Title: Gothic rock - Wikipedia
Headings: Gothic rock
Gothic rock
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Content: According to Peter Murphy, the song was written to be tongue-in-cheek, but since the group performed it with "naive seriousness", that is how the audience understood it. Bauhaus released their debut album In the Flat Field in 1980, and the album is often considered the first gothic rock album. Robert Smith of the Cure in 1989, who was on the front cover of NME Originals: Goth in 2004. In the early 1980s, post-punk bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure moved to the gothic rock genre. Siouxsie and the Banshees' fourth album, 1981's Juju, was considered the band's first gothic rock album. According to Reynolds, with Juju, the Banshees introduced several gothic qualities, lyrically and sonically, whereas according to The Guardian, Juju was art rock on certain album tracks and pop on the singles. Their bassist, Steven Severin, attributed the aesthetic used by the Banshees around that time to the influence of the Cramps. The Cure 's "oppressively dispirited" trio of albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980), Faith (1981) and Pornography (1982), was when The Cure became a gothic rock band. The line "It doesn't matter if we all die" began the Pornography album, which is considered as "the Cure's gothic piece de resistance".