If you pine for great Goth, follow the German Goth scene. I lived in Germany for 12 years and continue to follow Blutengel, Lord of the Lost, and Mono, Inc.
from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of serpentine gallery: “...the crew accidentally caught tina’s south of market loft on fire during the filming of the clown video - look closely in the background & you can make out carbon kisses from the flames that licked at her butterfly painting & backdrop fabric. always a trooper, tina just rolled with the sooty aftermath & smeared ashes on her face.” 😉🖤
No joke...my buddy Geoff was there during filming... We were all part of the bay area goth scene. There was another band feom the scene that hit pretty big named SPITKISS I did the artwork for their album.
If they had better management, and a more supportive label, they would have been much more successful. because they were quite brilliant, especially live.
Crying loud, you are crawling on the floor Just a beautiful baby You're nothing more Close your eyes You are crawling into sleep I swear I won't break you If you let me take you Where the willows never weep Where the willows never weep Coming quick into your wonderland Flying high on bleached white sand Tranquilized by lights You'll lose your way Well just come with me And I'll make you see With me you'll want to stay Can baby come out to play Down you're going Down you're going Down you're going Down Circus lights are shutting slowly down But still you're up in the air And loving your wings My dear, you play the clown You're still up in the air And loving your wings What's gonna happen when you come down
@@spikespiegel2371 true I didnt realize my old account would have so many likes on this one I still love this band alot wish they made more music but I don't know what really happened clown is one of my fav songs by them easily.
Old OLD friends of mine from the bay area.. They thanked me 3 times in the liner card of their first album. Miss ya Tina. My buddy geoff was there during the making of this video.. Tina accidentally set her room on fire during the filming .
4:20 "Circus lights are shutting slowly down But you're still up in the air And loving your wings My dear, play the clown? You're still up in the air And loving your wings What's gonna happen when you come down..."
For some reason, this song makes me picture Icarus - "You're up in the air, loving your wings, but what happens when you come down? " When I close my eyes, I see Icarus who flew too close to the sun.
This video used one camera and probably cost a couple hundred bucks to make and it still looks better and hits harder than almost anything made in the last 10 years.
The song and music video's absolutely enchanting. It makes me feel so serene, safe, and oddly comforted.... ...But at the same time it's strange, mystical, and abstract. Anyways these ladies rock and they've gotten me into gothic music
@@Anonymous-wb3nz Okay... Thank you for enlightening me..? I did write this a year ago however, so it's to be assumed that my writing has improved since then. Why must you bother to correct me anyway, and if you haven't made the observation yourself, in a partially impolite manner? We've discussed with one another before if you can recall. I do hope you're faring well, I wish to be on no bad terms.
In my language arts class we are watching the 1925 version of phantom of the opera and over it is music from switchblade and the song is on there and it make the movie so much creepier bc its a silent film
So good! Saw them live in Seattle around 2007, after hearing them on the radio during an industrial/goth broadcast (on C89.5), they blew me away in concert! This and Dissolve are epic, the Serpentine Gallery album was amazing.
Aahh, the Shim Sham, lots of good shows there, and later at One-Eyed Jacks. I saw Switchblade uptown at Jimmy's on Oak St. Uptown by the Maple Leaf. Good show, good times.
Excellentness & awesomeness!!! This drummer just owns me everytime i hear this. Her voice is so damned DAMNED, or commanding or something, like a Dominatrix trying to be nice about the painful eternal truths.
Your song is so intriguing, I feel like I'm in an enchanted forest with all kinds of enemies around me and I'm trying to escape them mentally.Thank you xoxoxo
The first time I heard this song was when my mom brought a sack of CDs home, and gave them to me. And one of the albums was switchblade symphony the serpentine gallery, I wasn't even into this kind of music but I popped it in anyways, and here I am!
My first time listening to these beauties ! Though my love for goth goes back to mid 1980 best yrs of my life ! This is a beautiful song 🎵 she’s got an infectious unique dark voice ! I’m truly blown away by there muzik !!! Thanks 🙏 🖤🎵🇺🇸
Crying loud, you are crawling on the floor Just a beautiful baby You're nothing more Close your eyes You are crawling into sleep I swear I won't break you If you let me take you Where the willows never weep Where the willows never weep Coming quick into your wonderland Flying high on bleached white sand Tranquilized by lights You'll lose your way Well just come with me And I'll make you see With me you'll want to stay Can baby come out to play Down you're going Down you're going Down you're…
There's this coven of witches in Salem I know that totally love this band... I like them, too. Especially the 3 calamities album. It's got a hypnotic quality.
