Burn Out In The Acid Rain.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 March 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
BLACK
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
SOMEDAY SOMEDAY SOMEDAY DOMINION SOME SAY PRAYERS SOME SAY PRAYERS
AND I SAY MINE
― HI DERE, Friday, 21 March 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
THERE'S A WHITE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF RUSSIA
― jessie monster, Friday, 21 March 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'M LIVING IN FILMS FOR THE SAKE OF RUSSIA A KINO RUNNER FOR THE DEE DEE ERR
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Much as I like songs like "Body Electric" and "Anaconda" and all, I do like being able to audibly hear the Sisters suddenly and totally jell with "Alice."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
they never gelled as well as they did on "The Damage Done"
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"Home of the Hit Men" or nothing. Okay maybe "Kiss the Carpet (Reprise)"
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
SEE THOSE BABIES GO GO GO GO GO!!!!!!
No seriously though, it's really "Watch" that kills me the most off this CD because that is some SERIOUSLY BADASS PIL-ish Metal Box era BASS. That is about as good as post-punk EVER gets.
― Bimble, Saturday, 22 March 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Just happy to see the Sisters continue to bask in ILM love.
― Lostandfound, Sunday, 23 March 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
(Grammatically, that was shite.)
I preferred my mis-hearing of the Floorshow punchline when I was in high school: "see those pagans go go go go go"
― J0hn D., Sunday, 23 March 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought that's what it was!
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 23 March 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, me too.
― Lostandfound, Sunday, 23 March 2008 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, well it's "babies"
my then-girlfriend and I used to discuss the relative merits of what we wished he'd been saying vs. what we were pretty sure he was actually saying
― J0hn D., Sunday, 23 March 2008 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel I should quote the entire lyrics of 'You Could be the One'
All God's children give good phoneI called Jesus, he's not homeSo I'm so pleased to talk to youTrees and walks I love them tooThreatened species, they adore meFlower children never bore meBut all the things you share areBetter left unsaidWhen you can give me headAnd run your fingers through my hairYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, we can meditateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, let's call it fateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, to get your flowers pressedYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, just get undressedAhhh I'm so glad to find you hereMystic people, they're so dearI don't like the restYour sign's the bestWhatever it is, I'm most impressedIIIII don't need to understandThe laying on of handsI'm in a hurry to get my collar straightCause life is short, and I can't waitSo don't worry about the state of this pretty little thing in the armour plateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, we can meditateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, let's call it fateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, to get your flowers pressedYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, just get undressedI'm so pleased that you believeNow open up a little let the good times inMmm we're going for a rideDestiny can't be deniedBut all those precious things are better left unsaidWhen you can give me head and run your fingers through my hairYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, we can meditateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, let's call it fateYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, to get your flowers pressedYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be the one, just get undressedLove...Is all you need.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 9 January 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Julian M in the Quietus on the early Sisters
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
while any band that held its guitars below their nipples was immediately decried and denounced as “rockist” by the sad fools too afraid of the ‘gain’ setting on their amps.
umm was rockist term really in use back in the early 80s ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Very much so. (The whole revival of it as a critical term this decade -- which I think was partially started here, really -- was referring back to its original use then.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Was it used solely to gauge the relative distance of items to nipples?
― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The early eighties were a strange time.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
How rockist are instruments perpendicular to nips?
http://www.sixtiescity.com/Media/merseybeat.jpg
― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Best piece of writing on the Sisters I've ever seen, and I can totally endorse the comments on 'anti-rockism' in the early eighties.
Thanks for posting - a pint of snakebite and black for Mr. M!
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a great piece but doesn't alice/floorshow actually come after the reptile house ep?
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
According to this, no:
3. Alice b/w Floorshowa. 7" Merciful Release MR 015 Nov 1982ROGI:"kenny giles walks on water" "for spiggy-flash that ash"COVER ART SOURCE: Henri Matisse's Nude Blue in gold on black.NOTES: Produced by John Ashton of the Psychedelic Furs. Entered the Independent Chart at #26.PERSONNEL: SIS 14. Anaconda b/w Phantoma. 7" Merciful Release MR 019 Mar 1983ROGI: "nothing" "spiggy rides again"COVER ART SOURCE: Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies in silver on black.NOTES: Produced by Andrew Eldritch. Single of the Week in Sounds.PERSONNEL: SIS 15. Alice/Floorshow b/w Phantom/1969a. 12" Merciful Release MR 021 Mar 1983ROGI: "im westen nichts neues-jesus loves the sisters" "for spiggy(foreign field)" "mein irisch kind. wo weilest du?"COVER ART SOURCE: Same as the 7".NOTES: Alice, Floorshow and 1969 produced by John Ashton. Phantom produced by Andrew Eldritch. 1969 originally by the Stooges. Released in response to import copies of the American 12" showing up in the UK at greatly inflated prices. First part of the ROGI is the German title of Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Fourth part is lines 33-34 of T. S. Eliot's poem, 'the Wasteland'.PERSONNEL: SIS 16. the Reptile House E.P. Kiss the Carpet/Lights/Valentine/Fix/Burna. 12"EP Merciful Release MR 023 May 1983ROGI: "for spiggy-paint it black"COVER ART SOURCE: Taken from a National Geographic magazine.NOTES: Produced by Andrew Eldritch. First 5,000 came with a lyric sheet. Single of the Week in Sounds. Some copies are violet on crimson instead of pink on black. Not listed is Kiss the Carpet (reprise), which is the same as the drum intro to Kiss the Carpet that opens the ep. Original pressings have MR023 on the spine where 'made in england' is on the repressings.PERSONNEL: SIS 1
4. Anaconda b/w Phantoma. 7" Merciful Release MR 019 Mar 1983ROGI: "nothing" "spiggy rides again"COVER ART SOURCE: Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies in silver on black.NOTES: Produced by Andrew Eldritch. Single of the Week in Sounds.PERSONNEL: SIS 1
