Your favourite moment in any Sisters song

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the live screams, most notably during Sister Ray or at the end of Emma
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The live version of giving ground... probably. Our little Vonny hit some notes (more like slapped em lightly) that tony never could.
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stufarq wrote:The moment the bass comes in on Dominion.
Oh yes!

The Fat One wrote:the live screams, most notably during Sister Ray or at the end of Emma
That too!


The good Doktor when Burn starts.

And back in the early nineties when Tim Bricheno unleashed his guitar on Gimme Shelter and at the end of Ribbons. Immense...

etc etc etc
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Tim's Shelter and his Corrosion intro were both highlights :notworthy:
Andreas was always trying out different bits of business for the Ribbons intro and the 2 of them doing the extended Temple was also a wonderful thing.
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Guitar slide in the beginning of When you don't see me

Yeah yeah yeah's in the YCBTO chorus

End of Marian(Maariaaaannnnnn)
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kafka wrote:For me, there are many, but--and I know this is a weird one--I would say it's the first big opening chord of Black Planet, right around 0:08. Every time I hear it it takes me back to when I first heard the Sisters.
That is my SMS tone... :oops: ...Dominion first few bars my ringtone. :lol:

For me the lead-in bass in Lucretia still makes me tingle all over every time.

The lines "and were it not so black and not so hard to see, what use to you then any fire?" sometimes lingers in my head for days on end.
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oh and the very very last drum roll in walk away!
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INCOMING! At the end of Ribbons. Still my ringtone.
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radiojamaica wrote:[


The good Doktor when Burn starts.

And back in the early nineties when Tim Bricheno unleashed his guitar on Gimme Shelter and at the end of Ribbons. Immense...

etc etc etc
Seconded - the version of Shelter in the NEC 92 is particulary jaw dropping.

Live screams in Body Electric & Floorshow

Sister Ray/Louie Louie/ Ghostrider medely in 83

Silver Machine with UTG lyrics
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Pretty much the whole of Body Electric - especially the descending bassline

the 'shimmering' keyboard line towards end of full version of Neverland - sent shivers, always reminds me of sitting in the dark, listening to this loud and watching the ember of the cigarette I was smoking going down and down (goes misty eyed at this point.....!!!)
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The Fat One wrote:the live screams, most notably during Sister Ray or at the end of Emma
Until you posted this, I'd never realised just how many of the SGWBM era songs ended in a scream (or two). Adrenochrome, Alice, Floorshow, Good Things, 1969, Kiss the Carpet are just a few examples from the top of my head as I type. A natural climax to a song or just a lazy way of bringing things to an end for a novice songsmith ?[/i]
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Oh and UTG "love is fine but you can't hold it like a ..." Brilliantly cruel.
Bass - Romeo Down
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Fav live scream Floorshow 28 Aug 1983
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Backing vocals in the When You Don't See Me chorus, especially the remix. The last "when you don't see me" refrain when the chorus ends. The clean guitar playing the pretty major chords of the prechorus. The whole damn song really.
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The moment in the live shows when I finally work out what song they're playing.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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stufarq wrote:The moment in the live shows when I finally work out what song they're playing.
The moment in the live shows where you finally work out where the band are standing.
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'Alice' - when the bass gets it's full rumble on - around 0.27. And then again when the vocal starts around the 1 minute mark, to complete your realisation that you are indeed listening to something fairly remarkable.

Otherwise, my all time favourite Sisters record moment was on 7th October 1983 (a couple of days out from my 17th birthday) when I got my copy of the 12" 'Temple of Love' home from the local record shop, and first put needle to the groove.

That exact moment will stay with me forever.
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I'm quite fond of the bit near the beginning of Kiss The Carpet where it starts to rattle the windows.
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LyanvisAberrant wrote:
stufarq wrote:The moment in the live shows when I finally work out what song they're playing.
The moment in the live shows where you finally work out where the band are standing.
The moment when you work out what end the stage is when you're lost in the smoke?
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czuczu wrote:
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stufarq wrote:The moment in the live shows when I finally work out what song they're playing.
The moment in the live shows where you finally work out where the band are standing.
The moment when you work out what end the stage is when you're lost in the smoke?
That moment in the live shows when you realise you're actually just standing in the smokers lounge.
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czuczu wrote:
LyanvisAberrant wrote:
stufarq wrote:The moment in the live shows when I finally work out what song they're playing.
The moment in the live shows where you finally work out where the band are standing.
The moment when you work out what end the stage is when you're lost in the smoke?
The moment when you realise that you've paid £20 for the ticket and can't see the singer never mind the bloody drummer
Say!
In the dark? Here in the dark!
Would you, could you, in the dark?
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In This Corrosion all lives when there is the 1- 2- 3- 4 moment before the hell break lose in refrain ;D favorite moment :notworthy:
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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Also i would like to add the moment when there is someone un-experienced from Sisters and asks his friends "where is the drummer?" or "omg, they are playing playback", always someone asks in 2-3 meters from you in any live :lol: :lol: :notworthy:
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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The start of giving ground

The Marian area

'Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me'

the beautiful drowning?
Was it Alice or our daughter Ellice???
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on the subject of Marian...

all of it (version) :notworthy:
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Has anybody mentioned the 'stuck inside of Memphis' line. That's always my favourite bit of any gig. ;D
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