Heartland

I was 20 when I discovered the Sisters, so... no.

MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North!

Thinking of Korea?

Saxon's Princess of the Night is about a decommissioned train.

Biff Byford wrote:She used to be an ironhorse
Twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me
Through the ice and snow
I've sat alone and watched her
Steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder
Lighting up the sky

Happy birthday!

Like so many others I'd be more interested in a compilation of rare unreleased tracks, but I guess we already have something like that in Some Girls Wander By Mistake and the 2006 Rhino reissues with lots of bonus tracks. Any chance for a reissue of Gift, by the way?

Hmmm... the only one I can think of right now is Type O Negative's All Hallows' Eve. It's the perfect combination of their post-punk and heavy metal sensibilities, and one of the rare occasions this band played everything straight.

At least they annoyed the NME for a while.... ;D Which makes them somewhat more acceptable. :D Wouldn't have called them total pants, like you I enjoyed some of their stuff, but they were nowhere near as radical and dangerous as they seemed to think they were. That's actually what I think about SSS...

Happy birthday

MadameButterfly wrote:No, like a long black hole in space! You are in the comet or whatever spaceship you like, it doesn't matter as the ride through to the other side is what counts.

It's actually pretty funny that Tony James joined the Sisters when they sounded least post-punk...

I like the "ticket to Syria" idea of the road to Damascus. I always had Neverland linked to terrorism in my mind. (Smart money has always blamed the Syrians for the Lockerbie bombing—but of course that happened after Floodland's release.) Then again, didn't I just reason that Floodland ...

Another band I've discovered through the Sisters of Mercy, it's not just that SSS mastermind Tony James played with the Sisters but apparently Andrew Eldritch was on the verge of auditioning for Sputnik - I say "apparently" because I got that from Wikipedia who aren't the most reliable of ...

_emma_ wrote:But yeah, it's an old story, corsets hardly allowing to breathe and the removal of lower ribs are also old methods still in use.

Nah, the rib removal thing's an urban legend too.

I actually think that the use of Ozymandias in Floodland is also as a representation of the USA. It's easy to forget that in the 80s Reagan pushed the USSR to the brink of nuclear war. The 80s was the era of When The Wind Blows , of Threads , it looked then a lot like the whole sorry mess was going...

Let's talk about the references to ancient Egypt in the Sisters' music. First thing there comes to mind's of course the Eye of Horus on the cover of Vision Thing , then there's Dominion (Mother Russia) quoting Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias which is of course about Ramses II. Here's my take on it...

For what it's worth, as well as anorexia, the other of the fashion industry's dirty little secrets (not so secret) is the widespread abuse of amphetamines as appetite suppressants for the models. :urff: Shouldn't they have used Amphetamine Logic instead of Temple of Love then? :? The newer means is...

At college I'm reading Gottlob Frege's The Foundations of Aritmethic and Alec Fisher's The Logic of Real Arguments. Both are quite heady stuff, but presented in a somewhat talkative and useful manner.

What?

Damn, that was a shock. I shall now spin some Birthday Party in his honour.

The only singer I think actually deserves to be there is Tom Waits.

Thanks!

belated happy birthday.

limur wrote:I've barely listened to either of them though - far too much red and white for my liking...

Yeah, needs some black:

I'm not familiar with any of the albums in question, been meaning to check out the music of P. J. Harvey like forever though because I really like that duet she did with Nick Cave.

Tallied the votes... now the top 5 looks like this:

Nine While Nine (15 votes)
Never Land (14 votes)
Ribbons (11 votes)
Alice (10 votes)
Floorshow/Lucretia tie (8 votes)

Fear not dear Mantis the convo was more like: "Hey Peter, great show." "well thanks. It means a lot to me that you came." "y'know my fave strip joint opens in one hour, so I had time to kill." :) Which reminds me, what other bands inspired by the Sisters has Andy expre...