'Untitled' Is The Sisters' Most Criminally Underrated Track

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I love this song. It's one of my favorite Sisters tracks, hands down. The song is so heavily drenched in atmosphere you can taste it. It's a really beautiful track, and in my opinion an astoundingly underrated one.

If you've never heard it, (or it's been a while) I strongly recommend you look it up on YouTube, (or, preferably, play it on vinyl) and just close your eyes and feel the music.

Thoughts on it being underrated, or just the track in general?
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BodyElectrified wrote:I love this song. It's one of my favorite Sisters tracks, hands down. The song is so heavily drenched in atmosphere you can taste it. It's a really beautiful track, and in my opinion an astoundingly underrated one.
I fully agree. When I listened to it for the first time, I also found it beautiful, dense, impressing ... ;D ;D ;D ... though as it comes, it has never ever been played live not even as an intro ... and then you forget ... :wink: ...

Still, thanks for the reminder ... :D :notworthy: ...
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Love it. It conjures up images of Sean Young smoking in a darkened room.
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Hom_Corleone wrote:Love it. It conjures up images of Sean Young smoking in a darkened room.
Vangelis would have made a great partner instead of Steinman :von:
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czuczu wrote:
Hom_Corleone wrote:Love it. It conjures up images of Sean Young smoking in a darkened room.
Vangelis would have made a great partner instead of Steinman :von:
Indeed so. :notworthy:
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If :von: really meant that he has thoughts to reside in Greece and get a house close to Vangelis, perhaps we will see something. Vangelis has a studio at home :innocent: :lol:
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iesus wrote:If :von: really meant that he has thoughts to reside in Greece and get a house close to Vangelis, perhaps we will see something. Vangelis has a studio at home :innocent: :lol:
Studio at home ... Summer in Greece.

On-Topic: fine tunes, but I can't remember when last time I listened this track.
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I listened to it a thousand times. It takes you on a fine ride with its first (down-)beat
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yes, i love this track for all the reasons given and if theres anyone still around who gives a s**t it will be played at my funeral.
when i bought the dominion 12" on the day it came out i was at college doing my A levels and had music that day. as i was the only person in that year doing music A level we often finished early or just sat and chatted and my music teacher asked me to play my new record. as i remember she was a bit unsure about dominion and emma but totally loved sandstorm and untitled.
essntially just the sax solo from dominion slowed down.....but actually so much more.
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I listened that song - very good, atmospheric. I also listned "Untitled" form Floodland demos (I probably listened this years ago, but I didn't remember this one) - that is as good as "Untitled" from Dominion.
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I actually wanted to ask what untitled you were talking about, :oops: and now I see I probably thought of the wrong one, I thought it was this one;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq0wd4Lk354

which also is very atmospheric. I wonder how many good tunes
:von: has written that will never surface..
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I'm assuming the OP is referring to this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sINOUDbg9HY
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yes.
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And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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To me it's a slowed down 'Dominion' with the sax layed over the top. A great song to listen to whilst on drugs though. YMMV. :von:
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Johnny Rev 7.0 wrote:To me it's a slowed down 'Dominion' with the sax layed over the top.
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:.....essntially just the sax solo from dominion slowed down.....
great minds... :wink:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:great minds... :wink:
Or fools... :wink:
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Johnny Rev 7.0 wrote:
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:great minds... :wink:
Or fools... :wink:
naahh, don't think so :notworthy:
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It gives me a kind of get a Sisters/Betty Blue Soundtrack Mashup feeling....but very listenable.
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Gethz wrote:I'm assuming the OP is referring to this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sINOUDbg9HY
Yeah, my bad.

Forgot there were multiple 'Untitled' tracks. :lol:
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