauper-wanna-be outfits, hair & makeup, and I sang music by groups like The Go'Go's and Kim Wilde and Joan Jett in an all-girl group.

My biggest shame being that the exchange student from England played me a tape of what he claimed was his band playing, and me saying I liked it, especially that "F I R E in C A I R O" song...

...and years later, hearing The Cure's "Three Imaginary Boys" album for the first time, and realizing I'd been totally had.

And in ensuing years, I have collected every album by Journey and Cheap Trick, and would have MUCH MORE Dean Martin with me on a desert island than I would anything goth.

Boo-ya.

[Paper Hearts]

Of course, goth really wasn't called goth until it was already too late and chalk full of bands I've never liked and never will. So in a way, I've committed no error. Except for the Duran Duran part. But I was only six years old.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

My great shame... I saw Ted Nugent in concert.. three times.

[BrassFusion]

Why are y'all ashamed of all these groups? Most of the ones you guys are mentioning are really kickass. I mean, not like Kris Kross or New Kids On The Block (both of which I used to adore).

As long as we're being unique and non-conformist, shouldn't we be proud about the non-goth aspects of our lives?

[Head Wreck]

whats a non conformist.

i just dress like all the others to score with goth chicks

[phee]

whats a non conformist.

i just dress like all the others to score with goth chicks

Wisdom here

[Paper Hearts]

whats a non conformist.

i just dress like all the others to score with goth chicks

That's nothing. Some guys dress like goth chicks...to score with goth chicks.

And it works!

[Scary Guy]

I thought that was emo kids?

[Head Wreck]

no emo is wrong.

as are the latex twins.

i also declare them emo

[mallochai]

I think emo kids are hot.

I love bright eyes, and sometimes, when I'm feeling sappy, I even like dashboard confessional.

Go on, spew your hate filled vomit on me.

I remember thinking kriss kross was cool... my brothers and I used to play them and jump on our parents' bed.

I owned, albeit briefly, an album by Snow. And the first album by Everlast, after he left House of Pain.

Then I heard nine inch nails, and my life changed.

Thank Bog.

(aaaaaaaand satan!)

Sadly, I wasn't introduced to non-mainstream goth/industrial music until I was in college. Steve brought me corpus delecti, bauhaus, clan of xymox. And when scott introduced the smiths to me, and the cocteau twins... I was forever grateful.

And still am, since it's forever and all.

I still listen to bands I liked in high school, stuff dated and still current.

I'll never be ashamed of my rancid, pj harvey, rammstein, sevendust, radiohead, skunk anansie, or tori amos.

I might, however, be a bit ashamed of liking godsmack, and marilyn manson. In my defense, I had a very sensationalist stage. Read - rebellious against my very normal boyfriend.

Okay, I can stop now.

No... he wasn't normal. Just in everything except his sex life and politics. (creep.)s

[Head Wreck]

you like emos.

WITCH! BURN HER

*hands out pitchforks and torches*

[mallochai]

muhahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

[Onyx]

goth really wasn't called goth until it was already too late

Hah! I love that.

[kellygrrrrrl]

Secrets out, never goth, never was.

I don't even know what defines GOTH.

Shoot me.

[Head Wreck]

i refuse to be stereotyped by as a gun mad wierdo in black.

marilyn manson tells me i should shoot you for that

[kellygrrrrrl]

My Girlfriend has told me that I am a old school punker at heart

But I don't concider myself anything really.....

I like a diverse musical selection as well as fashion.

Stereo-typing is small minded anyways.

Basically imprisoning your self into one cateragory or stereotype limits your mind to the world of choices and variety and options out there!

I like options and variety and choices!

[phee]

Most Goths... in my experience... never ever would refer to themselves as such

[Paper Hearts]

Most Goths... in my experience... never ever would refer to themselves as such

That's right. You have to know the secret hand shake.

[BrassFusion]

Most Goths... in my experience... never ever would refer to themselves as such

Then they aren't goths, are they?

[phee]

Then they aren't goths, are they?

That is the paradox of goth..... *phee acts spooky*

[Head Wreck]

i'm so goth i make izods goth by wearing them

[BrassFusion]

They're non-non-conformists. They choose to not conform to the title "goth" that identifies the group that they normall conform to. hence, non-non-conformists. Weee! I need a smoke.

Mad Music Confession: I sing along to Matchbox in the car. (especially when it's not my car)

Non-conformists who conform to each other are still conformists.