Sisters Tribute CD

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I've just been to Barcelona for a few days while i was there i managed to visit a few record shops were i bought "First Last and Forever" a tribute to the Sisters it's got 14 tracks on it i just wandered if any body else has got it or heard it and what they think of it.
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Hello and welcome!

Never heard it so I couldn't possibly comment...
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Aye, Hello, I saw a copy of it a few weeks ago, it looked pish.
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scotty wrote:.....it looked pish.
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Cheers i thought i'd wasted 9 euros only track on it worth listening to is the last track done by The Prophetess never heard of them
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The first Sisters tribute album I bought some 10 years ago now.
Very dull IMO. Last Dance do a rather good interpretation of Body and Soul, that's pretty much it i think.


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Big Si wrote:
scotty wrote:.....it looked pish.
:wink: :innocent:
:roll: 'mon then, don't tell me, you've got the First Edition, a signed import from Uzbekistan, you come here swinging your Rare Record Collectors balls in all our faces you cu......................sorry Big Man, wrong thread :twisted:
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I like Sisters tribute albums. Or what I've heard of them.
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scotty wrote:
Big Si wrote:
scotty wrote:.....it looked pish.
:wink: :innocent:
:roll: 'mon then, don't tell me, you've got the First Edition, a signed import from Uzbekistan, you come here swinging your Rare Record Collectors balls in all our faces you cu......................sorry Big Man, wrong thread :twisted:
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I have it, yes, I also have Monochrome, Violent Hour and that other one Thank You! or something.

On all those four tributes, there are some nice covers, like a nice Alice by The Shroud, afecked up version of Black Planet by Automatic Head Detonator and an eerie version of Afterhours by, I believe, 11 Candles.

The rest ranged from pretty boring to utter crap.

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The whole thing is garbage. Really, really bad - the Shroud cover of Alice is a curio, with the riff done with real strings, but I wouldn't say it came near the original.

An example of bands missing the point of the Sisters experience by a long, long way.
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Jim wrote:but I wouldn't say it came near the original.
Now that's what I always LIKED about covers, going away from the original, but in a GOOD way.

The Shroud do it very nice, IMO, just because they use a chamber orchestra-sound to reproduce a song. And the atmosphere is different, but nice. That's why I say I also like the version of Automatic Head Detonator's 'Black Planet'. It is totally different, almost a whole new song.

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scotty wrote:
Big Si wrote:
scotty wrote:.....it looked pish.
:wink: :innocent:
:roll: 'mon then, don't tell me, you've got the First Edition, a signed import from Uzbekistan, you come here swinging your Rare Record Collectors balls in all our faces you cu......................sorry Big Man, wrong thread :twisted:
Yes, it looks, sounds, and in fact it is "pish" :wink: :roll:
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I thought every track on it was miles better than the originals,it's rarely off my cd player,I've never heard a better version of Marian.Anyone who hasn't got it should buy one.
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Nic wrote:The first Sisters tribute album I bought some 10 years ago now.
Very dull IMO. Last Dance do a rather good interpretation of Body and Soul, that's pretty much it i think.


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oohhh, Last Dance - Body and Soul, don't suppose you have a copy? :innocent: I saw'em in Leeds a couple of years ago at Beyound the Veil, they where 8)
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Absolutely terrible. Especially that one by 'the prophetess' or whatever the name of it is. I really cant stress how bad it is. The singer in it really has trouble holding a note. :urff:

But i like the shroud cover, only because its done so differently to most sisters covers ive heard. They did a good cover of a bauhaus song too if i remember righly. Too bad theyre s**t outside the cover albums
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Jim wrote:
An example of bands missing the point of the Sisters experience by a long, long way.
That about sums it up. Well, that sums up most so-called tributes to the Sisters, actually.

It's not all garbage, though--Automatic Head Detonator do a fab version of Black Planet. The rest of it? Utter trash, and not the good kind either.
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Wilkommen!

Lambchop's This Corrosion is the only proper cover of a Sisters song. To steal someone else's line:

Fact!

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Nouvelle Vague's Marian ain't too bad either.
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Obviousman wrote:Wilkommen!

Lambchop's This Corrosion is the only proper cover of a Sisters song. To steal someone else's line:

Fact!

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Has that been uploaded on HL?, I've never heard that cover.
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scotty wrote:
Obviousman wrote:Wilkommen!

Lambchop's This Corrosion is the only proper cover of a Sisters song. To steal someone else's line:

Fact!

;D
Has that been uploaded on HL?, I've never heard that cover.
Aye, it's about somewhere. "Wrongest thing ever" thread, or something like that.

Edit: here - http://myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... t=lambchop
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mh wrote:
scotty wrote:
Obviousman wrote:Wilkommen!

Lambchop's This Corrosion is the only proper cover of a Sisters song. To steal someone else's line:

Fact!

;D
Has that been uploaded on HL?, I've never heard that cover.
Aye, it's about somewhere. "Wrongest thing ever" thread, or something like that.

Edit: here - http://myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... t=lambchop
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mh wrote:Nouvelle Vague's Marian ain't too bad either.
Nouvelle Vague is evil :!: :twisted: :lol:
scotty wrote:
Obviousman wrote:Wilkommen!

Lambchop's This Corrosion is the only proper cover of a Sisters song. To steal someone else's line:

Fact!

;D
Has that been uploaded on HL?, I've never heard that cover.
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:I have it, yes, I also have Monochrome, Violent Hour and that other one Thank You! or something.
Better get this one too, IZ... 8)

sisxbeforedawn wrote:oohhh, Last Dance - Body and Soul, don't suppose you have a copy? :innocent:
Maybe... :innocent:
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I had that First & Last & Forever cd years ago, but sold it quickly 'cuz it sux big time! The only good thing about it is Automatic Head Detonator's breakbeat version of Black Planet. That one I would like to hear again, but no thank you for the other dodgy darklings.

The Foetus version of First & Last & Always (on anutha tribute cd I don't have) is a fine cover as is Marian by Nouvelle Vague :twisted:
The Bus Station Loonies' cover of Temple of Love is very funny/groovy/loveable and Creaming Jesus' take on it is a good laugh too!

Lambchop takes the lead though with their exceptional version of This Corrosion. 7 times 7 :notworthy:
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