this Sautrday

[the mighty spork]

people think icp is goth?  hahahahahahaha
I could see Marilyn Manson as being thought of as goth because people think 
goth when they hear mm, but icp?  Has does bad rap equil goth?

Rick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy David" <epistemology at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: this Sautrday


> It might be because any new band who calls themselves goth identifies
> themselves with something they might not want to be a part of. When
> most people think, "goth" they think, "Insane Clown Posse" A lot of
> bands don't want to be a part of that.
>
> Also, they're not goth for the same reason Interpol is not goth. Their
> lyrics aren't pretentious enough. They sound like they want to be Lou
> Reed, not like they want to be Yeats. They don't say, "because," they
> says, "cuz."
>
> And it takes more than subject matter to be goth, it takes style.
> After all, you know who else sang about heartbreak and bondage?
> Vanilla Ice. See: Stop That Train.
>
> On 6/8/06, gwen <gwenix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/8/06, Deeann M.M. Mikula <deeann at d33ann.com> wrote:
>> > I was listening to She Wants Revenge a while back, I guess they are on
>>
>> I've been trying to figure out for quite some time why She Wants
>> Revenge isn't goth.  I mean, they sound like they closed themselves
>> into a room with only Joy Division, old Cure, and Bauhaus CDs and
>> refused to come out until they'd sufficiently indocrinated
>> themselves... then they wrote lyrics about bad relationships and
>> bondage... and in the concert I saw, they were all dressed in black.
>> So what isn't goth here?
>>
>> --
>> gwen.
>> gamergothgeek
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> kick over a garbage can and say, 'That's punk!' So he kicks over a
> garbage can and says, 'That's punk?' And I say, 'No. That's trendy.'"
> - Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
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