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Welcome To My Nightmare

Jess's Big Goth Playlist

Actually, it’s not a nightmare at all.  And there isn’t any Alice Cooper on it {though he features prominently on my Halloween playlists}.  But I wanted to share my latest “what I did while I was sick” project.  Not as epic as the time when I had the flu in March and created an oracle deck, but it’s still pretty epic.

Back in June when Kevin and I moved into our new apartment we bought a full Sonos sound system for our whole apartment for both TV and music.  The only thing I’m missing is a Play:1 speaker for my bathroom for when I take baths in my huge comfy roman tub.  Otherwise the place is decked out…

  • 2 Play:1 speakers in my office to make a surround pair
  • 2 Play:1’s, a Sub and a Playbar in the living room/open area
  • A Playbar in the bedroom
  • And a Bridge and Connect to hook it all up

This system was a total accident.  I bought a Play:1 back in April for my office in our old apartment and realized when I got home it actually wasn’t what I wanted {I was really looking for a Bluetooth portable speaker}.  In fact the girl at the store who sold it to me didn’t know much about it and lead me to believe it was a Bluetooth speaker and said I didn’t need anything else but the speaker to play wirelessly.  Well, that wasn’t really true and I had to order the Bridge to hook up to the router in another room, but that was no big deal.

In the end we ended up with a house full of speakers.  And they are fantastic! I can’t say enough get things about the system.

One thing that I love about it is that it allows you to hook up to most major online music services.  I have subscriptions to Beats, Songza and Hearts of Space and Kevin has Pandora and Windows Music accounts.  So we have all that plus our Amazon stuff connected.  There’s always tons of music and the perfect music for whatever.

That’s what lead me to making this epic playlist today while I wasn’t feeling well.

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This was from a year or so ago, hanging out very late at like 3am, chatting on VampireFreaks talking about Skinny Puppy.  Notice the very important Sisters of Mercy t-shirt that I’ve had since college.  I was wearing it two days ago.  I may actually have to replace it soon.  *sad face*

Something that isn’t a big secret is that I love all kinds of music but there are two kinds that hold my heart the most: electronic dance music and goth/industrial.  Lately I’ve been digging deep for old 80s and 90s goth compilations on Beats and have been able to find a bunch of stuff I have somewhere in our many hard drives of music.  I decided to take advantage of the create and save a playlist feature that the Sonos controller app lets you do and I made a {at present count} 119 track playlist.

I thought I would share what’s on my playlist in case {A} you like goth/industrial music too, {B} you just might be curious to know what music I listen to when I’m working away and {C} because I can talk about goth and industrial music all day and never get bored.  All those nights I spent in shitty basement goth clubs with leaky pipes and sticky floors in my 20s all around the northeast are very much tattooed on my brain.  Whether it was going to some bizarre little beach club like bar in Rhode Island to see the Genitorturers in like 1999 or one of the many Hell parties at ManRay in Boston, those were my favorite times.  And oh, OH those Red Death’s that Terri from ManRay would make. YUM!! {And it makes me feel a little old to reminisce like that!}

 

ManRay Hell flyer

I’ve got a smallish tote full of things I’ve kept over the years and a big part of that is every flyer from every club event I went to during my clubbing days. I have TONS of ManRay flyers.

 

So here it is…my Big Goth Playlist!  If you’re still reading you’re likely familiar with this music.  I want to just explain the weird break in of 80s music about halfway through.  I used to go to the 80s night that DJ Chris from ManRay would do back in the day {he was…well still is…one of the house DJs and also did the goth sets for the goth nights at ManRay}. I felt like since those nights were still a big part of my overall goth club days I needed to add some in the middle for good measure.

There are also some songs and bands missing that I would kill to have on here and that’s only because Beats didn’t have them and I don’t have them uploaded to my Amazon account yet.  So I know over time this will get bigger.   And just for fun the songs with a asterisk after them are all time faves…so a little more stuff you never asked and probably never expected to know about me!  fun.fun!

But without further ado…here it is! 

