Patricia Morrsison did play bass for the Damned, yes. She is Mrs Dave Vanian these days, and they had a baby girl a couple of years ago.

If Joy Division was there, I would have given them a vote.

Excellent info, thanks man. The Damned - should they be considered Goth? THey went through a Goth stage, with the LP that had Grimly Fiendish and Sanctum Sancturum on, didn't they? Can't remember it's name though.

The Cure is the only one I like in the poll, but I don't think they're really "gothics", are they?

Hmmm.....I wouldn't really call The Damned a "goth band." My band plays Neat Neat Neat. They rock.

Grrrr, this is why I've got 160-odd posts, I've explained this about 150 times! :)

Basically, I put them in because goths all love The Cure (fact), and so that kind of makes them goth. I agree, not proper goth, but neither are The Mission, and no-ones complained abot that.

So it's up to you. there's an option to nominate your own, 'cause I think of everything.

Love.

But when they were doing the whole Grimly Fiendish thing, and dressing as goths, and did you see them doing Video nasty on the Young Ones with the cobwebs over them etc, and then Eloise, that was a gothy love song or something, and that LP had a woman in a black cape in a graveyard I mean that's goth to an extent right?

Law of the Goth band: Thou shalt not admit thyself to be a goth.

Well, I guess a little...I guess I just don't think their music (especially early stuff) sounds that "gothy."

I don't consider The Damned Goth, well atleast their early stuff. They just explored the darker side of Punk. Their first LP is by far one of my favorite records.

May I implore you to consider the case by presenting three snippets of lyrical evidence, from the LP 'Phantasmagoria'? (Goth title!):

IF YOU CANT SLEEP TONIGHT
AND IF A FEVER GRIPS YOU TIGHT
THERE'S A PLACE WE MUST EXPLORE
OPEN WIDE THE DOOR
AND WE MAY BE THE HAUNTED MEN
BUT WE WILL HOLD OUR HEADS UP WHEN
WE WALK DOWN THE STREET OF DREAMS
THE DEAD BEATS AND THE DISPOSSESSED
THE SEEKERS OF UNLIKLINESS
A BEUTY WALKS ARM IN ARM

or

LOVE LIKE A CARNIVALS RUNAWAY RIDE
WE SPIN AND WE CLIMB TO WHERE ONCE SIRENS CRIED
AND THEN SOMETIMES ANGELS CAN BE DEVILS TOO
IT'S TRUE OF YOU
WHEN SHADOWS NO LONGER FALL
AND FOOTSTEPS CAN'T BE HEARD AT ALL
I HEAR A GHOST OF A CALL
ITS TRUE FROM YOU

or

GRIMLY FIENDISH,PLAYS THE GAME THAT NEVER PAYS
SUNG OUT LOUD BUT NEVER PRAYED
GRIMLY FIENDISH,WEARS A COAT THATS BLACK AND LONG
HE DOSEN'T KNOW THAT IT'S ALL WRONG

Gothy gothy gothy!

But usually they're punk, you're absolutely correct.

Do you consider The Misfits Goth?

Would you call The Misfits goth? They have lyrics about death and graveyards etc.

Excellent double posting, guys.

I don't know them. Would you call them goth?

The Misfits were a punk band that used horror imagery, often cited as the origin of Horror Punk.

The only people I know who like the Misfits are Goths. Goths, the lot of them.

The Misfits? No way in hell.

Double post-wow that was kind of weird.

Out of these listed, there are no acceptable choices other than the Cure or Bauhaus & I went for The Cure.

You dig that whole Goth-pose don't you, Hip Priest?

I don't like ANY goth.
More like I don't KNOW any goth. The only band on that list that I'd listened to was The Cure and I'm not really a fan.

joy divison were goth. smashing pumpkins were goth. I would vote either of them.