Worst Sisters songs.

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markfiend wrote:Thinking about this, and I reckon I have too much an emotional attachment to The Sisters oeuvre as a whole to declare any of it "bad", never mind "worst".
Oh yes, completely agree. Only slight difference would be Black Planet, but everything else are eternal songs.
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Adrenochrome
Will i Dream
Top Nite Out
Emma

But it's alright. Beethoven, Mozart, and even the Russian composers, have a few pieces i find incomprehensible and boring.
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itnAklipse wrote:Adrenochrome
:eek: :eek: :eek:
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mh wrote:
itnAklipse wrote:Adrenochrome
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Seconded...
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Ozpat wrote:
mh wrote:
itnAklipse wrote:Adrenochrome
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Seconded...
I love Adrenochrome, to the point I wanna marry and have babies with that track - and this is coming from someone with a growing weariness about this whole "people should breed the crap right out of this planet" business...

And what's with all the Doc Jeep-bashing? It was that very song that catapulted me into having to get everything the Sisters have ever done (and by everything, I need you all to understand the full, unexpurgated definition of my meaning). Yeah, it drones on, but what a drone...

... Which brings me to...

Damage Done / Watch / Home of the Hitmen.

Probably the tracks Edritch is most embarrassed of, but I have opened a refuge for these abused debutantes, victims all of domestic violence of the most pernicious kind - emotional cruelty.

Like Carrie's arm bursting out of the grave to scare the living s**t out of Piper Laurie, these tracks aren't going away - more likely they're destined to gang together and loiter on the sodium-sodden streetcorners of our dreams like some aural Cerberus... waiting for us to skip by as we idly hum to ourselves Flood 1 or some such nonsense... and then... Pow!
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Yes, Machine Regime ... :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: ... yes.

Pow! had been nice though ... unfortunately, other substances implode, very very slowly ... but still ... Pow!, yeah, Pow! ... ;D ...




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Machine Regime wrote:...Like Carrie's arm bursting out of the grave to scare the living s**t out of Piper Laurie, these tracks aren't going away - more likely they're destined to gang together and loiter on the sodium-sodden streetcorners of our dreams like some aural Cerberus... waiting for us to skip by as we idly hum to ourselves Flood 1 or some such nonsesense... and then... Pow!
:eek: Nice imagery. :notworthy:
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On the other hand, Damage Done is a nice trashy pop tune. :D
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Home of the hitmen is so bad that it is actually fine song for 34secs.I just wonder, does full version exist?
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Machine Regime wrote:
Damage Done / Watch / Home of the Hitmen.

Probably the tracks Edritch is most embarrassed of
Not sure about Watch as it was played live quite some times in the early days.
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Ozpat wrote:
Machine Regime wrote:
Damage Done / Watch / Home of the Hitmen.

Probably the tracks Edritch is most embarrassed of
Not sure about Watch as it was played live quite some times in the early days.
They played Damage Done live at least once too...
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Temple of Love (1992) - beacuse I just hate croatian casual goth partys :lol:
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Kiss The Carpet (only it's mother could love it)
Temple of Love with the wailing hag on it.... (sorry)

I know this goes against popular opinion but The Damage Done has grown on me over the years
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unholyracket wrote:Kiss The Carpet (only it's mother could love it)
:eek:

Wrong wrong wrong. The Reptile House is as close to perfection as anything The Sisters have ever created.
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Machine Regime wrote: ... Which brings me to...

Damage Done / Watch / Home of the Hitmen.

Probably the tracks Edritch is most embarrassed of ...
Just to avoid misunderstandings ... I love all them songs ... from the first time I've heard them ...

the music, the lyrics, the sound, the way they are recorded ... wonderful ... ;D ;D ;D ...
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If Champion Love Shoes was attributed to The Sisters, you'd love that too.

Jeeziz! behave :roll:
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Worst?
Home of the hitmen
Will I Dream
Temple of Love (new version...what a waste)
1959.

On the other hand...these aren't necessarily the worst, I just don't like them or find myself skipping them:
This Corrosion (I know this is a fan fave, but I can't be arsed with it)
Detonation Boulevard
More (I think a pattern is emerging...I don't like Steinman)

Favorites would be:
SKOS
Marian
Lights
Train
Driven Like The Snow
We Are The Same Suzanne
Ribbons
Body Electric.
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James Blast wrote:If Champion Love Shoes was attributed to The Sisters, you'd love that too.

Jeeziz! behave :roll:
Shoes, shoes, little white shoes ... ;D ... ah, did I tell you about the shoe chamber? My refuge, my desert, my heartland, my ... sea.




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figures :|
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markfiend wrote:
unholyracket wrote:Kiss The Carpet (only it's mother could love it)
:eek:

Wrong wrong wrong. The Reptile House is as close to perfection as anything The Sisters have ever created.
Of course there is an element of opinion involved here and I am prepared to be wrong.... but in this case I am not. Burn I will give you, Valentine of course, Light Yes and Fix is clear cut. For the life of me I have never got on with Kiss The Carpet. I may even have to drag out the vinyl and listen again (not they I need to having heard the bugger thousands of times).

I believe perfection to have been achieved with the reworking of Body Electric.
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Put your clothes on, it's time for us to go.

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unholyracket wrote:
markfiend wrote:
unholyracket wrote:Kiss The Carpet (only it's mother could love it)
:eek:

Wrong wrong wrong. The Reptile House is as close to perfection as anything The Sisters have ever created.
Of course there is an element of opinion involved here and I am prepared to be wrong.... but in this case I am not. Burn I will give you, Valentine of course, Light Yes and Fix is clear cut. For the life of me I have never got on with Kiss The Carpet. I may even have to drag out the vinyl and listen again (not they I need to having heard the bugger thousands of times).

I believe perfection to have been achieved with the reworking of Body Electric.
kiss the carpet? :eek:
you don't like lyrics but music is so-so? you don't like it when you heard it 5 days ago or it was a pish from the very start for you?
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unholyracket wrote:Of course there is an element of opinion involved here
This is true ;)
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only songs i can't even hear those days and i have many years to hear and don't feel the need to hear again are the songs in their very first single.

it was something like a kid writing his first program, that made it as exercise to see how to do it and experiment in some things and see what to avoid and what works and ...
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