Sisters of Mercy - Classic or Dud

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.

Haha, yes. There's just this endless series of killer bridges...

The whole remixed album is *interesting*.. Absolutely no mids - was it supposed to sound that way originally?? The "Black Planet" intro sounds as if coming out of a cheap car radio...

I always thought that was a wonderfully bitter and spiteful way to end it.

DOMINION

Absolute, undeniable classic.

I feel like a bad goth for skipping over "This Corrosion" when I listen to Floodland

Listening to your show right now, Curtis - "Dark Entries" is a great name for it/opener. Makes the hair on my arms stand on end, that song.

please excuse my fucked-up-ness on the mic, I was completely out of it

Oh who cares man, to have someone play ME an old Red Lorry Yellow Lorry track is enough. I'm just humbled about that. Makes me feel like I did when I heard some college radio station in St. Louis played an old Fall track, and it just made me feel like royalty, so privileged. Not me playing it someone ELSE but someone actually playing it to ME. No, this is fantastic, Curtis, please don't apologize.

Ah, and old Sisters of Mercy is next! Why this is just fine, fine stuff, I say.

I can't remember which (witch) Sisters song this is, but it's definitely one of my favourites from their early material. "In the violent house/in the violent sound/going round and around and around..." "slow...slow...quick quick slow...see those babies go go go go go!"
Yeah I'll have to figure out which one that is later.

Now you're playing Siouxsie. There's a Siouxsie song I've been thinking of lately that I've been trying to identify. I must write that down. It's something off Join Hands. Not Hong Kong Garden, something else.

it's really, really fun to try to sing like andrew eldritch, in case anyone didn't already know.

Bimble:

That song is "Floorshow". It's on "Some Girls Wander by Mistake"

And I think it's actually "See those <B>pagans</b> go go go go go!"... which makes it even better in my opinion.

Oh yeah, and Sisters of Mercy = total classic. Even "Vision Thing" has got some great material on it, despite being the weakest of their main albums.

Yes! Even better if the lyric is "see those Pagans go go go go go!"

Yr goth show was totally awesome Curtis :D I hope you do end up getting the regular slot!

That song is "Floorshow". It's on "Some Girls Wander by Mistake"

showing my age... I think of it as being on the 12" of 'Alice'.

Well, yeah.

Yeah, Curtis - do you need me to bombard the powers at be with emails or something? I could pretend to be different people by switching email addresses. Or I'd even call them on the phone. Let me know what I need to do.

I used to have all the old Sisters records, but haven't had them in a long time now. Don't feel a need to have them again, but it's nice to hear something from those every once in a while.

Will they release an album before GnR?

Anyone else heard "You Could Be the One?" One of my favorite b-sides of all time. Just a hilarious kiss off, and catchy to boot.

Yea, "You Could be the One" is great. It actually sounds like a GnR tune.

Anyone like the new (well, once new) material played live but never released? "Crash and Burn", "We are the Same Suzanne" and "War on Drugs" are favourites of mine.

I actually kind of liked that "Screw Shareholder Value..." album that he "released" on the internet a few years ago to get out of his record contract.

There's something vaguely threatening about Andrew Eldritch reciting in monotone the dimensions of an aircraft over bland techno music with the drum tracks removed.

Agreed on "You Could Be the One" -- it wouldn't have fit in on Vision Thing but it's a fine little one-off.

"Flower children never bore me..."