Lords of the New Church

Any fans of this early 80s goth band? They mixed a lot of punk in their music too. It was a cool hybrid of goth and punk. Very unique sound.

"There's a method to my madness"

Features Stiv Bators from punk band The Dead Boys.

Yeah, they were a supergroup of sorts. Sid Bators from Dead Boys and also Brian James from The Damned (one of the first punk bands, even beating The Sex Pistols in releasing material).

You have all their stuff Toho? I only have a greatest hits album. I need to get their stuff, but I think it's pretty hard to find.

I only have ther greatest hits too and from what I've read, that's really all you need.

My favorite song is Open Your Eyes.

My favorite song is "Follow".

Loves me THE LORDS.....

Love them, great band, especially that first era.

Lords of the New Church where a cool band and one of the first so called 'alternative ' bands I got into, at the time I had heard of the Dead Boys so I was unaware Stiv Bator's history.

Great band.

Cool! Glad to see there are some fans here.

I want to check out their former bands (The Dead Boys and The Damned) too. Is anyone into them? Are they worth checking out?

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Cool! Glad to see there are some fans here.

I want to check out their former bands (The Dead Boys and The Damned) too. Is anyone into them? Are they worth checking out?

You say you want to check out The Damned? Their anthology is a great place to start. Hey, would ya look at that?...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200406665940&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Here's one right here. No bids yet either. I'd start there.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Cool! Glad to see there are some fans here.

I want to check out their former bands (The Dead Boys and The Damned) too. Is anyone into them? Are they worth checking out?

You say you want to check out The Damned? Their anthology is a great place to start. Hey, would ya look at that?...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200406665940&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Here's one right here. No bids yet either. I'd start there.

Just placed a bid! Thanks man!

By the way, are you into Lords of the New Church? I hear they sound similar to The Damned.

Metallic Blaze wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Cool! Glad to see there are some fans here.

I want to check out their former bands (The Dead Boys and The Damned) too. Is anyone into them? Are they worth checking out?

You say you want to check out The Damned? Their anthology is a great place to start. Hey, would ya look at that?...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200406665940&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Here's one right here. No bids yet either. I'd start there.

Just placed a bid! Thanks man!

By the way, are you into Lords of the New Church? I hear they sound similar to The Damned.

Never heard Lords, but I'm not a big fan of goth or punk. I like it in small doses from an even smaller, select group, like the Ramones or the Misfits. The Damned disc I picked up used was mainly for a song or 2 I recognized. The thought was, if I liked the anthology, I'll eventually get their albums. Turns out, I didn't care much for them. It was taking up valuable real estate space in the cd rack.

The LORDS sounds is a darkly tuned hybrid of THE DAMNED gothic punk and the DEAD BOYS streety rawk....

If you like LORDS you will like both parental bands.

The Lords are one of my absolute faves, despite the black leather image they had very little to do with the nascent "Batcave Goth" scene. Their reckless and sleazy genre splicing rock n' roll had more to do with contemporaries Hanoi Rocks who they shared a kinship with.

Between the Dead Boys and the Lords, Stiv released two great records..........Disconnected which is a fine collection of garage power pop and the band that led to the formation of the Lords, the Wanderers. Which was basically him backed by Sham 69, a great record which i've always compared with Hanoi Rocks's debut.

Oh yeah and drummer Nick Turner was in a great band before the Lords, the Barracudas. Their debut "Drop Out" is one my fave debut's of all time.

I remember the videos for "Dance With Me" and a couple of others. Thought they were pretty good.

I had almost completely forgotten about them...but, yes, I liked them. Now that I think of it, I don't have any albums from them, but I have a couple of songs in compilations here and there. I used to love "There's a Method to My Madness." Actually, I still hum that song a bit each time someone questions what I am doing. I'll usually sing back the chorus as a response automatically, but I had forgotten where the song came from.

Neuropete wrote:

I had almost completely forgotten about them...but, yes, I liked them. Now that I think of it, I don't have any albums from them, but I have a couple of songs in compilations here and there. I used to love "There's a Method to My Madness." Actually, I still hum that song a bit each time someone questions what I am doing. I'll usually sing back the chorus as a response automatically, but I had forgotten where the song came from.

I do the same thing but in my head.

rattpoison wrote:

The Lords are one of my absolute faves, despite the black leather image they had very little to do with the nascent "Batcave Goth" scene. Their reckless and sleazy genre splicing rock n' roll had more to do with contemporaries Hanoi Rocks who they shared a kinship with.

Between the Dead Boys and the Lords, Stiv released two great records..........Disconnected which is a fine collection of garage power pop and the band that led to the formation of the Lords, the Wanderers. Which was basically him backed by Sham 69, a great record which i've always compared with Hanoi Rocks's debut.

Oh yeah and drummer Nick Turner was in a great band before the Lords, the Barracudas. Their debut "Drop Out" is one my fave debut's of all time.

Wow, you must be the biggest fan here. I had no idea about some of those bands you mentioned. I need to check them out for sure!

I also should look more into Hanoi Rocks. I love Michael Monroe's solo stuff.