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Melody Maker wrote:The Sisters come from Leeds, wear young rebel trousers and make a
din so glorious they sound like they stumbled on rock music by
accident without ever having heard a note of it before.
About six plays after first digging this from the bottom of the
vinyl junkyard, the brain-wiping riff of ‘Adrenochrome’ still sounds
like the greatest four-chord sequence ever invented. Look, the
Stones, The Kinks, The Byrds, the Pistols, the Stooges, The Clash and
all the other morons were just testing our a few ideas. THIS was the
riff they were looking for. Put it this way: it’s not bad.
oddly enough, while the song was still being written, the band used to call it "the scottish song" - and probably not in reference to macbethMelody Maker wrote:FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS
...
The second side unveils Celtic guitars that career through arid
wastelands until they’re swept up by the blistering chorus of ‘First
And Last And Always’.
New Musical Express wrote:VISION THING
NME, 27 October 1990, p40
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So Eldritch did a whole lot of nothing. He hung around Hamburg and
laughed his hollow self hoarse at the black joke he’d played upon
himself until, well, finally he had to do something. So he did what
the rest of us do. He plunged headlong into life’s little pleasures -
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll - all the sideshows that, whether we
care to admit it or not, we employ to distract us from our inevitable
end.
And guess what? When the smoke cleared and the sweat dried and
Eldritch stood there blasted and brazen and sore to his soul, he
realised something that raised a pulse in his dead creativity. He
realised that all our little pleasures f**k us up too.
At last Eldritch had stumbled upon the rudimentary impulses of rock,
something his intelligence had shielded him from before - betrayal
and revenge in all their devious guises.
So ‘Vision Thing’ is a beauty of vindictive bile, a self-inflicted
bruise. It’s a paradigm of self-delusion, Eldritch apparently under
the impression that, if he adopts a cruel, devil-may-care attitude,
that bitter power will serve as a temporary salvation, a vacation
from the doubts that gnaw at his vanity. It’s probably the best he
could hope for. I think it’s quite magnificent.
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Steve Sutherland
Nice. Thanks for thisnick the stripper wrote:Hi,
I’ve made a text file that contains all the Melody Maker and NME reviews of The Sisters of Mercy that I own.
It's official then The Fud National AnthemQuiff Boy wrote: "the scottish song"
It may have been in reference to 'The Scottish Band'. Their name, I am too afeared to type.Quiff Boy wrote:and probably not in reference to macbeth
A dashing oil platform?James Blast wrote:It do go summat like this ~ R••R••.
may i proffer a "wave your hands in the air like you just don't care"?Arrrgh! wrote:Guess who's back [dum de dum]
Bax is back [dum de dum]
etc etc