Sisters of Mercy - Classic or Dud

I'm going to transcribe that this weekend.

That would be awesome.

GIFT by the Sisterhood -- Classic or Dud

As started by Alex in NYC

I honestly did not know this was possible!

I'd also forgotten that "Torch" is fucking fantastic.

great musical mistakes: buying a Ghostdance album because it had former members of the Sisters of Mercy playing on it.

Yeah, Gary Marx's band. No good? Never got around to hearing it.

Presence.

...and didn't Simon Gallup have a band too?

Dance Fools Dance.

Hey DAN, did you go to the vision thing tour w/me? I can't remember...Danielle Dax opened, which was odd. The best part of the show was when she was completely obscured on stage by the mighty fog machines of SOM coming to life towards the end of her set.

Did anyone catch Black Strobe dropping in the bassline from "Lucretia My Reflection" during their Radio 1 Essential Mix last Fall? Brought a wide smile to my face....

Listening to Lucretia My Reflection now, awesome track.

It's but a small part (ahem!) of a much larger feature!

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/england-fades-away-stylus-magazines-guide-to-goth.htm

The splashpage is pretty tight, too, and Sisters related.

(AHEM!)

"a mate of mine was once
sharing his bag of whizz with Eldritch at Reading when the convo turned to
football, and Red chancer Eldritch revealed that he'd been at the Euro Cup
Winners Final when Man Yoo turned over Barca. The sudden image of a sea of
red with one black clad doom monger breaking up the symmetry was too much,
and he had to leave the dark lord suddenly before he burst out laughing."

---

"A
few labels have expressed an interest in signing the Sisters but his
demand for four million plus the A&R person having to be dressed as a
clown during all and any meetings with the band has tended to put them
off."

I love it!

Reissue one:

1. Black Planet
2. Walk Away
3. No Time To Cry
4. A Rock And A Hard Place
5. Marian (Version)
6. First And Last And Always
7. Possession
8. Nine While Nine
9. Amphetamine Logic
10. Some Kind Of Stranger

Bonus Tracks
11. Poison Door
12. On The Wire
13. Blood Money
14. Bury Me Deep
15. Long Train
16. Some Kind Of Stranger (Early)

Number two

1. Dominion/Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like The Snow
8. Never Land (A Fragment)

Bonus Tracks
9. Torch
10. Colours
11. Never Land [Full Length] [Previously Unreleased Outtake]
12. Emma

And last

1. Vision Thing
2. Ribbons
3. Detonation Boulevard
4. Something Fast
5. When You Don't See Me
6. Doctor Jeep
7. More
8. I Was Wrong

Bonus Tracks
9. You Could Be The One
10. More [Extended Version]
11. Doctor Jeep [Extended Version]
12. Ribbons [Live]
13. Something Fast [Live]

The last, I think, I can live without.

What label is doing these, by the way?

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=17959_0_2_0_C

YES I DID. Awesome awesome show.

F&L&A appears to be essential.

these two and the other 12" b-sides are the only reasons to get these post-shark-jumping discs...every year I get a little more pissed off at how this band went from rule to suck in such a short period of time