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I'm a huge Sisters fan! I did a song with Andrew [Eldritch] for a Best of Sisters record back in '94. I called him because I wanted him to work on my record originally. I went out to Germany. He lives in a cave (laughs) out in Hamburg. And he and I wrote some stuff and nothing really worked. But there was a song that I brought over that he really liked. He asked if I was going to use it for my record and, since I couldn't get anybody excited about it, it was really strange and dark, and he said, well, I want to do it. Why don't we sing it? It was called "Under The Gun" and we sang it together for the Best Of Sisters album.

dinky daisy wrote:So even the last Sisters song is a composition Terri Nunn suggested.

Hell, hasn't Andrew a very overbombing amount of fear of failure?

indy wrote:My use of search on the site and in google did not pull up any results on this but I came across a listing of a song that Eldritch seemed to have co-wrote with Terri Nunn.

Anyone heard of this before? It's in the US copyright office as copyrighted material.

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote: Do you have the link for the US Copyright thing/place/whatever, and does anybody else have a site link like this ?

Ta muchly - slightly off topic but relevant to this thread as the source of the interest !

indy wrote:Hope this helps some.

Cheers

indy wrote:My use of search on the site and in google did not pull up any results on this but I came across a listing of a song that Eldritch seemed to have co-wrote with Terri Nunn.

Anyone heard of this before? It's in the US copyright office as copyrighted material.

It's listed as-

Registration Number: PAu-1-262-311
Title: Streets of shame / Nunn, Frederiksen, Eldritch.
Description: on 1 sound cassette.
Note: (With Going my way & Higher)
Claimant: Terri Nunn, Marty Frederiksen, Andrew Eldritch
Created: 1989
Registered: 28Jul89
Author on © Application: words & music: Terri Kathleen Nunn; music: Martin Harold Frederiksen;
words: Andrew Eldritch.
Special Codes: 3/M

lachert wrote:but did you know that she almost become princess leia?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXy59jMqOsc

DocSommer wrote:

lachert wrote:but did you know that she almost become princess leia?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXy59jMqOsc

nope

Another mention from her.

You sang for the Sisters of Mercy. How did that come to be?

I met Andrew Eldritch…I was putting together music for my solo album, and I contacted three artists, that I wanted to write with. One was Andrew, Trent Reznor…Trent never responded. Moby turned me down. He was kind of mean about it. He said, “You know what, no. I turned down Madonna, okay? So for sure I’m turning you down.� Is that good? (Laughs)

But Andrew responded, and he was interested. He lived in Germany at the time, in Hamburg, so I flew out there and spent a couple of weeks with him, and I brought the song that we ended up using. The stuff we wrote was not great, but that song, it ended up being called “Under the Gun,� and he put it on his best-of, but at the time it was called “Two Worlds Apart.� And my label didn’t like it. They just didn’t get the song, at all. So I played it for him and said, “They don’t get it. What do you think? Can you do something with this?� He said, “I love this song!� He wrote the rap at the end, that singing/talking rant at the end while I’m singing, “Are you living for love?� And he put it on the record. We actually had a hit with it. We had a hit in England; I played “Top of the Pops� for the first time in my life.

I know very little about Andrew Eldritch, but I will never forget watching Dave Kendall interviewing him on “120 Minutes� when he was promoting Vision Thing. This was a huge score for MTV, because the Sisters of Mercy were as big as they ever got, and he was the biggest stiff of an interview I’ve ever seen. He didn’t want to talk.

He wasn’t a social guy. A lot of musicians aren’t, David. Maybe that’s why they get into music, especially men. Because they want chicks, but they’re not really good at being normally social and fun, so music is a way to get girls, and that’s what they do. I have met some of the most retarded social misfits in music. [Andrew] wasn’t retarded, but he had no social skills whatsoever. Another one is Prince. Not one social skill. I mean, totally estranged from his family, couldn’t even talk to his family. I was in his studio for three months, in another studio next to his. We were working every day, I’d pass him in the hall every day…never spoke to me, never looked at me. And on the last day of being in Minneapolis at his studio, he said hello. I mean, okay. (Laughs) How hard is it? I don’t know, but that’s musicians. A lot of us are just f**king retarded.

markfiend wrote:...
Funny that she says that Andrew "wasn't a social guy". I do get the impression that he (when not on stage) is actually quite a shy person.

weebleswobble wrote:I'm nunn the wiser

markfiend wrote: Moby is a dick.

stufarq wrote:

markfiend wrote: Moby is a dick.

I see what you did there.

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:Of all the eras of TSOM, this is one of the weirdest. Ofra Haza, Teri Nunn, re-recordings of Sisters songs, re-recording of other people's songs and passing them off as your own. Not really surprising that Ms. Nunn found Von a little strange.

markfiend wrote:

stufarq wrote:

markfiend wrote: Moby is a dick.

I see what you did there.

And here was me thinking my comedy gold was going unappreciated

stufarq wrote:

markfiend wrote:

stufarq wrote: I see what you did there.

And here was me thinking my comedy gold was going unappreciated

Oh, it was very much unappreciated.

BillyBadBreaks wrote:I actually liked the song, anyone else?