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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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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 18044
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
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Condition: New sealed product. Immediate shipment
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 Not all it's cracked up to be February 13, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This box really falls short of the genre and does not do it much justice. Anyone remotely familiar with this material will already know the obvious ones.... Joy Division, Bauhaus, Nick Cave, Cure, etc. Come on already!
There's some stuff that really shouldn't be on here and lot's of mediocrity, bands that may have been included due to the presenter's lack of knowledge on the topic in an effort to fill space with numbers.
Rhino should have delved deeper into bands like Christian Death with their off-shoots like Mephisto Waltz. Or into acts like The Names, Durutti Column, Pale Fountains and even My Bloody Valentine or The Sound. I'd also go with Samhain over the Misfits if Danzig has to be polled into the mix.
No doubt that there's some great music here but in terms of the comp it's supposed to be I'd have to say it's a bust.
md
 Nice to seem them all in one place, but.... January 24, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Goth is a tag that's been retroactively applied to many of these bands. It means very different things to different people on different sides of the Atlantic. The folks at Rhino have done a really great job assembling this collection along thematic lines, and despite what some people have said in their reviews, there's no denying the relationship between industrial and "goth," just like there's no denying the close relationship between punk and goth. Too many of the great bands that we now associate with the goth movement feel much more strongly tied to punk (see: Sisters of Mercy, and listen to their old stuff next to the Ramones - you'll see what I mean), and rightfully so. American bands loosely associated with goth (Misfits, Ministry) happen to have arrived at a goth-esque place through very different means, but that doesn't make their inclusion here any less suitable. And industrial groups like Skinny Puppy and Ministry and Throbbing Gristle and Die Einstuerzende Neubauten were very much part of the same scene, even if they approached their dance music with a more or less performance artsy bent. And Jesus and Mary Chain, who could rock out with the best of the cheesy, vampy, 80's pop bands, made an album that couldn't have sounded much more like early Sisters (Psychocandy). The problem, for me, with this collection, is that it's clearly marketed to an American fanbase, one which puts altogether too much stock in labels (the packaging doesn't help either).
 So gothic the sun hurts my eyes January 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very good compilation that includes crossover bands like Joy Division, The The Cure, The Cult and other "big name" goths like Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus & Nick Cave. Compares favorably to Cleopatra's "Gothic Rock vols. I & II," which was the last comprehensive effort I have seen to really represent the Goth movement, but didn't include any of those bands. The Gothic Box also drifts into Industrial (Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Killing Joke), and includes some more obscure entries, too. Very highly recommended.
Goth primer March 13, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
THIS IS A GREAT STARTING POINT FOR ANYONE JUST DISCOVERING "GOTH". THE LINER NOTES ABND SHORT BACK STORIES OF EACH SONG ARE INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE. WELL DONE ALL AROUND.
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