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Dancing With Mr. D is dark, but bluesy musically. Goth is all doom and gloom, especially within the music.
The indie goth you seem to have in mind is separate and different to gothic rock ala Fever Tree up above, King Crimson - Epitaph, In the Court, etc.
If I recall right, first time 'gothic rock' was used in describing The Doors by some journalist back then.
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DandelionPowderman
Dancing With Mr. D is dark, but bluesy musically. Goth is all doom and gloom, especially within the music.
The indie goth you seem to have in mind is separate and different to gothic rock ala Fever Tree up above, King Crimson - Epitaph, In the Court, etc.
I know. Still, the term was more in use when the second wave of goth rock came around.
We also already had terms like symfo-rock, prog-rock or fusion to put the songs you mentioned in. I don't think they often are put in that bag, although it certainly would be correct - or am I wrong?
But do you have 'Progg-rock' in Norway Dandy like we have in Sweden, music with political messages..that's Progg in Sweden...You know 'Hoola Bandoola Band' and 'Fläsket Brinner' and stuff...
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DandelionPowderman
Dancing With Mr. D is dark, but bluesy musically. Goth is all doom and gloom, especially within the music.
The indie goth you seem to have in mind is separate and different to gothic rock ala Fever Tree up above, King Crimson - Epitaph, In the Court, etc.
I know. Still, the term was more in use when the second wave of goth rock came around.
We also already had terms like symfo-rock, prog-rock or fusion to put the songs you mentioned in. I don't think they often are put in that bag, although it certainly would be correct - or am I wrong?
But do you have 'Progg-rock' in Norway Dandy like we have in Sweden, music with political messages..that's Progg in Sweden...You know 'Hoola Bandoola Band' and 'Fläsket Brinner' and stuff...
That's "protest-rock", not prog (as in progressive) rock.
Yep, we sure do.
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DandelionPowderman
Put them in the prog section, to make kleerie happy
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Doxa
"A gothic rock song". That's a good one indeed. Next time I listen the song, I try to view it from that point of view...
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Dancing With Mr. D
(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)
Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, November 25 - 30 & December 6 - 21,
1972 and Island Recording Studios, London, UK, May 28 - June 20, 1973
Mick Jagger - lead vocals, backing vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts - drums
Mick Taylor - electric guitar, bass, backing vocals
Nicky Hopkins - piano
Billy Preston - clavinet
Pascal - percussion
Rebop Kwakuh Baah - congas
Yeah, well, down in the graveyard where we have our tryst
The air smells sweet, the air smells sick
He never smiles, his mouth merely twists
The breath in my lungs feels clinging and thick
But I know his name, he's called Mister D, one of these days he's gonna set you free
Human skulls is hangin' right 'round his neck
The palms of my hands is clammy and wet
Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free, dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me
Dancin' with Mister D, with Mister D, with Mister D
Will it be poison put in my glass, will it be slow or will it be fast?
The bite of a snake, the sting of a spider, a drink of Belladonna on a Toussaint night
Hiding in a corner in New York City, lookin' down a forty four in West Virginia
Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free, dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me
Dancin' with Mister D, with Mister D, with Mister D, with Mister D, with Mister D
Dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’
Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free, dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me
Dancin' with Mister D, loud, sing it loud, well, well
One night I was dancin' with a lady in black
Wearin' black silk gloves and a black silk hat
She looked at me longin' with black velvet eyes
She gazed at me strange all cunning and wise
Then I saw the flesh just fall off her bones
The eyes in her skull was burning like coals
Lord, have mercy, fire and brimstone, I was dancin' with Misses D
Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Lord, dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’, dancin’ dancin’…
Produced by Jimmy Miller
First released on: The Rolling Stones - “Goat’s Head Soup” LP
(Rolling Stones Records COC 59101) UK, August 31, 1973
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I can hardly see "Goin' Home" as a proto-gothic song.
Among the very best examples, however, must be Vanilla Fudges's version of Donovan's Season of the Witch
(Added: Of the two available versions, I hope this is the same one as is included on their third album RENAISSANCE) :
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kleermaker
Imagine also the make-up they used during the European 1973 tour when listening.
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kleermaker
This time the Stones were ahead of their time with Mr D...
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His Majesty
The delivery is voodoo Dr John with a european twist, which is interesting in itself. It might have worked better had there been a bit more of a 60's-70's gothic/prog rock filter and flavour in the music... That would really have tested the stones fans taste buds.
It's a cool track, maybe best experienced loud whilst dancing around in your underpants. Hopefully Mr D will allow you time to dress properly before placing his hand on your shoulder though.
Rock, danceable and kleermaker loves it, something is wrong here!
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kleermaker
As long as it ain't dance music it's fine by me.
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Doxa
... new ideas, even radical ones, that makes you rethink your own stance..
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I need to eloborate a bit why ........................................
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This time the Stones were ahead of their time with Mr D...
Twas a bit old hat even within their own musical evolution. It's more an amalgamation of voodoo blues with a side serving of prog rock.
No way is it a proto-gothic song as it's coming at the end of gothic rock strand that appeared during psych era, there's no real link to 80's gothic music.