I 200 migliori dischi del post-punk dark e gotico di sempre nella classifica di Uncut: The Cure in vetta

Trionfano i Cure di "Disintegration" nella speciale classifica darkwave e gothic compilata dallo staff del magazine britannico Uncut nel nuovo numero speciale della serie The Ultimate Record Collection. All'interno della rivista, sono presenti anche interviste, recensioni e approfondimenti sul tema. Il piatto forte, però, è questa classifica intitolata "The 200 greatest goth albums... ranked!".
L'iniziativa è presentata in un'introduzione a cura del direttore John Robinson, che, partendo dalla recente polemica tra Paul Weller e Robert Smith dei Cure, sottolinea come possa aver dato fastidio "il fatto che la band di Smith riesca ancora oggi a riempire gli stadi di tutto il mondo con una musica fortemente personale ma, allo stesso tempo, sorprendentemente universale... Essendo i Cure autori di alcuni dei dischi più amati e di successo della sottocultura goth, non potevano certo mancare - aggiunge Robinson - Troverete anche altri classici di giganti del genere come Nick Cave e Siouxsie And The Banshees. Ma ciò che questa raccolta offre, oltre ai nomi più celebri, è un ampio panorama di musica che ha contribuito a definire la prima fase di questa corrente, in un periodo che potremmo collocare tra il 1981 e il 1989: dall’ascesa dei Birthday Party fino all’uscita di "Disintegration"... Secondo una visione più rigida e ortodossa, il primo album dei Cocteau Twins o 'She Hangs Brightly' dei Mazzy Star potrebbero essere collocati più appropriatamente sotto l’etichetta dream-pop piuttosto che goth. Oppure, le sinistre sperimentazioni elettroniche del primo album dei Throbbing Gristle avrebbero potuto trovare spazio in queste pagine accanto a Skinny Puppy o Nine Inch Nails - spiega ancora il direttore del magazine nell'introduzione - Forse è vero, ma siamo molto sicuri della musica inclusa in questa selezione".
Ecco qui sotto la classifica di Uncut dei migliori 200 album goth di tutti i tempi. Su OndaRock trovate anche la nostra classifica dei migliori dischi dark di sempre, alla quale abbiamo dedicato anche questo podcast.

1. The Cure - Disintegration (1989)
2. The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always (1985)
3. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire (1981)
4. Joy Division - Closer (1980)
5. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980)
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju (1981)
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey (1988)
8. The Cure - Pornography (1982)
9. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (1986)
10. Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977)
11. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
12. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
13. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland (1987)
14. Nico - The Marble Index (1968)
15. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
16. The Doors - The Doors (1967)
17. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
18. Swans - The Burning World (1989)
19. Cocteau Twins - Garlands (1982)
20. Ministry - Land Of Rape and Honey (1988)
21. Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine (1983)
22. The Sisterhood - Gift (1986)
23. Bulgarian State Television Female Choir - Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (1987)
24. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (1980)
25. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears (1984)
26. Various Artists - Batcave: Young Limbs and Numb Hymns (1983)
27. The Cure - Faith (1981)
28. Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night (1989)
29. The Cramps - Smell of Female (1983)
30. Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin (1982)
31. March Violets - Natural History (1984)
32. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
33. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial (1986)
34. Matt Johnson - Burning Blue Soul (1986)
35. Killing Joke - Night Time (1985)
36. Sad Lovers and Giants - Epic Garden Music (1982)
37. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream (1978)
38. The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs (1980)
39. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
40. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather (1985)
41. Sex Gang Children - Song and Legend (1983)
42. Specimen - Batastrophe (1983)
43. Skeletal Family - Futile Combat (1985)
44. The Mission - God's Own Medicine (1986)
45. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (1984)
46. Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim (1988)
47. The Birthday Party - Junkyard (1982)
48. All About Ever - All About Eve (1988)
49. The Damned - The Black Album (1980)
50. The Cult - Love (1985)
51. Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain (1983)
52. The Legendary Pink Dots - Curse (1983)
53. Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps (1981)
54. Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox (1985)
55. Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept (1984)
56. Coil - Horse Rotorvator (1986)
57. Current 93 - Imperium (1987)
58. Virgin Prunes - Heresie (1982)
59. Lords of the New Church - Lords of the New Church (1982)
60. The Cure - The Top (1984)
61. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World (2024)
62. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor (1987)
63. Flesh for Lulu - Big Fun City (1985)
64. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
65. Love and Rockets - Express (1986)
66. Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age (1987)
67. The Rose of Avalanche - First Avalanche (1985)
68. Death Cult - Ghost Dance (1994)
69. Tubeway Army - Replicas (1979)
70. Tones of Tail - Pop (1984)
71. Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die (1982)
72. The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge (1983)
73. The Bolshoi - Giants (1985)
74. In The Nursery - When Cherished Dreams Came True (1983)
75. Crime and the City Solution - Room Of Lights (1986)
76. The Cure - Bloodflowers (2000)
77. Ghost Dance - Gathering Dust (1988)
78. Curve - Doppelgänger (1992)
79. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly (1990)
80. Skinny Puppy - Remission (1984)
81. The Wake - Masked (1993)
82. Asylum Party - Borderline (1989)
83. Savage Republic - Ceremonial (1986)
84. The Creatures - Feast (1983)
85. Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions (1999)
86. The Glove - Blue Sunshine (1983)
87. Death in June/Current 93 - 1988 (1990)
88. Gene Loves Jezebel - Promise (1983)
89. Jonathan Fire*Eater - Tremble Under Boom Lights (1986)
90. The Associates - Affectionate Punch (1979)
91. Marc and the Mambas - Torment and Toreros (1983)
92. Berlin - Pleasure Victim (1982)
93. Various Artists - Music From The Limited Event Series Twin Peaks (2017)
94. Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain (1982)
95. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (1984)
96. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
97. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels (1983)
98. The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story (1984)
99. Salvation - Clash of Dreams (2014)
100. Dead or Alive - Let Them Drag My Soul Away (2023)

