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Summary: fine collection
Comment: Here I found songs that I was looking for since a long time ago, like "enchant me" by Faithful Dawn.
This one is not for those who what to start into the gothic music, but for all those who lived the post-punk era of the batcave, or thoose who want to be more into the old school goth.
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Summary: It's 80 goth and Cleopatra bands...but a decent deal
Comment: It is funny how people are recommending Cleopatra comps like the Black Bible when Cleopatra has reissued these Dressed To Kill releases.
I am an old school goth and many of these bands were dark and gothy in the 80's. Like another reviewer said, they are way out of print, so it would be a good start for someone trying to get pass EBM and ethereal trip-hop and into what gothic music used to be.
Sure, not all tracks on here are winners, but there are so many of them that I cannot complain about the price. Nice to have some of these on CD instead of record. All the little gothlings out there should know there are more gothic bands out there other than The Cure and NIN and they should educate themselves, because goth music isn't the same now, in fact, it was more fun and better...then again I love deathrock and batcave! :)
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Summary: goth? old school goth? hardly.
Comment: when i hear "gothic erotica" i hear sexy, twisting electronic melodies with seductive vocals. )
i'm not going to say this isnt goth; about twenty years ago it was. this is, well, old goth. 80's goth. you can imagine how much goth has evolved from that. so dont expect anything current or "new" to be on this cd.now goth is definetly connected to romanticism. there might be like...well...five romantic songs? this cd is mostly kinky. .
the thing is they'd be better off putting out two cds with the best songs . really. dont buy this unless you are a fan of bands like bahaus, cure, alien sex fiend etc. this sounds KINKY not SEDUCTIVE...ok? i'm done.
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Summary: If only it was true to its title...
Comment: I don't know about most people, but when I thought of the title for a set of CDs being Gothic Erotica, I envisioned brooding melodies and powerfully seductive voices setting up a background of heady, primal, and lustful emotions.It isn't.
After listening to many of the snippets offered by Amazon (of which I must have picked the only good ones), I thought to give this set a go. Disappointment soon followed.
One of the first, and most obnoxious, issues is that many of the tracks are mislabeled. For instance, Track 4 on CD 4 is the same as Track 9 on CD 1; others are simply wrong, such as being the wrong band.
Following this, is the music itself. It is not Erotica, nor is most of it Gothic either. Granted, there are a few good tracks, but it is mostly a compilation of a wide group of musics, which DO NOT share a common theme. I would swear that some of the tracks are more pop than goth.
Looking at the work as a whole, its like a bunch of record marketing blokes decided they needed more revenue. So, they slapped a bunch of music together under a title they felt would sell. After all, associate something with sex or erotica and it'll sell, despite its quality.
The only thing that will keep this in my collection is my being something of a pack rat for music. If I weren't, it'd go in the trash (then again, who's to say it will not end up so later).
Save your money.
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Summary: not bad, but not great...
Comment: This collection isn't so much "bad" as it is a re-hashing of almost every single compilation that Dressed To Kill records puts out, and they've been releasing a lot of six-disc compilations lately. If you buy this, make sure that you check the track listing on every other DtK comp you consider buying ever again, as I can gaurantee that about two-thirds of the track-listing will be exactly like this one.Other than that, it's a decent collection of proto-goth bands from the early 1980s - do NOT expect Marilyn Manson heavy-metal-aggro-industrial music, but instead expect punk and glam-rock influenced music (as in *real* punk and glam rock) and a couple Lydia Lunch tracks.
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