Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 19 minutes ago
Goth lore goes hard friend bats. There's a lot to be learned about the factors that formed the subculture and music that we now call goth, and not all of it was straight from Leeds, the Batcave, or the UK. We're taking you on a short trip through our libraries to show you some of the most useful books we've read. This isn't us reading Wikipedia and we're going beyond the surface level to bring you information you won't find anywhere else
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Books we talk about:
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s by Andi Harriman & Marloes Bontje (2014)
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds (2006)
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Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst (2023)
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Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte (2021)
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Young Limbs Rise Again: The Story Of The Batcave Nightclub 1982-1985 (2023)
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Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones (2021)
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The Trouser Press guide to new wave records by Ira Robbins (1983)
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No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore & Byron Coley (2008)
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige (1979)
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Punk Diary: 1970-1979 by George Gimarc (1994)
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Goth lore goes hard friend bats. There's a lot to be learned about the factors that formed the subculture and music that we now call goth, and not all of it was straight from Leeds, the Batcave, or the UK. We're taking you on a short trip through our libraries to show you some of the most useful books we've read. This isn't us reading Wikipedia and we're going beyond the surface level to bring you information you won't find anywhere else
Heads up, all of the book links are amazon affiliate links, so if you use them, you take money out of Bezos' scrooge mcduck pool and give it to us instead.
Or hey, if you want to support us even more, check out our patreon or send us a tip on paypal! We are 100% community supported and every dollar we recieve goes back into OU. We're currently saving for equipment to improve our video quality, too!
Patreon: patreon.com/obscuraundead
Tip: paypal.me/obscuraundead
Books we talk about:
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s by Andi Harriman & Marloes Bontje (2014)
amzn.to/3NNfGFy
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds (2006)
amzn.to/3NQ6IHG
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst (2023)
amzn.to/48lGd5a
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte (2021)
amzn.to/3H8Gyfw
Young Limbs Rise Again: The Story Of The Batcave Nightclub 1982-1985 (2023)
amzn.to/3S65lHm
Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones (2021)
amzn.to/3RKJaVK
The Trouser Press guide to new wave records by Ira Robbins (1983)
amzn.to/3HdDFdb
No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore & Byron Coley (2008)
amzn.to/47n4fvh
Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige (1979)
amzn.to/3tFg1mY
Punk Diary: 1970-1979 by George Gimarc (1994)
amzn.to/48H6oTz