101. Nico - Drama Of Exile (1981)
102. Diamanda Galás - You Must Be Certain Of The Devil (1988)
103. Front 242 - Geography (1982)
104. Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting (1984)
105. The Cult - Dreamtime (1984)
106. New Order - Movement (1981)
107. Dali's Car - The Waking Hour (1984)
108. Lemon Kittens - We Buy A Hammer for Daddy (1980)
109. Samhain - Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire (1986)
110. Miranda Sex Garden - Suspiria (1993)
111. Bauhaus - Mask (1981)
112. Modern English - Mesh & Lace (1981)
113. Peter Murphy - Love Hysteria (1988)
114. Presence - Inside (1992)
115. Theatre of Hate - Westworld (1982)
116. James Ray's Gangwar - Dios Está De Nuestro Lado (1992)
117. Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven (1985)
118. Soft Cell - The Art of Falling Apart (1983)
119. Wasted Youth - Wild And Wandering (1981)
120. Skin - Blood, Women, Roses (1987)
121. The Birthday Party - Hee-Haw (1989)
122. Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling (2008)
123. Nick Cave - Kicking Against the Pricks (1986)
124. The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
125. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out (1982)
126. Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)
127. Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code (2019)
128. Xeno & Oaklander - Sentinelle (2009)
129. Zola Jesus - The Spoils (2009)
130. Bone Orchard - Stuffed to the Gills (1983)
131. Schleimer K - Schleimer K (1981)
132. Inca Babies - Rumble (1985)
133. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (2018)
134. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals (1998)
135. Dean Hurley - Concrete Feather (2021)
136. Breathless - The Glass Bead Game (1986)
137. Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium (1990)
138. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (1998)
139. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Golden Age (1988)
140. Nico - The End (1974)
141. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (1984)
142. The Stranglers - The Gospel According To The Meninblack (1981)
143. Mass - Labour of Love (1981)
144. Front 242 - Front by Front (1988)
145. Into a Circle - Assassins (1988)
146. The Essence - A Monument Of Trust (1987)
147. Danielle Dax - Blast the Human Flower (1990)
148. Cranes - Self-Non-Self (1989)
149. Xymox - Twist Of Shadows (1989)
150. Heavenly Bodies - Celestial (1988)
151. Love Spirals Downwards - Flux (1998)
152. Eyeless in Gaza - Photographs As Memories (1981)
153. 45 Grave - Sleep in Safety (1983)
154. Zero LeCrêche - Last Year's Wife (2008)
155. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori (2023)
156. Cranes - Wings Of Joy (1991)
157. Salem - King Night (2010)
158. Red Temple Spirits - Dancing To Restore An Eclipsed Moon (1988)
159. This Mortal Coil - Blood (1991)
160. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (1985)
161. The Damned - Phantasmagoria (1985)
162. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (2002)
163. Jarboe - Thirteen Masks (1991)
164. Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart (1984)
165. London After Midnight - Psycho Magnet (1996)
166. Switchblade Symphony - Bread And Jam For Frances (1997)
167. Rowland S Howard/Lydia Lunch - Shotgun Wedding (1991)
168. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (2017)
169. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Rope (1986)
170. Flesh for Lulu - Flesh For Lulu (1984)
171. Klaus Nomi - Za Bakdaz: The Unfinished Opera (2007)
172. Therion - Gothic Kabbala (2007)
173. Diamanda Galás - Saint Of The Pit (1986)
174. Mortemia - Misere Mortem (2010)
175. Rosetta Stone - An Eye For The Main Chance (1991)
176. Rubella Ballet - At Last, It's Playtime (1985)
177. Corpus Delecti - Sylphes (1994)
178. Front 242 - No Comment (1984)
179. Jarboe - Sacrificial Cake (1995)
180. Corpses as Bedmates - Venus Handcuffs (1986)
181. Princess Tinymeat - Herstory (1987)
182. Clan Of Xymox - Medusa (1986)
183. Tuxedomoon - Desire (1981)
184. HTRK - Marry Me Tonight (2009)
185. Kas Product - Try Out (1982)
186. Lives of Angels - Elevator To Eden (1983)
187. Ilitch - 10 Suicides (1980)
188. The Horrors - Strange House (2007)
189. Of A Mesh - Of A Mesh (1986)
190. Elysion - Silent Scream (2009)
191. Eyeless in Gaza - Drumming The Beating Heart (1982)
192. Sorrow - Under the Yew Possessed (1993)
193. Anne Clark - The Sitting Room (1982)
194. Diamanda Galás - The Litanies Of Satan (1982)
195. Sort Sol - Dagger & Guitar (1983)
196. Last Few Days - Pure Spirit And Saliva Live (1986)
197. Hunting Lodge - Nomad Souls (1984)
198. Phaidia - In The Dark (1985)
199. Fra Lippo Lippi - In Silence (1981)
200. Kirlian Camera - Kirlian Camera (1981)