  1. Electric Hellfire Club – Invocation/Age of Fire
  2. Clan of Xymox – A Day
  3. Sex Beat – Sex Beat*
  4. Gene Loves Jezebel – Heartache {The Mission UK Remix}
  5. The Mission U.K. – Deliverance
  6. Skeletal Family – She Cries Alone
  7. Switchblade Symphony – Bad Trash*
  8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
  9. Sisters of Mercy – Ribbons
  10. Genirorturers  – 4 Walls Black
  11. Play Dead – Bloodstains, Pleasure
  12. Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
  13. Alien Sex Fiend – I Walk The Line*
  14. Christian Death – Romeo’s Distress*
  15. Specimen – Hex
  16. The Cure – One Hundred Years
  17. Rosetta Stone – Adrenaline
  18. BiGod 20 – The Bog
  19. Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
  20. Wumpscut- Golgotha
  21. Covenant- Monochrome*
  22. Covenant- Call The Ships To Port
  23. Apoptygma Berzerk -Non-Stop Violence
  24. Ministry – Stigmata
  25. Project Pitchfork- Steelrose {Apoptygma Bezerk mix}*
  26. Das Ich- Destillat {VNV Nation mix}*
  27. Feindflug- Kahle Bedrohung
  28. Wumpscut – Soylent Green
  29. Velvet Acid Christ- Fun With Drugs
  30. The Revolting Cocks – Beers, Steers + Queers
  31. Ministry  – Every Day Is Halloween*
  32. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Cities In Dust
  33. Tones On Tail – Christian Says
  34. Joy Divison – Love Will Tear Us Apart
  35. Nine Inch Nails – Dead Souls
  36. Sisters of Mercy – Dominion/Mother Russia*
  37. Alien Sex Fiend – Ignore The Machine
  38. The Wake – Christine
  39. Christian Death – Death Wish {Wishful Death Mix}
  40. Razed In Black – Oh My Goth!
  41. The 69 Eyes – Gothic Girl
  42. Type O Negative – Back No. 1 {Little Miss Scare All}
  43. Switchblade Symphony – Witches
  44. Shiny Toy Guns – Stripped
  45. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Stagger Lee*
  46. Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting {The Vampire Song}
  47. Clan of Xymox – Jasmine and Rose
  48. Wolfsheim – The Sparrows and The Nightingales
  49. Beborn Beton – Another World
  50. Bella Morte – The Rain Within Her Hands
  51. The Cruxshadows – Marilyn, My Bitterness
  52. Apoptygma Berzerk – Coma White
  53. Stabbing Westward – Save Yourself
  54. London After Midnight – Kiss
  55. Corpus Delicti – Noxious {The Demon’s Game}*
  56. Sisters of Mercy – Temple of Love
  57. Bauhaus – Kick In The Eye
  58. Inkubus Sukkubus – Belladonna and Aconite
  59. Faith and The Muse – Sparks
  60. Cranes – Shining Road*
  61. The Birthday Party – Release The Bats*
  62. Tones On Tail – Go!
  63. Corpus Delicti – Saraband
  64. Fields of The Nephilim – Trees Come Down
  65. Bauhaus – She’s In Parties
  66. Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
  67. The Church – Under The Milky Way
  68. Gary Numan and Tubeway Army  – Down In The Park
  69. The B-52’s – Planet Claire
  70. Toto Coelo – I Eat Cannibals*
  71. Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round
  72. Real Life – Send Me An Angel
  73. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
  74. A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran {So Far Away}
  75. ABC – The Look of Love
  76. When In Rome – The Promise
  77. BiGod 20 – Like A Prayer*
  78. Marilyn Manson  – Personal Jesus
  79. Alien Sex Fiend – Now I’m Feeling Zombified
  80. Skinny Puppy – Worlock*
  81. Leaether Strip – Strap Me Down
  82. Wumpscut- Embryodead
  83. Assemblage 23 – Disappoint
  84. Neuroticfish – M.F.A.P.L.*
  85. Lords of Acid – I Sit On Acid*
  86. Shiny Toy Guns – Le Disko*
  87. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – A Daisy Chain 4 Satan {4 Ever & Ever Mix}
  88. Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant
  89. KMFDM – Godlike {Doglike}*
  90. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – I’ll Meet You In Poland Baby
  91. Throbbing Gristle  – Hamburger Lady
  92. Pigface – Hips, Tits, Lips, Power
  93. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Kooler Than Jesus {Ac/Dc Dog Mix}
  94. VNV Nation – Darkangel {Gabriel}
  95. Sisters of Mercy – This Corrosion
  96. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Spellbound
  97. Gene Loves Jezebel – Desires {Come and Get It}
  98. Fields of The Nephilim – Preacher Man
  99. Christian Death – This Is Heresy
  100. The Birthday Party – Happy Birthday
  101. Lene Lovich – What Will I Do Without You?
  102. Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
  103. Voltaire – Ex-Lover’s Lover
  104. Black Tape For A Blue Girl – All My Lovers
  105. Audra – In Hollywood Tonight
  106. Bella Morte – Fall No More
  107. Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
  108. Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup
  109. Dead Can Dance – The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove*
  110. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song
  111. Peter Murphy – I’ll Fall With Your Knife*
  112. Audra  – In All Our Androgny
  113. VNV Nation – Standing
  114. The Cruxshadows – Deception
  115. Lene Lovich – New Toy
  116. Pigface – Suck
  117. Type O Negative – Christian Woman
  118. Skinny Puppy – Dig It*
  119. Voltaire – The Vampire Club*

Update!!!

I received some messages on Facebook and Twitter asking about how someone could get a hold of this mix to listen to.  Sonos doesn’t have a playlist sharing feature {sadly} but I was able to recreate the whole mix, minus one song {Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle} on Spotify.  You can check it out here if you’d like to listen to it. >>CLICK ME<<

Thank you for supporting and encouraging my weirdness.  🙂


 

Comments

    • Jess Carlson says

      Unfortunately I don’t have another way to share such a huge playlist. My only other suggestion might be to go on YouTube and search for things that might sound interesting.

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Jess is a great teacher, as well as an insightful reading and a wonderful healer. Her lessons are informative and easy to understand. Her cards speak to her in a way that I hope mine will to me one day. I have also had a Chakra session and a Reiki session with her and afterward I felt at peace, balanced, and whole again (I was quite sick at the time). I trust very few people, and I follow my path alone, but I trust Jess. She’s a beautiful spirit.
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