Sunshine Blind - Release

Sunshine Blind was one of the front runners in the 90's goth scene. Release is their first and perhaps only promotional video, and a damn fine video it is.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• gothic
• rock
• sunshine
• blind
• cleopatra
• 90's

[Khirad]

Exactly right, Casar1973. I remember reading that at the time. I love the Sisters, but Eldritch needed to just accept who the hell it is that buys his albums and embrace Gothdom.

[steampunkmaster]

Breath Taking to say the least.

[SleekGothic]

@oramikleepunk Bauhaus were the first goth band who released the first goth single in 1979(Bela Lugosi`s Dead). Siouxsie and The Cure were Post-punk who helped influence the genre and did some 'goth' type of material on occasion, but their entire catalog is definitely not goth. Sisters of Mercy and Fields of the Nephilim were both considered Goth. the "Darkwave" label was not used much until the early 1990s with the arrival of Projekt artists such as Lycia and Love Spirals Downwards.

[SleekGothic]

@deviancy The first time I heard the "darkwave" label was in the early 1990s in regards to artists such as Lycia and Love Spirals Downwards, both who are excellent and on the Projekt label.

[deviancy]

@oramikleepunk well when I was a lad in the late 80's we called it goth. I don't remember anyone using "darkwave" until the mid 90's. It was NME that I remember first calling those bands goth in the early to mid 80's. It just wasn't used nearly as much as it was in the 90's but thats due to the mainstream media getting ahold of the word and using it to sell stories about suicidal teens, vampires, and ugh.. mansonites.

[oramikleepunk]

@SleekGothic Most of the true underground goth bands took place in the 90's.Bands like the Cure,would have been called Darkwave,or post punk,yet 90's gothrock is rooted in 80's darkwave or post-punk.

[oramikleepunk]

@deviancy You couldn't call the music of Siouxsie,Cure,nor Eldritch Goth...it's post punk.Most of the underground goth bands took place in the 90's.When I was a lad in the late 80's they called this music underground Darkwave.

[SleekGothic]

Here is Delyria's channel if interested

user/DelyriaPhoto

and sorry about the malformed url ;-)

watch?v=1__lMvMwdgo

[SleekGothic]

@deviancy I can understand up to a point and maybe they became frustrated with the sea of clones in their audience. some of the younger "babybat" goths definitely look like Stereotypical Goths and act the part

and their expectations do not go beyond the atypical, however there are some Goth women out there like Delyria who do not convey a Stereotypical Goth image or attitude in any way.

see for yourself

watch?v=1__lMvMwdg

[deviancy]

@SleekGothic A lot of artists prefer not to be pigeonholed to a genre/subculture because they feel it comes with specific expectations. For example, many just wanted the Sisters to do another album like Floodland, but Eldritch wanted to move in another direction. But to be fair to Eldritch, almost all of the bands that many would say started goth reject the tag. Eldritch just took it to the next level and while the Cure and Siouxsie rejected the tag, Eldrich insulted the fans

[SleekGothic]

@Khirad I've always wondered about that myself. why does Andrew Eldritch and some others deny being part of the Goth subculture? Sunshine Blind should not have been booted. they were probably one of the best bands of the Gothic Rock genre during the 1990s.

[dimpills]

Very good song!