Sisters of Mercy - Classic or Dud

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

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=18248_0_2_0_C

You've gone deaf.

Very nicely reissued, cardboard foldy things with booklets, two nice articles by Michael Bonner (Uncut Magazine) - there's some stuff in there I didn't know (and I've been quite a sisters freak way back when, so I'm impressed), lyrics to Floodland, not to F&L&A.

How do they sound?
Well, F&L&A is the vinyl mix that was on the original LP, nice & clear mix, and Floodland, well, I don't know, Baaderonix was right, there isn't much they can do with this. It sounds a little louder in places, perhaps (the choir intro to This Corrosion?), but it's not very clear what happened.

Listen for yourself:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1842737/blackplanet_dominion_comparisons.zip.html

This is a zip file with 4 256kbps (LAME CBR) mp3 files. They are:
blackplanet_original.mp3 = the first minute of the 1988 CD edition
blackplanet_remastered.mp3 = the first minute of the 2006 reissue
dominion_original.mp3 = the first minute of the 1987 CD edition
dominion_remastered.mp3 = the first minute of the 2006 reissue

Ripped with EAC, no normalization or anything else.

Oh, the bonus tracks rule. I always forget how much I like the full Never Land because it's on a shitty old tape somewhere and I hardly listen to tapes anymore.

(it's for educational purposes and it's only the first minute - if this is still illegal, please delete & accept my apologies)

I think Neverland is my fave SoM tune, despite its throwaway-ness. The image of Eldritch with his ticket to Syria, getting ready for a life on the run, is so vivid...

20 seconds of Blood Money and 40 seconds of Emma (sounds amazing)

http://rapidshare.com/files/1855615/em_bm.zip.html

also, whichever "flood"--1 or 2, can't remember--precedes "lucretia" on floodland doesn't get nearly enough love. sets "lucretia" up as well as "shooby-do" sets up "candy-o" ... as i make this association i suddenly apprehend that it's far from coincidental.