I like to think of it as the first Prog-punk track. I think it predates actual Goths but is sort of contemporaneous with the Siouxsie Juju album, early Bauhaus and the Cure Pornography albums which sowed the seed.Anyway, Goth was a fashion statement more than anything
An absolute classic. I've seen them do it live too which didn’t used to happen often because of its length
Odd album. Sides 1 & 2 standard studio album (and not bad as it goes), that is one side of the second record and the other side is live hits in front of a fan club audience. I always had the impression that Curtain Call was them pissing about in the studio and realised it was way too good to waste so they turned the album into a double to accommodate it, then though, oh bollocks, we need another side and chucked in the live side. The live side is nothing special but Curtain Call is magnificent. The second record wasn’t available on vinyl for a good while until a re-issue about a decade ago