What! No Sisters?

10-E Rabid · 27 Sep 2010, 19:17

So let's say there was no Sisters of Mercy to worship. What would be the next best group that you'd be a part of in a forum other than the Gods whom I've mentioned? Mine is Fields of the Nephilim, and I'm not even on that forum, huh...... Don't be afraid to come out of the closet...

emilystrange · 27 Sep 2010, 19:26

nobody gets any prizes for mine.

Maisey · 27 Sep 2010, 19:26

Rosetta, every time - would only be interested in a forum if they were at least active enough to warrant discussion, which they aren't.

ribbons69 · 27 Sep 2010, 19:50

Iron Maiden.

LouLou · 27 Sep 2010, 19:55

i can name at least 10 bands who i listen to more often than i listen to the girls, but joining their forums hasn't even occurred to me.

what is wrong with this picture

peartree_productions · 27 Sep 2010, 20:02

M*****n!

Just kidding... (or am I?)

Maisey · 27 Sep 2010, 20:10

LouLou wrote:i can name at least 10 bands who i listen to more often than i listen to the girls, but joining their forums hasn't even occurred to me.

what is wrong with this picture

Nothing at all. One of the joys of being into The Sisters is the sense of community that surrounds the fanbase. Even if you like lots of other bands a bit more, if it's no fun to get involved with the crowd why bother with the forums?

sziamiau · 27 Sep 2010, 20:18

Type O Negative..hands down...the number one band for me...and that went down the drain

27 Sep 2010, 20:56

There can be only one.

10-E Rabid · 27 Sep 2010, 21:36

sziamiau wrote:Type O Negative..hands down...the number one band for me...and that went down the drain

Ya I feel your pain....The Cramps also....sigh

Being645 · 27 Sep 2010, 21:48

... it's taken me more than 15 years to join THIS forum ...

...

... and I'm quite convinced, it will go on,
even in case The Sisters should not exist ...

...

Debaser · 27 Sep 2010, 22:43

the Arch Drude - but they're all a bit clever on there so I just smile and wave

The Chameleons - oh tried that didn't I?
Puressence - but that's gone all 'Facebook' and the forum keeps breaking

I poke my nose in a few - forewarned is forearmed and all that

EvilBastard · 27 Sep 2010, 22:49

Orkwind (but I don't know that I'd join a message board for them).

Garbageman · 27 Sep 2010, 23:04

The Cramps

originalgoth · 28 Sep 2010, 02:58

I was registerd on The Mi$$ion Forum (didn't go on it much)
Morrissey Forum (Same again - not much interaction)

I'm now on New Model Army's Forum & spend quite a lot of time on there.

This is my main forum though & that will never change.

If this forum didn't exist then I wouldn't have met so many great people (both on here & in person in Leeds 2006)

Thanks to you all

And of course The Sisters

Like 10-E Rabid, my other fave band would be The Nephilim but I'm not on their forum either.

DerekR · 28 Sep 2010, 04:32

originalgoth wrote:...The Nephilim but I'm not on their forum either.

Neither's Blast

Ozpat · 28 Sep 2010, 07:15

Nick Cave.

Bartek · 28 Sep 2010, 08:00

can't really say because TSOM opened my ears for completely new music otherwise it could be some heavy mental stuuf like Iron Maiden, Metallica or something like that.

28 Sep 2010, 09:08

At least three of the bands mentioned on here wouldn't exist if it weren't for the Sisters...

stefan moermans · 28 Sep 2010, 09:15

good old bob

Norman Hunter · 28 Sep 2010, 10:15

Led Zeppelin - though I admit there'd be nothing new to talk about, really.

Izzy HaveMercy · 28 Sep 2010, 10:33

Nothing at all. The other fora I frequent are all recording-related (Homerecording.be, Gearslutz, Cubase.net)

And in fact, I'm not here anymore for the Sisters, they have nothing new to say to me, the people here OTOH, are mostly ace!

Edit: I might attend a FGG forum

IZ.

28 Sep 2010, 10:59

the sisters got me into goff, so if they hadn't existed, who knows.

at the time i came across the sisters i was mainly listening to 80s alt/indie - bunnymen, joy division, the mary chain, pixies, fall, yadda yadda yadda - so there's a good chance that left to my own devices i'd have wandered off on some obscure john peel-esque indie path.

i like to think i might have still discovered the chameleons. they used to play a bit of chams at an indie club in manchester i used to go to some times called legends (which is now a young, hip "indie" superclub called 5th avenue

), so it might have happened, but if i'm honest i'm so not sure as i only started hearing them played regularly when i started going to the banshee, which was manchester's goth club in the late 80s & early 90s.

the cure & the banshees were already on my radar, before i 'found' the sisters, but they were secondary listening, and if the sisters hadn't adjusted my taste towards the, ahem, darker side, i doubt bob & suz would have been as prominent in my collection as they ended up.

it's all about the sisters. always was, always will be

god, that's sad isn't it?

Sita · 28 Sep 2010, 11:50

I was in the Madonna fan club for two years or so. They have a lively forum, but it is full of passionate complaints about how much she/her shows/her looks/her music/just everything sucks compared to, I don't know, 1986 or so, and people being bitchy to each other. I did get two nice real life friends from there, though, although we didn't really meet on the forum but rather before a concert.

And when I was 12, I was in the Alien Sex Fiend fan club but internet didn't really exist in those times

I am also a huge Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music fan, and I joined their mailing list, but I have no desire to talk about them much.

DeWinter · 28 Sep 2010, 11:59

Fields, easily. I was a fan of theirs before The Sisters and I will even go so far as to say they became easily the better band (obviously in my opinion).
But..

Some Neffs fans are totally insane. There was a (I think) German forum for them that was active whilst we had the interminable wait for Carl to get off his esoteric arse and set up his own, and the ramblings on it were unbelievable. How every spelling mistake was a secret coded message, how Tony's basslines were musical use of the Enochian Calls, or the Golden Moment, and the adoration of McCoy was beyond ridiculous. He's a rather short, albeit curiously handsome when younger, ex grease-monkey from Stevenage, an unlikely herald of the New Shamanic Age, methinks..
Although I'm the total opposite of Sisters fans generally politically, they at least have their feet fairly firmly on the ground. I've even heard people criticize Eldritch for being a tit to people sometimes on here. Point out that McCoy did a twattish thing to the Wrights, or that he was totally in the wrong in the dispute with Jungle and they went bananas..