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Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 12:32**

No other band in the history of rock 'n' roll took itself as seriously as the Sisters of Mercy did. Vocalist Andrew Eldritch played the draconian Goth zombie so well (right down to the faux Prussian accent) that he wound up sounding not just grave, but often comically so. Fortunately, the Sisters' passionately melancholic fans aren't the sort to fault a band for being too melodramatic. The group ably brushed away the cobwebs from the gloomy Gothic fa?Âºade and exposed a rock infrastructure hidden below. They reintroduced the mighty electric guitar to give their music a forceful sound of subterranean depth, often eerily contrasting gloom with sultry R&B backing vocals and serpentine dance beats. WEA Records.

http://www.musicstack.com/show.cgi

It's a pretty good website, I was looking for the first Batfish album and in taking a peek at available Sisters collectables, actually bothered to read the blurb, that appears to have been provided by WEA.

No wonder Von has been pissed off with them for all these years, if this is what they used to promote him

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 12:39**

good lord

"give their music a forceful sound of subterranean depth, often eerily contrasting gloom with sultry R&B backing vocals and serpentine dance beats"

wtf?

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 12:42**

OMG

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 14:03**

No other band in the history of rock 'n' roll took itself as seriously as the Sisters of Mercy did.

No need to go any further.

How about... I don't know... Led Zep, U2, ELP, Pink Floyd, Deep purple... Just to mention a few.

They may be good in their right, but to consider that the Girls took "it" more seriously than any of them is pure bullsh!t.

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 14:04**

Hahahaha. Jesus!

I guess it's still true then - you either get the joke or the joke gets you.

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 15:07**

Quiff Boy wrote:good lord

"give their music a forceful sound of subterranean depth, often eerily contrasting gloom with sultry R&B backing vocals and serpentine dance beats"

wtf?

Sounds like "More".

And if you want serpentine dance beats, that's the Violets' job, no?

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 15:11**

Dark wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:good lord

"give their music a forceful sound of subterranean depth, often eerily contrasting gloom with sultry R&B backing vocals and serpentine dance beats"

wtf?
Sounds like "More".

And if you want serpentine dance beats, that's the Violets' job, no?

aye, but you could hardly call rosie or cleo "sultry r&b"

certianly does does sound as if the only song they've heard is "more"

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 15:47**

Serpentine dance beats? B*llocks - snakes can't dance, on account of having no legs...

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 16:13**

EvilBastard wrote:Serpentine dance beats? B*llocks - snakes can't dance, on account of having no legs...

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 16:19**

I'm not convinced they've ever heard anything by the Sisters, I just can't imagine Von "play(ing) the draconian Goth zombie so well (right down to the faux Prussian accent)"

Sounds more like Nosferatu, now they really did miss the joke

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 17:24**

Or even the Nephs.

(Ducks for cover, gets coat.)

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 17:51**

draconian

adj.
Exceedingly harsh; very severe:

its a fair cop

still, nice to read a description of the sissies that doesn't resort to the usual cliche of calling his voice stentorian

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 17:55**

bananacamel wrote:Sounds more like Nosferatu, now they really did miss the joke

I have a "Rise" test pressing. I've only listened to Side One so far, but they don't sound too bad.

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 17:59**

Does that mean for all these years I've been a 'passionately melancholic fan' and I didnae ken it?
And how come the most fun I've ever had has been with the good burgers of Heartland?

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 18:16**

Dark wrote:
bananacamel wrote:Sounds more like Nosferatu, now they really did miss the joke
I have a "Rise" test pressing. I've only listened to Side One so far, but they don't sound too bad.

No no

they really are THAT bad. They actually scare me, the idea that somebody could get it soooooooooooo wrong is terrifying

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 19:15**

Well, I certainly got it even more wrong before. I said I agreed with my band being called industrial, then I just had to mention Suicide as an influence, before people started questioning my judgement, hearing, sanity and very existance on earth.

Though people also claim we're a goth band. If it makes them happy.

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 19:33**

Dark wrote:Well, I certainly got it even more wrong before. I said I agreed with my band being called industrial, then I just had to mention Suicide as an influence, before people started questioning my judgement, hearing, sanity and very existance on earth.

Though people also claim we're a goth band. If it makes them happy.

Stay away from lyrics about "pointy sticks" and naming yourself after vampires and you'll be fine. I saw them in Birmingham once in about 92, nearly the whole audience of five were trying to hide behind a pillar weeping with laughter

I hope they get it, I really do, I just don't hold out much hope

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 19:44**

RobF wrote:I hope they get it, I really do, I just don't hold out much hope

I reckon they have about as much chance of ever getting it as this crowd:

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 20:02**

RobF wrote:Stay away from lyrics about "pointy sticks" and naming yourself after vampires and you'll be fine.

Umm.. would this be a bad time to mention that one of our new songs, and the next EP is called Nosferatu?

It even has a still from the movie as the coverart.

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 20:25**

I think I actually own all but 1 of Nosferatus albums, so I shouldn't take the pee

and I've seen them about 4 times, and what's worse, I enjoyed it.

(Time for me to get my coat) In my defence i was young, and all I had to guide me, (a couple of years after seeing the sisters on TOTP), was Mick Mercer and his Gothic Rock compilation album.

Good album that

draconian

adj.
Exceedingly harsh; very severe:

its a fair cop

'Tis true, but not put in front of Goth Zombie with a faux prussian accent, surely

Posted: **13 Jun 2006, 22:53**

bananacamel wrote:(Time for me to get my coat)

... that'll be a cloak, Sir?

Posted: **14 Jun 2006, 00:13**

Are you sure you weren't looking at the Damned biog by mistake?
Great punk band but frankly embarrasing when they went "Goth".

Posted: **14 Jun 2006, 01:42**

wild bill buttock wrote:Are you sure you weren't looking at the Damned biog by mistake?
Great punk band but frankly embarrasing when they went "Goth".

They do great psychedelia though.

Posted: **14 Jun 2006, 04:59**

Music journalists should be culled every now and again - make nice coats like baby seals

Posted: **14 Jun 2006, 09:23**

bananacamel wrote:I've seen them [Nosferatu] about 4 times, and what's worse, I enjoyed it.

Heh. I've seen them a few times too.

Including once in Sheffield, where I was very drunk, fell off the shoulders of some other loon* onto the stage, and nicked the setlist halfway through the set.

* I wish I could remember that bloke's name; he let me kip in his spare room when I'd missed the last train back to Leeds that night. Them there goffs are friendly people

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