What are you favorite sisters songs?

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my fews:
burn
ribbons
lights
body electric
heartland
nine while nine
romeo down
doctor jeep
slept
marian
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I love them all. I can see the light in all of them. I guess, I'm completely nuts ... :?
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Being645 wrote:I love them all. I can see the light in all of them. I guess, I'm completely nuts ... :?
..me., too...don´t worry..cookie? :(
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Don't think I've posted in this thread before so might as well. Chronological order.

Alice
Burn
Temple Of Love
Gimme Shelter
Body And Soul
Black Planet
Walk Away
No Time To Cry
First And Last And Always
Some Kind Of Stranger
Blood Money
Giving Ground
Dominion
1959
This Corrosion
Flood II
Something Fast
When You Don't See Me
Sunmmer
Suzanne
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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Oh! You have very good taste! I mean, we have very similar taste.
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I have a soft spot for these list things, so I might as well get involved...in no real order apart from how windows media player arranges them:

Marian
First and Last and Always
Possession (specifically the Wake version, that one absolutely slays)
Nine While Nine
Some Kind of Stranger
Dominion/Mother Russia
Flood I
Flood II
Driven Like the Snow
Neverland (full length)
Emma
Under the Gun
Afterhours
Floorshow
Valentine
Burn
Temple of Love (original extended version)
Gimme Shelter
Body Electric (1982)
Adrenochrome
Anaconda
Ribbons
Doctor Jeep
I Was Wrong
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Andrenochrome
Body Electric
Valentine
Floorshow
Fix
Burn
Some Kind of Stranger
Alice
Emma
Heartland
Gimme Shelter
Temple of Love (7" version)
I think we've been in here too long. I feel unusual. I think we should go outside.
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BeyondThePale wrote:Oh! You have very good taste! I mean, we have very similar taste.
Thankee. You must have good taste too then.
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In no particular order except for 9while9

Nine while nine
Flood II
Driven like the snow
FLAA
Neverland - full version
kiss the carpet
Gimme shelter cover
Ribbons
Summer
Suzane
Romeo Down
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edu wrote:In no particular order except for 9while9

Nine while nine
Flood II
Driven like the snow
FLAA
Neverland - full version
kiss the carpet
Gimme shelter cover
Ribbons
Summer
Suzane
Romeo Down
good man. i'd definitely agree with 1, 3 & 4 :von:
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Everything with the words Vision Thing in it.
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Like them all... mostly (only a few exceptions).

If I had to name one song it would be Lucretia, the full 12" version ;D

While on the subject, I very much like "Untitled", not the Dominion one but the guitar/bass/drums instrumental as found on the Kill The Lights boot. Bits of it sound like they've been subsequently used in other songs, but I'd love to see that song recorded properly...
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Nic try, but ya all wrong. My favorite sister's song is Running Up that Hill by Kate Bush. Our Jenny, my faourite sister just loves that song :) :|
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But saying that , if we are talking about the Sisters of Mercy ( retro gothic band from the 1980's). They have at least done us a great favour by having a back catalogue that is so small it can fit on the back of postage stamp.

Sad to say, but due to awful over-production on FALAA and my lack of interest in both Floodland or anything that mullet wearing Steinman has had his bombastic Las Vegas inspired show tunes on. All my favourite Sisters songs have been narrowed down to live versions. For instance..

Floorshow : Sweden 1985 ( So awesome that Rosetta Stone stole the crowd reaction from it for one of their 'live' recordings)

Emma : Sheffield Uni 1985 & Royal Albert Hall 1985


and that's it.."Black October" and the "Tune In Turn Out.." tours were both distant foggy drug induced comas and are now just scratchy memories on TDK and Memorex.
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I love the trance-y snake-y sound of Burn and Heartland but all of them,really.

Oh,and right now-Gimme Gimme Gimme from Danceteria-It's totally crazed.
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Like Everything except Neverland! :twisted: If it was a bit shorter maybe, though what's less than a fragment am not sure... ;D
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Ten in no order

Alice
Burn
Lucretia
Dominion
Ribbons
Temple of Love
First and Last and Always
Some Kind of Stranger
Lights
Flood II
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Possession,Neverland,Kiss the carpet
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Teachers/Adrenochrome (from an early session)
Crash and Burn
Arms
Reptile House (end to end)
Good Things
Ribbons
Under the Gun
Rain from Heaven (okay, The Sisterhood)
I Was Wrong
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and also "as the water come rushing..." of course, tsk tsk
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Basicaly everything after Damage and before Under The Gun with the exeption of the miserablist manifesto that was the dirge and drone of Reptile House :evil: :evil: (many plagues be upon it) and Dominion and Corrosion with YCBTO thrown in for good luck.
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The funny thing about the Sisters' entire disco - graffy for me, is that there's a song for every experience and feeling I can (or even can't) put a name to.

I seem to have a different favourite every day, and sometimes even my least listened to track can just leap out ahead out of nowhere to become my "Most Likely To Succeed". I guess it's a bit like with women - one day you've got one running around your mind, fantasy-wise, 24-7 and the next there's a new tiger on the block who you're all over - figuratively speaking - like a rash. Or maybe that's just me. :innocent:
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Everything on the Wake video. I can watch it over and over again. I really could do with it on dvd.
especially

Emma
Fix
Alice
Floorshow
Marian

Also love
Ribbons
Vision Thing
Neverland etc etc etc
I bet she still looks good in ribbons !!!
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Best song:

Image

No, it is not an EP. It's a song in 6 movements and it is FECKING ACE.

IZ.
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Best song:

Image

No, it is not an EP. It's a song in 6 movements and it is FECKING ACE.

IZ.
amen! 8) :notworthy: :notworthy:
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