When i think of goth music, I usually think of The Cure.
The main singer of the Cure, Robert Smith, basically invented the look and the attitude of goth culture as we know it today.
and when I think about punk music, I think of the first punk band I ever heard of and the guys that started the movement of punk rock: The Ramones!
the ramones are so cool, they all had leather jackets, long hair, white shoes, and torn up jeans.
To this day I've never met anyone who can sing the strange, almost incomprehensible yet somehow rhythmic and energetic lyrics always hit me right in the heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdbn5t3xH4
but I also want to talk about one of my favorite albums that successfully mashes up the two genres and makes something that really rocks!
I often compare this album to the Beatles' Sgt Pepper, because the band dressed up in silly costumes and pretended to be personas, rather than their real life people names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU
The Nineties
During the nineties, I was a child. So many of the songs and music styles from this era of music are very nostalgic to me. It was an era where bands like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins were on the cusp of a musical revolution, and the genre of grunge was born. It was a strange mish-mash of all sorts of musical styles, and bridged the gap between rock, punk, and metal.
the bands wore a lot of flannel shirts and torn up jeans, and they were really cool.
But when Kurt Cobain, writer and vocalist of the band Nirvana, killed himself, the grunge movement screeched to a halt.
Because of this, different music started to get more air time on the air ways, and the Alternative Genre of music was born. This genre was extremely hard to define, as it's mainly an overreaching word for styles of bands that are often described as "rock because it's not anything else"
One of my favorite bands from this time is called Cake, and they're amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcLp5vSZqw
Oddly enough, the some of the songs I remember the best from this era are the one hit wonder songs that really captured the alternative genre. Here's my favorite, Barely Breathing by Duncan Sheik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-oh-tP6RvA
Girl Power
I like feminism. Honestly, I think the ideas of feminism are misinterpreted by almost everyone who is radical about it or complains about it.
The idea of feminism is very simple, it's that women and men should have the same opportunities.
that's really all there is to it.
that being said, girl power was a style of music that is made to empower women, and some songs and bands are good, while others are silly and strange.
my favorite song is actually called girl power by the people who did the song for the power rangers movie: Shampoo
it's very silly, check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_S5aMe9atw
Disco
Disco was a strange time for music, after the 60's psychedelic drugs, hippies, and the british invasion changed the way music and culture were created. I wasn't alive during this time, but having watch Austin Powers, I think I have some authority on the subject of the 70's music.
The culture was different, the music was funky and dance centric, and mirrored the free ideals of the time.
The Bee Gees have always been my favorite Disco band, and my favorite song of theirs is called "More Than a Woman"
When I was a kid, I always thought the lyrics were "Small Headed Woman" but now I realize it's not...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtxBUp6hBaI
Dubstep
I've never been a big fan or electronic, house, or dubstep music. For the most part the idea of using things like autotune to make a person's voice sound nice when it really doesn't and the person sounds horrible in real life is dishonest.
a pop star using autotune when they can't sing is the same as a professional athlete using steroids.
that being said, there are exceptions.
T-Pain is ok to use autotune, because it's his gimmick and it was an original idea when he started doing it.
and talk box, the effect daft punk uses, is more selective and is more effective when the people using it actually know how to sing.
Anyhoo! the newest band I listen to and really love is called AWOL Nation, and they sound really good.
the vocalist doesn't use use hardly any voice effects, and he has a scream voice that really gets me pumped whenever i hear it :)
this is one of my favorite of their songs, it's called fat face. go check out this whole album, it's called RUN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd8pC5kjMTI
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