Sisters of Mercy.

It all began with a bad CoF cover of 'No time to Cry'.

DJ CyberBitch gave me the giant sampler pack, and while I was zooming through it I came across a slower, less shitty version of No Time To Cry. I dug up info and found out it was Sisters of Mercy.

More digging led me to the 8-minute version of Temple of Love, three different cuts of Detonation Boulevard, and quite a bad ass song called 1969.

It's been a long time since I bought CD's, but I actually went out and bought all the Sisters albums I could. Boys/Girls wander by mistake, Overbombing, Flood, you name it, I've got everything.

So, Who else here is a Sisters Fan?

Me (and apparently singlespeed too, whoever he is)

That COF cover is absolutely dire.... totally shat all over the original.

To date I only have First and Last and Always (bloody classic!) Vision Thing and Some Girls Wander by Mistake, which I haven't properly checked out yet.

Btw, I think 1969 is a Stooges cover.

I've been wondering about that song. Sisters came about durring the later bat-cave era, I believe, and if the lead was 21 in 69, then holy fuck, did he look good for his age in the Temple of Love vid from '92.

Iggy, on the other hand, still looked like shit. So did Alice.

Once upon a time I was.

Now, not so much.

my avator speaks for itself. i belive the song is 1959. comes before " this corrosion" ( there stairway to heaven) on floodland.

It was your avi that spurred my idea for this topic.

Hmm. According to my discog, there's a 59 and 69. One is a piano song, another is the Stoogees-like song.

his name is andrew eldridge, and he is a legend . from leeds england if i recall corectly.

perhaps u r right. don't know as much as i should about "stooges". but if you don't have "floodland" well .. jesus christmas.. may sound abit dated now but if you like what you said you have than it's a must. i have killer live shit too. they are great live. toured just over a year ago. he dosen't make new music though, i think.. " trans eruo exess" live is sick. the (stones) "gimme shelter "cover is all time. there cover of "comfortably numb" (pf) amazing..

1959 is the piano song. slow balladish.

I think Andrew Eldritch is the only person ever to have a fetish for Goth-denial AND stretching out perfectly good songs to breaking point.

Seriously, This Corrosion more than ten minutes long? Whatever next, the Prodigy making a two-hour opera out of Firestarter?

Devilstator wrote:

I think Andrew Eldritch is the only person ever to have a fetish for Goth-denial AND stretching out perfectly good songs to breaking point.

Seriously, This Corrosion more than ten minutes long? Whatever next, the Prodigy making a two-hour opera out of Firestarter?

Be careful, you might speak this into existance. Remember Metallica's 'Classical' albums? Same shit happened when someone said 'Man, Metallica would never make a classical album like KISS did'.

Devilstator wrote:

I think Andrew Eldritch is the only person ever to have a fetish for Goth-denial AND stretching out perfectly good songs to breaking point.

Seriously, This Corrosion more than ten minutes long? Whatever next, the Prodigy making a two-hour opera out of Firestarter?

why not?

it's not altogether uncommon to have 10 minute songs.

just finding a wide enough audience with the attention span in sounds of over 10 minutes is difficult. unless you throw in another medium, like visual aspects- fantasia

i only liked certain songs from sisters of mercy, though.

It's not about attention spans, it's about appropriate length. I love continous mixes of over an hour, also Jethro Tull's 44-minute epic Thick as a Brick. My attention span is fine.

Do you think a 1-2-3-4 three-chords hardcore punk song would work for 14 minutes?

Do you think a psytrance track would work for 1:45 mins?

This Corrosion is a great song, no question about that. But simply repeating the same structure for ten minutes... boring. Despite the choral intro, it's a club shaker at heart, not a pondersome Dream Theater epic. So why act like you're Keith Emerson when you're really Timbaland?

i think i understand your point more now.

though, i'm tempted to look for a 3 chord, 4/4 punk song just for the sake of being a jerk.

off hand, dick dale (though, not considered punk, seems to have influenced a lot of so. cal. punk bands) has songs somewhere around 10 minutes that are 4/4 and about 3 chords that i can tell. i think it's called "toreador" (i think it means bullfighter in spanish)

i'm sure someone could come up with a psytrance piece that lasted 1:45. probably used in a commercial on television or radio commerial in the u.s.

i would agree, though, that certain manners of playing/styles are more apt to certain lengths. but boundries seem to be easily streached with creative peoples, like musicians and visual artists.

egsenTrick wrote:

i think i understand your point more now.

though, i'm tempted to look for a 3 chord, 4/4 punk song just for the sake of being a jerk.

off hand, dick dale (though, not considered punk, seems to have influenced a lot of so. cal. punk bands) has songs somewhere around 10 minutes that are 4/4 and about 3 chords that i can tell. i think it's called "toreador" (i think it means bullfighter in spanish)

i'm sure someone could come up with a psytrance piece that lasted 1:45. probably used in a commercial on television or radio commerial in the u.s.

i would agree, though, that certain manners of playing/styles are more apt to certain lengths. but boundries seem to be easily streached with creative peoples, like musicians and visual artists.

Dick Dale is an un-holy bastard of the guitar. The Chuck Berry of rock-a-billy, psycho-billy, and classical guitar work.