Black Celebration is a great album, period. But most of Depeche Mode is really just classic synthpop.
Bela Lugosi has got to be THE goth anthem - for the originals anyhow. The only competition would be from either the Sisters (Alice or Temple of Love) or something from the god-awful Mission (Tower of Strength?).
Joy Division, Siouxsie, The Cure et al were never really considered goth until later on - and Depeche Mode, never.
One of the greatest albums of all time! I still listen to it all the time.
It’s one of my Top 5 albums ever, but it really isn’t goth. Closer is a lot more goth.
Christian Death’s Ashes anyone?
Huddles at home with her Assemblage, VNV, This Morn Omina and Seabound
Incidentally, I saw Das Ich Sunday before last. It was fun.
Oh, I’d forgotten about Christian Death. My ubergoth friend in high school (now apparently a charismatic scam artist amongst the radical anarchist circuit) was a big fan of theirs; I only heard their music a couple times.
One of the things I find funniest about goths (in an endearing, give-them-a-noogie way) is the passionate discussions about what constitutes “real” goth and what’s just “poseur,” as if there’s any significance to that. My fave goth friends in San Francisco took me to a club once and taught me the wonderful positive-feedback-loop of snickering at goths who took themselves too seriously: the haughtier they were, the funnier it was, and the more you giggled, the haughtier they got, until you were about to wet yourself from laughing at their attitude.
Ah, the joys of youth! 
Not all goths are pretentious twerps, natch: my friends could vamp out with the best of them, and my brother, one of the ringleaders of the local goth cabal, recently organized “goths on wheels,” a midnight goth event at the local rollerskate rink. That’s the kind of goth I like.
Daniel
I’m also hoping to convince my brother to organize a goth Lasertag tournament. burundi thinks my original name idea, “Goths with Guns,” would be a little too alarming to mundanes in the wake of Columbine, but sees no problem with my second name idea, “Goths with frikkin’ lasers on their heads.”
Daniel
…and I bet it would be the only lasertag game ever where the players were more likely to shoot themselves than their opponents 
I like that name!
There’s a yellow VW bug that’s usually parked near my favourite club on Friday nights. The license plate says PRKYGOTH. It’s really cute.
I was wandering around on the internet last week looking at goth fashion sites, and I encountered a truly bewildering number of goth clothing/music categories. I was astonished to find that nailheads look down on cybergoths, because I didn’t know that either category existed, or that anyone would care that passionately about the distinction between them.
Hey, Lissla Lissar.
Nice boots…
I always considered Depeche Mode to be more industrial than goth.
Speaking of Joy Division, there was an interesting movie made about Joy Division, Factory records, and New Order called 24-hr party people,
I keep meaning to ask you this - will you marry me?
Thank you. I will ask my husband and get back to you. Who knows, he might be tired of me.
Currently listening to Purgatory, by Assemblage 23
Depeche Mode is industrial? Not New Wave/Synthpop/precurser to EBM? When I think industrial I think, oh, Front Line Assembly or something.
I was going to mention Christiian Death, but somebody beat me to it. their first album “Only Theatre Of Pain” is pretty essential for goths, punks, and Slayer fans. All the albums after that (including Rozz Williams illegitimate 90s version) had their ups and downs, but they never recaptued the greatness of that album. They also get bonus punk points for the cover of "Sex Drugs and Jesus Christ, which beautifuly depicts Jesus shooting up heroin. 
Huh? It was the first album called “goth.” (“It” being Unknown Pleasures).
Christian Death blows.
Dammit, now I want to go dancing at The Church on Sunday…
(The Church being the goth/industrial club in Dallas)
turns on some Sisters in the interim
Yes, and “it” was the one I said really isn’t goth. Pay more attention please.
Well, they’d fit right in at the all-gay steel mill from “The Simpsons.”