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Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $64.98
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 55683
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7.7 x 1.1
MPN: 73374
UPC: 081227337421
EAN: 0081227337421
ASIN: B000GIWS4M
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Dead Souls -- Joy Division | | • | Charlotte Sometimes -- The Cure | | • | She's In Parties -- Bauhaus | | • | Temple Of Love -- The Sisters Of Mercy | | • | Christian Says -- Tones On Tail | | • | Mutiny In Heaven -- The Birthday Party | | • | Spellbound -- Siouxie & the Banshees | | • | Fatman -- The Southern Death Cult | | • | Mirror People -- Love And Rockets | | • | Power -- Fields Of The Nephilim | | • | Now I'm Feeling Zombified -- Alien Sex Fiend | | • | Snake Dance -- The March Violets | | • | Walking On Your Hands -- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry | | • | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang -- Specimen | | • | Wasteland -- The Mission UK | | • | The Grip Of Love -- Ghost Dance | | • | His Box -- Dali's Car |
Disc 2
| • | The Weeping Song -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | | • | Exterminating Angel -- The Creatures | | • | God's Zoo -- Death Cult | | • | Heartache -- Gene Loves Jezebel | | • | I Go Crazy -- Flesh For Lulu | | • | Cuts You Up -- Peter Murphy | | • | Open Your Eyes -- The Lords Of The New Church | | • | Heaven Is Waiting -- The Danse Society | | • | All My Colours -- Echo & The Bunnymen | | • | Don't Fall -- The Chameleons UK | | • | Dreamland -- The Rose Of Avalanche | | • | Fall -- The Jesus And Mary Chain | | • | Coming Down Fast -- Daniel Ash | | • | Muscoviet Mosquito -- Clan Of Xymox | | • | Incubus Succubus II -- Xmal Deutshland | | • | Starblood -- Cranes | | • | Ardera Sempre -- Miranda Sex Garden | | • | Blood Bitch -- Cocteau Twins | | • | The Arcane -- Dead Can Dance | | • | Rain -- The Cult |
Disc 3
| • | Away -- The Bolshol | | • | Watch Without Pain -- Rubicon | | • | Pagan Lovesong -- Virgin Prunes | | • | Morning Dew -- Einsturzende Neubauten | | • | Hamburger Lady -- Throbbing Gristle | | • | To Blame -- Kommunity FK | | • | Melody Lee -- The Damned | | • | Romeo's Distress -- Christian Death | | • | Party Time -- 45 Grave | | • | Kiss -- London After Midnight | | • | Dieche -- Sex Gang Children | | • | Assimilate -- Skinny Puppy | | • | Halloween -- Misfits | | • | Tomorrow's World -- Killing Joke | | • | So What -- Ministry | | • | The Hanging Garden -- AFI |
Disc 4
| • | Lullaby [DVD] -- The Cure | | • | Bela Lugosi's Dead [DVD] -- Bauhaus | | • | Lucretia My Reflection [DVD] -- The Sisters Of Mercy | | • | Moonchild [DVD] -- Fields Of The Nephilim | | • | Deliverance [DVD] -- The Mission UK | | • | Ball Of Confusion [DVD] -- Love And Rockets | | • | Head On [DVD] -- The Jesus And Mary Chain | | • | The Killing Moon [DVD] -- Echo & The Bunnymen | | • | Where The Wild Roses Grow [DVD] -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | | • | Stigmata [DVD] -- Ministry | | • | Spiritwalker (Live) [DVD] -- The Cult | | • | Cities In Dust [DVD] -- Siouxie & the Banshees |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Yes, I was one of those kids: big, messy hair; black clothes; makeup on the weekends; surly demeanor with everyone but my friends. But my friends were legion. And what bonded us all? Goth music--dark, arty, dramatic, epic, apocalyptic. It gave us focus and refuge during those formative years. Now, it appears some of those kids have grown up and started working for Rhino. A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box hones in on the territory started by their expansive Left of the Dial box set and gives it a smear of red lipstick and a down-turned glance. And in usual Rhino fashion, it's lovingly designed (the slipcase is a faux-leather corset!), with an extensive booklet that will answer all of your questions about goth, and this box set in particular. It will be needed. One can already hear the cries of "What about...?," "Why that song?," and "Is that goth?" These questions are addressed and gotten out of the way in quick succession. Rhino has the cachet to pull together artists that wouldn't normally be part of such a box set, so they rightly concentrate on including the biggies (the Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy). Also present less well-known bands, such as Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, the March Violets, and the Virgin Prunes. What about the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Misfits, and Echo & the Bunnymen? Are they goth? Not strictly, but every goth I knew loved them. There's even an "instructional" essay for those new to the scene, and a cover of the Cure's "The Hanging Garden" by new-schoolers A.F.I. to bring in the uninitiated. Go on, break out those velvet vests and pointy boots and put this on--it's still amazingly vibrant stuff. --Robert Arambel
Album Description
Five hours of mood-lowering music & video from the foremost names in gloom.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
So gothic it's undead October 10, 2006
child of the cuckoo (Augusta, GA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am completely pleased to see something like this come out in the year 2006. For those who are just discovering gothic rock, and for us seasoned veterans, this collection is exceptional. I do have some bones with it...AFI is a good band but hardly goth. And where are bands like Inkubus Sukkubus? Die Laughing? Switchblade Symphony? Big Electric Cat? The Shroud? Ofra Haza? And they certainly could have picked a better Neubauten song!! But I digress...this is a great collection. The DVD rocks, the music rocks. Check it out for yourself.
