What band/artist got you into our subculture's music?

[MediaclCunt]

I'd say most definitely, VNV Nation, their "Futureperfect" album to be exact.  

[Submersion in Perversion]

Elis and Darkwell  

[GilAskan]

What actually got me into the culture?

Voltaire.

But he wasn't the first artist connected to the culture that I liked. Just the first artist through which I found the culture. I had been into Joy Division and the Cure for a while before hearing Voltaire, but I never made the connection to the goth scene. Largely because I got into them before I ever really used the internet.  

[IY_and_MCR]

I had liked the Cure longest, but I had not known they were related to the culture, so I'll say Bauhaus.
Bauhaus was the first band that I knew of to be goth and that lead me to read up about the culture.  

[This Old Oscillator]

I started listening to The Cure right around the time Kiss M, Kiss Me, Kiss Me came out, so it was probably around mid 1988 or so. I bought an Alien Sex Fiend album in 87 because I thought the name was funny but was never really a fan back then.  

[xStephanx]

Honestly, I don't really know. Skinny Puppy got me into industrial and from there I went to the industrial events, but I had listened to Bauhaus before then.

VNV Nation were the first EBM band to blow my mind for an entire summer. I saw them live at Infest last August and it was amazing to see the band that had been my entry point to all of this live.  

[-Resurrected Writer-]

My first goth bands were The Cure, Joy Division, and Bauhaus - in that order.
I'd say Joy Division was my legitimate first, though, as my first Cure album was "Disintegration" and I didn't try any of their dark trilogy until later.  

[.+Melanthios+.]

the cure...oh and the cruxshadows. I listened to Pornography and..night's Crawl In, so that's when I first got interested in the culture.

i also like Voltaire. smile

 

[L Ron Jeremy]

Personally I had always been used to(and liked) bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Siouxsie, The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, etc. as those were a lot of the bands my mother had listened to when she first came to America and had played around the house quite often. Naturally I'd also look for similar bands on my own.

I got into industrial/EBM/darkwave through a few cousins and family friends when I was real small. Probably the first of the genre I'd listened to were Skinny Puppy, Circle of Dust, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, The Cruxshadows, and Grendel.  

[Silent Manipulation]

I think the first goth bands I started listening to were Southern Death Cult, The Sisters, and The Legendary Pink Dots.  

[Rellik San]

Ryusei Fenrir

Personally I had always been used to(and liked) bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Siouxsie, The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, etc. as those were a lot of the bands my mother had listened to when she first came to America and had played around the house quite often. Naturally I'd also look for similar bands on my own.

Replace with Celtic Frost, Morbid Angel, My Dying Bride... keep the Cure, Siouxsie and Sisters though. :3  

[MEOWITSTERRA]

The Cruxshadows, definently. My first song was 'Deception.'  

[Deadside Dreams]

Siouxsie and the Banshees started it

Bauhaus, Joy Division, and Sisters of Mercy soon followed  

[Rellik San]

Actually I'm just curious why is a bad thats thoroughly considered 'Manc Rock' considered goth?

Could just be something lost in translation when moved away from Manchester, but as depressing as they are, saying they are goth is like saying the Smiths are goth.  

[Laharl Part Deux]

Siouxsie And The Banshees and The Sisters of Mercy.