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.

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!}

 

 

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*

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