though admittedly bauhaus was a forerunner it's criminal that Siouxsie & the Banshees have yet to be mentioned in this thread.
Siouxsie was a perfect blend of punk and goth, and her look essentially defined the future eighties goth movement. Join Hands (and "The Lords Prayer" off of it) was made 1 year before Bauhaus' first album and is a firm layering of ground for the whole goth scene to follow.
It's not just here that Siouxsie gets a bum rap. She was one the first, best and most influential alternative/punk acts from the seventies through the eighties and she gets essentially no credit for it. She's continued to make interesting, groundbreaking work with The Creatures, who people notice even less then the Banshees; hehe.
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