Least favourite sisters songs

[paint it black]

I'm not sure the Sisters is the band for you.

[MrChris]

I agree with a lot of your choices, but I love both 1959 and Bury Me Deep. When I was at school, we each had to take a song we liked in to talk about. I can still remember how impressed my teacher was with the composition of 1959. Simple but very effective. And BMD is beautiful. Like On the Wire and Blood Money, it’s better than most of the songs that made it onto FALAA. You can have the rest, pretty much.

[Planet Dave]

I'm not sure the Sisters is the band for you.

[alanm]

Here is the score from 8 years of this thread.
I counted unique clear responses only, ignored vague things like "yeah I mostly agree", and ignored the one guy who said "everything after 1985". There's always one.

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            title             dislikes  
 --------------------------- ---------- 
  You Could Be The One              10  
  Arms                               8  
  When You Don't See Me              7  
  1959                               6  
  Doctor Jeep                        5  
  More                               5  
  Phantom                            5  
  Temple Of Love (92)                5  
  This Corrosion                     5  
  Will I Dream                       5  
  Detonation Boulevard               4  
  I Was Wrong                        4  
  Ozymandias                         4  
  Slept                              4  
  Body And Soul                      3  
  Bury Me Deep                       3  
  Damage Done                        3  
  Long Train                         3  
  No Time To Cry                     3  
  Possession                         3  
  Still                              3  
  Temple Of Love (83)                3  
  Untitled                           3  
  Walk Away                          3  
  War On Drugs                       3  
  1969                               2  
  Afterhours                         2  
  Alice (93)                         2  
  Anaconda                           2  
  Come Together                      2  
  Far Parade                         2  
  Ribbons                            2  
  Romeo Down                         2  
  Sandstorm                          2  
  Something Fast                     2  
  Torch                              2  
  Train                              2  
  Watch                              2  
  Adrenochrome                       1  
  Blood Money                        1  
  Body Electric                      1  
  Body Electric (01)                 1  
  Dominion                           1  
  Emma                               1  
  First And Last And Always          1  
  Fix                                1  
  Flood I                            1  
  Floorshow                          1  
  Heartland                          1  
  Home Of The Hitmen                 1  
  Knocking On Heaven's Door          1  
  Marian                             1  
  Rock And A Hard Place              1  
  Summer                             1  
  Wide Receiver                      1  
  Finland Red Egypt White            1  
  Flood II                           1  

This naturally suggests a "least offensive" playlist for a HL meetup.
Discarding songs too new or too obscure to be actively disliked enough to show up in the above data (e.g. Better Reptile, Good Things) I get this:

- Alice (83)
- Logic
- Black Planet
- Burn
- Colours
- Crash And Burn
- Driven Like The Snow
- Giving Ground
- Jihad
- Kiss The Carpet
- Lights
- Lucretia, My Reflection
- Never Land
- Nine While Nine
- On The Wire
- Poison Door
- Rain From Heaven
- Some Kind Of Stranger
- Under The Gun [1]
- Valentine
- Vision Thing
- We Are The Same, Susanne

[1] Been a lotta hate for this on other threads so maybe not

[Wyrd Sister]

1959 followed by Something Fast for me.

[FireInReptileHouse]

No Time to Cry. The only one I really dislike. There I said it.

[mh]

I like NTTC but can understand why others don't. It is rather out of place on side 1 anyway, and the revelation that it was actually a Marx song that he'd somewhat generously co-credited Wayne and Craig for wasn't too shocking.

[Nonesuch]

Where was the revelation that is was a Marx-only composition? I feel like I've read a lot in recent months, but I can't remember reading that.

I always thought the joint credits were unusual, considering how they always seemed to write at the time. But I've always loved the guitars on No Time To Cry, probably more than the song as a whole.

[mh]

Where was the revelation that is was a Marx-only composition? I feel like I've read a lot in recent months, but I can't remember reading that.

I'm pretty sure it was the Mark Andrews book, but think it might have been in the bonus material. Otherwise it was a Marx interview.

Edit: just checked, it was the Mark Andrews book, yes; the extra "Repaint" (formerly "White Rose Babylon") material, additional notes for chapter 20. I'm not sure if I should give the exact quote, given the provenance of this material, but GM does comment on how the song was written, how it was one of his batch of tunes, how he ended up giving credit to Wayne and Craig, and some of the reasons why it ended up weaker and not considered among his classic tunes from side 2.

[Nonesuch]

Where was the revelation that is was a Marx-only composition? I feel like I've read a lot in recent months, but I can't remember reading that.

I'm pretty sure it was the Mark Andrews book, but think it might have been in the bonus material. Otherwise it was a Marx interview.

Edit: just checked, it was the Mark Andrews book, yes; the extra "Repaint" (formerly "White Rose Babylon") material, additional notes for chapter 20. I'm not sure if I should give the exact quote, given the provenance of this material, but GM does comment on how the song was written, how it was one of his batch of tunes, how he ended up giving credit to Wayne and Craig, and some of the reasons why it ended up weaker and not considered among his classic tunes from side 2.

Oh that's very interesting - thanks for checking.

And now I'm slightly (very) annoyed that I didn't pledge for the additional material with the book. Not sure why I didn't!

[elamanamou]

Least favourite of the Newbies- Better Reptile

Oldies - Dr. Jeep, Black Planet and Temple Of Love.( Heard it too many times now)

[ruffers]

No Time to Cry. The only one I really dislike. There I said it.

Agreed. There's a good twelve seconds when he sings

"Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time"

And the rest is dross. I got quite annoyed when they used to play this live so consistently, especially after they replaced it with Walk Away a few years ago and then changed back. Walk Away isn't a personal favourite but it was great live.