Sometimes the divisions between the goth sub-genres are really confusing. I have participated in lengthy debates as to what precisely is apocalyptic folk, why goths cringe at any allusion to heavy metal and what the fuck one means when one says one likes electronic body music… Who knows if these songs will meet your personal qualifications for dark wave, but they are without question fit for a black heart.
01. Joy Division - “Decades” (Closer)
02. The Cure - “Kyoto Song” (The Head On The Door)
03. The Glove - “Mouth To Mouth” (Blue Sunshine)
04. Siouxsie & The Banshees - “Melt!” (Twice Upon A Time: The Singles)
05. The Associates - “Breakfast” (Perhaps)
06. The Sisters Of Mercy - “Bury Me Deep” (Enter The Sisters)
07. Dead Can Dance - “Don’t Fade Away” (Toward The Within)
08. Backworld - “Heaven’s Gate” (Isles Of The Blest)
09. Current 93 feat. Antony - “The Beautiful Dancing Dust” (Black Ships Ate The Sky)
10. Wolfsheim - “Annie” (No Happy View)
11. Deine Lakaien - “Love Me To The End” (Live)
12. Bauhaus - “She’s In Parties” (Burning From The Inside)
13. Einsturzende Neubauten - “Die Bifindlichkeit Des Landes” (Silence Is Sexy)
14. Diary of Dreams - “Amok” (Freak Perfume)
15. Clan of Xymox - “Jasmine And Rose” (Best Of)
16. The Cruxshadows - “Deception” (Vampire: The Masquerade Soundtrack)
17. London After Midnight - “Psycho Magnet” (Psycho Magnet)
