Which year did YOU discover the Sisters?

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Which year did you discover the Sisters?

1981-82
3
4%
1983-84
10
12%
1985-86
17
21%
1987-88
20
25%
1989-90
9
11%
1991-92
5
6%
1993-94
5
6%
1995-96
3
4%
1997-98
1
1%
1999 onwards
8
10%
 
Total votes: 81
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By popular request and the results should make interesting reading. 8)

Peterborough 83 for me, but apparently I 'saw' them in 81 but it doesn't register on my memory scale. :innocent:

NB: Limitations on the maximum number of options possible meant I've had to bracket years together. :von:
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I'm the latest :eek: 1996 :o
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Mid 82 when Adrenochrome/Body Electric was being played at a certain "Legendary Club" in Leeds......... :von:
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randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest :eek: 1996 :o
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old. :urff: :innocent:
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Johnny Boy wrote:
randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest :eek: 1996 :o
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old. :urff: :innocent:
Let's run a "How old are you?" poll, then. Should be really interesting.
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1991/2. I'm 28, btw.

Around the time of Temple of Love in the charts and SCOOB coming out. Was listening to a lot of JAMC at the time as well.
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1988: a bootleg copy of top of the pops! thats pretty much all we got in Kuwait. Dominion sounded so different from everything else in the charts (no suprise) and the band (Well Von, Patsy and James Ray?) looked so 'otherworldy'. I was hooked.
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half way through 2000...im a young fan and im dam right proud

and i like them because of their music and not for the tedious goth tag. I also like The velvet underground, stooges, bowie and the rolling stones.

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Johnny Boy wrote:
randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest :eek: 1996 :o
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old. :urff: :innocent:
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ryan_w_0000 wrote:half way through 2000...im a young fan and im dam right proud

and i like them because of their music and not for the tedious goth tag. I also like The velvet underground, stooges, bowie and the rolling stones.

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:notworthy: I even like Jacques Brel :eek:
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I'm 32. I was 16 back in 1986. Or was I only 15? Listened to Temple of Love. Then I got hold of FALAA. I was instantly hooked. Started to collect vinyls in absurdum. But it was fun at the time and I didn't have anything better to do.
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i started in 1996, when i was a wee 15 year old ;)
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I'd been aware of them for a few years prior, but it was 1987 and This Corrosion that first got me really hooked. Then hearing Dominion finished the job.
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1985 - me brothers tape of FALAA on the car stereo. Still never heard anything like 'Marian'.

Then the Wake vid and This Corrosion stomped on any minor doubts.
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Their apperance on OGWT was the one that turned my head, I had heard them on Peel and had the Alice 12" on tape from me old Leeds based flatmate, but that Tuesday night on BBC 2 was the defining moment, I still have it on video with Ulravox (Foxx on vox humana) doing Hiroshima Mon Amour inbetween.
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Johnny Boy wrote:
randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest :eek: 1996 :o
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old.

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mugabe wrote:
Johnny Boy wrote:
randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest :eek: 1996 :o
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old. :urff: :innocent:
Let's run a "How old are you?" poll, then. Should be really interesting.
No Mugabe it won't. It's well known Who is Elderly Bastard Groovy. And some of us are even more EBG than the 30 somthings who complain about it.

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Black Planet wrote:You know who you are! :wink:
Whoever could you be thinking of BP? :innocent:
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Red Sunsets wrote:
Black Planet wrote:You know who you are! :wink:
Whoever could you be thinking of BP? :innocent:
Well, Barman Blast, three names come to mind..... 8) I really do laugh at the *kids* who Think they are EBG...but really they aren't. :wink:
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So it's you me and JB? Check out stephansonics Bidet...
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mh wrote:I'd been aware of them for a few years prior, but it was 1987 and This Corrosion that first got me really hooked. Then hearing Dominion finished the job.
@ "mh" :notworthy:

Same goes for me - I could have been tying those very words! :eek:
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I was aware of Floodland at the time, and impressed in some sort of way, but it was a couple of years before it became my all-time favourite album. 1990, in fact, with the release of Vision Thing. I was just a bit too young before.

The poll results are interesting, because I thought there'd be a bigger proportion of FALAA-era and even pre-FALAA votes. Or is it just that these old codgers are more vocal?
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A good friend from the time introduced me to them in the Summer of 1987. I had no real idea of how anyone looked,just sounded amazing.
Then of course I saw the vid of "This Corrosion" and was delighted to find out Von was an utter sex god too :notworthy:
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Black Planet wrote:It's well known Who is Elderly Bastard Groovy. And some of us are even more EBG than the 30 somthings who complain about it.

You know who you are! :wink:
I'm 37. Mind of a 14 year old. Body of a 36 year old. Spirit of a 3000 year old.

Hey, BP...I have it in me to be a bastard (which a few of us have heard somewhere before, right?), one daughter thinks I'm groovy, and one thinks I'm bordering on elderly. Can I be EBG too?
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