Heartland

You mean people here actually still give a damn?

You mean people here actually still give a damn?

Some does

I was under the impression the Sisters broke up some time around June 1985 and everything ever since has just been a Butlins style kareoke (spelt wrong of course) outfit put about to help sustain various record contract, mortgage and some rather desperate people amused. But then again I may be wrong, I have be known to be in the past - and very possibly the future .

But in the meantime. I've always seen the recent "incarnation" of the Sisters as a major hand-job with never ever actually got to blow it's final load.

In other words; Always the big build up but with no real pay off at the end, which is such a shame.

Oh how we yearn for those hedonistic glory days of 1984..

cardoman wrote:I want more

remembering the past fondly is one thing (even hating the present-day, so long as the reason you hate it is because it's s**t, and not because it's just different) but wishing that it was "yesterday again" is just sad. (IMO )

anyway,'85 was the year.

HBD-pull.the.fookin.finger.out.

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:anyway,'85 was the year.

...and I hadn't even heard of them, then.

Precisely. I'll grant you the machine tore along back then, but what are us whippersnappers supposed to do now that you tell us it's not as good as the olden days?

timsinister wrote:Precisely. I'll grant you the machine tore along back then, but what are us whippersnappers supposed to do now that you tell us it's not as good as the olden days?

*Sigh* If only.

but i the other hand that could be more depressing- for some of us at least - looking on Sisters in their glory days and then back to present.

timsinister wrote:Precisely. I'll grant you the machine tore along back then, but what are us whippersnappers supposed to do now that you tell us it's not as good as the olden days?

Oi oi oi!

The only reason these old buggers think it was better in 1985 is because back then they could see the stage from a distance greater than 6 inches and dance without feeling the need to take a break by the second song!

*edited right down*

There was absolutly no need for 3000 words explaining how a gig will never ever seem as good to someone that is constantly comparing the experience to those of their youths. It's not that many of the reformed or continueing bands arn't good - because they are often fcking amazing - it's just that if you watch it from the bar and remember what it was like watching it from the front it's always going to seem a little bit of a let down. Bear in mind that that us youngan's are having all the fun you were having in 1985 plus a load more that wasn't even invented back then.

Gigs are fun, but what makes them special is the bunch of best friends that go to every show with you - who remind you that you arn't just seeing a show, you're part of something. It's being mad enough to see them in London on Saturday, Leeds on Sunday and go to work on Monday. What makes it special is absolute and utter confidence that buying the tee shirt is more important than food for the next few days.

I'd say that agood gig in 2005 is much the same as a good gig in 1985, but maybe for someone coming back after 20 years may have lost the things that turn a good gig into a life changing experience.

Aye.

ai hail to the sisters wherever he migth be

Maisey wrote:

timsinister wrote:Precisely. I'll grant you the machine tore along back then, but what are us whippersnappers supposed to do now that you tell us it's not as good as the olden days?

Oi oi oi!

The only reason these old buggers think it was better in 1985 ...

never said it was better...

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:remembering the past fondly is one thing (even hating the present-day, so long as the reason you hate it is because it's s**t, and not because it's just different) but wishing that it was "yesterday again" is just sad. (IMO )

anyway,'85 was the year.

...but it was the year. that was when my lifelong love of the band started. like sex, no matter how good it gets you always remember the first time with special affection.

Oh YAY! lee...

We do have a love for this band, and at that tender age of 12 when I heard them for the first time...*von's voice blew me away*

Fuckall the idiots that don't agree that the love for him and the Sisters'
doesn't matter when or who or whatever, their music was a revelation and us here now today within these walls respect that and all the girlie, fighting, scratching between us...it leads down to a mass of people that have loved and now loved and in the future will be loved...

It's just a soul thang and all...

MadameButterfly wrote: It's just a soul thang and all...

Nope! Pop, Rock'n'Roll, industrial grove machine. In that order.

It's an alternative thing, so now move on along...

Another thread you close for public access?

Of course not silly man.

*hold on want to work out dates on my finger's...*

I remember 1989. I was so young at the time..
Found the underground goth scene thanks to an english girl friend of mine in S.A. That year thanks to her british grandparents we received gifts that included TSOM, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cult, The Cure, Fields of the Nephilim, to name but a few that we shaked our goths forms on the dance floor to in down town JHB. I must admit thinking back to those days it was a movement of the punks, goths, skin-heads & rock 'n roll folk that came out the woodwork...

The best time of my life really...besides that of being here on HL..

MadameButterfly wrote:...the underground goth scene thanks to an english girl friend of mine in S.A. ...

Talking about which: Ankst (typo apparently intended).
Some of their songs sound very interesting.

Cheers, I'll check them out!

Belated well-wishes Girls.

You were good.