When should the Sisters have called it quits?

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When should the Sisters have called it quits?

After Reptile House?
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After FALAA?
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13%
After Floodland?
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3%
After Vision Thing
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12%
Go on forever?
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:if your football team -passionately supported since childhood through the glory days- hasn't brought any silverware home for thirty years do you stop going to see them and demand that the club be dissolved? just a thought.... :wink:
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James Blast wrote:If they deliver yet another substandard setlist on this tour, then they/he really should chuck it. They'll end up playing to two men and a dog and none of us want to see that. Do we? ;D
People on here would be the 2 people! :lol:
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FALAA is my least favorite of the three long-players. Too much Hussey, too many cringe-worthy lyrics ("it's just like jesus never came"), the vocals inspired too much parody.
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Why isn't 'After Damage Done' an option....
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shivarising wrote:FALAA is my least favorite of the three long-players. Too much Hussey, too many cringe-worthy lyrics ("it's just like jesus never came"), the vocals inspired too much parody.
I must be in the minority then, I loved the "poppy" sound and less serious lyrics. Beam me back to 1980o Scotty
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Aye, I'm fine wi it too. Stop headwanking you lot
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BillyBadBreaks wrote:...from a quality of output standpoint I would have to say FALAA. If they had gone out on such a high note they would have been one of those bands that most people regard as classic.
Totally agree. They would have been like Joy Division.
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deirfiur wrote:Why isn't 'After Damage Done' an option....
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Whenever I want a "Fix" (pun intended) of the Sisters I always reach for something FALAA or before. I find my self preferring to listen to the demos from this era than the cock rock of later releases :roll:
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BillyBadBreaks wrote:Whenever I want a "Fix" (pun intended) of the Sisters I always reach for something FALAA or before. I find my self preferring to listen to the demos from this era than the cock rock of later releases :roll:
For me those old demos are the real deal. I do like more recent ( :lol: )stuff also, but without those old things like Afterhours, Burn, Floorshow, Wide Receiver, etc I don't think I would be here...
A while ago I made a cdr filled with old stuff (the newest stuff were some of the Floodland demos) for a friend who is starting to get into The Sisters. She loves that stuff and I'm dead sure she wouldn't have been as happy with ASCOO
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Such a pity they called it a day after Under The Gun.
They should have gone on forever, of course.

I wonder what Andrew is doing now, and what his source of income is.
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Aazhyd wrote:Such a pity they called it a day after Under The Gun.
They should have gone on forever, of course.

I wonder what Andrew is doing now, and what his source of income is.
I seem to remember an interview where :von: complained about the lack of response to UTG. Maybe he figured recording was not worth the effort and could get by on residual records sales and performance fees?
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I remember watching UTG on MTV (when that still was a music channel) several times. It certainly wasn't neglected back then.

All Andy had to do was release a new album not long after UTG. If he'd try again nowadays, he would risk ending up with an Adam Ant experience. He's not man enough to take that risk, so he doesn't.
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Aazhyd wrote:I remember watching UTG on MTV (when that still was a music channel) several times. It certainly wasn't neglected back then
I think the problem was the "fans" didn't appreciate it
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BillyBadBreaks wrote:
Aazhyd wrote:I remember watching UTG on MTV (when that still was a music channel) several times. It certainly wasn't neglected back then
I think the problem was the "fans" didn't appreciate it
Probly because it was crap. That tends to happen. ;D
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Aazhyd wrote:I remember watching UTG on MTV (when that still was a music channel) several times. It certainly wasn't neglected back then
I think the problem was the "fans" didn't appreciate it
Probly because it was crap. That tends to happen. ;D
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James Blast wrote:well it was no YCBTO!
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BillyBadBreaks wrote:
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BillyBadBreaks wrote: I think the problem was the "fans" didn't appreciate it
Probly because it was crap. That tends to happen. ;D
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Seconded. No wonder :von: gave up if UTG and re-recordings of past glories was the best he could manage.
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A proud moment - been on HL nearly three years now and just earned my first "Get Bent".
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BillyBadBreaks wrote:
Aazhyd wrote:I remember watching UTG on MTV (when that still was a music channel) several times. It certainly wasn't neglected back then
I think the problem was the "fans" didn't appreciate it
It didn't matter any longer what any "fans" were thinking, since it was not only on MTV but anywhere in appropriate TV features ...

Really bad was that they didn't make another album and UTG was used mainly as the buying incentive for A Slight Case Of Overbombing ... followed by SSV ...

But hell, Bruhn had left, Tony James had left even earlier and eastwest, misdirected as usual, wanted probably something feeding the right-wing zeitgeist .... so what.
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Ahem. I really liked Under the Gun.
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abridged wrote:Ahem. I really liked Under the Gun.
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:A proud moment - been on HL nearly three years now and just earned my first "Get Bent".
Congratulations :lol:
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