Heartland

And Chris or Robochris or is it Robochrist?

He's known to have said that all the gigs of last tour were "the best gig of the tour", so I kinda know he rated Paris as one of the best ones of the tour, although if checking the history of HL you could call me a liar.

What's caught my attention is if TSOM will be seven this tour does it mean we will all go to heaven, as I've already booked my ticket next to the meerkat and EvilBastard going to hell, so who knows what this year will bring with seven on stage!

MadameButterfly wrote: ...in Paris on the tour, was it last year? when stole the stage with "I was wrong" it sent shivers up my spine and caused tears to my eyes. At that moment that song was at his most emotional stance I have ever seen.

Listening to it now as a recorded version I understand the views as an okay song but *yawn*, although I felt that emotion whatever it may have been and that evening in that crowd it was f**king awesome!

Hello MB. Long time no see!

I do agree that I Was Wrong is much better live. It works nicely near the end of a gig just before everything rushes towards a howling climax.

I've never thought that a) the recorded song, as appears on VT, is particularly strong overall and b) that the lyrics are nearly as clever as people seem to think. I think 'nondescript' is quite a fair assessment.

i love i was wrong,though i'm not so keen on the live rendition (obviousy a different matter when you're actually there). the full-sounding production is gorgeous. it has personal connations for me (as per most sisters tunes) which at the time were very painful and now just make me feel happy to have left behind the person involved.

I'm gonna get shot for this: Walk Away. It is, to steal a phrase, pish: Eldritch trying to write a straightforward verse-chorus-verse unit shifter. Someone back up there said Doctor Jeep (pretty nondescript itself) comes, does its thing and goes without ever making a dent: that's what Walk Away does to me.

Will I Dream sounds great, but I agree it's bloody lazy writing (like a lot of the new stuff: tastes great, less filling).

wild bill buttock wrote:I don't think its fair to include "new" Sisters tunes as none of them have actually been properly recorded and ,given the right production, could all well be masterpieces(somehow I doubt it though).
I really love "Torch" and have done since I first heard it on the b-side of the "This corrosion" single.
"I was wrong" is the about the only worthwhile track on a Nondescript album.I gave VT a listen a couple of weeks ago after not going anywhere near it for years.Never got past "Ribbons" I'm afraid,Crap album,crap vocals,crap production.It is not worthy of The sisters of mercy name.

You are a bad person and must be punished.

I never got Train, Posession and think some of the SGWBM is in no-man's land. I cannot even whistle some of them.

I like Train, but Afterhours just goes on and on..

Afterhours is certainly dull, but I wouldn't call it "nondescript" though.

It works well as a noisyly disturbing intro song but nothing else.

Afterhours is in my top 10 of favorites. But that's another topic...

I'm amazed at how good the version of 'I Was Wrong' is on my Frankfurt bootleg, reminded me of how much I always loved the lyrics

If I was going to name a nondescript Sisters song I'd probably go for Phantom even though the drum pattern isn't bad

Things that pass unnoticed....hmm.... lemme grab some of the cd's and check which songs I hardly if ever listen to, or even skip deliberately.

Det Blvd, sth fast, wydsm, ycb the one

walk away,marian

corrosion, torch

jihad, finl red etc, rain from heaven

under the goat

phantom, damage done, watch, hittietittymen

It's like when you want to check out a new boot... i never just let it go from begin to end straight away, i deliberately want to listen to flood first, and Giving ground, and Ribbons, heartland, kiss the carpet etc. never to corrosion, marian, det blvd etc. Not necessarily 'bad' songs, the lyrics may be interesting, but kinda a bit boring or at least less interesting.

Don't kill me now

or i'll rip your bloody guts out first

I think most, if not all, Sisters tunes has something special to them but I never quite got Body and Soul.
That is a dull song IMO.

Side one of FLAA (excluding Black Planet and Marian)

More, Detonation Boulevard, 1959, 1969.

Don't dislike them, just never listen to them.

I think most of FALAA is pants, actually.

ETA: then again, without actually looking at the CD case, I'm hard-pressed to remember most of what's on Vision Thing, either. Hmm...

SINsister wrote:I think most of FALAA is pants, actually.

ETA: then again, without actually looking at the CD case, I'm hard-pressed to remember most of what's on Vision Thing, either. Hmm...

Let's face it - we're all here for one reason and one reason only.....YCBTO.

James Blast wrote:Revr'nd

Saved me having to ask for one Iris.
Danke.

mh wrote:Afterhours is certainly dull, but I wouldn't call it "nondescript" though.

Sacrilege!!!! Afterhours isn't dull, it's brooding and atmospheric! (One of my favourite tracks - as is all of the Body & Soul 12" apart from the title track.)

Hom_Corleone wrote:Let's face it - we're all here for one reason and one reason only.....YCBTO.

To that, I say: ROFLMAO!

aDRENOCHROME.

SINsister wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:Let's face it - we're all here for one reason and one reason only.....YCBTO.

To that, I say: ROFLMAO!

What? What did I say?

Nixon wrote:

mh wrote:Afterhours is certainly dull, but I wouldn't call it "nondescript" though.

Sacrilege!!!! Afterhours isn't dull, it's brooding and atmospheric! (One of my favourite tracks - as is all of the Body & Soul 12" apart from the title track.)

Well I won't dispute your right to like it ( ) but I stand by my original assessment.

To these ears it's as if some A&R exec in Warners had heard a third-hand description of what the Sisters sounded like, and demanded that they write a "slow, gloomy and atmospheric song with big deep booming vocals".

It's great as intro music, though.

i don't like Afterhours either, btw. But i think the evil threatething execs were more after the lyrics of anaconda than any partifular piece of muzax.

PS: U can imagine what the intended words were.

Not been here for a while & without wanting to go through every page seeing who's put what... I'll just post my thoughts.

When You Don't See Me (the debate rumbles on).
Detonation Blvrd.

Both nondescript, boring etc etc in my eyes. Only ones out of the whole catalogue though so its not bad going IMO.

I agree with what people have said about Body And Soul. I think it's mainly the voice that fucks it up! what was andy thinking?!

Luckily they redeem themselves with EVERY SINGLE live performance of it ever!