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[–]ISaidWhatISaid 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I love MC900FT Jesus! Wouldn't consider them gothic, more like an experimental jazz band with hiphop influences - though a lot of the lyrics obviously could pass for gothic lyrics and some of their songs do have a dark/noir atmosphere (obvious example: Falling Elevators which was later used in a Levis commercial). I saw them live in the mid 1990s and they're one of the best live concert bands I've ever seen. It was at a tiny venue (perhaps a couple of hundred people in that room) and everyone loved it.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Nice!!! I would have liked to have seen that. I had at least 3 of his CDs.

Ya, I agree with your assessment of my pushing the extreme limits of the "gothic" label. /s/Soundaemonic might have been better, though even that I'm not sure. We certainly have several music genres missing from SaidIt.

[–]ISaidWhatISaid 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Ya, I agree with your assessment of my pushing the extreme limits of the "gothic" label.

Hey, don't worry about it, I am definitely not a goth-purist or anything like that. Angela Benedict on Youtube pointed out that gothic parties in the 1990s were open to anyone who wasn't mainstream, so it was goths, metal heads, rivetheads, alt scenesters and freaky artsy fartsy types all mixing and mingling. Same with the music. It was never just post-rock or new wave or dark ambient.

I really wanted an /s/classical, I should register that one sometime...

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ya. A lot of what I'd posted I'd actually consider other things: pop, new wave, alternative, industrial, etc. But some of those terms don't hold up as well for a variety of reasons. Alternative was rarely heard on the radio, yet is now in the grocery store. U2 used to be an underground-ish band but is now a megaband. Also, there's no shortage of overlapping Venn diagrams of genres and styles.

Gothic, IMO, is less of a genre or even style and more of an attitude or cultivated mood.

I'd love a /s/ClassicalMusic. I want a /s/MedievalMusic even more for Baroque and Renaissance and of course some silly stuff.

Edit: Just made: /s/ClassicalMusic and I unmodded. I don't expect too much trouble there. We can always call for help. I'm not a moderator-of-people type. I like making banners and CSS for them and updating the info, but they don't all need to be fancy - though I would have liked to have had fun with that one. We could always ask M7 to become mods if needs be. Maybe I'll do the other next week and beautify it. And/or others...

[–]ISaidWhatISaid 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

YEAH! Thank you so much for creating that classical music sub! I will start posting there tomorrow! OMG, so much good classical music to share.