Best Gothic, Ethereal & Synthpop acts of all time...musicfolio.com

Rank	Artist	Recommended Albums
1	The Sisters Of Mercy	First And Last And Always \| Floodland Some Girls Wander By Mistake
2	Dead Can Dance Lisa Gerrard & Brendan Perry	Within the Realm of a Dying Sun A Passage in Time \| Toward The Within
3	Depeche Mode	The Singles 1981-1985 \| The Singles 1986-1998 Black Celebration
4	Peter Murphy / Bauhaus	Deep \| Love Hysteria \| Dust \| Crackle: best of Bauhaus
5	The Cure	Staring At The Sea \| Pornography \| Disintegration
6	Fields of the Nephilim	Nephilim \| Elizium \| Revelations
7	Clan of Xymox	Clan of Xymox \| Medusa \| Creatures
8	Siouxsie & the Banshees / The Creatures	Best of \| Tinderbox \| Twice Upon a Time
9	Cocteau Twins	Garlands \| Treasure \| Stars & Topsoil-1982-90
10	The Mission UK	Gods Own Medicine \| Sum and Substance
11	Dreadful Shadows	Beyond the Maze \| The Cycle
12	Ultravox / Midge Ure	The Collection \| Quartet \| Rage in Eden
13	Japan / Rain Tree Crow / David Sylvian	Quiet Life \| Oil on Canvas
14	Garden Of Delight	Psychonomicon 1991-2001 \| Dawn \| Paradise
15	The Smiths / Morrissey	Meat is Murder \| The Queen is Dead Smiths: The Singles \| Best of Morrissey
16	Joy Division	Substance
17	Marc Almond / Soft Cell	The Stars We Are \| Enchanted \| Open All Night
18	All About Eve	Best of - All About Eve
19	X-mal Deutschland	Fetish \| Peel Sessions
20	Diary of Dreams	Bird Without Wings \| One of 18 Angels
21	Wolfgang Press	The Legendary Wolfgang Press...\| Standing Up Straight \| Birdwood Cage
22	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Best of
23	Theatre of Tragedy	Aégis \| Musique
24	The Human League	Dare \| The Very Best of The Human League
25	Spear of Destiny/Theatre of Hate	Best of
26	Faith and the Muse	Annwyn, Beneath the Waves \| Evidence of Heaven
27	And Also The Trees	The Millpond Years \| Farewell to the Shade \| Further from the Truth
28	Corpus Delicti	Sarabands \| The Best of Corpus Delicti
29	Associates/Billy MacKenzie	Sulk \| Perhaps
30	London After Midnight	Selected Scenes From the End of the World \| Oddities
31	Love is Colder than Death	Teignmouth \| Mental Traveller
32	Delerium / Conjure One	Karma \| Semantic Spaces \| Conjure One
33	Tori Amos	Little Earthquakes \| Under the Pink From the Choirgirl Hotel
34	Therion	Deggial \| Theli
35	Duran Duran /Arcadia	Duran Duran \| Rio \| So Red the Rose
36	OMD	Architecture and Morality \| Best of OMD
37	VNV Nation	Empires \| FuturePerfect
38	Covenant	United States of Mind \| Northern Light
39	Apoptygma Berzerk	7 \| Welcome to Earth
40	The Gathering	How to Measure a Planet \| if_then_else

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