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If the SKOS version is a demo, I'll be quite happy, what with it being advertised as one

It's real live product folks, just relax... read the sleeve notes if you don't want to hear the music


OMG!
I prophesy disaster - thinking about your comments on the sleeve notes

Motz wrote:If the SKOS version is a demo, I'll be quite happy, what with it being advertised as one

Forgot that bit

The more I thik about these re-issues, the more uncertain I get about buying them...I'm just not sure if it's worth it.

bismarck wrote:

James Blast wrote:

mh wrote:We're probably gonna buy them anyway, so no skin off anyone's nose.

mine are already on order

Likewise

Mine aren't.

I'm hoping to get them down me local HMV on the 27th.

8 days to go!

it's lack of sleep, haunted dreams and pant wetting time, innit Michael

So far it hasn't let me down. Siouxsie reissues, LoTR DVDs, Star Wars and lots of other stuff, the Friday before.

But if they ain't there, I shall be grievously disappointed I tell you.

I may even have to drink to forget it! (As opposed to drink to celebrate it if they are there...)

I'm still gonna wait till they're in hand before I believe it.

Jim, why so negative?


Relax!

James Blast wrote:Jim, why so negative?


Relax!

At this point the negativity's gotta be a joke. I think.

bismarck wrote:

James Blast wrote:Jim, why so negative?


Relax!

At this point the negativity's gotta be a joke. I think.

Fair point, but there are too many multi-international companies offering this 'product' for it to be an interweb rumour.

Non?

James Blast wrote:

bismarck wrote:

James Blast wrote:Jim, why so negative?


Relax!

At this point the negativity's gotta be a joke. I think.

Fair point, but there are too many multi-international companies offering this 'product' for it to be an interweb rumour.

Non?

Prawda.

Syberberg wrote:

Motz wrote:If the SKOS version is a demo, I'll be quite happy, what with it being advertised as one

Forgot that bit

The more I thik about these re-issues, the more uncertain I get about buying them...I'm just not sure if it's worth it.

Although I guess there's an argument that the more people buy them the more likely becomes new product?

Yeah, fair point, I now acknowledge it exists.

Of course now I just reckon it's gonna be s**t - it's so far unendorsed by anyone whose opinions mean a s**t.

Jim wrote:Yeah, fair point, I now acknowledge it exists.

Of course now I just reckon it's gonna be s**t - it's so far unendorsed by anyone whose opinions mean a s**t.

It's been endorsed by James blast, hasn't it?

Syberberg wrote:To me the whole thing is smelling of a rip-off.

I agree. I'm not buying and I can't understand if anyone would. We've got all the tracks already - ok, maybe expect for SKOS - and the rest is just Warner trying to cash in once more on the band they refused to promote correctly.

kazamel wrote:

Syberberg wrote:To me the whole thing is smelling of a rip-off.

I agree. I'm not buying and I can't understand if anyone would. We've got all the tracks already

Says you who was around and aware when they were first released and are quite obviously not the target market. Just because you personally don't want it doesn't mean that there isn't a decent potential market for it.

A decent web reivew of First and Last Remastered:

1985's 'First and Last and Always' remains unequaled in the genre, permanently granted top place on a pedestal from which it cannot be toppled. From the opening claustrophobia of 'Black Planet' to the melancholy 'No Time to Cry,' Eldritch continually assured listeners that 'everything's gonna be alright'. Continuing with the bass-driven guitar gem 'Possession' and the closing 'Some Kind of Stranger,' an untouchable epic that, clocking in at over seven minutes, is the best of its kind. 'Some Kind of Stranger' not only became a 'love song' for the dressed in black crowd. Copied to death, its brilliance has never been replicated. The unknown story of this album is that ever since it has been availble on CD, and inferior 'copy' master was utilised. Remastered from the multitracks for the first time, it now sounds better than ever before and is augmented by six tracks, all non-album 'B' sides plus 'Some Kind Of Stranger (Early)' a previously unissued track from the album sessions, all housed in a foldout digipack sleeve with new linernotes. track listing 1. Black Planet 2. Walk Away 3. No Time To Cry 4. A Rock And A Hard Place 5. Marian (Version) 6. First And Last And Always 7. Possession 8. Nine While Nine 9. Amphetamine Logic 10. Some Kind Of Stranger Bonus Tracks 11. Poison Door 12. On The Wire 13. Blood Money 14. Bury Me Deep 15. Long Train 16. Some Kind Of Stranger [Early] [Previously Unissued Outtake]

'everything's gonna be alright'

'everything will turn out fine'

I think some negativity is understandable enough - we've been savagely disappointed so many times in the past after all. There's also the sheer shock of something record-wise actually happening after 13 years in the wilderness - even if it is old stuff - to be taken into account.

As someone who has all the stuff (aside from SKOS and Never Land (no longer a fragment) of course) I'll personally still be getting them. Why? Probably mostly because I'm a barking-mad completist, but also to lend my voice to the argument that there IS still a demand for and an interest in Sisters material. Anyway, you can't really complain at the price, can you?

If we can get at least one of these releases into a decent chart position it will be quite an achievement, and might do a lot to help accelerate positive developments in Other Areas.

These releases are for people who don't have record players, and/or who came to the Sisters relatively recently, and therefore don't have easy accessibility to the bonus material on them. And that is quite a lot of people. Personally I'm looking forward to the thought of Goth kiddies gicking their panties when they hear what FALAA really sounds like.

In other news, I was down HMV today and picked up the House of Love's Peel Sessions and the Banshee's Peel Sessions, both of which are not officially available till Monday. So things are looking good for the Sisters next Friday! I will let you know.

Sorry to say, mine are on order, why I don't know. I've already got two CD's of F&L&A . Wife doesn't know, she wouldn't understand... then again neither do I.

No need to be sorry Mr. Sin, you're in good company here.

I'm still in two minds about placing an order. The main thing is my general distaste of WEA and that they didn't properly promote The Sisters when they had the chance to and are now "cashing in" on the Silver Bullet Tour. Not to mention my general anti-corporatism stance...but...it's THE SISTERS says the temptress on my shoulder, who's ganging up with my curiousity about the new liner notes and my obvious desire to help Andrew get that deal so he can release those nice new songs on a nice new CD or three. But will it actually make any difference in that regard?

I think a new deal will largely rely on sales figures of these re-issues.

I'll be grabbing FLAA but passing on the rest OK maybe Floodland but not going near Vision Thing. Wasn't found of it then and I'm not fond of it now.

I'll be getting FALAA as long as it is the original mixes. I never play the CD, prefer my home made CD of my crackly old vinyl. I don't really care about the extra tracks, I'm of the opinion that an album has a beginning, middle and end and is a finite whole. Adding tracks unbalances that. Plus Blood Money and Bury Me Deep are crap anyway, never liked them then, don't like them now, a weak imitation of themselves. Mind you, SKOS early version may be interesting.

Barracuda wrote:I don't really care about the extra tracks, I'm of the opinion that an album has a beginning, middle and end and is a finite whole.

A concept as they say?

Amen (I don't mind extra tracks, I more or less see them as an extra bit not belonging to the album)