Sisters of Mercy - Classic or Dud

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You should all know that Matos and I earlier tonight had dinner with "More" bellowing throughout the pub. This is the power that this thread has.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 26 March 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"AND I NEED ALL THE LOVE I CAN GET..."

"pass the salt."

"..AND I NEED ALL THE LOVE THAT I CAN'T GET TOO!"

"Good fries, these!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 March 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh my gosh.... "ALICE"..."TEMPLE OF LOVE"...

That's all I need (oh-- and "MARIAN")...

a very drunk-at-5:30 a.m. CLASSIC

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic all the way. The Sisters were *cough* the very first gig I went to without relatives / older friends / siblings etc.

Although the Reading Festival appearance with Tony James that someone else alluded to above, when they came back out and did a camped up version of 'He's Got The Whole World In His Hands' was one the worst five minutes I've ever stood through at a live gig.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

There are a lot of bad 'Comfortably Numb' covers out there, but I do have a fondness for Eldritch marrying it with 'Some Kind Of Stranger'.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Eldritch's non-denial sort of denial on the subject of albums under a pseudonym is interesting. What is surprising is that in all this time the fan community doesn't seem to have identified any viable candidates.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Serious fuckin' dud.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I must disagree. But I would say this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 March 2005 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Eh I dunno. I'm sure everyone would expect me of all people to holler CLASSIC!!! But I can't. Having gone to umpty-billion goth nights where, as a "DJ needs to have a piss" move, the DJ always spins that unending 12inch remix of "This Corrosion", or "More", "Ribbons" or "Dominion" were cranked out EVERY FSCKING WEEK... I got a bit tired of them.

Call the press, Trayce doesn't like the Sisters OMG.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 27 March 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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― late adopter, Sunday, 27 March 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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― late adopter, Sunday, 27 March 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Totally great band... I only started listening 5-6 years ago and none of it is worn out to me. I hope they do release something else before 2027.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 27 March 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"AND I NEED ALL THE LOVE I CAN GET..."
"pass the salt."
"..AND I NEED ALL THE LOVE THAT I CAN'T GET TOO!"

"Good fries, these!"

Hahaha, there were fries and everything! You're almost completelly OTM except replace "salt" with "ketchup".

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 27 March 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh man, everything up to and including FALAA is totally grate. One of the few bands I will still stick up for from my Goth-lovin' teenage years.

Merciful release put out some pretty OK stuff, too...March Violets & the first Salvation 12" are real cool.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

So does anyone think that a 4th album will ever see the light of day? Kind of a shame since the new songs they've been playing on their recent tours sounded pretty good (although not that distant from their Vision Thing sound).

― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I completely forgot about the choral intro to "This Corrosion"! GODLY GODLY GODLY.

I'm going to transcribe that this weekend.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

pls YSI when you decide to record it yourself...

― Die Emanzipation von Baaderonixx (redukt) (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I think they should re-record it, but give every member of the choir ballons filled with helium to huff just before the tape starts rolling.

That would be awesome.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

WOULD HE WALK UPON THE WATER
IF HE COULDN'T WALK AWAY?
AND WOULD YOU
WOULD CARRY THE TORCH
FOR ME?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

the one after, "Neverland", has to be one of my songs ever.
"Had everything within my reach / Too much but never enough"

― Die Emanzipation von Baaderonixx (redukt) (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

does anyone like the Sisterhood record?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

HI DERE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Also:

GIFT by the Sisterhood -- Classic or Dud

As started by Alex in NYC

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I completely forgot about the choral intro to "This Corrosion"!

I honestly did not know this was possible!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I hadn't heard the song in close to 10 years; in recent years I've been scratching my Sisters itch with Some Girls Wander By Mistake because my copy of Floodland was on tape. Now that I have upgraded to CD, I can rebask in the glory.

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

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I must dig up my vinyl copy of Floodland. And I must prise from my parents my for ten years unplayed copy of First And Last And Always.

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

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

it's like lame 1980s music. run away!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

What do you mean 'like' -- surely it IS. It was recorded then, wasn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I always get Ghost Dance confused with Lol Tolhurst's post-getting-booted-out-of-the-Cure band, whose name entirely escapes me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to have a couple of Ghost Dance EPs and a single, and don't think they were bad (I was a bit of a Skeletal Family fan). They were more conventional, though, especially around the time of their album. Their early song "River of No Return" was similar to Sisters of Mercy.

― Pangolino 2, Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I always get Ghost Dance confused with Lol Tolhurst's post-getting-booted-out-of-the-Cure band, whose name entirely escapes me.

Presence.

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

Dance Fools Dance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Also SoM (well Eldritch anwyay) is classic for releasing the March Violets stuff, which is pretty good in my book.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Dominion/Mother Russia is currently beating my gormless roommates to death...Classic, w/ the exception of "Vision Thing" outside of "Ribbons" which is total fucking godhead.

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.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Dusted off the Alice 12" and First and Last and Always this morning and gave them the first spin in a while. Classic stuff.

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....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Further proof that everything everywhere is goth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Jim Steinman, Goth Icon!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:44 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Bauhaus loves their audience. Andrew hates his. Which is more goth?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 16 January 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess we'll find out soon enough. I suspect I'm going to the San Diego show if it's not sold out. (He *really* hates his audience because of the fucking ticket prices.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Have you read the interviews of opening acts for Sisters shows who get all kinds of shit from AE for wearing too much black eyeshadow? Classic.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 16 January 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Classic, without a doubt.

Listening to Lucretia My Reflection now, awesome track.

― Miranda Leigh (Miranda Leigh), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Went to their Amsterdam gig last week, very very good. Zero visibility, great sound, lots of guitar which works very well for the older songs too. Lucretia and Dominion were the big crowd favourites, obviously. But no new material, which leads me to suspect that a new album isn't coming anywhere soon.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

He just needs to wait for Kevin Shields to finish his guitar parts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Excellent piece on Some Kind of Stanger by fellow ILXor Mallory:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/seconds/the-sisters-of-mercy-some-kind-of-stranger.htm

― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Mallory OTM

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks!

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!)

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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