tegs07

Yep they were based in Leeds. Bauhaus were Northampton. A lot of metal and goth bands evolved from the North and Midlands in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It wasn’t yet a time of coiffured hair and rampant greed.

I think the number of cover versions of Dylan, Young and Cohen along with the band name give a pretty big hint of Eldritch’s influences.

Yet they were one of the first post punk bands to define the genre along with Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Some people really do and putting things in neat categories has some use but it’s not a religion. I was often criticised for being a Goth but wearing a Pogues TShirt. I was never a Goth. I just wore black a lot and liked some Goth music. Still don’t see what musical similarities Bauhaus have with Fields of the Nephilim though. It’s all a bit subjective and arbitrary. Are the Cure Goth when they play Funeral Party and pop when playing Love Cats?

Iron lion zion - Bob Marley

Damn right I got the blues - Buddy Guy

Down in a hole - Alice in chains

The fun lovin’ criminal - fun lovin’ criminals

Black Sabbath just thought they were playing heavy rock as well: Black Sabbath: 'We hated being a heavy metal band' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38768573

Moped eyes - Super Furry Animals

It’s fair to say whatever is important to you. Some really care about the genre and categories. I find the progression and cultural context interesting but am not really bothered by the terminology. Edit: I also get lost in the evolution of most genre’s and tail off towards the 90’s!

Possibly because there is no definitive answer. The blues gave birth to rock and roll which spawned a lot of different styles.Throw some socio-economic upheavals in the mix add a pinch of emerging technology and you go from the Kinks to Cream and Hendrix. The innocence of the 60’s crashes out with Zeppelin a war then a big recession. The 70’s are here and things are looking grim, Sabbath then Punk and enter Motörhead and on it goes to the happy hairy 80’s days, and it’s all glam rock and on and on…. It will all evolve and new classifications added, new sub-genres invented and old ones debunked. There will most likely be a bunch of blokes debating whether Metallica are really metal in a decade.

Only son of the ladies man - father John misty

Them Bones - Alice in Chains

Interstellar overdrive - pink floyd

Flying teapot - Gong

White Room - Cream

I don’t know. Are Greenday a punk band? We’re Generation X a punk band? It’s just music to my ears. Well possibly not Cliff but those Shadows blokes were pretty cool.

Indeed. It’s semantics though. There was a discussion not long ago about if Judas Priest were Heavy Metal. They were classed as that when I was a teenager and were notable at least to my ears as being distinctively less rooted in the blues than their predecessors.

Dazed and confused- led zep

And does it all begin when Muddy Waters first plugged in a guitar? Prior to this you would have had acoustic country blues, then the resonator guitar could provide amplification to compete with banjos and the like. I’m sure the first time a crowd heard blues licks on an electric guitar it would have been pretty heavy. As has been said it’s all just evolution. Label it whatever you like.

Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths

Days - Kinks

My thoughts on this is that unless artists want to end up as sad parodies of themselves endlessly repeating a tired old formula they need to break the mould and do something different. If they don’t they become the musical equivalent of “Top Gear”.

10.15 Saturday night- The Cure