 The humble opinion of a ex-Goth :-| September 20, 2006
T. Dorman (South Africa)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Well, No matter what the last person said ... I think it's a great compilation ... Great songs, great music vids. Could have had more Sisters on it though.... But over all there is nothing wrong with the selection. If you are new to Gothic music.... I mean REAL Gothic Rock... not NuGoth, Scary-Trans, Darkmetal, Black Polka, Doom-yodelling or any of the other weak spin-offs of the `90's and 2000's... than this Little Black box of "inner-morbid-heartaches and boo-hoo's" is as great a place to start as any.
5 skeletal thumbs up.
Turning on the light in a dark room October 17, 2006
Stephanie Travitsky (brooklyn, new york United States)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
The liner for this compilation pretty much sums it up. Goth music was created in the UK by people who watched the late night creature feature and who read Shelly, Stoker,etc. Some of these artists were romantics and some wanted to be like Alice Cooper (Nik Fiend).
This is a great introduction to what truly defined the Goth music movement and how it intertwined with Punk, New Wave, and EBM. However, I must argue that AFI really is not goth and never will be. Plus, while Flesh for Lulu was technically concidered a Goth band, "I Go Crazy" is not a Goth song. I would have eliminated AFI and used "Reptile" by The Church.
Gothic 101 January 16, 2007
John Bowman (San Francisco Bay Area)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really love this box set. I grew up in the age of goth was around for it's birth. Of course at the time I never considered myself a goth in anyway and I wouldn't have looked the part either. But the music is another thing altogether and I truly loved the music that became known as GOTH. This is great example of some great songs from the goth age and well represented across the genre and through time. Although I owned most of these songs already, either on CD or Vinyl, there were some gems in the mix that I didn't have. I also liked the DVD, which features some videos for songs that didn't make it onto the music CD's themselves. My friends and I had a great laugh as well when we read the instructions on how to dance goth. As funny as it read, it was dead on with my memory of how "goths" danced at the clubs I visited in my youth and maybe, just maybe, it rubbed off on how I danced at the time as well. All in all a Life Less Lived is a great box set for those who love goth or for those who wish to get a definitive initiation into the goth music genre.
 Needs more music December 4, 2006
overcomebyfumes (lying quietly in the corner)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Three stars because I mostly enjoyed what was on here - and found more than a few tracks that I never heard before and enjoyed a lot - but not five stars because there's not nearly enough music.
I would have much preferred a fourth disc of music to a DVD. And the DVD only has twelve videos - maybe an hour long, if that. A DVD can easly hold, what? 2 1/2 to 3 hours of material? There's a LOT of wasted space there.
The first two discs are good. (I don't understand the need to include an Ian Astbury (Southern Death Cult, Death Cult, The Cult) track on each of the three discs, but other than that, good stuff.) Kudos for NOT including "Bela Lugosi's Dead", which we've all heard waaaaay too many times.
This set was worth it for me because of bands and songs I had never heard before. Revelations for me were Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, Alien Sex fiend, The Mission UK, The Creatures, The Cranes, Fields of the Nephilim, and (surprisingly for me) Echo and the Bunnymen. These bands are probably old news for you long-time Goths out there (I can hear you snickering!!) , but I didn't get out much back then. Poor me.
I bought this expecting to find bands and songs I hadn't heard before, and the third disc had too much familiar (and as many here have pointed out, arguably non-gothic) material. The Misfits I've listened to since high school (too long ago). Ministry and Skinny Puppy, I got those when they came out.
And the only bum tracks for me were on the third disc - The Virgin Prunes I didn't like at all and Throbbing Gristle is just completely annoying. So the third disc was, for me, largely useless.
If you're a brand new Goth, this is a good place to start in your quest to get into some new/old music. (If you are an old hoary Goth, you're giggling into the back of your hand at the very idea of this box set, so what are you reading my review for, anyway?)
If there had been a fourth CD instead of a DVD, I'd have given this four or even five stars.
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