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
there isn't anything really taht wrong with the original masters of these albums on cd from what I remember. first last and always was kind of murky but I suspect that's just the mix
― akm, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
only ever had that on cassette and that really sounded super swampy
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
having recently picked up the bauhaus/fields of nephilm remastered editions, i kind of want to complete the set.
i have one of the SOM compilations, so will be checking it tonight, as i have not heard it in years.
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
just to follow up on my own question.i picked up the remasters yesterday as fopp had'em relatively cheap (a fiver each).they sound fantastic.when played against tracks off the comp, there is a noticeable sonic difference as you'd expect with remasters i.e. more bass, clearer etc.yes, its clear there were budget limitations on the debut so that still sounds relatively thin/murky as mentioned above, as the jump in production between that and floodland is immense.but it matters not as all three albums are hitting the spot perfectly.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Which are these remasters? Sorry if that's a silly question - I've not really paid any attention to the Sisters for years now. But I'd be interested in upgrading my dodgy, scratchy old vinyl editions.
― Duke, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
the 2006 rhino remasters.came out a few years ago .. albums + b-sides.not the compilations.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
OMG there was an MFSL vinyl version of First/Last that came out in 2009
http://www.discogs.com/Sisters-Of-Mercy-First-And-Last-And-Always/release/2871095
so weird that none of the early EPs got the rhino treatment
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
licensing issues ?
andrew is a f&cker.
literally.
and no, i do not mean figuratively.
i lived in ls6 87-91 and had a somewhat unexpected insight into the world of andrew and wayne that i would never have expected.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
hence the reason i avoided the music for many years.
well, more fool me.
this stuff is f*cking brilliant.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
You have to spill now, don't be a tease.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
sorry. i cant.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I don't think anybody would be shocked if they found out the band had a lot of/various kinds of sex and drugs.
― StanM, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
or were generally less than kind toward their fellow humans
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
sure you can
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
I need to echo this.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 June 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
shouts INCOMING! during, don't he
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
lol
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
omg
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
ok. it's a long time gone .. back in the early 90s i used to rent a room from a friend .. for a while he had a full on goth girlfriend who had two kids.young kids.one was fathered by andrew.the other wayne.apparently xmas was not an easy situation.
― mark e, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
mercy!
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
"Wayne."
"Andrew."
*silence, as dim Xmas carols play in another room*
"...so what are you calling the new album?"
"Children."
"Mmm."
*more silence*
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
were they...sisters?
xp
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
told you it was a good'un.
and genuine.
― mark e, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
amazing
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Mark can remember the free concert in Leeds city centre in '87 or possibly '88? I was just a nipper at the time it was a counter-event to the national front rally that used to go through the city centre every St Georges day. All I can remember is that New Model Army were playing there. It was the last time I can remember seeing an ocean of old school goths/punks as far as the eye can see in my memory.
― xelab, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Mark can remember the free concert in Leeds city centre in '87 or possibly '88?
new model army.
f*ck yes.
human pyramid.
immense.
― mark e, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
It is so long ago I had forgotten about that, the memory has only just come back to me. jesus!
― xelab, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link