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There's a book titled "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" (general editor Robert Dimery), published in the UK in 2005.
Among others there's also FLOODLAND (I hope most of us are agree that this album belongs to this list - for me there are also other records I would put to this list myself - Unknown Pleasures, The Idiot, a couple of Siouxsie's and Kraftwerk's albums etc).
Sorry if it has been mentioned here already (I guess many of us probably knew about it - today I got an Estonian transaltion of this book ) or if you think there should be only 1 thread for all books, including a brief comment about the Sisters.
Though there is a tenuous Sisters/Foetus connection... which I'm not going to reveal to you (but the brighter amongst you can probably guess)
I'm just desperately trying to stay on topic in the Sisters forum... now I remember why I jacked this place in! It's no use I'm off back to the gobsh!te section...
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
boudicca wrote:Though there is a tenuous Sisters/Foetus connection... which I'm not going to reveal to you (but the brighter amongst you can probably guess)
The Sisters covered Ghost Rider, which was also covered by Marc Almond with Jim Foetus.
Though there is a tenuous Sisters/Foetus connection... which I'm not going to reveal to you (but the brighter amongst you can probably guess)
JGT covered FALAA, how's that for a connection? Although, from his own mouth, JGT "doesn't give a fuc k about The Sisters Of Mercy, I just needed the money."
Also, Thirwell worked with the birthday party (played some sax, at least, at a greece show). And the sisters toured with the party, although it seems mick harvey at least wasn't too impressed.
Oh, that's hilarious. As a fan of both Cave and Von, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall in that dressing room. Christ, do you think they even spoke? I know Cave and his crew came to England with geat expectations, only to be let down by what they saw as the diffidence of the new-wave scene. If anybody as any written/remembered anecdotes of the Sisters/Party conflict, do tell...
I think the account of the BP/SOM gig is largely taken from the book "The Dark Reign Of Gothic Rock." But here's a few quotations from The Sisters biography "Violent Sound":
...Eldritch continued, “There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to carry on more or less like we do at the moment and be IMMENSE.� Clearly, Eldritch had big plans for his band, and would expend considerable energy trying to maneuver it into a position of great prominence. He also had quite a high opinion of his band: “There was one great heavy metal group and that was The Stooges, and there’s only two bands around that can touch them, and they’re Motörhead and the Birthday Party. We’re not as good as Motörhead but we’re better than the Birthday Party. That makes us pretty damn good.�
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The band’s next gig was again in London, a little less than a week later. Other notable appearances during this period were the gig at Newcastle’s City Hall venue on 4 July 1982 as support for The Clash, and, six days later, at the Zig Zag Club in London, where The Sisters opened for The Birthday Party. It was during the latter show that the band first performed ‘Lights,’ from The Floorshow EP, and ‘Alice.’ Not even these classic numbers persuaded The Birthday Party of their support band’s potential, however. Bassist Mick Harvey thought them “the worst band to have ever supported The Birthday Party.�
I don;t have too many more details...
The great questions of the day will not be
resolved by speeches and majority decisions,
but by iron and blood.
- Otto von Bismarck
Tracey Pew was the BeeP's bass player, and he's dead.
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
pikkrong wrote:There's a book titled "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" (general editor Robert Dimery), published in the UK in 2005.
Among others there's also FLOODLAND (I hope most of us are agree that this album belongs to this list - for me there are also other records I would put to this list myself - Unknown Pleasures, The Idiot, a couple of Siouxsie's and Kraftwerk's albums etc).
Sorry if it has been mentioned here already (I guess many of us probably knew about it - today I got an Estonian transaltion of this book ) or if you think there should be only 1 thread for all books, including a brief comment about the Sisters.
is there nomeansno "wrong", voivod "dimension hatross", sod "speak english or die", slayer "reign in blood" or assassin "upcoming terror"?
if not i do not support this book
lachert wrote:is there voivod "dimension hatross", slayer "reign in blood"
only in a right minded world
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
from ian johnston's biography of nick cave, after supporting the birthday party at the zig-zag club in london, eldritch wanted to know what the birthday party had thought of them:
the only person who saw anything of their show was mr mick harvey, who announced the sisters of mercy were the worst band to have ever supported the birthday party. i [chris carr] went back and recounted this to mr eldritch. the following monday i got a call from the sisters of mercy saying that the band had had a meeting and had decided to continue, and to wish the birthday party all the best for the future. they understood their criticism but thought rather than break up, they'd carry on.
jherek wrote:from ian johnston's biography of nick cave, after supporting the birthday party at the zig-zag club in london, eldritch wanted to know what the birthday party had thought of them:
the only person who saw anything of their show was mr mick harvey, who announced the sisters of mercy were the worst band to have ever supported the birthday party. i [chris carr] went back and recounted this to mr eldritch. the following monday i got a call from the sisters of mercy saying that the band had had a meeting and had decided to continue, and to wish the birthday party all the best for the future. they understood their criticism but thought rather than break up, they'd carry on.
"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why." - William Faulkner
pikkrong wrote:There's a book titled "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" (general editor Robert Dimery), published in the UK in 2005.
Among others there's also FLOODLAND (I hope most of us are agree that this album belongs to this list - for me there are also other records I would put to this list myself - Unknown Pleasures, The Idiot, a couple of Siouxsie's and Kraftwerk's albums etc).
Sorry if it has been mentioned here already (I guess many of us probably knew about it - today I got an Estonian transaltion of this book ) or if you think there should be only 1 thread for all books, including a brief comment about the Sisters.
is there nomeansno "wrong", voivod "dimension hatross", sod "speak english or die", slayer "reign in blood" or assassin "upcoming terror"?
if not i do not support this book
yes, it includes Slayer's "Reign in Blood"
and also the favourite album of Eldritch
pikkrong wrote:yes, it includes Slayer's "Reign in Blood"
and also the favourite album of Eldritch
"reign in blood" is favourite eldritch album?
i remember as this album save my live...
i was planned to kill myself becouse i didn't see any sense in my pity existence, you know, but slayer put out "reign in blood", and i think to myself 'what if the next one will be so great that this and i don't hear it?'. "south of heaven wasn't so great but i'm alive at last
I bought Reign in Blood after hearing Jesus Saves on the John Peel Show. South of Heaven is their finest IMO. They really are sucking satan's dick these days - the joke isn't funny anymore, guys.
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
James Blast wrote:I bought Reign in Blood after hearing Jesus Saves on the John Peel Show. South of Heaven is their finest IMO. They really are sucking satan's dick these days - the joke isn't funny anymore, guys.
The last Slayer album I bought was Seasons in the Abyss. I take it I've not missed much since then?
(I hope most of us are agree that this album belongs to this list - for me there are also other records I would put to this list myself - Unknown Pleasures, The Idiot, a couple of Siouxsie's and Kraftwerk's albums etc).
) or if you think there should be only 1 thread for all books, including a brief comment about the Sisters.
It's no use I'm off back to the gobsh!te section...
