Gothic Lesson's

Lets start by the first question, What is Goth?

Simple answer, Goth is a sub-culture of Industial music which is a sub-culture of Metal which in its own in a sub-culture of 80's hair bands.. By this, goth must have started somewhere in the mid-1995's..

Now there has been alot of talk about goth coming in waves, but we all know that goth kids HATE the sun and long walks on the beach and even more-so, Waves are reserved for Ska and New Wave (or British Rock).. When refering to time periods of goth, you have to use their scale, or darkness-colors..

So, goth first started in the Dark-Black with Johnny Cash with his smash hit "Hurt" which was later re-mixed by Nine Inch Nails (Or the NIN) in the Blue-Black era (we'll get to that later)

Then Goth took off in popularity and entered the Black-Black with such great albums as Black by Metallica and BlackStreet by the BlackStreet Boys.. Lets not forget the Rythemic Sounds of Venessa Carlton. She totally gets those goth's swaying

Then Goth went into a slump or the Grey-Black. This period of time gave us some terrible goth music and fasions.. Fishnet shirts, Fat chicks in clothes made for babies, and The Cure.. But this was all saved by such artists in...

THE PINK-BLACK! Yes! Hot Topic came around and gave kids what they wanted! Clothes they can call bleek and Ideals that they could fuck to. It was so goth Frank Sinatra sang his hit goth song "It was a very good year" and Dream Theater made a song that lasted almost 22 minutes!!

This peeked at what is now the Blue-Black era. You have your bands such as Tool, NIN, Chingy, and John Mayers' pumping out new and sad songs to love bats too.

Now, how to spot a Gothkid or a "Gothy".. I'll keep this rather short since i'm pretty sure they don't want YOU looking at them since it takes away from their individuality or whatever sad world they were trying to hide in from people who smile...

A typical Gothy wears more vinal then a record store, has black hair always looking like they used too much glue in it to keep it down, like their life, and usually pierced up all over their face to prove dominence..

The guys usually look like girls, but you can tell they arn't girls cause they don't weight 300 pounds... And sometimes you'll find the skinny goth girls, but they are usually guys... Its a phenonanom all its own!

And thats it folks, Goth in a nutshell, or atleast, goth in a dark stairwell of moral angst filled with the blood of all the souls that shall be reeped by he who is darkness.. or some such like that..