Favourite PART of a Sisters song

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Just wondering what people’s favourite parts are of a Sisters song. Not the whole song but which snippets / lines do you love best?

For me:

- The “I got nothing to say...� verse in This Corrosion.

- The “angel� in Afterhours, which always puts me in mind of Bowie’s “angel� in Golden Years:

https://youtu.be/JUuRGRcY9O0?t=31s

https://youtu.be/bq7Yu5WIKao?t=217s

- The loudly whispered “...shine� from any live recording of Summer I’ve heard.

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And “Seen the way that careful lingers undecided at the door�
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Forget the many steps to heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Happiness is a loaded weapon
And a short cut is better by far
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mh wrote:Forget the many steps to heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Happiness is a loaded weapon
And a short cut is better by far
That whole section of Under The Gun is mine too
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The 8 beats between Capricorn and Glitter, the perfect anticipation of big stupid riff
Tim's Corrosion intro
1969. All of it
SKOS, "All my words" onwards
"Stuck inside of Memphis", when he could still really holler.
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Guitar riff in Temple Of Love
The massive scream in Body Electric (1984)
The screams in Floorshow
The huge "FLOOD" screams in Flood II (live)
The bass sound coupled with the gun-shot snare in the Lucretia intro
The bass line from Detonation Boulevard
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The first 35 seconds of this Romeo Down opening. Scintillating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXAyt3-3HI
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Purple Light wrote:The first 35 seconds of this Romeo Down opening. Scintillating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXAyt3-3HI
Yeah that's lush. Great to read all of these. Another couple to add to my list:

- the last couple of choruses of Logic live, where they're all hollering together. So powerful (eg https://youtu.be/zKKo5x4f9EQ?t=2104)

- just love the line "Nothing ventured, nothing lost" in Good Things
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Purple Light wrote:The first 35 seconds of this Romeo Down opening. Scintillating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXAyt3-3HI
Excellent choice and I wish this got played more frequently.
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First "Seven shades of Shiva rising, I am come"

War on Drugs - Victorian Night boot

If only he had truly followed through on that. If only he actually still played that song, which remains, by a country mile, the best unreleased but performed Sisters song.

War on Drugs - still the best.
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Agree with most of the above, but also do a giddy kid goat heel click at "I'm lost with stupid again".
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sam donut wrote:Agree with most of the above, but also do a giddy kid goat heel click at "I'm lost with stupid again".
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/lyrics/susanne.htm ... "I'm lost for stupid again" ... and yes, I agree.
Another example is simply the song title "I have slept with all the girls in Berlin" ... :lol: :notworthy: ... extremely useful ... ;D ...

Apart from that and an endless lot of other lines, here's one from the FALAA songs:

Follow your imagination
Tear apart what you believe
Make a mess of your conviction
Take away my pride and
Real nothing
But the debris
Cuts
Two ways

Call it possession or what. It just works that way. In perfection.
And the music is great. I love all this repetitive stuff like in Heartland, On The Wire or in a different way in Wide Receiver ...
Of course, these are only few aspects from relatively early tracks. I could go on and on and on ...
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Being645 wrote:
sam donut wrote:Agree with most of the above, but also do a giddy kid goat heel click at "I'm lost with stupid again".
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/lyrics/susanne.htm ... "I'm lost for stupid again" ... and yes, I agree.
Another example is simply the song title "I have slept with all the girls in Berlin" ... :lol: :notworthy: ... extremely useful ... ;D ...

Thankyou for the correction:)
I'm afraid, in the words of Paul Whitehouse, I was very, very drunk. ;D
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Well, your "drunken" version is not bad, either ... :lol: ...
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Also in my drunkenness I merely (mis)quoted a few lyrics, which isn't really what was asked for.

I do love the whole "forget the many steps to heaven..." section of UTG, particularly "you can set the controls for the heart or the knees, and the meek'll inherit what they damn well please".

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At a gig it is usually the Mother Russia bit, though I think it needs to be later in the set than often seen nowadays.

At the "disco", or maybe on the jukebox in the boozer, the opening of Temple Of Love, original version, still kicks me, even after 36yrs.
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The intro of Fix on Wake. When Craig comes in is a fine moment.

Those weird growling/gurgling sounds in Flood I (@ 2:53-3:00) are a spooky one.

The ending of Doctor Jeep Extended Version is a rewarding moment, after the previous 'More, More, More Stupid Guitars' indulgence that preceeds it.
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The segment near the end of RAAHP with the "far away"-s interlaced and more pronounced drum machine pounding away. Wake and the Rare Obscurities version are pretty good examples. Have always felt this way and this thread was the perfect/only opportunity to explain!
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Here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqnN-m4dw28

@37mins 38 seconds "Turn the Gold to Chrome"

Click on it you'll see what i mean.

Currently it's the howls in Flood II live and the bits in VT where he lets rip.

Ahh there's too many but this too..towards the end, sisters on full form..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ujpHTACOE

I'll stop there lest it take over my day.
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the minimal cymbal beat in first bars of Fix which then doubles.

the whole introduction to Kiss

Heartland when the x40 repeat kicxks in and Marx' guitar goes mental

the teachers segue into Adrenochrome.

Dominion segue into Mother Russia


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The bit in War On Drugs where the Dok ups the BPM

and / or

any single second of Emma at the RAH.
Dr. Moody wrote:I'll stop there lest it take over my day.
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