The Sisters of Mercy "floodland"

I had heard this record a few times through the drummer of my first punk band.  He had also introduced me to the film "The Hunger" (and it's incredible use of the Bauhaus song "Bela lugosi is dead") around the same time.  It was through these experiences I perceived "goth" music to be about a dangerous sexually that was beyond my comprehension.  I was suburban kid who thought Molly Ringwald was kind of hot so these dark baritone voices leering over skeletal spooky rock we about as foreign to me as a plate of Ethiopian cuisine at the time.  Being a young man I was of course interested in the dangerous sex thing.  Our band played a legendary buffalo punk/goth club called The Continental many times and after our sets we would always adjourn to the upstairs dance floor where people dressed in black danced like they were tied up in bondage ropes.  We would drink the bar's notorious "purple motherfucker" cocktails and join the regulars on the dance floor.  It sounds cliche to say this but that dance floor seemed a place where anything went.  Even a naive suburban boy like myself could end up gyrating to electonic tympany drums next to vampires.  I learned to play the bass line to "Lucretia..."   I can still plop that one out (along with the Cure's "love cats ")   Sadly the Continental has been leveled and a culturally historic landmark of Buffalo is gone.  I miss that dirty dump.  Dirty in every sense of the word.  Turns out goth WAS all about dangerous sexuality and I loved being a voyeur to that hot mess.