I bought a Marilyn Manson shirt at the boardwalk and the lady behind the counter with rainbow hair asked if I actually liked his music. Of course I said yes and she asked what my favorite song was and I responded with "Lunchbox." After a highfive I started to walk away but she called after me and said "Hey! You should check out Switchblade Symphony" so here I am.
I still talk to George occasionally. I wish them all well. However, I miss them all the time. They were not only talented people they were sweethearts and a lot of fun to be around. 😊
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This band was so much better than most 90's goth; they weren't trying to get by on their image, their songs had real hooks.
If you pine for great Goth, follow the German Goth scene. I lived in Germany for 12 years and continue to follow Blutengel, Lord of the Lost, and Mono, Inc.
80s and 90s goth scene was a thing of beauty... met them in San Francisco... you wouldnt believe the rest but I wont forget it.
The Golden Age of Goth…especially the 90s.
Thanks to my love of this band, my mom had Where the Willows Never Weep on her tombstone ... she loved your music too 🖤
That's so precious.
❤
This is beautiful. I hope SS learns of it. One cannot receive a bigger endorsement than that. Not to a Goth.
Now, that's a die hard fan.
True story: her apartment was burned badly while they were filming this elsewhere, so they filmed part of the video there.
Really? :-o
from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of serpentine gallery: “...the crew accidentally caught tina’s south of market loft on fire during the filming of the clown video - look closely in the background & you can make out carbon kisses from the flames that licked at her butterfly painting & backdrop fabric. always a trooper, tina just rolled with the sooty aftermath & smeared ashes on her face.” 😉🖤
No. Not really.
😮
No joke...my buddy Geoff was there during filming...
We were all part of the bay area goth scene.
There was another band feom the scene that hit pretty big named SPITKISS
I did the artwork for their album.
If they had better management, and a more supportive label, they would have been much more successful. because they were quite brilliant, especially live.
There was no need for another Cobain..
@@mierdakonpatatas what? One of them killed herself?
@@rottenp3741 no
lol love that this comment is on their label's channel :D
Ahhhh...more like....if we didn’t use so much Meth...we would have kept it together.... haha
Crying loud, you are crawling on the floor
Just a beautiful baby
You're nothing more
Close your eyes
You are crawling into sleep
I swear I won't break you
If you let me take you
Where the willows never weep
Where the willows never weep
Coming quick into your wonderland
Flying high on bleached white sand
Tranquilized by lights
You'll lose your way
Well just come with me
And I'll make you see
With me you'll want to stay
Can baby come out to play
Down you're going
Down you're going
Down you're going
Down
Circus lights are shutting slowly down
But still you're up in the air
And loving your wings
My dear, you play the clown
You're still up in the air
And loving your wings
What's gonna happen when you come down
More!!
Thanks friend! First time hearing this...not bad at all
❤❤❤❤❤
People don't have this kind of talent anymore.
This is such a beautiful creepy song. Love the music video and band
amazing band, wish they had more albums
yeah i know i still wish they had alot more and some just have remixes but still they are really good and wish they had a least a few more
i love it
@@spikespiegel2371 true I didnt realize my old account would have so many likes on this one I still love this band alot wish they made more music but I don't know what really happened clown is one of my fav songs by them easily.
totally. very good words to this sound. I also love the the band and their style.
Old OLD friends of mine from the bay area..
They thanked me 3 times in the liner card of their first album.
Miss ya Tina.
My buddy geoff was there during the making of this video..
Tina accidentally set her room on fire during the filming .
Lmfao dude it was a happy intentional.
Her body in that red dress (show) and voice sets me on fire forever.
The intro sounds like something you'd hear before a boss battle.
If it was an RPG game, I thought of Final Fantasy 7 for some reason. lol
@@IntoTheMindlessAbyss Or Doom, If it's a Boomer Shooter
Every now and then I visit this song just to remember how delightfully dark were those days...
I always use their song Anmorata to test the bass in speakers I buy.
4:20 "Circus lights are shutting slowly down
But you're still up in the air
And loving your wings
My dear, play the clown?
You're still up in the air
And loving your wings
What's gonna happen when you come down..."
For some reason, this song makes me picture Icarus - "You're up in the air, loving your wings, but what happens when you come down? " When I close my eyes, I see Icarus who flew too close to the sun.
