Heartland

Don't know if we've had a 'Worst/Least Favourite Sisters Song' thread here...We probably have had...

If we have, then it's Resurrection Time...If not, then here goes...

1959...It really is dire. The words are OK (I s'pose), but the piano's dreadful...Sounds like it's on a loop and is played in a manner that suggests somebody just going through the motions...There's no *ahem* sensitivity there or anything. Boooooooo.

Am I missing something? If so, what? And if you disagree, what's the Sisters choon that you would least like to hear ever again?

I can honestly say I can't really think of many others I just HAVE to fast forward...'cept mebbe ribbons and when you don't see me...

Thoughts, anybody??

everybody has one's personal opinion - it's normal.
but if you ask mine, i'm not agree with you.
Sisters have no miserable song at all, honestly, it's my opinion.
well, if i don't like anything... maybe vocals of Maggie Reilly in "Something Fast".

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I don't like Walk Away. The beginning and ..."walk, walk, walk away...uuu, away.." hate it. These two singles from FALAA are totally boring for me. No time to Cry is better but not much.

I think it`s a taken fact that the whole of the first single is crap , but the one thing I got so fed up of hearing was the endless sister ray / ghostrider thing . Also I got fed up of hearing 1969 but at least it`s not as bad as the other lots version - jesus thats bad .

biggy

there are so many sisters song that i dont like. actually now that i think about it there are more songs that i dont like than i do like. i started listening to the sisters rather late, 1992. first thing i ever heard was the vision thing album. then i bought floodland and the greatest hits album. about 5 years later i bought first/last/always and some girls wander. i dont like some girls at all. i think its rubbish. there are one or maybe two songs on first/last that i like. i really dont like that oldschool cheap goth sound. i dont like all songs on floodland either. torch for example i really dislike. i do like 1959 unlike lars.
vision thing i think is great. temple of love 1992 and under the gun too. to me the sisters arent first/last/always unlike most fans that have been listening to them since the begining.

Hmmm.

I kind of like Some Girls. Theres some stuff that wouldn't qualify as "good", but none that I hate.

Least favourite would be black planet I guess. Dodgy sub-hippy lyrics and an all too g*** sound.

I like the video though.

On Nov 25, 2002 3:45pm, Jim wrote:
Least favourite would be black planet I guess. Dodgy sub-hippy lyrics and an all too g*** sound.

I like the video though.

agreed. on both counts... though i do have a soft spot for it, warts and all...

i intensely dislike 'when you dont see me' & 'you could be the one' - they are far to straighforward and like the worst kind of MOR/AOR. there's no quirk in there at all, just unsophisticated cock-rock nonsense.

and even though i like it, i have to admit that torch makes me cringe - it sounds very much like dodgy germanic synth sillyness. not that there's anything wrong with that per se, but....

On Nov 25, 2002 3:51am, EricSweden wrote:
i dont like some girls at all. i think its rubbish. there are one or maybe two songs on first/last that i like. i really dont like that oldschool cheap goth sound. i dont like all songs on floodland either. torch for example i really dislike. i do like 1959 unlike lars.
vision thing i think is great. temple of love 1992 and under the gun too. to me the sisters arent first/last/always unlike most fans that have been listening to them since the begining.

The Reptile House is worth more attention than you've perhaps given it (like a Bukowsi novel). Also, nice to have Heartland on CD, dont you think?

I really dislike YCBTO, it's simple rock s**t with stupid lyrics.
Also, More and Walk Away ain't their best songs.
All the rest is class (even Home of the Hit-men )

IZZY.

I didn't like the sisters stuff in the early eighties, I thought it sounded turgid, with some skinny bloke upfront singing into his boots.
I like some of the stuff on the first elpee now, like reptile house and heartland, but most of it still sounds like a drag to me.
I was given a copy of Floodland in the late eighties and it's hardly been off my stereo since.
Nothing the sisters have done since has come close as far as I'm concerned, but ribbons is good (sexy) and wouldn't get fast forwarded around here.

You could be the one is dead funny. You can give me hair & run your fingers through my head indeed!

I also love Torch. Ribbons is a great headphones song & I like purple strobes so I'm biased.

But...


I don't like FALAA at all. Not the songs, some of which are fab, but the production (you would know, even if you never heard it before, that it was made in 1985) & AE's strange compulsion at the time to sing in an even lower register than what comes natural...

The reptile house EP actually sounds cleaner & sharper & pretty timeless, to my ears anyway.

Only officially released songs I can think of that I never play are Poison Door & Bury Me Deep. Oh & I just remembered Afterhours which is silly deep voice in boots at its finest.

Instrumentals don't really count I suppose but you can chuck them all in apart from Snubnose (or whatever it's called this week) which is wonderful .

M

On Nov 26, 2002 1:30pm, mayhem wrote:
You could be the one is dead funny. You can give me hair & run your fingers through my head indeed!

I also love Torch. Ribbons is a great headphones song & I like purple strobes so I'm biased.

But...


I don't like FALAA at all. Not the songs, some of which are fab, but the production (you would know, even if you never heard it before, that it was made in 1985) & AE's strange compulsion at the time to sing in an even lower register than what comes natural...

The reptile house EP actually sounds cleaner & sharper & pretty timeless, to my ears anyway.

