I thought they played "Want" in 2004? (which is okay as it's one of the three/four songs on WMS that don't make me want to stab kittens)
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
also guys I'm not trying to say "Doctor Jeep" is an essential part of the Sisters discography for me with that statement
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Miss youHiss youSTABCATS
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Dr. Jeep is probably the only track on Vision Thing I can stand to listen to in the least bit
― harry lame irl (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - Swing Tour, I remember a pretty wtf transition from 'Strange Attraction' right into 'Cold' - wild swings indeed
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought they played "Want" in 2004?
Don't recall seeing it in the Curiosa setlists. Anyway, this was Houston:
plainsong, shake dog shake, the figurehead, alt.end, a night like this, the end of the world, charlotte sometimes, lovesong, us or them, siamese twins, closedown, like cockatoos, before three, from the edge of the deep green sea, one hundred years, disintegration,E1: pictures of you, lullaby, inbetween days, just like heaven, boys don't cry
Not bad, huh?
Dallas was nice, too.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-f7OGrahw
^^ still amazing
― harry lame irl (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf Curtis, "More" and "Ribbons" are both great (especially "Ribbons")
also "Lights" > "Kiss the Carpet" and maybe I should have voted for it on that poll we just had
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah Curt1s - I think I feel the exact opposite about Dr Jeep. And "Ribbons" is easily in my top 5 Sisters songs
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess "Ribbons" is fine. "More" is good until the choir comes in.
― harry lame irl (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
haha relistening to Some Girls Wander By Mistake is giving me some sympathy towards J0hn's original statement because for at least the first half it starts out awesome and just gets progressively awesomer up through at least "Valentine"
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
no one ask for my opinions on "This Corrosion" because they will only make you hate me
― harry lame irl (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I listen to "Phantom" on the regular tbh
oh wow I'm listening to "burn" for the first time this century...I fucking love this jam
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah so basically I think my issue with "early Sisters work is unimpeachable" is that, going through Some Girls..., you have a bunch of fucking amazing bomb-ass tracks right up to "The Damage Done", at which point the momentum grinds to a screeching halt and never comes back
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
like it says a lot for how strong "Heartland" and "Gimme Shelter" are that they can follow the monster behemoth that is the 12" of "Temple of Love" and still come across as strong and awesome
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but "The Damage Done" is from their first ever single -- Some Girls is not chronologically ordered.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Sure, but that doesn't impact my general point, which is "you can't say their catalog is unimpeachable up until First and Last and Always because one of the first songs they ever released is actually fucking terrible"
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The Damage Done is good!
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey now
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
sure, ok - stumbled out the gate. but look at this. from "Anaconda" through "Walk Away," 2 & 1/2 years of singles without real b-sides: singles that stood on their own as complete works, mindblowing from-nowhere things with shitty promotional budgets so they'd just pop up, boom, there's another record by these guys, wow, what the fuck, love all these songs.
man to get (more) nostalgic we used to sit around and wonder what "Home of the Hitmen" sounded like because there was zero chance of ever hearing it.
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man, I'd forgotten about "Detonation Boulevard" actually
I think this is a "Smiths first album" problem for me, where the manner in which the first album/single was recorded completely turns me off to the songs therein and I might like it a lot more if there were recordings that didn't sound like they were captured in the echo chamber created by sealing a gigantic ass to a screaming toilet
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
sealing a gigantic ass to a screaming toilet
I thought you liked Broken.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Broken had more feedback
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
You heard of Hatful of Hollow?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"More" is good until the choir comes in.
^^gospel
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Adrenochrome>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dr. Jeep
Strenuously understated.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, and all of those (Peel session?) versions of the songs are much much much MUCH better.
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
they'd crop up on Peel between King Sunny Ade and Champion Doug Veitch or something, and it was like they had come to FUCKING KILL YOUR KIDS AND BURN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE DOWN. Those early EPs sounded terrifying at the time.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
btw "The Body Electric" does kill so my characterization of SGWBM wasn't entirely accurate
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
loving the scope of this thread
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
haha okay I can't really back up my hyperbolic "Doctor Jeep" comment so I will rescind that
it was fun while it lasted, though
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP dr. jeep
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I trust you all are familiar with the companion rarities compilation, "Some Boys Wander By Mistake"?
http://plan-9fromouterspace.blogspot.com/2009/08/sisters-of-mercy-some-boys-wander-by.html
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Most of that ended up on the reissues I think...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm browsing Dime and apparently there was a show the other night in the UK? Is Eldritch ever actually going to release anything?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
No. He did an interview recently(? or maybe I just read it recently) where he basically said there was no point and they were quite happy to not do very much other than the odd tour. He gets enough money* from his back catalogue and a couple of festivals a year to pretty much sit around reading the rest of the time.
(*am I making it up or is he from a moneyed family and therefore has very little motivation to make any more? I'm sure I read or heard that somewhere but it might be nonsense)
― AYE... MON THEN -----O----- (onimo), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, seems to be a small 30th anniversary tour.
the website has the dates.
...and is still bright orange. reptile house and merciful release websites still hilariously "under construction".
― Edward Bax, Saturday, 19 February 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
a while back i was listening to ~college radio~ and heard a version of Temple of Love that sounded like a studio outtake, where the singer bro chanted 'GOTH GOTH GOTH GOTH GOTH' instead of the actual lyrics to the song - does anyone know about this/where its from
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 9 May 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god, I know this. It's a cover version by... gah!
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXViPACn0Z4
...CREAMING JESUS!
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoHR7m2eiDU
They also did a thrash metal version of 'A Forest' too btw
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha thats it man! thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the artwork for "A Forest" -- cartoon drawing of the band sitting on Robert Smith and beating him up.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
it pisses me off so much that Some Girls Wander By Mistake isn't on US Spotify, I need to hear some "Heartland"/"Alice"/orig "Temple of Love" right now
comforting myself with some "First and Last and Always"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 3 February 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
we need a new sisters album now that MVB is out
― akm, Sunday, 3 February 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
question :
does anyone know if the cheapo boxset thats available of this bands catalogue uses the old masters, or the rhino remasters as their source ?
i.e
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Sisters-Mercy/dp/B0030HG3K6/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1403601856&sr=1-3&keywords=sisters+of+mercy
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
User reviews seem to indicate old masters were used
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah .. thats what i thought, but wanted to see if anyone knew for definite.
suspect i will be tracking down the remasters.
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link