man that is madness.
Some Girls contains the following songs:
Temple of LoveAliceFloorshowHeartlandBody ElectricLights
culling just my faves from it to assert that neither Floodland, nor Vision Thing, nor FALAA have that many songs of such high quality. Like, FALAA may have 6 real good songs and a couple great ones but six as good as those six? nah man
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 19 October 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
There are a few great songs on Some Girls but sorry to say I found it a chore sometimes, despite being stylistically closer to things I normally like than the 2nd and 3rd studio albums.
Maybe they should just release a compilation of the newer songs in their live performances but given that Eldritch was afraid of being tied down to definitive versions, those probably would become the definitive versions.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 October 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
Does blow my mind that much of Floodland was recorded in Stockport.
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 October 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
xxpost OTM
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
getting into the sisters of mercy at the late age of 33
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
You'll never catch up with the onslaught of new product.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
one thing i've discovered is that i think i enjoy the eps and the albums on completely different wavelengths. which is why it's easy for me to say that floodland registered pretty immediately as a favorite even though when you hold it up against the reptile house ep, floodland seems to cower before its rotted shroud
my fave sisters tracks so far are "on the wire" and "bury me deep"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
I absolutely adored Floodland and "Ribbons" but my obsession with this band didn't crystalize until I heard "Alice" and their cover of "Gimme Shelter"
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
So many great Sisters B-sides. "Afterhours" is another B-side fave.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
The EPs and First and Last and Always are the best for me. Floodland is good but uneven and Vision Thing is... ehhh.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
Maybe it's because I heard the albums (and specifically Floodland) first, but the EPs have always sounded really thin and low-budget to me, almost like demos. I don't enjoy them at all.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
but the EPs have always sounded really thin and low-budget to me, almost like demos. I don't enjoy them at all.
that's because there were very cheaply recorded.
there are 2 excellent articles on tQ re the early days of the band that Ned linked to upthread.
― mark e, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
I LOVE that thin-ness / low budget aspect. Reptile House's almost zero production just slays me.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
The very best song is a b-side because it is, of course, Adrenochrome.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
Adrenochrome just keeps getting better with age.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Those tQ articles are being turned into a book on Unbound (due September) and Trevor Ristow's book on the period up to the RAH show (Waiting For Another War) is an absolute blast.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
It's that bit in Adrenochrome where it sounds like Keith Levene has turned up, slashed at his guitar for a couple of bars, then realised he's in the wrong room and leaves again while Marty Thau is leaving the knobs well alone because they got set at some point so they're still probably right.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
It's the 'huh' tossed in after "freedom".
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Same. Plus the songs are just better imo.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
Nah. This is a band that was always striving for grandiosity. Working with Steinman was really the only choice. Bob Ezrin as a close #2.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
It's Eldritch at his greatest, because he hasn't yet become Von.
I love this song so much. I remember when you had to buy They Shall Not Pass, the CNT compilation, to get hold of it (which wasn't that much of a hardship since it had other good stuff on it including Pink Headed Bug) and then the low quality Body Electric bootlegs. I remember when I finally found an affordable copy - might have been as late as 86? - and even then it was SIXTY FUCKING POUNDS.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
Nah, i'm afraid you are wrong. Eldritch might have beeen striving for that but Sisters Of Mercy mk 1 and 2 revelled in their lo fi delight. Early Sisters was way more than just Eldritch's vision.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
x post
brad i'm so proud
― eisimpleir (crüt), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
First time i saw them, Gary Marx was the star of the show. Eldtitch was second fiddle.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
I remember when you had to buy They Shall Not Pass, the CNT compilation, to get hold of it
that is how i had it for many years. still never managed to get the 7".
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah, to a very large degree they're Gary Marx's band until he moves out of Leeds then they become Andrew's band.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
clearly this band is an absolute classic entry into the whole 'i prefer their earlier stuff' cliche.personally, i prefer the massive bombastic stuff as opposed to the lo-fi recordings, but thats cos i love a big widescreen production.that said, you cant deny the brilliance of some of the earlier material.
― mark e, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
i love both (up to and including floodland) but very much think of them as two distinct bands.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
That's absolutely where I am too. I love the Michael Bay aspects of the later era but some of the songs are unmemorable.
Despite this, I've got tickets for the 40th Anniversary show at the Roundhouse in September.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
As an aside, the first (goth) club i used to go to as a teenager refused to play any Sisters records as the DJ said the production was so bad (they were all about big widescreen productions). When "This Corrosion" came out they were all over it.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
but very much think of them as two distinct bands.
exactly.
― mark e, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
my obsession with this band didn't crystalize until I heard "Alice" and their cover of "Gimme Shelter"
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Thursday, April 22, 2021 8:34 AM (one hour ago)
omg ... those are so good ... what do you think about their cover of Hot Chocolate's "Emma"?
also lol at the goth club DJ -- Temple of Love is what I consider a Goth Club banger
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Also a heads up for everyone that there's a radio sessions album coming out for Record Store Day that will presumably be mixed correctly and not have that massive jump in volume like Psychedelic Sessions used to on Heartland which was an absolute speaker killer.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
ahh ... but which version ?
― mark e, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
o.g. temple of love forever
― eisimpleir (crüt), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
I'm glad Steinman never got his hands on "Floorshow, "Body Electric", "Anaconda", "Heartland" or "Body and Soul". It kind of ruined "Temple of Love" and "Alice" when Andrew made them sound bigger in 92 and 93.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
"marian" is so good. turn it up man!
― eisimpleir (crüt), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
thus proving my point re 'i prefer the earlier stuff' as i really love the '92 version
― mark e, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
― mark e, Thursday, April 22, 2021 10:23 AM (two minutes ago)
any version tbh
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
It's like Louie Louie ... when Temple of Love starts playing, you gotta go now (and hit the floor)
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
ha. very true.ooh to hear either version on a big club soundsystem again.i doubt i will ever get to be in the right place at the right time.
― mark e, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
Adrenochrome just keeps getting better with age.― stirmonster, Thursday, April 22, 2021 9:39 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― stirmonster, Thursday, April 22, 2021 9:39 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
that’s not what I’ve heard
― JoeStork, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
― eisimpleir (crüt), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
I do think one positive thing about the Q Anon cult is that it made me revisit Some Girls Wander By Mistake and the great joy those songs bring me
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
it used to drive people crazy, particularly as Sisters were thee band of that scene at that time. If people requested them he'd play Jamaican Dancehall instead but he was such a great DJ and it was by far the best place in town so all the frustrated goths kept coming back. He was taken from us right at the start of the pandemic. :(
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
Ha!
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
???
please do elaborate.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link