Metamatic Forums John Foxx John Foxx JOHN FOXX the GOTH?

Since when did John become a Goth?

I've not seen this CD before and for some strange reason it features "No One Driving".

Goth: 18 Classics From The Dark Side

http://www.tesco.com/Entertainment/product.aspx?R=651795

Many other questionable Goth credentials me thinks - lol

CD Tracklisting -
1.Pretty In Pink - with The Psychedelic Furs
2.Wasteland - with The Mission
3.Real Wild Child (Wild One) - with Iggy Pop
4.Black Sabbath - with Black Sabbath
5.Quiet Life - with Japan
6.Moonchild - with Fields Of The Nephilim
7.Love Song - with The Damned
8.Spirit In The Sky - with Norman Greenbaum
9.New Church - with Lords Of The New Church
10.Never Take Me Alive - with Spear Of Destiny
11.Duchess - with The Stranglers
12.Martha's Harbour - with All About Eve
13.Prime Mover - with Zodiac Mindwarp
14.No One Driving - with John Foxx
15.Fire! - with The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
16.Drowning In Berlin - with Mobiles
17.The Motion Of Love - with Gene Loves Jezebel
18.Away 2 - with The Bolshoi

Aargh, if only I could remember more about a book about popular music, aimed at teenagers that I flicked through in a library nine years ago while waiting for someone. Inside it mentioned Ultravox (pre-midge), and John Foxx as being a 'part' of the gothic music genre. I would say that, (not having the book in front of me), this can only be due to the themes and moods in their music and attitude, it seems about right to me, Metamatic: introspective?, quiet anger?

I'm still struggling with the idea of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown following John!!

Maybe John can do a cover version of Fire!

Fire!

it should have been Burning Car

Funnily enough, I have seen several references to this before and I have the following take on it.

For whatever reason, Systems of Romance and to a lesser extent The Garden are regularly cited by Goth - especially 'darkwave' - bands as being sources of inspiration and influence. SoR in particular has featured in a number of 'All Time Best Goth' albums.
Tracks like No-one Driving and Underpass get the same references, and also the track Mr No, which I suspect had an influence on it being released as a single a few years ago.

Recently, the Australian tour dates and reviews thereof featured quite heavily in 'goth' media and websites.

As far as explaining this goes, I would agree with corememory and concur that its something to do with themes, romantic imagery and whatnot.
Thanks for posting this though - another 'release' for the discography. I wasn't aware of it before either

John did also appear on the Orphée (Projekt) darkwave compilation.

The Quiet Life ! That track does not fit on that cd at all.

Are these tracks on the wrong album then, or are some Foxx fans secret 'goths'. :rolleyes:

That whole era of music seems to appeal to the goth. I used to regularly attend a synth pop night in Sheffield, who play a lot of DM, Numan, THL, OMD etc alongside all your New Romantic stuff, and they nearly always get 'Underpas's or 'Europe' in. More recently they played 'From Trash' and 'A Million cars' - and there is always a heavy goth crowd there.