We are back with a new edition of Saturday Night Music Club! The SNMC started up as an idea I had years ago - to recapture the feeling of being a kid and getting together with your friends in the basement to listen and discuss music. Over the last few years we've re-capped our monthly get-togethers with a video feature. For the time being, we are replacing the video aspect of the SNMC with a blog feature, where each member of the club will briefly discuss their record. A track from each album (when available) is collected in an ongoing SNMC Spotify playlist at the bottom of this post. So please listen in and enjoy the tunes along with us.
This month's theme: Goth Night. The SNMC gathered once again for our 4th Annual Goth Night, and to make it extra spooky, festivities were held on Friday the 13th. We each had to inflict a record that honored the Dark Arts, so that included Industrial, Darkwave, Deathrock, Horror Punk, Gothabilly, Horror Soundtracks, etc. Brent ignited the Nag Champa & candelabra, Thalia recited William Blake from an aged parchment scroll, and of course Jaymz and Jesse donned their most sinister garments!
BRET HELM
Red Temple Spirits - Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon
Nate Starkman & Son | 1988
Favorite Song:
Electric Flowers
What is DARK about this album?:
Everything. It opens with a track called 'Exorcism'
Describe this album in one sentence:
Tribal, primal, shamanistic, full moon dance around the bonfire in the desert music
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
I was voted The Most Goth in the Club via punch card ballot
SARAH QUARRIE
The Mission - God's Own Medicine
Mercury | 1986
Favorite Song:
Stay With Me
What is DARK about this album?:
This is the quintessential album that made Goth Rock a shadowy figure on the UK music charts
Describe this album in one sentence:
Harlequin romance for pagans
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
VII
KATE FULTON-TODD
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Soundtrack
Death Waltz Recording Co. | 2016; Originally released on Warner Bros. | 1990
Favorite Song:
Twin Peaks Theme
What is DARK about this album?:
The mood - it is a soundtrack about a murder after all
Describe this album in one sentence:
Building a mystery
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
1
(Editor's note: 3)
DREAM GOTH JESSE
The Mission - Carved in Sand
Mercury | 1990
Favorite Song:
Butterfly On a Wheel
What is DARK about this album?:
Some of the lyrical content: child abuse, depression, dropping acid
Describe this album in one sentence:
Gloomy, Beatlesque Britpop
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
-1
(Editor's note: Not true)
JONATHAN SALISBURY
Goblin - Profondo Rosso Soundtrack (aka Deep Red)
Ariola | 1975
Favorite Song:
Profondo Rosso
What is DARK about this album?:
It is music composed to scenes of humans getting stabbed in Dario Argento's film Deep Red
Describe this album in one sentence:
Spooky prog rock with break beats
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
10 (on the Beach Goth scale)
BRENT BERG
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Merciful Release / Elektra | 1985
Favorite Song:
Logic
What is DARK about this album?:
Goth sucks
(Editor's note: Also not true)
Describe this album in one sentence:
Sunshine on a rainy day
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
-10%
THALIA 'RAVEN' WILLIAMS
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Merciful Release / Elektra | 1985
Favorite Song:
Marian
What is DARK about this album?:
Gloomy vocals, dancey basslines, lots of 80s synth. This album just encompasses that traditional gothic sound
Describe this album in one sentence:
Transports me back to Atomic Cafe days - dancing to all the finest goth songs; when I think of the genre, this band comes to mind with immediacy
(Editor's note: The Atomic Cafe was a club in Scottsdale, AZ in the 90s. The owner - Randall Goodwin - closed up shop and re-opened in Austin, TX. In 1999, Randall passed away and the club closed down)
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
66.6%
JAYMZ TODD
Prick - s/t
Nothing / Interscope | 1995
Favorite Song:
I Got It Bad
What is DARK about this album?:
Turn out the lights and watch the glow from the moon
Describe this album in one sentence:
Nineteen Ninety-Five
How GOTH are you on a scale of 1-10?
12 - Once you go Goth, you never go back
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