Halloween this year is brought to you by, oddly enough, my brother again. I’m still walking down memory lane, I guess. I blame Samhain.
My brother is seven years older than I am, so I was twelve when he started to college and became the biggest music nerd on earth. He not only got into indie music, he also discovered the ’60s and started raiding our parents’ record collection. He got a little pretentious but he was also a great brother, letting me raid his ever-growing collection of mix tapes.
He was not a goth in any way, though, so before I found The Cure I found The Doors.
The term “gothic rock” was allegedly coined way back in the ’60s to describe The Doors. They were way too early to be goth and have a pretty psychedelic sound, but they dabbled in dark and occult sounds and themes. Listening to them, and to Led Zeppelin and the Velvet Underground, that was the beginning for me. It was all downhill (down, down into the abyss) from there.
YouTube isn’t connecting for me today but I think these links will still work. But just in case they don’t, feel free to look up “Riders on the Storm” and “The End” by the Doors and “Venus in Furs” by the Velvet Underground for a blast from the pre-goth past.
Oddly Cultured 
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