Never heard of this group, but i like it. She has a cool voice.
Tina, Susan, we need new music from you and a new album, please!
Truth
Update now please
shes a real estate agent now unfortunatly! i know her daughter we were best friends haha but I don't think shell be going back to music anytime soon
@@billa3786 ????
@@Lustawaii yep, she even puts her listings on UA-cam. She cleaned right up. Very posh now.
This song always brings back some badass memories. Just a beautiful baby... You're nothing more.
🔥🔥💋
I was fortunate to see Switchblade with Gary Numan here in Dallas. Fantastic show! I miss the good gothic bands...any more around?
I saw them too in Ohio when they opened up for front line assembly. I loved the show.
I two there is two. the first is Lacuna Coil and the second Ecipa
check out Nostalghia.
Gary King There is one that seems to be very inspired by them, they go by Sins Of the Siren
Lebanon Hanover and The Knutz are really good
Two favorite songs by these lovely ladies: Witches and Gutter Glitter
This video used one camera and probably cost a couple hundred bucks to make and it still looks better and hits harder than almost anything made in the last 10 years.
Very true!
The song and music video's absolutely enchanting. It makes me feel so serene, safe, and oddly comforted.... ...But at the same time it's strange, mystical, and abstract. Anyways these ladies rock and they've gotten me into gothic music
*videos. Punctuation matters....
@@Anonymous-wb3nz Okay... Thank you for enlightening me..? I did write this a year ago however, so it's to be assumed that my writing has improved since then. Why must you bother to correct me anyway, and if you haven't made the observation yourself, in a partially impolite manner? We've discussed with one another before if you can recall. I do hope you're faring well, I wish to be on no bad terms.
I love this horror circus theme so much
I will always love Switchblade Symphony!! Im pushing 42 yrs of age and have loved them since the beginning!!! Xoxo
Same here
Same! I saw them at QE2 in Albany when I was a teenager. I still love them❤
I’ll be 42 soon also, funny we’re all probably about the same age.
50 here.
💯💯🖤
Such a talented band, I saw them whenever I could.
In my language arts class we are watching the 1925 version of phantom of the opera and over it is music from switchblade and the song is on there and it make the movie so much creepier bc its a silent film
that makes it even better
Uh..this band didn't exist in 1925 lmao
No, really?? God you are dumb. They said their music was playing with the movie from 1925, not that Switchblade came out in 1925.
I would love to see that
"Send in the Clowns" - The Joker
I still love this band, and play the CD in my truck.
my wife loved this band when we first met
This whole video and song reminds me of the movie "What ever happened to Baby Jane?" with Bette Davis. Love Switchblade.
For me it's a mix of Harley Quinn, and Abby from NCIS (when it was still worth watching). 🙂
Yup!! She prances around like Betty Davis and looks like her. Then when they are at the beach, just like in the film.
@@stever507 Yesssss. Nice to see somebody else who has seen that film and gets what I'm saying.
That's what I thought too!
As a dm this feels like watching a celestial warlock and a clerics god arguing over whether they're a cleric or a warlock
More and more of songs from my youth go unnoticed
Fantastic presentation...soooo creative...great imagery and lyric...
Sublime and superb. A nostalgia for the nineties prevails.
what a duo! wish they would put their differences behind them. make more great music!!! when they were together they were my fav...such stubborn fools
Just discovered them and I love them.
Found this by looking for “clown music videos” I’m fascinated by this one
Heh. Did you see the one with the toy monkey that is alive?
I still love these ladies 😊
A great band that needs to come back.
Like the Intense Intensity of the ponding and then the earie sounds and visual quirkiness. Still holds up well, a classic video.💌
she's so beautiful
So good! Saw them live in Seattle around 2007, after hearing them on the radio during an industrial/goth broadcast (on C89.5), they blew me away in concert! This and Dissolve are epic, the Serpentine Gallery album was amazing.
Jesus. This takes me back to when a car load of us would have Switchblade blaring on our way to the Shim Sham in Nola for goth/80s night 💔🖤🩸
Aahh, the Shim Sham, lots of good shows there, and later at One-Eyed Jacks. I saw Switchblade uptown at Jimmy's on Oak St. Uptown by the Maple Leaf. Good show, good times.
Excellentness & awesomeness!!! This drummer just owns me everytime i hear this. Her voice is so damned DAMNED, or commanding or something, like a Dominatrix trying to be nice about the painful eternal truths.
very underrated band!