5. Alice/Floorshow b/w Phantom/1969a. 12" Merciful Release MR 021 Mar 1983ROGI: "im westen nichts neues-jesus loves the sisters" "for spiggy(foreign field)" "mein irisch kind. wo weilest du?"COVER ART SOURCE: Same as the 7".NOTES: Alice, Floorshow and 1969 produced by John Ashton. Phantom produced by Andrew Eldritch. 1969 originally by the Stooges. Released in response to import copies of the American 12" showing up in the UK at greatly inflated prices. First part of the ROGI is the German title of Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Fourth part is lines 33-34 of T. S. Eliot's poem, 'the Wasteland'.PERSONNEL: SIS 1
6. the Reptile House E.P. Kiss the Carpet/Lights/Valentine/Fix/Burna. 12"EP Merciful Release MR 023 May 1983ROGI: "for spiggy-paint it black"COVER ART SOURCE: Taken from a National Geographic magazine.NOTES: Produced by Andrew Eldritch. First 5,000 came with a lyric sheet. Single of the Week in Sounds. Some copies are violet on crimson instead of pink on black. Not listed is Kiss the Carpet (reprise), which is the same as the drum intro to Kiss the Carpet that opens the ep. Original pressings have MR023 on the spine where 'made in england' is on the repressings.PERSONNEL: SIS 1
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
man back in the day we always thought - my girlfriend and I, the secret SoM fanclub of Claremont - that Reptile House sounded so much cruder & earlier than the more accomplished-sounding Alice/Floorshow EP. weird.
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Reptile House was one of my first "what the fuck's wrong with my turntable?" records.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The Michigan militia Hutaree, whose members have been charged for an alleged plot to attack police, burns a U.N. flag in a video posted on the group's YouTube page. The clip dated June 30, 2009, and described as "UN in America," shows flames engulfing a U.N. flag in slow motion, over the sound of "First and Last and Always," by the 80s goth-rock band Sisters of Mercy.Hutaree members wielding assault rifles then hoist the group's own flag, emblazoned with a dagger and two pillars forming an "H," a pair of red spears, and "CCR," the acronym for Colonial Christian Republic.
The clip dated June 30, 2009, and described as "UN in America," shows flames engulfing a U.N. flag in slow motion, over the sound of "First and Last and Always," by the 80s goth-rock band Sisters of Mercy.
Hutaree members wielding assault rifles then hoist the group's own flag, emblazoned with a dagger and two pillars forming an "H," a pair of red spears, and "CCR," the acronym for Colonial Christian Republic.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 29 March 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Like I said on ILE, a following lost and blind indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 March 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
should have used Vision Thing instead
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 March 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Eldritch will be stoked - he used to opine in interviews that Detroit was the best town in America because it most closely resembled Leeds
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Monday, 29 March 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Something like this was linked on Gawker or Wonkette recently. But the song in question was Marianne. I thought it was rather a strange choice.
― everything, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Let us attempt an exegesis:
"twenty-five whores in the room next door" = Steele and his creative use of RNC funds
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
But the song in question was Marianne. I thought it was rather a strange choice.
"No no, we meant the OTHER version."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the Marianne one. First and Last and Always is on the same channel. And, uh, Poker Face.http://www.youtube.com/user/hutaree#p/u/3/Apmn9xMxiZ4
― everything, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
are flames eating the UN flag the new crying eagle? can we get a youtube of it set to the benny hill theme?
― akm, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh dear.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 29 March 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
man I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is a band who should have taken the advance for their first album, squirreled it away in offshore banks, fled the pursuing tentacles of their creditors without making FALAA, & gone down in history as a band with a 100% perfect track record
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Monday, 29 March 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4403460336_894957a38c.jpg
assault rifle just out of frame
― andrew m., Monday, 29 March 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it was the Joanna Newsom album that one was supposed to hug.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
But then you'd be missing out on some great material. Besides the heroic failures of this band and the various offshoots are part of their greatness. Maybe you needed to experience them doing "He's Got The Whole World in His Hands" with the Patricia Morrison/Tony James line-up to appreciate that fully.
― everything, Monday, 29 March 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
lol andrew
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Monday, 29 March 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I still think Vision Thing is one of the greatest metal albums of all time.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, "1959" is a real `banger.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing that is totally 100% wrong about this stance is that we never would have gotten "This Corrosion"
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
...except that's on Floodland.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
But then you'd be missing out on some great material. Besides the heroic failures of this band and the various offshoots are part of their greatness.
there's good stuff on both FALAA & Vision Thing for sure, but they were ironclad prior to that. Where are the weak tracks prior to that? the EP run is seamless, even the super-primitive "Adrenochrome" is pretty great. the albums bloats & they never tighten their game back up. they are sort of exhibit A if you want to make the case that success is dangerous. for a band who never quite achieves the greatness of their debut but keeps not-quite-living-up in ever more interesting ways, gimme the Gun Club every time.
and yeah I partied hard when "this corrosion" hit no doubt, it's a great jam, but I'd give it up to have a band who was perfect for two years and then stopped
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't, because if the band is enjoying themselves and making money, that is more important than preserving my nostalgia
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
even the super-primitive "Adrenochrome" is pretty great.
Hah that's probably my favourite early Sisters track! Pretty great, tsk.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
like, I wish The Cure had never recorded Wild Mood Swings but I would never, ever say I wish they just stopped recording, period
ditto with Prince and MPLSound/whatever the fuck that other terrible album was called
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link