Artist	Song
Bauhaus	She's in Parties
from Burning from the Inside (1989)
The Cult	She Sells Sanctuary
from Love (2000)
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Christine
from The Best of Siouxsie and The Banshees (2002)
The Cure	Charlotte Sometimes (Single Version)
from Faith (2005)
Cocteau Twins	Musette and Drums
from Head Over Heels (2003)
Peter Murphy	Cuts You Up
from Wild Birds 1985-1995 (2000)
Love and Rockets	Kundalini Express
from Express (2001)
Joy Division	Dead Souls
from The Best of Joy Division (2008)
Gene Loves Jezebel	Desire (Come and Get It)
from Voodoo Dollies - The Best of Gene Loves Jezebel (1999)
Echo & The Bunnymen	The Killing Moon
from Songs to Learn and Sing (2004)
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Nine Million Rainy Days
from Darklands (2005)
The Birthday Party	Mutiny In Heaven
from Hits (1999)
Clan of Xymox	Stranger
from Clan of Xymox (1985)
The Chameleons UK	Don't Fall
from The Gothic Collection (2006)
Alien Sex Fiend	Dead and Buried
from Alien Sex Fiend - The Singles (1983-1995) (1983)
Flesh for Lulu	Death Shall Come
from Big Fun City / Blue Sisters Swing (2001)
Fields of the Nephilim	Power
from Dawnrazor (1987)
Sisters of Mercy	Lucretia My Reflection
from A Slight Case of Overbombing - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (1993)
Tones On Tail	Christian Says
from Everything! (1998)
The March Violets	Snake Dance
from The Botanics Verses (2006)
Sex Gang Children	Deiche
from Empyre & Fall (2008)
Specimen	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
from Azoic (2006)
Dalis Car	Create and Melt
from The Waking Hour (1996)
Death Cult	God's Zoo
from Ghost Dance (1983)
Danse Society	Looking Through
from Looking Through (2007)
All About Eve	D for Desire
from Return to Eden, Volume One - The Early Recordings (2002)
Black Tape for a Blue Girl	Lie Broken, Bleeding
from Mesmerized By the Sirens (1987)

Comment:

Way more than just a post-punk portrait of gloom from the tomb, goth rock wrapped its shadowy cloak around mysticism, metal, menace, melodrama . . . and makeup. [i]Lots[/i] of makeup. Formed out of goth pioneers Bauhaus' ashes, Love & Rockets fuse Hindu philosophy, fuzzed-out electric slide, and actual steam-engine sound effects in "Kundalini Express" (and you [i]gotta[/i] dig their "Sympathy for the Devil"-style [i]woot-woo[/i]s). In "She Sells Sanctuary" — the Cult's breakthrough hit after ditching both "Southern" and "Death" from its name — vocalist Ian Astbury rips through the mist of Billy Duffy's liquid-chime guitar in a psychedelic swirl of danceable doom. And if you know only Nine Inch Nails' buzzsaw-grind-and-primal-howl version of Joy Division's "Dead Souls," you're in for a surprise; nearly halfway through what seems to be an instrumental, lead singer Ian Curtis — out of nowhere — jumps in over the wash of industrial guitar with "someone take these dreams away!" like an asylum escapee pursued. From the Cure to Siouxsie and the Banshees, we've got every key track from the mortality-obsessed genre that — thankfully — will not die.

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