As teen saw them at Phantasmagoria in Wheaton. They were amazing then. I still love Serpentine Gallery
They look so beautiful!! caught these guys 20 +yrs ago for a show!! 1998 ish so sexy!! gawd I feel old...
A nice slice of colourful blackness from the Blades!
I had such a crush on these two. Them, and the Anadin Brothers from Dr. And The Medics.
This is perfection
🖤
This, in one man's opinion, is one the most under played and under appreciated songs - ever 💃🎶
love dancing to this at the church in deep elem
My favourite video ever. Such a wonderful group. The Serpentine Gallery album is endlessly repeatable. ♥
It’s a Gothic Masterpiece
Very much so
All this talk about being more successful, or better, why? They were perfectly beautiful.
Your song is so intriguing, I feel like I'm in an enchanted forest with all kinds of enemies around me and I'm trying to escape them mentally.Thank you xoxoxo
Switchblade Symphony, demonstrating that you don't just HAVE to wear black to be a goth.
The first time I heard this song was when my mom brought a sack of CDs home, and gave them to me. And one of the albums was switchblade symphony the serpentine gallery, I wasn't even into this kind of music but I popped it in anyways, and here I am!
perfect in every way
I had a partner from back in 2010 that put me onto this. I still listen to this religiously.
Dramatically throw your arms in various graceful patterns if you danced to this at your local ye olde goth club.
Their music will never die down
I freaking love Tina Root and Susan Wallace. I have the entire SBS music collection 💜
Aah, memories.
This and "Wallflower" were the first I heard of this band =)
I love that scream
This song is the reason I became a fan
Perfectly creepy
perfectly pretty like you huh lol.
@@ravenjames3873 Idiot.
Thank you switchblade
Dark and beautiful music
Time to revive this thread. Hauntingly cool.
My first time listening to these beauties ! Though my love for goth goes back to mid 1980 best yrs of my life ! This is a beautiful song 🎵 she’s got an infectious unique dark voice ! I’m truly blown away by there muzik !!! Thanks 🙏 🖤🎵🇺🇸
Crying loud, you are crawling on the floor
Just a beautiful baby
You're nothing more
Close your eyes
You are crawling into sleep
I swear I won't break you
If you let me take you
Where the willows never weep
Where the willows never weep
Coming quick into your wonderland
Flying high on bleached white sand
Tranquilized by lights
You'll lose your way
Well just come with me
And I'll make you see
With me you'll want to stay
Can baby come out to play
Down you're going
Down you're going
Down you're…
I remember them from my college years. Damn, I'm too old.
The best Goth video ever. Hail to Switchblade! 🤚
Such a beautiful philosophical text😍
2019 and still enjoying this track like I did the first time =)
Exactly the way I feel about it. Timeless isn't an exaggeration here.
Such a throw back
im in love with this song
This Gives me memories of me beong goth in highschool and being in a goth band
Need more bands like this.
This is still positive material
There's this coven of witches in Salem I know that totally love this band... I like them, too. Especially the 3 calamities album. It's got a hypnotic quality.
saw them in charlotte w/ Razed back in ... some year 20 years ago ... great show
I bought a Marilyn Manson shirt at the boardwalk and the lady behind the counter with rainbow hair asked if I actually liked his music. Of course I said yes and she asked what my favorite song was and I responded with "Lunchbox." After a highfive I started to walk away but she called after me and said "Hey! You should check out Switchblade Symphony" so here I am.
A Masterpiece
Great gothic rock sing ever and early 90s. My girlfriend Milly likes these songs.
Forever
I still talk to George occasionally. I wish them all well. However, I miss them all the time. They were not only talented people they were sweethearts and a lot of fun to be around. 😊
This brings me back!
Such an EXCELLENT BAND‼️
Great having friends get you into bands, honestly. I don’t talk to them anymore but finally got around to listening-
How did I forget about this gem
this was good stuff back in the day
hattergraphics it's still good
Still good 2020
jammed to this in my 20s, still a banger lol
my favorite song
this is a masterpiece
This band is timeless, and always gives me the emotional release I need 😈
Still one of my favorite music videos!
Been forever since I have heard this !!! Cool
it's so cool...
😎
I remember seeing one of their shows in SF in 97.
Мне понравилось,надо знакомиться с творчеством этой группы😊
Love this one and Dollhouse ❤🖤
Hypnotic
I'm 5 yrs late ..but ..yes ..very hypnotic