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Sitting here on a cold, dark Saturday night listening to Flood 1, Dominion Mother Russia, This Corrosion, Flood II etc and you really have to admit that Floodland is pretty much perfection. There isn't a duff track on it!
1. Dominion / Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like The Snow
8. Never Land (a fragment)
9. Torch
10. Colours
I agree wholeheartedly. even after 20 years it is still a sheer delight.
There is something so complete about it. The quality of every bit from the songs to the music to the production. There is not one one part that falters, there is nothing to improve about it.
Even if you weren't a Sisters fan, and I have heard there are a few, you would still have to admire the dazzling brilliance of Floodland.
It is the CD I take with me when contemplating up-grades in the stereo.
When they brought out the Rhino re-issues, the other two albums sounded better, but apart from the extra tracks, I didn't think Floodland was improved upon.
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
I totally agree. I have said it here before - Floodland is the closest thing to a religion I have experienced. It is sublime - I cannot fault it in any way.
Though now that I have heard the complete version of Neverland on the reissues, I am at a loss as to why the tiny version is on the record - it is outstanding. I can listen to it over and over.........
Floodland has a song for every moment, and I think I have listened to it in about as many ways/places/circumstances as I could. I love it. It is an old friend that goes everywhere with me!!!
"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
"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
"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
But, and you should know it, as a statement, Vision Thing is the best to prove that Sisters is not what you think it is.
You blow everyone away with Vision Thing, while the first thunderbeats of Dominion and the Roxy sax, the choir on This Corrosion and the organ in Flood I give some people allergic reactions.
Vision Thing, man... you should buy it, it rocks. Already have one? Buy another one! It's worse to listen it twice.
markfiend wrote:FALAA is a great collection of songs, but Floodland is an album.
(I know what I mean. )
Floodland is probably my favourite album ever.
I have said exactly the same thing on numerous occasions. Creepy.
I will add: strangely enough, that record is custom-made for blasting at ear-bleed volume, windows down, while driving around Texas at unsafe speeds in the early fall or early spring, one-half to three-quarters drunk. Simply glorious.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
markfiend wrote:FALAA is a great collection of songs, but Floodland is an album.
(I know what I mean. )
Floodland is probably my favourite album ever.
Precisely.
Yeap, that's the truth...
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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