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| Gothic Rock, Vol. 2: 80's Into 90's | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Freud-Jungle Full
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 102396
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013145205129
ASIN: B00000AYLY
Release Date: February 26, 2003
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Disc 1
| • | Kick in the Eye - Bauhaus | | • | Original Sin - Brandon, Kirk | | • | Fatman - Asbury, Ian | | • | Baby Turns Blue - Virgin Prunes | | • | Stand up Stand Out - Wisdom | | • | Snake Dance - Denbigh, Simon | | • | Monkey's on Juice - Wolfenden, Justin T | | • | The Wind Blows - Skeletal Family | | • | Raising Cain - Brown, Peter | | • | Trees Come Down - Fields of the Nephi | | • | The Divine Enigma - Valor | | • | This Side of Heaven - Hickson | | • | Lest We Forget - Under Two Flags | | • | A Way - Tanner, Trevor | | • | Deathwish - Agnew, Rikk | | • | Comatose - Fiend, Nik | | • | Children of the Light - O., Eva | | • | Alle in Ashe - Galvin, B. |
Disc 2
| • | Sidelined - Children On Stun | | • | Belladonna and Aconite - McKormack, Tony | | • | Kiss and Tell - Eysel, Gunnar | | • | Requiem - Toby | | • | Celebrity Cannibalism - Creaming Jesus | | • | Cimmerian - King, Porl | | • | The Wiccaman - Nosferatu [2] | | • | Safe Little World - Berry, John | | • | Canzona - Vandelli, Vittorio | | • | She... - Shroud | | • | Saraband - Sebastian | | • | Banner of the Fray - Kalifatidis | | • | Paris Skyes - Big Electric Cat | | • | Masquerade - Vendemmian | | • | Revenge - Brennan, Sean | | • | Christine (2.3 Whatever) | | • | Wallflower |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Not a bad starting place January 19, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While this probably isn't a definative collection of Gothic Rock; I found it to be a useful starting point for finding bands I'd never heard of, and finding out what some other bands sounded like. All the bands I've bought albums by because of it, have sounded pretty much like they sound here, so you probably won't run into any unpleasent surprises if you use this as a springboard.
 A good gateway into many bands. March 4, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I could hardly pick a better compilation myself. The first CD features bands that influenced the birth of Gothic Rock. By today's standards they don't seem so gothic, as they often don't conform to the typical gothic dress and sound. Bands like Theatre of Hate, The Southern Death Cult, Skeletal Family, Bolshoi, and March Violets showcase early gothic music at its best. You could pick up a cd by almost any band on the first CD and you will not be disapointed.
The second disc has some more modern gothic bands, that fit more into the stereotype. The songs are on this disc are actually better then on the first, but if you buy a random cd by one of these bands you may find that they only have 1 or 2 good songs -ie Two Witches or Die Laughing. The real standouts are Rosetta Stone, Love Like Blood, London After Midnight, Corpus Delecti, and Inkubus Sukkubus. Buy this CD and you will not be sorry.
 Okay for believers June 12, 2000
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am underwhelmed by the musicianship on most of this album. It strikes me as ironic that altho some of these songs capture the vocabulary of historic religious belief for their own rebel purpose, the quality of the songs is not such that they would much appeal to other than TruE GotH BeleiverS.
One of the best goth compilations! December 20, 1998
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Someone has to get Die Laughing bacK together!! Check em out. They're also on the Goth Box. Another band thats KicKin is Nosferatu...their new cd Prince of DarKness is Killer...i suggest you listen to their song The Wiccaman...and you'll hear how much they rawK!
A matter of interpretation, as in all things... August 30, 2002
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
DISC ONE:
First, the band choices on this CD- while a few of the seminal 'Positive Punk' *snork* and some cross-overs between New Wave/punk rock/industrial music (e.g. Siouxsie, Joy Division), this is an OK, if rough (and the inclusion of Play Dead and Virgin Prunes is damn impressive). Another quibble in this vein- why is there no Rozz-era Christian Death? 'Death Wish- Wishful Death Mix' is based off of a song released on recent editions of 'Only Theatre of Pain', true, but neither hide nor hair of the original lineup. I would argue that while neither the first incarnation of CD nor the version fronted soley by Valor were necessarily properly 'Goth'- the former was more thrash/deathrock, the latter metal- 'Catasrophe Ballet' and 'Ashes' were. Besides, there's a good split between Rozz fans and Valor supporters. One would expect that one of the two songs would be from the Rozz-era. But no.
Next, the specific songs. One would expect these things, if one were to assume they were surveys of the scene's sound, would have classic songs that showcase a band's sound in context. Perhaps, perhaps not. One thing stands- this has plenty of rarities, of all things. Perhaps an attempt to hook the already jaded? Worked for me. Not all the tracks are rare- 'Trees Come Down' is practically ubiquitous, and 'Kick In The Eye's single mix isn't radically different to what's on 'Mask'. 'Snake Dance', whilst by a tragically under-appreciated band, isn't too-too rare. But 'Baby Turns Blue', while not representative of VP's sound, is hard-to-get and very much well-suited for the genre. And, in addition, 'Comatose' can only be had off of 'Fiend At the Controls', a more recent release- at the time, this was a rarity.
All in all? Disc One is possibly inadequate for the purpose of buying for your virgin friends, but hardly bad. Erland two verging on one.DISC TWO:
My only real problem with this disc is that it's MOSTLY SWIRLY. Or, at least it feels that way. La la la la. Of course, if this is meant to represent present-day goth, I guess it works. Not bad, even if one-sided and lacking in the goth-industrial crossover-ish bands sure to please fans of both genres, even if outside of both- Death in June, Current 93, the Legendary Pink Dots, etc. Also, no Dead Can Dance. On any of the six discs in the collection, they would have been welcome, and been very appropriate here. Even Murphy & Co. liked them. And no Sisters, either, for any of them- did Eldritch object? Even with it's limits, Disc Two gets an Erland two verging on three; an Erland two all around- call it three stars. There's no real reason not to get this if you've the money; the three-volume set is a better deal, though, all-in-all, as it's less than the cost of two individual volumes for the lot.
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