When I read The Rich Girls Are Weeping today I noticed mention of a band, a goth band at that, called Blacklist. Imagine my surprise at seeing that. It's kind of like naming your goth band "Red Light" or "Black Heart" or "Stigmata Martyr" or any other song that was played at the goth clubs for years.

If my own computer were still functioning, I would use this moment as a means of sending you an MP3 of "Blacklist," released by Legendary Pink Dots in 1989 on The Golden Age. You should be able to grab an MP3 here. As you can hear, it is quite simply one of the best pieces of LPD work around with its wee spring of a beat and Edward Ka-Spel shrieking at some point in the song.

Unfortunately, although Ka-Spel sings that there are "five on the blacklist," there are only four members of Blacklist. And these guys sound nothing like LPD, although they do sound like a bunch of bands who played Coven 13 back when I DJed there in the late-1990s. Naturally, these were all the same bands that I was reamed for playing at KXLU when I DJed there at the same time. The emos in charge told me that goth was dead. I said, "And your point is?"

Sorry, I had to vent.

Anyhow, yeah, I would assume that the members of Blacklist are aware of the song, right? If not, and they happen upon this, I can point them in the proper direction.

Everyone should love Legendary Pink Dots.