![]() ![]() It’s also why I sound a bit posh, when I’m not a bit posh: little gradations of separation. ![]() To like Scottish-German industrial bands made one a sore thumb in a world of Wham! (never liked them then, don’t like ’em now). ![]() Being a goth and a punk and a psychobilly were place markers along the track to the biggest difference of them all. It let me to keep the world at arm’s length while I tried to understand it. Pop let me to quantify my difference and protect myself, projecting a self that was something else. What does pop music do for adolescent girls and boys? They say it’s about belonging, being in this tribe, not that one. Maybe being a goth was just about coming to terms with your own mortality.īeing a goth was definitely about coming to terms with your own sexuality. All this gloom and death was a natural progression from macabre-obsessed early adolescence: reciting the Lord’s Prayer backwards, witchcraft, spontaneous combustion and the part-work The Unexplained. Sample lyrics from ‘ Young Man’: “Young man may die” (repeat three times). I can barely muster a standout track now. It all seems quite the dirge now – same pace (plodding), same drum beat (pounding), same guitar (fuzzing)– and I don’t really remember what any of my standout tracks were then. As soon as I picked this out of its cover, I thought: I bet I don’t like this as much as I used to like this, and I was right. ![]()
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