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Sorry if this info is somewhere else but I couldn't find it. I just picked up one of what appears to be 3(?) different boot lps called "Enter The Sisters". This one has the crescent logo with "Enter The Sisters" below in a dark pink on black cover. Song list: Temple of Love, Burn, Floorshow, Anaconda, Andrenochrome, Alice, Body Electric, Lights, Heartland, Gimme Shelter.
They are all studio recordings, but some sound like the official release versions and others like demos or studio outtakes. Anyone know what the deal with this is? Any info on other boots titled "Enter The Sisters"?

"Enter The Sisters" Vol. 1 contains songs from 1981-1983. The songs have either been directly ripped from SGWBM or are the original rips from the original vinyls (which are floating around on the internet... and my PC)

Do the songs sound as if they have background fuzz and need cleaning up? Or are they good sounding?


From this site

8 CD Box Set

DISC ONE:
Enter the Sisters More Sisters volume one 1981-1983 MRCD1
Damage Done/Watch/Adrenochrome/Body Electric/Anaconda/Phantom
1969/Alice/Floorshow/Kiss the Carpet/Lights/Valentine/Fix/Burn
(conclusion)

DISC TWO:
Enter the Sisters More Sisters volume two 1983-1985 MRCD2
Burn/Temple of Love/Heartland/Gimme Shelter/Body & Soul/Body
Electric/Train/Afterhours/Poison Door/On the Wire/Blood
Money/Bury Me Deep/Temple of Love
NOTES: 2 is the 7" version
14 is the extended version

DISC THREE:
Psychedelic Sessions MRCD3
1969/Floorshow/Good Things/Alice/Heartland/Jolene/Valentine
Burn/Poison Door/No Time to Cry/Emma/Gimme Shelter/Sisters of
Mercy/Body Electric/First and Last and Always/Marian
RECORDING NOTES: 1-4 Peel session 1982
5-8 Kid Jensen session 1983
9-12 Peel session 1984
15-16 Whistle Test Studios performance

DISC FOUR:
Rare Obscurities MRCD4
Dance on Glass/Garden of Delight/Teachers-Adrenochrome/Red Skies
Disappear/Good Things/Marian/Body Electric/No Time to Cry/First
and Last and Always/a Rock and a Hard Place/Walk Away/Gimme
Gimme Gimme/Jolene/Spirits/Dominion
RECORDING NOTES: 1-5,16 are demos
6 is an instrumental version
8 is a rough mix
9-12 are alternative studio recordings
13-14 are early live recordings
15 is a soundcheck

DISC FIVE:
Live in Newcastle 13.3.1985 MRCD5
First and Last and Always/Body & Soul/Train/Marian/No Time to
Cry/Possession/Walk Away/Burn/Emma/Logic/a Rock and a Hard
Place/Floorshow/Alice/Body Electric/Gimme Shelter/Nine While
Nine/Ghostrider


DISC SIX:
Live in Amsterdam, 28.8.1983 MRCD6
Burn/Valentine/Anaconda/Heartland/Alice/Emma/Temple of Love
Floorshow/Adrenochrome/Gimme Shelter/Kiss/Body Electric/Lights
Sister Ray/Ghostrider/Louie Louie

DISC SEVEN:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door MRCD7
First and Last and Always/Body & Soul/Marian/No Time to Cry/Walk
Away/Possession/Emma/Amphetamine Logic/a Rock and a Hard Place
Floorshow/Alice/Fix/Knockin' on Heaven's Door

DISC EIGHT:
Promotion CD for MR Box Only MRCD8
Alice(2 time starting)/Ripsters of Mercy

NOTES: the eight CDs come in a flimsy cardboard box with the MR
logo on all sides but the bottom. The bottom has the family tree
on it. Discs 1 & 2 come in a double CD case. All others come in
a normal jewelbox. All discs have the crescent Walk Away symbol
and the MR logo. They all say "see card inlay for details" and
they all look the same except for the MRCD number.

<--- Ummm...not really a fan, then, obviously...

They were not ripped from SGWBM, because I seem to think they were released in the late 80s as a "semi-official" release.

That is to say that the label that released it was legit, it was even going to the High Street shops... but Merciful hadn't authorized it at all and it's a definite bootleg.

it's on Metal Speed records, is it?

http://www.sisterswiki.org/index.php/Enter_the_Sisters

mine's the blue one on Black Swan. released before Some Girls...

Ah... when I said the label was legit, I was merely passing on what I heard. If it's on more than one label..

Though I have this odd feeling that it's Black Swan that tried to "officially" release it.

A bootleg containing recordings of the early singles, so it doesan't contain anything you can't get in better quality elsewhere. It was notable for being a really bad pressing, the needle jumped like buggery all over the damn thing. A Greek pressing I believe. At the time I remember seeing it on sale in one of the big-name record stores despite being a bootleg. I bet some obsessive collectors would possibly pay a lot for it.

mine never jumped around.
here's the blue one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ4855970661
and the red one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ4852429479

one sold for 3.39 euros, i guess they're not worth a lot nowadays.

Thanks "Robertzombie", but it's a vinyl press that doesn't seem to coincide with any of the CD set. The sound quality is fine, no skips or background hiss. It's on Metal Speed and is definately a boot. I've seen other boot lp's also titled "Enter the Sisters", just wondering what their source material was. Thanks for the ebay links, by the way. It just seems like such an odd bootleg. 2 songs that sound like they are different versions, but the rest is straight off of legit issued records that are easy enough to get. I was hoping for something live or maybe studio outtakes. Oh well.

davedecay wrote:it's on Metal Speed records, is it?

http://www.sisterswiki.org/index.php/Enter_the_Sisters

mine's the blue one on Black Swan. released before Some Girls...

Thanks! I missed this the first time through.

Had a Blue one, bought it in 1986 - so it's been around for a while. Mine played fine - it if i remember correctly, it was definitely a Greek pressing.

Sold mine on EBay a couple of years ago, went for about £30 I think!

I've got one in excellent condition. Blue cover, Black Swan records. It also has insert (a band photo). Sounds just fine.

Too bad it might be the only TSOM bootleg I've got

i should really sell mine, im not that attached to it any more...

shagriml wrote:I've got one in excellent condition. Blue cover, Black Swan records. It also has insert (a band photo). Sounds just fine.

Too bad it might be the only TSOM bootleg I've got

The only bootleg you have, and it's all official material.
Poor you, go console yourself here and get some more bootlegs.

I've it in red, Metal Speed. No jumps, sound is fine enough, although definitely well off the quality of the originals. Volume levels vary quite a bit. The running order works fairly well for a continuous listen, surprisingly enough. Gimme Shelter ends after the solo "War..." bit. My money's on it originally having come from a 46 minute blank tape on account of that.

For a long long time it was almost the only way you could get decent-ish quality versions of the original Body Electric/Adrenochrome, so I s'pose a lot of fans would have paid a lot of money for it back in the day. Nowadays it's more curiosity value.

There was a filthy rumour on Dominion about 90/91 ish that it was "supposed" to be their proper first LP, but when the release fell through they just issued everything as singles. Naughty naughty.