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THE place for your Sisters-related comments, questions and snippets of Sisters information. For those who do not know, The Sisters of Mercy are a rock'n'roll band. And a pop band. And an industrial groove machine. Or so they say. They make records. Lots of records, apparently. But not in your galaxy. They play concerts. Lots of concerts, actually. But you still cannot see them. So what's it all about, Alfie? This is one of the few tightly-moderated forums on Heartland, so please keep on-topic. All off-topic posts will either be moved or deleted. Chairman Bux is the editor and the editor's decision is final. Danke.
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Morphine Messiah
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Does anyone have any tales of how the music of the Sisters of Mercy helped them through an extremley dark, lonely or hard time in their life? If so I would love to hear them, I'm sort of going through a tough time right now and it's nice to relate to fans of a band I love. Thanks.
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They probably helped me through in the past, but no more.
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Can't say I'd listen to the Sisters if I was feeling down. New Order do a better job - a spot of Ceremony is always good for getting the fighting spirits up.

But do take heart - dark/lonely/tough times are just a natural part of life, and will pass. Trying to avoid them or block them out is not the way to go. Confronting them, dealing with them (and learning lots of cool stuff about yourself in the process) might sound difficult, but once you start doing it, it's miles more effective.
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
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Morphine Messiah wrote:Does anyone have any tales of how the music of the Sisters of Mercy helped them through an extremley dark, lonely or hard time in their life? If so I would love to hear them, I'm sort of going through a tough time right now and it's nice to relate to fans of a band I love. Thanks.
Whatever gets you through the bad times.

Nine while Nine was the only one that had that effect for me. I found when I was younger that Pretty Hate Machine allowed me to vent anger.

Whatever can put your sh*t into perspective basically.
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Always since i can remember....
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reptile house gets me through most difficult times, together with the cure's pornography... at times like that i always need some doom 'n' gloom... :wink:
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I always used to put on a copy of FLAA & drop the needle on SKOS.
Trouble is, it just made me more miserable.
I think you need to have something that either picks you right back up & says, "now listen sonny. just get on with it!" or something that does let you vent your spleen a little.
Remember the breakfast TV aerobics stuff?
Well, that the sort of thing. You need to "shake it out". ;D

Body Electric, TOL....something noisy & energetic.
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"I don´t sleep, so I don´t dream, so I don´t wake up frightened" Is an important line for me.
FALAA Was a real helper a decade ago, when I was quite deeply in the dirt.
All the songs generated ideas in me when thinking about them that prooved to be helpfull later.
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Always has and always will.
It is deep inside. No one can touch it or take it way from me.

Hang in there...the sun will shine again and make it summer.. :wink:
"as we walk on the floodland"
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meat is murder wrote:reptile house gets me through most difficult times, together with the cure's pornography... at times like that i always need some doom 'n' gloom... :wink:
:eek: pornography is reserved for catastrophic break glass emergency depression time, even then a voice in my head says stop listening to this s**t it will send you over the edge.
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Dr. Moody wrote:
meat is murder wrote:reptile house gets me through most difficult times, together with the cure's pornography... at times like that i always need some doom 'n' gloom... :wink:
:eek: pornography is reserved for catastrophic break glass emergency depression time, even then a voice in my head says stop listening to this s**t it will send you over the edge.
At times like these I think nothing has a better effect for brightening up your mood than itallian barrock. When I listen to such music there is quite a chance you´ll find a few dents in the wall that I punched into them with my bare hands only minutes before.(Good idea right now, just to enjoy! ;D)
FOTN´s Elizium, too, is acoustic emergency medicine.
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it was maybe 10 years ago or so...
i was listening to Floodland. and washing my clothes. i went to my bathroom to check if everything is ok. i heard a roar of my washing machine, saw water rushing out and in the very same moment when it happened, i heard: Flood!
that was a magic moment :von:
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I lost a leg, but thanks to The Sisters it grew back.

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At the risk of being slightly contraversial, one of the most uplifting songs from the girls & a sure thing to put a smile on my face would be YCBTO.

You want to feel a bit better, you couldn't do much worse.
& now, even more so, as it reminds me of HL (& all who sail in her).
What better way to cheer yourself up a bit?
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markfiend wrote:I lost a leg, but thanks to The Sisters it grew back.

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Absolutely true! I play Sisters to my plants on a daily basis and they grow like hell.
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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Could you imagine if Von was a telephone operator for the Good Samaritans? :urff:

Kid on phone: "me daddy bruises me."
Eldritch: "look kid, life is short and life is cruel, but we have beer and we have fuel."
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I wouldn't call it healing, but the effect some songs have had on me ever since I heard Heartland (which was the first to have that effect on me) is that I felt like there was someone else out there whom I could relate to in different circumstances. Then again, I'm not overdramatizing that, because there most likely are as many things that set me apart from Von. But sometimes, a song just falls into the right place at the right time. A quick list : Heartland, Marian, Emma, Afterhours, More (let your imagination run wild as to what circumstances they relate to)...
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nick the stripper wrote:Could you imagine if Von was a telephone operator for the Good Samaritans? :urff:

Kid on phone: "me daddy bruises me."
Eldritch: "look kid, life is short and life is cruel, but we have beer and we have fuel."
:notworthy: :lol: :lol: :lol: :notworthy:
Kid: "I get nightmares."
Eldo: "I don´t sleep so I don´t dream do Idon´t wqake up frightened!" *Passes a small baglet to the kid*
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As I've said before, SSV makes my migraines more bearable. Seriously.
It seems that it has the ability to take some of the headache away from me and distribute it amongst the other people who are in the house at that time. :twisted:
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markfiend wrote:I lost a leg, but thanks to The Sisters it grew back.

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and it still growing? much longer than the other?
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pikkrong wrote:
markfiend wrote:I lost a leg, but thanks to The Sisters it grew back.

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and it still growing? much longer than the other?
:lol: It stopped when it got back to the length it was before.
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markfiend wrote:
pikkrong wrote:
markfiend wrote:I lost a leg, but thanks to The Sisters it grew back.

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and it still growing? much longer than the other?
:lol: It stopped when it got back to the length it was before.
with a help of Michael Bolton?
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Morphine Messiah wrote:Does anyone have any tales of how the music of the Sisters of Mercy helped them through an extremley dark, lonely or hard time in their life?
too numerous to mention....specifically heartland/gimme shelter:THE greatest side of vinyl ever pressed. :notworthy:
Well I was handsome and I was strong
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"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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canon docre wrote:Absolutely true! I play Sisters to my plants on a daily basis and they grow like hell.
The Crowley School of Horticulture, then - they grow because they're scared sh*tless of what you'll do to them if they don't. "Fookin' ell, Roddy Dendron - if they listen to that for *fun* then imagine what they'll do if you drop leaves on the floor again!" :lol:
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