Extensive five CD set exploring the evolution of the goth movement, from the glacial post-punk of the late 1970s through positive punk and into the Batcave era, dark electronica and beyond. Features over 80 classics, rarities, album tracks and hidden gems from The Cure, Joy Division, Sisters Of Mercy, PiL, The Birthday Party, Adam And The Ants, The Mission, Southern Death Cult, Fields Of The Nephilim, All About Eve, Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Ausgang, Nico and many more. This A5 book format box contains many artists' own sleevenotes, previously unseen photographs and essay from Natasha Scharf (The Art Of Gothic, Worldwide Gothic, Prog, Metal Hammer). Curated and designed by the people who brought you Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream, Close To The Noise Floor and many more excellent and extensive box sets.
Released Early July 2017 on Cherry Red
Track Listing CD1:
01. Shadowplay - Joy Division
02. Release the Bats - the Birthday Party
03. Rema-Rema - Rema-Rema
04. Shattered Glass - Paranoia
05. Charnel Ground - Section 25
06. Floorshow - the Sisters of Mercy
07. The Female Mirror - Clock Dva
08. The Black Cat - UK Decay
09. Dead and Re-Buried - Alien Sex Fiend
10. Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven - Love and Rockets
11. Q Quarters - the Associates
12. Carnival of the Gullible - in Excelsis
13. Feels Like Dancing Wartime - Nevilluxury
14. Vaguely Human - Flesh for Lulu
15. Crow Baby - the March Violets
16. D for Desire - All About Eve
17. Beautiful Monster - Folk Devils
CD2:
01. Flowers of Romance - Public Image LTD
02. Bed Caves - Danielle Dax
03. Moya - Southern Death Cult
04. Caged - 1919
05. The Hanging Garden - the Cure
06. Solitary Habit - S-Haters
07. The Arcane - Dead Can Dance
08. Saving Face - Years on Earth
09. Breach Birth - in the Nursery
10. The Tenant - Play Dead
11. Ghost - Part 1
12. Cuts of Love - 13th Chime
13. Ice Cold in - the Tempest
14. Night Creatures - Screaming Dead
15. Among the Ruins - Bushido
16. Friends - Portion Control
17. Creation - Actifed
CD3:
01. Tabletalk - Adam and the Ants
02. The Darklands - Balaam and the Angel
03. Love Puppets - the Legendary Pink Dots
04. Into the Garden - Artery
05. Girlsoul - Salvation
06. In Shreds - the Chameleons
07. Fugitive Kind - Schleimer K
08. By the River - the Bolshoi
09. Screaming (For Emmalene) - Gene Loves Jezebel
10. Gallery of Shame - Lowlife
11. Out of the Moving Life of Circles - and Also the Trees
12. Is Still - Siiiii
13. Heroin (Live) - Tabathas Nightmare
14. Angel of Vengeance - Brigandage
15. Stone Heroes - Penetration
16. L.A. Rain - the Rose of Avalanche
CD4:
01. Legacy - Furyo
02. Stay with Me - the Mission
03. Saeta - Nico
04. Fragments of Fear - in Camera
05. Anonymity - Dance Chapter
06. Sink Into You - Ausgang
07. In Our Angelhood - Cocteau Twins
08. Morbid Silence - Sunglasses After Dark
09. Trees Come Down - Fields of the Nephilim
10. Tracey's Burning - Anorexic Dread
11. Take It All - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
12. Burning Skies - Tones on Tail
13. Spit Upon Your Grave - Blood and Roses
14. High Cost of Living - Threat
15. Storm Pause - I'm Dead
16. Last Year's Wife - Zero Le Creche
CD5:
01. Stigmata Martyr - Bauhaus
02. Patrol - the Wake
03. Returning from a Journey - Specimen
04. Original Sin - Theatre of Hate
05. Birthrite - Attrition
06. Things We Never Did - Sad Lovers and Giants
07. Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde - the Damned
08. The Hill - Gloria Mundi
09. His Box - Dali's Car
10. The Diseased Stranger's Waltz - Inca Babies
11. Ghost Dance - Death Cult
12. Euthenics - Modern Eon
13. Mind Disease - Ritual
14. She Cries Alone - Skeletal Family
15. Jack - Bone Orchard
16. Ghost Rattle - Hula
17. Twister - Rubella Ballet
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