Unreleased songs for official release?

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Unreleased songs for official release?

Come Together
3
4%
War On Drugs
6
8%
Summer
14
18%
Romeo Down
8
10%
Will I Dream
2
3%
Crash And Burn
13
17%
I Have Slept With All The Girls In Berlin
7
9%
Still
1
1%
Arms
3
4%
(We Are The Same) Suzanne
21
27%
 
Total votes: 78
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If the Sisters did a crowdsourced effort and released a string of E.Ps digitally and on glorious black vinyl, what unreleased song would you most like to be part of it?

I'm excluding covers and instrumentals but included Suzanne, just because I'd love to have it as a physical artifact.
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i love most of those songs, though come together is my least favourite sisters song of all time -the only sisters song i actively dislike- and arms is dull.

but summer is by far and away the best song in that list (closely followed by crash and burn) and is one of my favourite sisters songs ever.
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:i love most of those songs, though come together is my least favourite sisters song of all time -the only sisters song i actively dislike- and arms is dull.

but summer is by far and away the best song in that list (closely followed by crash and burn) and is one of my favourite sisters songs ever.
I think Summer, Romeo Down and Crash And Burn are among the best Sisters songs ever, both musically and lyrically, but agree about Arms (pointless Killing joke clone) and find Come Together a bit directionless, though I think it's much better than e.g. Detonation Blvd though...).

Slept and Still are both boring though.
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A shame we can only vote for one! Interesting that many of the less popular ones have long since left the live set list, regardless of when they were written.
I voted for Romeo Down, which is not my favourite 'live' (I like the current set list with Arms, Summer and of course C and B) but would sound great with a series of different mixes from dub step to gonzoid.
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Let's play this game: WoD along with RD and C&B.

Taking that silly game on more serious ground: only WoD, Still and Arms are most likely to be considered as song to release (in this or any other form) - copyright.
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Yggdrasil wrote:
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:i love most of those songs, though come together is my least favourite sisters song of all time -the only sisters song i actively dislike- and arms is dull.

but summer is by far and away the best song in that list (closely followed by crash and burn) and is one of my favourite sisters songs ever.
I think Summer, Romeo Down and Crash And Burn are among the best Sisters songs ever, both musically and lyrically, but agree about Arms (pointless Killing joke clone) and find Come Together a bit directionless, though I think it's much better than e.g. Detonation Blvd though...).

Slept and Still are both boring though.
hahah this is going to be one of those threads isnt it? i think slept is a great song, still was better when first performed :innocent: and detonation....well, likesay, i like everything except come together and arms.
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You forgot Good Things!!!! :evil: :wink:
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abridged wrote:You forgot Good Things!!!! :evil: :wink:
Abolutely! :evil: :evil: :evil: ... and Wide Receiver ... :evil: :evil: :evil: ...
Good Things - Side A / Wide Receiver - Side B were clearly an option.

Anyway, I find it very hard to chose only one of these songs. I love them all.
When it's only about the "new" unreleased songs, though, and about sales and stuff, then Crash And Burn might be the best option ... :wink: ...

But for me, again, I'd prefer a full long play record with all of them ... ;D ;D ;D ... hah, it must be wonderful to listen to elaborated studio recordings of these songs,
without crowd chorus and sound problems, with the Doktor, the guitars, the vocals perfectly mastered, inside a lovely cover fair enough for a Sisters record ... *sigh...
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Romeo Down would make the best release but my fav is actually Summer.

I always thought Summer would make a good opener, but it seems it is always destined to follow Dominion / Mother Russia on the setlist.

In fact apart from 2014 tour when Summer was not played i cannot remember when it did not follow Dominion.
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I keep on forgetting that Crash & Burn is a "new" song. :oops:

I suppose that indicates how much we've all accepted it as one of the classics, that it just seems like a normal part of their repertoire these days.

But yet I voted for Still.

I think it's important that a song written by the current line-up be the chosen one, and that aside, I like it too. It's got some nice curvy guitar noises and a good chorus.
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I love Crash and Burn as well as Summer but I'll vote for Arms. Always for me one of the highlights of the set. :D
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mh wrote: But yet I voted for Still.

I think it's important that a song written by the current line-up be the chosen one, and that aside, I like it too. It's got some nice curvy guitar noises and a good chorus.
Excellent point about the current line-up. I like Still too, but it does fizzle out a little bit towards the end, to the extend that I half expect them to segue it into a medley with one of the AOR tracks from VT. Talking of which, if they ever did decide to go down this route, I wonder if Police Car would get an outing - Von always was a sucker for a Gary Moore style riff, and I suspect it would get Ben's vote too.

One other option to avoid the copyright/approval issues would be to do a March Violets/Alarm/Danse Society (Gigi version) and revisit/update a few of the older, more obscure TSOM songs solely penned by :von: .

Given that the Violets Pledge Project has already surpassed its target (hooray! - but new pledges still being taken) this route could be viable for TSOM, although I suspect :von: would have a somewhat bigger studio budget in mind.

But seeing as he seems to have been enjoying touring again, and with the older crowd seemingly re-emerging (empty nest syndrome? A by-product of the over 35s colonising FB ?), that particular cash cow may be milked more than in the past, and in many ways the band would lose one of their USPs if they ever did break their self-imposed studio exile.
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It would have to be Suzanne. Interestin that lots of people have voted for it, but I'm the first to admit to doing so...
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Summer and Suzanne are the only remotely commercial/radio-friendly songs there. They also happen to be the only two I like. (Crash and Burn has a decent chorus but a monotonous verse; Slept has a promising guitar riff but does nothing with it; the rest are unmemorable at best.)
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Counterpoint: Crash & Burn indisputably rocks like a motherfucker.
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2 digital EP's.

Summer / Suzanne / Slept
C&B / Far Parade / Romeo Down

1 vinyl.

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It seems criminal to me that a studio version of Gimme Gimme Gimme was never properly released. Presumably they will have rehearsed it before playing it live (or possibly not, given how ropey it was!)
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I'd settle for a radio session with the current line-up - one song off each album and a cover.

War On Drugs gets my vote from the list, great song.
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abridged wrote:I love Crash and Burn as well as Summer but I'll vote for Arms. Always for me one of the highlights of the set. :D
Yep! Although I do love lots of the old songs and wouldn't mind them on an EP, I really want Arms/Far Parade from the current band.

Arms has grown on me so much with the last tours, it's one of my favourites from them now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0H-fPz4DR0
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sultan2075 wrote:Counterpoint: Crash & Burn indisputably rocks like a motherfucker.
Precisely how do motherfuckers rock? :lol:
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stufarq wrote:
sultan2075 wrote:Counterpoint: Crash & Burn indisputably rocks like a motherfucker.
Precisely how do motherfuckers rock? :lol:
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Difficult to choose. Voted for 'Summer' but could just as easily have gone for 'Crash & Burn' or 'Suzanne'.....or even 'Still', which I really like as well, even though it doesn't seem to get much love.
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Crash & Burn for me 8)
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