The bizarre side of the 80’s Goth Rock unknown or ignored by most of the goth kids today was the desire to include Caribbean music on their songs. Artists like Bauhaus, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nina Hagen (Germany) and many more, where clearly influenced by the music of the UK working class mostly composed by Jamaican immigrants, hooligans and an angry youth without future, at the time.
As they call “The Godfather of Goth”, Peter Murphy in one of his most recent interviews talk about it:
Via The Quietus | July 26th 2011
How big an influence was reggae on the development of Bauhaus’s music?
PM: Massive. We were listening to toasting music all the time, and David brought in a lot of bass lines that were very lead riffs. You can see how those basslines really formed the basis of the music, especially on Mask. We were more aligned to The Clash than anything else that was going around. The Cure and those people really solidified what became goth, I suppose. We had no idea how to play reggae, but that was to our advantage because we expanded on that. It was successful on a very cult, underground level and that was very appropriate because our music was never going to be mainstream. It was seminal music. It was brilliant in its originality. Continue reading ‘The bizarre side of 80’s Goth Rock’
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