Fav and least Fav sisters songs + best cover version

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Fav.
Flood 1 + 2
Comfortably numb/ Some kinda stranger
Lucretia
Marian
Ribbons
Snub Nose (i must be the only one)

Least fav
Will I dream
On the Wire
Giving Ground

Best cover version must be "Knockin on heavens door" live at The Royal Albert Hall gig back in '85
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On The Wire as a bad song? *tsk*

But I'm with you on Snub Nose.


Favourites:
Body Electric 1984
Rain From Heaven
On The Wire/Teachers/On The Wire
Torch
When You Don't See Me (Remix)
Highschool

Leasts:
Alice
Marian
Emma
More
Colours
Go Figure
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Just remembered 1959 I like very much.I expect this song could be a least fav with a few?

I read somewhere that 1959 was written by a girl called Isabelle.She sent the lyrics to Von and that's how we got 1959.
At the very end of the song he mentions her name. :notworthy:
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elamanamou wrote:Just remembered 1959 I like very much.I expect this song could be a least fav with a few?

I read somewhere that 1959 was written by a girl called Isabelle.She sent the lyrics to Von and that's how we got 1959.
At the very end of the song he mentions her name. :notworthy:
Well... from what I recall, the inspiration for the song came from Isabelle, who wrote to the man asking him if he would consider writing a song based on just him and a piano..

The title obviously being his year of birth and I figure the lyrics are his...
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hi there,

I'm new to this Heartland thing, but maybe this is a good introduction...

favourites:
heartland
marian
burn
1959
untitled (long guitar demo version)
neverland
ribbons
I was wrong

leasts:
detonation boulevard
vision thing
most of the covers they did around 2001...
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Fave - Emma
least - body electric
on reflection, being born turned out not to be such a good idea after all
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radiojamaica wrote: untitled (long guitar demo version)
what can this be? :?: :?:

and welcome!
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Faves:

Alice
The Good Things
Kiss the Carpet (oh, and Lights and Valentine!)
Heartland
Train
Nine While Nine
Amphetamine Logic
Some Kind of Stranger
Giving Ground (live version)
Dominion
Driven Like the Snow
I Was Wrong
Ribbons
When You Don't See Me
Temple 92
UTG
Slept

Least faves:

Damage Done/Watch/Home of the Hitmen
Anaconda
Fix
No Time to Cry
Walk Away
Marian
Something Fast
Summer
Romeo Down

Best Covers:

Emma
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culprit wrote:
radiojamaica wrote: untitled (long guitar demo version)
what can this be? :?: :?:

and welcome!
the one that gave it's riff to I Was Wrong?
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Fave:
1. On The Wire
2. Heartland
3. Some Kind Of Stranger
4. Nine While Nine
5. Giving Ground
6. Crash And Burn
7.Suzanne
8. War On Drugs
9. Under The Gun
10. When you don't see me/blood money/Dominion/corrosion/Marian/Temple Of Love/FALAA etc
Least fave:
1. Alice
2. Damage Done
3. You could be the one
4. emma
5. anaconda
6.Will I dream
7. Dr Jeep
8. Detontion Boulevard
9. Summer
10. Come Together

Best covers: Confide In Me (Kylie), Gimme Shelter
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Christ, how could I forgot one of the best songs ever - RIBBONS!!!!
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least fav:

heartland
body and soul
when you don't see me

the rest are all top. depending on mood
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I loved the Emma version on the back of the 12" Dominion. I also love the one on the Wake video too.

I only recently aquired the SKOS/ Comfortably numb after hearing Paddy's gang do it at Crewe (so out of touch i've been :oops: )

Faves are Logic, Alice, Nine while Nine, SKOS, FloodII, Poison Door, Anaconda.

Stinkers? Not many i don't like really, eerrrrrrr, Dominion i was never a great fan of and Detonation Boulevard got on my nerves too
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Leasties:

Detonation Boulevard
Will I Dream
Snub Nose
Slept
1959
Torch
First & Last & Always (the "new" live version).

Everything else is great!

Best cover? Gimme Shelter for sure.
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Favourites:
Heartland
Temple of Love (Extended Version)
Nine While Nine
Some Kind of Stranger
1959
Driven Like The Snow
Ribbons
I Was Wrong
Come Together
[We Are The Same] Suzanne

Least Favourite:
That one what Baxcorp told us to scavenge from the 'net

Favourite Covers:
Confide in Me
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Hmm. Maybe we should make this a little more...demanding, and establish a limit of songs? Maybe three Favourite and three Hated?
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timsinister wrote:Hmm. Maybe we should make this a little more...demanding, and establish a limit of songs? Maybe three Favourite and three Hated?
But "Go Figure" has 10 tracks :innocent:
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It's a little wide of the mark to lump SSV tracks in with the girls' repertoire, is it not?

Best - which ever song is my fave this week. Often that means Ribbons or Crash & Burn. Always means Untitled (Dominion b-side). Always means all of Gift, if that counts :wink: . Definite special mention for Untitled (long demo). :notworthy:

Worst - I'd never miss On The Wire or Giving Ground live, but that's due to over-familiarity.

Best cover - Emma, Gimme Shelter, Comfortably Numb. And Jolene (but that's four).[/i]
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Motz - Just as FFS Dave said, SSV is not - I presume - really a part of the original question. I put it to elamanamou to arbitrate...
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S'pose not. But blame Dark, he did it first ;)

But if we're going to be like that, doesn't that make all of the Sisterhood songs covers? :innocent:
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faves
Heartland
Fix
Ribbons

press the skip button....
I was wrong (to record and release this track)
On The Wire - a bit of a wail-a-thon if you ask me...

best cover
Gimme Shelter (tho not neccesarily live)
Ghostrider used to pack a punch 'back in the day'

best lines
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall
- Never Land (a fragment)
Heartland sing the faces shining
In the failing failing failing
Heartland make the places mine
- Heartland
Love for the corpse for the corporation - Fix
She says anytime
Raise your arms
- Flood II

Now there was a man who could write :innocent: :notworthy:
Something pithy.
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Damn, this is hard... For now, I guess my faves are:
Afterhours
Burn
Bury Me Deep
Dominion (whatever version, all of them are quite cool, I think)
Driven like the snow
both Floods
Marian
On The Wire
Ribbons
Teachers/Adrenochrome (has my favorite cover included, make's it a lot easier for me 8) )
This Corrosion

Least favorites is even harder, depends from day to day even more:
1969
Amphetamine Logic
Gimme Shelter
Good Things
I Was Wrong
No Time To Cry
Possession
Torch
Walk Away
Watch
When You Don't See Me
You Could Be The One

Guess that's about it, though it depends on daily base, mostly :)
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Motz wrote:S'pose not. But blame Dark, he did it first ;)

But if we're going to be like that, doesn't that make all of the Sisterhood songs covers? :innocent:
Motz, you are REALLY pushing it now.


(And I think the untitled guitar song thing, is not the I Was Wrong riffs, I think he means the one that's on a sistersrarities group with the 2 tape mixes of TC, with Candle. At least I think so. That version seems to cut off after about 4 minutes, but it may be a guitar part in Corrosion.)
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Favorites:
Something fast
under the gun
marian
ribbons
when you don't see me
you could be the one
blood money
logic
floorshow

favorite covers:
Emma
Comfortably numb
ghostrider

I don't do "least favorite"s.
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On Repeat:
Teachers/Adrenochrome
SKOS
Nine While Nine

On Skip:
Black Planet
Kiss The Carpet
1969

Best Cover:
Joelene

Yeah!
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