Only officially released songs I can think of that I never play are Poison Door & Bury Me Deep. Oh & I just remembered Afterhours which is silly deep voice in boots at its finest.

Instrumentals don't really count I suppose but you can chuck them all in apart from Snubnose (or whatever it's called this week) which is wonderful .

M
Far Out . That's a really concise education, so this probably means that Reptile House isn't on the first elpee ( the eighties are a bit of a blur)but it's an eepee. I remember Emmeline that's probably on the first elpee (gulp)

"when you don't see me" is nasty nasty nastiness of the nastiest variety.

Bury Me Deep....

pass the bucket

You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear


pass me the sick bag

I really hate this song

am i really the only one who dislikes Maggie Reilly's voice (with Andrew Eldridge's Sisters of Mercy ) in "Something Fast"?

On Nov 26, 2002 5:27pm, pikkrong wrote:
am i really the only one who dislikes Maggie Reilly's voice (with Andrew Eldridge's Sisters of Mercy ) in "Something Fast"?

Probably -

I suppose we could always start a poll...

On Nov 26, 2002 8:04pm, Erudite wrote:

On Nov 26, 2002 5:27pm, pikkrong wrote:
am i really the only one who dislikes Maggie Reilly's voice (with Andrew Eldridge's Sisters of Mercy ) in "Something Fast"?

Probably -

I suppose we could always start a poll...

no need to... i just asked

The only two songs that I strongly dislike are Garden of Delight and Jihad.

Although these represent an important turning point in the band's history, I guess neither really counts as a proper Sisters song.

I shudder to think how bad the "Left on m*****n and Revenge" album would have been if Andy and Wayne had been willing to compromise their musical differences.

I shudder to think how bad the "Left on m*****n and Revenge" album would have been if Andy and Wayne had been willing to compromise their musical differences.

But at the time, AE said he never had a problem with the music, just Wayne's crappy lyrics.

[On Nov 26, 2002 5:27pm, pikkrong wrote:
am i really the only one who dislikes Maggie Reilly's voice (with Andrew Eldridge's Sisters of Mercy ) in "Something Fast"?


Nope.
It always makes me think of Moonlight Shadow every time I hear her. (4am in the morning indeed. As if there is a 4am in the afternoon. )

However I love the song so I let it go.. & think of live versions instead. And she's better than the horrible howling (or backing vocals if you prefer) we used to have to endure live a few years back. I would just be floating nicely during comfortably numb when the two harpies would start & kill the mood entirely.

Whammy does a far better job to my mind

M

My vote would have to go for Bury Me Deep. Compared to Blood Money it is crap.

I'm also not a big fan the production on FALAA, nor am I a big fan of Hussey's songs (compared to the Marx tracks).

I like Floodland and Vision Thing without any exceptions. UtG and TOL92 are also fine with me as is SGWBM. Of post ASCOOB tracks only War On Drugs fails to float my boat.

The demos where Hussey wrote the lyrics are also not up to standard (no suprises there).

On Nov 27, 2002 1:15pm, Scardwel wrote:

I shudder to think how bad the "Left on m*****n and Revenge" album would have been if Andy and Wayne had been willing to compromise their musical differences.

But at the time, AE said he never had a problem with the music, just Wayne's crappy lyrics.

That's a fair point, and please correct me if I am wrong, but this criticism came from Eldritch well after the split.

From Hearland Issue 3, p.6 "...Hussey then joined Eldritch in Hamburg for a month to write the new material but the songwriting proces was hindered by the two's differing opinions as to what the album should sound like. According to Hussey, Eldritch has spent the summer listening to the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner and Stevie Nicks, whilst he and Adams were inspired by Motorhead... The Merciful Release press jargon described the split as 'friendly' and due to the obligatory "musical differences" between the individuals concerned."

Lyrics aside, Imagine the middle ground between the musical direction of the Floodland Demos / Gift and the music of God's Own Medicine. Sure we can only speculate on how this would sound, but given the choice between such a combination and Floodland, I'm fairly confident that I'd prefer Floodland as the follow-up to FALAA.


Just to qualify my earlier post:
I dislike Garden of Delight (both versions) and Jihad because the music is tedious. Garden has tiresome, boring music, while Jihad has that irritating 1980s video game music (although the last 30 seconds or so does make a nice lead-in to Colours).

>I intensely dislike 'when you dont see me' & 'you could be the one' - they are far to straighforward and like the worst kind of MOR/AOR. there's no quirk in there at all, just unsophisticated cock-rock nonsense

> I really dislike YCBTO, it's simple rock s**t with stupid lyrics.

!!! You're both right to a point - it is rock nonsense, but then again that was the point of Vision Thing surely? A great big strutting cod-piece wearing rock-god.

And although the lyrics don't have the serious content of other VT songs, to accuse them of being straightforward or stupid is a bit harsh

For me it's a very cleverly worded guns-blazing attack on a group of people - very AE.

Like someone pointed out, the "head/hair" line is brilliant, and all the other references are great - it's clever stuff - fair enough, there's only one interpretation (hippies are stupid, but attractive female hippies will at least sleep with you), but it serves it's purpose well.

And Bruhns solo is cool as well.

I think they should do it live.

Right, I'll duck now against the likely barrage of comeback remarks

I thought it more

For now I’ll pretend I believe all that hippy s**t

So I can take your cherry