Ha, I totally agree with everything everybody's said about this being the REAL goth music as opposed to Marilyn Manson and the similar singers and bands parading under the label of "goth". To me, goth music means Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nico, and their ilk. To me, goth music is pretty much the same thing as post-punk; pretty much my favorite kind of music. (By the way, I'm a teenager - 15 years old at the time of writing - which means that at least we're not ALL listening to that dreadful stuff they insist on calling goth. Some of us still appreciate the old school stuff.)
Anyway, regarding the song itself - I once heard that it was supposed to be sort of a parody of old horror film cliches, but some see it as celebratory of said movies. I don't know enough about Bela Lugosi to say how this relates to his death or life or anything. I always thought that when he sang "Undead" he was really saying "I'm dead". When I realized that the word was "undead", though, I decided that it probably meant that, although Bela Lugosi himself is dead, the influential films he acted in are still around and in that regard he is not dead.
Ha, I totally agree with everything everybody's said about this being the REAL goth music as opposed to Marilyn Manson and the similar singers and bands parading under the label of "goth". To me, goth music means Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nico, and their ilk. To me, goth music is pretty much the same thing as post-punk; pretty much my favorite kind of music. (By the way, I'm a teenager - 15 years old at the time of writing - which means that at least we're not ALL listening to that dreadful stuff they insist on calling goth. Some of us still appreciate the old school stuff.)
Anyway, regarding the song itself - I once heard that it was supposed to be sort of a parody of old horror film cliches, but some see it as celebratory of said movies. I don't know enough about Bela Lugosi to say how this relates to his death or life or anything. I always thought that when he sang "Undead" he was really saying "I'm dead". When I realized that the word was "undead", though, I decided that it probably meant that, although Bela Lugosi himself is dead, the influential films he acted in are still around and in that regard he is not dead.