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Ongoing History of New Music

Good Goth - Part 1

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8604 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Goth has always had a bad rap and that's not fair to the music, the fans and the fashion so we're going to try to clear everything up with our deep dive. But don't worry...no one's going to get hurt. We are going to examine the Alt-Rock scene from the early 70's, and take it right up to today. This is "Good Goth...Part 1" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

0:04.3

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

0:11.0

The Lorda,

0:15.9

say, no, no, la.

0:20.4

Sama, Sama, Mesa, It is a lot of music

0:21.6

It is

0:26.6

It is a fact of human history that certain types of music will scare people.

0:35.6

They get scared because this music allegedly comes from

0:38.7

Satan himself. The Dark Lord has been blamed or credited with creating or inspiring the

0:46.2

creation of evil music, music that will make mere mortals do, well, bad things, or at the very

0:53.4

least think bad thoughts.

0:55.4

Satan, working under pseudonyms such as Lucifer, Beelzebub, Abdon, Apollon, Apollon, and the ever-popular Prince of Darkness

1:03.4

has always had the ability to freak people out.

1:07.0

Take the case of the Catholic Church not so long ago.

1:11.2

It once declared that a chord sounded so, well, evil, that it had to be composed by the devil himself.

1:20.3

I mean, it only stood to reason, right?

1:21.6

I mean, evil sounding chord, somebody evil had to write it.

1:26.7

They called it Diabolicus in Musica, the devil in music.

1:31.2

It sounds kind of dissonant, which means it's not entirely pleasing to the year, but that was the whole point.

1:35.5

It evoked an emotional response, a disturbing emotional response.

1:40.2

Let that again, wait a second, isn't all music about emotion? Well, anyway, for the Catholic Church, back in the day,

1:46.8

it was a little too much, and they banned the use of this particular chord,

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