Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (W/Dvd)

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 4
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B000GIWS4M
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,056 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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  • #48 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Goth

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Dead Souls -- Joy Division

2. Charlotte Sometimes -- The Cure

3. She's In Parties -- Bauhaus

4. Temple Of Love -- The Sisters Of Mercy

5. Christian Says -- Tones On Tail

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Weeping Song -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2. Exterminating Angel -- The Creatures

3. God's Zoo -- Death Cult

4. Heartache -- Gene Loves Jezebel

5. I Go Crazy -- Flesh For Lulu

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Away -- The Bolshol

2. Watch Without Pain -- Rubicon

3. Pagan Lovesong -- Virgin Prunes

4. Morning Dew -- Einsturzende Neubauten

5. Hamburger Lady -- Throbbing Gristle

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Lullaby [DVD] -- The Cure

2. Bela Lugosi's Dead [DVD] -- Bauhaus

3. Lucretia My Reflection [DVD] -- The Sisters Of Mercy

4. Moonchild [DVD] -- Fields Of The Nephilim

5. Deliverance [DVD] -- The Mission UK

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So gothic it's undead, October 9, 2006

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child of the cuckoo (Augusta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (W/Dvd) (Audio CD)

I am completely pleased to see something like this come out in the year 2006. For those who are just discovering gothic rock, and for us seasoned veterans, this collection is exceptional. I do have some bones with it...AFI is a good band but hardly goth. And where are bands like Inkubus Sukkubus? Die Laughing? Switchblade Symphony? Big Electric Cat? The Shroud? Ofra Haza? And they certainly could have picked a better Neubauten song!! But I digress...this is a great collection. The DVD rocks, the music rocks. Check it out for yourself.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The humble opinion of a ex-Goth :-|, September 20, 2006

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T. Dorman (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (W/Dvd) (Audio CD)

Well, No matter what the last person said ... I think it's a great compilation ... Great songs, great music vids. Could have had more Sisters on it though.... But over all there is nothing wrong with the selection. If you are new to Gothic music.... I mean REAL Gothic Rock... not NuGoth, Scary-Trans, Darkmetal, Black Polka, Doom-yodelling or any of the other weak spin-offs of the `90's and 2000's... than this Little Black box of "inner-morbid-heartaches and boo-hoo's" is as great a place to start as any.

5 skeletal thumbs up.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Turning on the light in a dark room, October 17, 2006

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Stephanie Travitsky "Keeper of the Zoo" (brooklyn, new york United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (W/Dvd) (Audio CD)

The liner for this compilation pretty much sums it up. Goth music was created in the UK by people who watched the late night creature feature and who read Shelly, Stoker,etc. Some of these artists were romantics and some wanted to be like Alice Cooper (Nik Fiend).

This is a great introduction to what truly defined the Goth music movement and how it intertwined with Punk, New Wave, and EBM. However, I must argue that AFI really is not goth and never will be. Plus, while Flesh for Lulu was technically concidered a Goth band, "Ï Go Crazy" is not a Goth song. I would have eliminated AFI and used "Reptile" by The Church.