Their debut album, Promise, was released in 1983, other albums in the 1980s include 1985s Immigrant, 1986s Discover, 1988s The House of Dolls (featuring Twenty Killer Hurts ), and 1990s Kiss of Life (featuring Jealous, which topped Billboards Alternative Rock Chart in 1990).Michael Aston left the group after The House of Dolls, but the band continued on under the same name for three more albums before the two brothers formed rival Gene Loves Jezebel bands, which continue to this day.Gothic, Darkwave, Folk, Neofolk, Cold Wave, EBM, Etreo, Dark Ambient, Deathrock, Electrodark, Synthpop, New Wave, Gothic Metal, Doom Gothic, Punk, Post-Punk, Heavenly Voices, Indie, Shoagaze, Noise, Neclasico and more.
![]() Ellos son Slobo Svrdlan (bajo), Michael Ciravolo (guitarras) y Michael Brahm (percucin). Alive Within 09. Sorry (Suzan) 10. Necromancing The Cunning Linguist 11. Its the pleasure of apreciate music and share it, without resulting in any cost or financial benefits directly or indirectly to anyone. If you have downloaded a file and liked it, I suggest you to acquire the album in stores or specialized sites.If any artist feel the need to have any link removed, please drop a line. ![]() Formed by the identical twin Aston brothers Jay and Michael, the band began in 1980, and released their first single, the individualistic and aggressive Shaving My Neck (1982) now readily available on the compilation Gothic Rock (Jungle, 1992). Gene Loves Jezebel Blogspot Full Length AlbumThe first full length album Promise and its accompanying singles Bruises, Screaming for Emmalene and Influenza followed, with bass provided by Julianne Regan who would depart soon after to form All About Eve. Although interspersed with intervals of slow desolate introspection, for the most part this little beast of an album fair gallops along with catchy alternative pop sensibilities all the while exuding a miasma of bleak neuroticism. If there seems to be a certain recycling of musical ideas throughout the album, it matters little since those recycled ideas are very good ones indeed. Standout tracks include Bruises, Pop Tarantula, Screaming for Emmalene and Psychological Problems. By 1985, the band would go on to do the very Cultesque Desire, which sadly would become the song they would be remembered for, the live video leaning drunkenly towards the pop-metal fad of the day, the band displaying a far more glam look and musically baring absolutely no resemblance to their early years. The increasingly commercial directions Gene Loves Jezebel was taking evidently did not please Michael, and the brothers terminated their musical partnership in 1989. Gene Loves Jezebel shambles onward to this day as two distinct entities, each controlled by the respective Ashton brothers. However, the likelihood of either outfit ever again recording anything remotely like the left-field brilliance displayed on Promise seems an unlikely proposition indeed. Bruises: An indisputably brilliant song and an indisputably awful video clip - oh well. Line up: Michael Ashton (vocals), Jay Aston (guitar, backing vocals), Ian C. Hudson (guitar), Julianne Regan (bass, piano, backing vocals), with drums and percussion provided by Steve Goulding, Richard Hawkins, and John Johnny Genius Murphy. ![]() When on rare occasion DJs in Goth clubs did finally become brave enough to play something like Bauhaus it was not untypical to have the dance floor clear, and it became obvious that the memory, meaning and legacy of much that had gone before had been lost. Its probably safe to say that the boundaries of what was Goth were never clearly defined. An absolute blessing for those bands on the original scene before it had a name pinned to the donkey, but an outright curse for those who came later and found rules had been imposed to dictate that which was and that which was not acceptable. Worse still was to come in the 90s from a lazy and unquestioning media who simply assumed that anything that wore black and make up was by definition Goth, thus allowing all manner of pretenders licence, and maximising confusion as to what the term actually referred to. Neo Post-Punk bands now proliferate across Europe, old long dead Goth bands rise from their crypts in the UK, and new deathrock bands are breeding like rabbits up the west coast of America. It is time to reclaim our scene back from metal bands and ravers in disguise. While the Plunder the Tombs of old focused on what had gone before, there are now far too many exciting new things to ignore. We roar back to life in a reboot, covering past, present and things yet to come. Gene Loves Jezebel Blogspot Trial Showcase DarkwingsAlso helped found 6RTR fms Goth Industrial showcase Darkwings. More recent projects include the currently dormant Descent - a small night dedicated to playing genuinely good Goth music both old and new in preference to packing the dance floor with songs everyone had heard 20 million times before. He currently runs a monthly show on Behind the Mirror on 6RTR fm which can be heard on Wednesdays at 11pm WST.
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