fogeygoff - Profile (original) (raw)
1st Gen Goths, Urgoths, Elder Goths
I bid you welcome. Come in and reminisce with us about the classic age of goth culture (1976 - circa 1988). You remember. Yes, back when goth music was actually good. Way, way back ... back when the goths didn't even know they were called that, or denied any connection to the label, back in the ur-goth period of music history.
The fogeygoff community is a place where mature goths and ex-goths can share nostalgic recollections, make inquiries, talk music, share links, and maybe even find romance. And younger goths can come and bask in the wisdom of their elders.
The late 70s-early 80s was where it all happened, and the best music is still from that time, right? So make yourself cozy in a place where people talk about bands you've actually heard of, films you've actually seen, and not all that kinderwave stuff, or whatever it's called.
Ah, those golden years, when your gothicness was measured by how high you could tease your hair. The days when you could locate goth clubs just by the smell of Aquanet wafting from blocks away...
Some suggestions for more pleasant participation:
Pleeese try to keep your posts relevant, and NO MOPING!!! No flaming either. Do that in your own journal. This is not a psychotherapy community. And remember we are here to preserve 80s goth culture, which is done by promoting and sharing, not whining or criticizing.
Picture Policy: First, all pictures bigger than 400x400 pixels must be behind an lj-cut tag, out of courtesy to dial-up users. Anything bigger will be automatically deleted. Second, no band photos unless you took them and are hosting them on your own server/site (no Geocities or Tripod please). Third, do not hotlink images from any server that is not your own (such as fan sites, commercial sites, band homepages, other peoples' homepages or journals). Stealing other peoples' bandwidth and/or copyrighted work can get you banned from here. Most likely though, your post will just be promptly deleted. Fourth, all pics must be on-topic and relevant to the flavor of this community, and should be work-safe. Such decisions are the community maintainers' prerogative and are not contestable or votable. This policy still gives you a lot of leeway to have fun. Guidelines like this are meant to encourage etiquette and consideration.
Help promote this community. The more members, the merrier (and the more likely you'll get responses to your posts). Tell the other fogeys about it. Thank You!
This forum was created by 
cpmcdill. It is now maintained by mickmercer.
1980s, 45 grave, 4ad, abba, addams family, alien sex fiend, art school, batcave, bauhaus, bee gees, birthday party, black clothes, black lipstick, black nail polish, blixa bargeld, brian eno, cabaret voltaire, chris and cosey, christian death, cocteau twins, coil, concerts, cranes, creatures, cult, cure, dali's car, danielle dax, danse society, david bowie, dead can dance, dead or alive, death in june, death rock, disk jockeys, djarum blacks, djinnestan, doc martens, dreamchild, dresden dolls, echo and the bunnymen, edward ka-spel, edward scissorhands, einstürzende neubauten, electro, eraserhead, ex-goths, exene cervenka, eyeliner, eyeshadow, fad gadget, fields of the nephilim, fishnet stockings, gang of four, gary numan, gitane demone, glam rock, goth, goth fashions, goth parenting, gothic, gothic children, gothic weddings, goths, hair dye, hipmama, home decorating, iggy pop, industrial, jesus and mary chain, joy division, kalemachka, kate bush, killing joke, klaus nomi, kraftwerk, laibach, legendary pink dots, leonard cohen, liquid sky, lisa gerrard, love and rockets, marc almond, mascara, meret becker, ministry, mix tapes, mors syphilitica, munsters, music videos, my bloody valentine, new order, new romantics, nick cave, niel gaiman, nightclubs, nightmare before christmas, nina hagen, nine inch nails, nurse with wound, parenting, peter murphy, post-punk, propaganda, public image ltd, radical parenting, re/search, recipes, records, robert smith, romanticism, roxy music, saluki regicide, sandman, scarlet's well, severed heads, sex gang children, single mothers, siouxsie and the banshees, sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, smiths, soft cell, southern death cult, southern gothic, specimen, spk, swans, synth pop, talking heads, tear garden, test dept, the bolshoi, the cult, the damned, the glove, the hunger, the monochrome set, the sisterhood, this mortal coil, tones on tail, uk decay, ultravox, velvet underground, vinyl, virgin prunes, vodka, wings of desire, world of skin, xmal deutschland