This is one of those pages that I just patch up hastily, fully with the intent of covering more in-depth later. For now I'm just desperate to put these links up before I forget/lose them. Later it will be fancier and more appealing in layout, cunning in content.

And yes, I'm fully cognizant of the fact that including a Goth section will simultaneously earn me the derision of many of my friends and the imperious, garrulous, quarrelsome nature of hundreds of self-proclaimed Goths who will not agree with my selection. Maybe that's why I'm doing it. Ha.

• Daniel Balavoine - Introduced to this French chanteur in the late '80s by a cute Belgian exchange student, I'm still a fan of this work.
• The Billy Nayer Show - BNS Productions, which created the inspirational The American Astronaut, also gave birth to this fantastic ensemble... what are they, psychowestern? Esquivel-esque funk/lounge? They're just fucking brilliant, is what they are.
• DEVO - Besides being a cool-ass seminal electronica band, besides rocking the socks outta your ass, this is a pretty cool little website.
• Thomas Dolby - One of my all-time, get-out favorite artists. This guy just fucking rocks. I could be happily stranded on an island with The Golden Age of Wireless.
• The Golden Palominos - I know nothing about Nicole Blackman's tremendous ego. All I know is I like this experiment.
• Kalte Farben - A lot of my "in the know" rivethead friends will laugh at this group, but I love "Dry/Wet" and I don't care who knows it.
• Kraftwerk - You cannot deny this is one of the coolest fucking websites you've ever seen. How fitting, then, that it belongs to the beautiful and angular Kraftwerk.
• Pixies, Pixies, Pixies! - I can't get enough of these guys! My heart is broken that they disbanded before I even knew of them! Robbery! Cribdeath!
• Radiohead - Challenged, dared by the former drummer of Psychopop to listen to these guys, the tapes of their last four albums never left my car stereo for three months and I sunk into a profound depression, helplessly junking out on Radiohead.
• The Silver Hearts - Described as "darksider bluegrass", "brothel blues", and a "beer orchestra", this lurvely group outta Peterborough, Ontario won me over but promptly. Can comfortably share the shelf with The Billy Nayer Show, The Strawdogs, and The Squirrel Nut Zippers.
• The Squirrel Nut Zippers - Clever, energetic, fresh and revivalist! I love these guys, they do a lot of things right.

• ATARAXIA - Wow, Francesca Nicoli's singing sucks; I mean it's really terrible. Why would anyone permit her to be recorded? I almost don't want to include them in this list. But sometimes I like what they're trying to achieve and think they're even kinda not bad at it. Sometimes. Rarely.
• Clan of Xymox - I prefer Clan of Xymox to merely Xymox, I think that first album was fucking creepy. What they've done since is okay, but that first album... man.
• Cocteau Twins - This is part of my special blend of ethereal goth/ambient. Wish there were more music like this; I devour everything they've done like a plate of meringues.
• Danielle Dax - Beautiful and fiery, scary in her passion, she's the kind of gothchick who I knew I'd never be good enough for.
• Dead Can Dance - I had no idea music this beautiful could be created in my lifetime. I thought we were done and I just missed out.
• Delerium - A very beautiful, ethereal electronica goth-appropriate act. I approve.
• Diamanda Galas - She's the quintessential form of insanity so freaky it becomes irresistably hot.
• The Essence - Yes, I know they sound like the Cure. Maybe that's why I like them.
• Kommunity FK - Technically "deathrock", "[Kommunity FK] came from the LA punk scene, crossing genres with a pre-gothic gloomy post punk sound."
• Lena Lovich - If you like Nina Hagen and Danielle Dax and Thomas Dolby, you have to like Lena Lovich.
• London After Midnight
• Lush - Another sample of beautiful British altie rock, with their Spooky delving into goth/ambient. Painfully in love with Lush.
• The Mission UK - Whenever I want to get into the mood for going out all psychogoth, I start drinking heavily and listen to "Raising Cain" as loud as I can.
• Nina Hagen - She's my girlfriend. She's just doesn't know it yet.
• Skeletal Family - Another cobblestone in the wistful path of earnest gothrock from which we've so distantly strayed. More's the pity.
• SWANS - They like to spell their names in all caps, like ATARAXIA. The artists are profoundly self-absorbed and searingly egomaniacal. Despite, they produced some pretty powerful fucking music that shook me to my soul and dissembled my understanding of the world.
• This Mortal Coil - The only album I've heard is Filigree & Shadow, and Jean sounds funny with his pretentious keening and silly little lisp, but mostly I really enjoy this album. I'm curious, now that I've read that This Mortal Coil isn't a band so much as an experimental and mercurial outfit of various artists. I'll check out the other albums now.

• Cocteau Twins
• Falco
• Portishead
• Radiohead
• Yello