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Chief Cohiba
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First; welcome! Quite a starter, I'd say! i love those lists...

Second; though my list would look different, it's obviously from someone who deeply knows the songs and have an opinion about it. Not much to argue about...

Just a few things that puzzled me; I was looking for "Rain From Heaven" and "Jihad" before I remembered that these are "Sisterhood" tracks, and "Colours" has been released as a Sisters song later.

Talking covers; I thought Knocking on Heavens Door was released somewhere officially, but can't find it. It's not even on Enter The Sisters. Memory did serve me better once.

But isn't Jolene featured on the last BBC sessions, which kinda makes it official?
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Chief Cohiba wrote: ↑24 Mar 2025, 16:59 First; welcome! Quite a starter, I'd say! i love those lists...

Second; though my list would look different, it's obviously from someone who deeply knows the songs and have an opinion about it. Not much to argue about...

Just a few things that puzzled me; I was looking for "Rain From Heaven" and "Jihad" before I remembered that these are "Sisterhood" tracks, and "Colours" has been released as a Sisters song later.

Talking covers; I thought Knocking on Heavens Door was released somewhere officially, but can't find it. It's not even on Enter The Sisters. Memory did serve me better once.

But isn't Jolene featured on the last BBC sessions, which kinda makes it official?
Knocking on Heavens Door was on the Dr Jeep single
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Chief Cohiba
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GC wrote: ↑24 Mar 2025, 21:22
Knocking on Heavens Door was on the Dr Jeep single
Many thanks, I wasn't aware.

But my memory thinks of something much earlier, before or around the Floodland release - I thought it was on Enter The Sisters, but it wasn't. I don't know where I got it from way back then, maybe the Wake video, or one of the first bootlegs I bought.
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https://www.discogs.com/master/608433-T ... ck-Horizon

This was where i first heard the demo version of KOHD.
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The Knocking demo would have been kicking around on the various Victims of Circumstance cassettes which had been in circulation since the mid 80s.

Wiki article: https://sisterswiki.org/Victims_Of_Circ ... (cassette)
HL thread: viewtopic.php?t=4899

I'd first heard it myself on the "Ultra Rare Trax" CD bootleg where it was the rather poor quality "faded" version, presumably butchered by a bootlegger to keep the original "rare". The Victims of Circumstance CD also exists and has it, but that version is inexplicably lowpass-filtered at 10Khz. There are other sources for much better quality versions, easily findable on YouTube these days, and they all have tape hiss indicating the ultimate source was a cassette (perhaps the lowpass on the CD was to remove the hiss?)

The first live version I had was on a tape of the Aachen '85 show; I remember playing it for my brother who remarked "the guitar sounds like bass and the bass sounds like drums!" - it was a pretty bad tape.
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It must have been this one: https://www.discogs.com/de/master/10176 ... 0QM1Z6LCIV

I guess this was the first bootleg I ever bought...
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