Heartland

A few quick comments. Most people seem to think "dance the ghost with me" refers to Ghost Dance. I reckon that, on the contrary, it refers to The Sisters of Mercy, circa 1982 to 1985. In an interview, Eldritch said the song was written as a "welcome abroad" for Patricia Morrison....

I’ve been listening to 1959 on repeat today after being verily moved by it and feeling like I’ve “really gotten� what it’s all about. To me, the whole song is about disappointment and regret. The narrator reflects on his childhood and how everything started out pure and clean, including hi...

as a general rule i learned somewhere freedom of enterpretation is a load of hippie s**t the author had a purpose in writing something; enterpretation is figuring that out what the purpose was. but whatever makes you feel good.... hippies Yes, because the New Critics of the 1920s, and the Russian F...

I knew her death was inevitable from the moment I heard of her. She was nothing but a political tool, as indicated by the support of the UK, US and western media in the last few months (how many westerners had even heard of her beforehand?), used to provoke extremists. Now the US and UK has some mor...

Wish her all the best for me.

I think his (why is it never a her?) role is rather questionable, since so many musicians manage to successfully produce their own music :? Having said that, that's not to dismiss them entirely. It's when they take on the role of svengali that I get suspicious... To understand the importance of a g...

Producers stand in the back of booths, shaking tambourines.

A T-shirt with a picture of a Goth girl and the words "I still love Andrew Eldritch, but Andrew Eldritch no longer loves me" would be classic.

MrChris wrote:Now, go back to the business of showing off how many books you've read, and leave poor Von out of it!

Should I just list them all here or make a thread in General Chat?

sultan2075 wrote:I don't think you're being fair to Sokal

Surely you jest?

boudicca wrote:Suede - We Are The Pigs and So Young... both blasts from the past (I was a huge fan in my early teens, and never really stopped wanting to have Brett Anderson's high-cheekbones babies as I think I've covered elsewhere).

What? No Still Life?!

But for something to be "modern" with or without the "post" prefix doesnt it have to be current? - which the Sisters certainly aren't Modernism and postmodernism are commonly perceived more as "ways of being" (sorry to sound like a Nance :lol: ) than historical eras. B...

Christian wrote:

Either Heino has had throat cancer or Eldritch is burning a hole in his neck for stealing his garb.

I was just wondering earlier where you'd been.. typing that post, obviously. :lol: And much more than that . Besides voluptuous criticism of obscure articles by obscure Goth bands, I have been working on a critique of foundationalism and developing a novel that dissolves linguistic distinctions nec...

SINsister wrote:Correct. That's just mean.

Only if it isn't consensual.

The distinction between modernism and postmodernism has always seemed barren to me. Furthermore, I believe each artist should be taken on his own terms. Nonetheless, I embarrassingly admit that sorting artists into categories can make for what I consider interesting conversation. Often it can shed l...

Do you mean "Nex tyme ai'll luk b4 ai leepz, nex tyme teh darknis, nex tyme ai'll luk b4 ai, kiss teh karpitz - kthxbai"? He says next time the darkness ? I always thought it was next time the carpet . The lyrics don't seem so jagged now. Addition - I've just listened to the song again, a...

SINsister wrote:Hopefully, they've been shampooed first, eh?

Next time he'll look before he kisses the carpet.

My photograph has done a disappearing act.

It's about attracting an STD, isn't it?

I'd love to see a black or female president We haven’t come very far, if we vote for a person not because of their stances, but because of the colour of their skin, and last time I looked, Obama had nothing but empty words. Mike Gravel is the only person I would even consider voting for in the up...

If it's OK for God to do it, then it must be for us too. He is a supremely good being who does nothing wrong, after all.

Is gimme dream child and do you hear me call a reference to the song Marian, which a quite blatant simulacrum of appeared on the debut m*****n album?

James Blast wrote:Uh, where yuh bin' nick?

On the threshold of eternity.

good to see ya back

Danke.

The mess that scalpels make is none other than laughing Lenny himself. In previous verses he speaks about using his fork like a scalpel in an asylum and asking God if he’s carved enough. Eldritch is right, he’s a regular Bill Hicks.

markfiend wrote:Chances are, if got wind of this, he'd pick a completely different set of 16 songs just out of contrariness.

Do you think we could trick the bugger into playing all the songs we want by showing him all the songs we don't want played as the set list?