NME and Melody Maker reviews from throughout the years.

[nick the stripper]

Hi,

I’ve made a text file that contains all the Melody Maker and NME reviews of The Sisters of Mercy that I own.

I hope you like it. Here’s the text file.

Cheers,
Josh.

[Quiff Boy]

nice work

The Sisters come from Leeds, wear young rebel trousers and make a
din so glorious they sound like they stumbled on rock music by
accident without ever having heard a note of it before.

About six plays after first digging this from the bottom of the
vinyl junkyard, the brain-wiping riff of ‘Adrenochrome’ still sounds
like the greatest four-chord sequence ever invented. Look, the
Stones, The Kinks, The Byrds, the Pistols, the Stooges, The Clash and
all the other morons were just testing our a few ideas. THIS was the
riff they were looking for. Put it this way: it’s not bad.

and

FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS

...

The second side unveils Celtic guitars that career through arid
wastelands until they’re swept up by the blistering chorus of ‘First
And Last And Always’.

oddly enough, while the song was still being written, the band used to call it "the scottish song" - and probably not in reference to macbeth

nice work josh

[jay]

That's very cool, thanks.
This should get me through the rest of the afternoon

[Quiff Boy]

finally - someone GETS vision thing

VISION THING

NME, 27 October 1990, p40

...
So Eldritch did a whole lot of nothing. He hung around Hamburg and
laughed his hollow self hoarse at the black joke he’d played upon
himself until, well, finally he had to do something. So he did what
the rest of us do. He plunged headlong into life’s little pleasures -
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll - all the sideshows that, whether we
care to admit it or not, we employ to distract us from our inevitable
end.

And guess what? When the smoke cleared and the sweat dried and
Eldritch stood there blasted and brazen and sore to his soul, he
realised something that raised a pulse in his dead creativity. He
realised that all our little pleasures f**k us up too.

At last Eldritch had stumbled upon the rudimentary impulses of rock,
something his intelligence had shielded him from before - betrayal
and revenge in all their devious guises.

So ‘Vision Thing’ is a beauty of vindictive bile, a self-inflicted
bruise. It’s a paradigm of self-delusion, Eldritch apparently under
the impression that, if he adopts a cruel, devil-may-care attitude,
that bitter power will serve as a temporary salvation, a vacation
from the doubts that gnaw at his vanity. It’s probably the best he
could hope for. I think it’s quite magnificent.

....

Steve Sutherland

[markfiend]

Fan-f'uckin-tastic.

Thanks for the transcriptions Josh

[nick the stripper]

Aye, glad you guys liked it.

I thought it might be appreciated here.

[Obviousman]

Was surprised to read the Vision Thing bit as well

Overall a fantastic read. You know what to do with too much time on your hands

[Red_Kola]

Hi,

I’ve made a text file that contains all the Melody Maker and NME reviews of The Sisters of Mercy that I own.

Nice. Thanks for this

One wee note, the Steve Sutherland Vision Thing review was from MM, not NME. Steven Wells did the write-up for that particular rag and whilst gaving it a marginally better review than he did for This Corrosion, he certainly was not converted.

IIRC he gave it 8 out of 10 for the tracks Vision Thing and Ribbons and 3 out of 10 for the rest. At the time I was horrifird to find myself in agreement with him...

[Ozpat]

Thanks for this. Very nice!

[weebleswobble]

"the scottish song"

It's official then The Fud National Anthem

[aims]

Must be a big fud to get its own anthem

[pikkrong]

Finally I noticed that thread, thank you very much!

[James Blast]

and probably not in reference to macbeth

It may have been in reference to 'The Scottish Band'. Their name, I am too afeared to type.
It do go summat like this ~ R••R••.

And I will say no more, names/pack drill etc.

[markfiend]

It do go summat like this ~ R••R••.

A dashing oil platform?

[Chairman Bux]

The main body of lyrics were conceived while the band were on a minibus careering along what you would optimistically describe as a B-road, just outside of the Royal Burgh of Auchtermuchty.

[Arrrgh!]

Guess who's back [dum de dum]
Bax is back [dum de dum]

etc etc

[Quiff Boy]

Guess who's back [dum de dum]
Bax is back [dum de dum]

etc etc

may i proffer a "wave your hands in the air like you just don't care"?