(a) the drummer is working very hard during this song, and (b) the melody is carried by the bass. Also, what the hell is Ian Curtis doing with a garage-rock style Voxx guitar?).

Hooky was always the melodic engine of the band. There's a great bit on the fadeout of one of their tracks where he just starts playing keep on keeping on . And that guitar is the Iconic Curtis Guitar.

Supposedly Joy Division pioneered the use of bass carrying the melody. I read that it was because JD shared rehersal space with another band. The only way that the bass player could hear himself play over the sound of the other band was to play way up on the fretboard, and that lead to him playing the melody on bass. This happened during the long period when they never played out, after they called themselves Warsaw.

Supposedly Joy Division pioneered the use of bass carrying the melody.

Hi, I'm Paul McCartney.

Hi Paul.

Maybe I'm not remembering the story right....

Isn't Anything is the only one of those albums I have much of an opinion on, and it's been stated forcefully by Jon & Jim.

And speaking - as we were - of sorta kinda goth bands of the turn of the '90s, Cranes have to be mentioned. IIRC, they sounded like a small scared child trapped in a room with Michael Gira. But in a good way.

And the mighty, never-forgotten Telescopes.

Cranes are cool. Has anyone mentioned Swans? I love their cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as much as the original.

Swans=Michael Gira.

By association. A huge majority of goths (n = all my friends in the Boston goth scene) love the Church.

Heh. I remember in high school that it was much easier to slip the Church under parents' and teachers' radar, as opposed to, say, the Screaming Blue Messiahs (who I realize are not goth; just commenting on how names would catch parents' eye).

And wearing a Dead Kennedys T-shirt was like the ultimate badge of rebellion.