Trouble on Black Planet
Posted: 16 Aug 2007, 16:39
I have been experiencing problems with Black Planet since day 1 I learned of the Sisters. Today I have decided I want it to end, since I have been trying to solve them in various ways for over a year.
During my first few days as someone that knew the Sisters of Mercy, I scrolled Youtube for Sisters clips after hearing TOL '92 and the connected vid. I found Lucretia, Dominion, This Corrosion, Black Planet, etc..
Initially I liked the Black Planet video version real good; especially the "ooooh oooooh oo-oo" and the sparkling use of guitars.
When I started downloading some tracks I found Black Planet among my hits and listened to it... but instead of hearing the song I was expecting I heard a very differently EQ-ed version that started sounding very low and heavy after the first few beats. It really changed the guitars and the song wasn't nearly as good as the one I used to know. But I never was able to find another version that matchedthat of the video on youtube.
Later I bought First and Last and Always and there, it was back! There I heard the good old version of Black Planet again. But I still couldn't put it in a playlist on my computer as it wasn't a sharable mp3 file. So now I could listen to the song without having to open Youtube every time, but I still couldn't listen to it without having FALAA in my PC and selecting the CD instead of one of my playlists.
After nearly a year, I still haven't been able to download the correct version of Black Planet- and I'm hating it because I really liked the song.
So has anyone had the same problem- and if so, can someone please tell me how to find/get the correct version of Black Planet as an mp3/wma file?
(By the way- I did set the record straight about an old mistake of mine- I lived with Alice for all my time on Heartland without knowing that it was the '93 version- I didn't even know there were two different versions! :oops:Today I'm enjoying the original '82 version, which makes me think about buying SGWBM.
I did visit a record store in the city I live in, but they didn't have TSOM LP's, not even second hand
)
During my first few days as someone that knew the Sisters of Mercy, I scrolled Youtube for Sisters clips after hearing TOL '92 and the connected vid. I found Lucretia, Dominion, This Corrosion, Black Planet, etc..
Initially I liked the Black Planet video version real good; especially the "ooooh oooooh oo-oo" and the sparkling use of guitars.
When I started downloading some tracks I found Black Planet among my hits and listened to it... but instead of hearing the song I was expecting I heard a very differently EQ-ed version that started sounding very low and heavy after the first few beats. It really changed the guitars and the song wasn't nearly as good as the one I used to know. But I never was able to find another version that matchedthat of the video on youtube.
Later I bought First and Last and Always and there, it was back! There I heard the good old version of Black Planet again. But I still couldn't put it in a playlist on my computer as it wasn't a sharable mp3 file. So now I could listen to the song without having to open Youtube every time, but I still couldn't listen to it without having FALAA in my PC and selecting the CD instead of one of my playlists.
After nearly a year, I still haven't been able to download the correct version of Black Planet- and I'm hating it because I really liked the song.
So has anyone had the same problem- and if so, can someone please tell me how to find/get the correct version of Black Planet as an mp3/wma file?
(By the way- I did set the record straight about an old mistake of mine- I lived with Alice for all my time on Heartland without knowing that it was the '93 version- I didn't even know there were two different versions! :oops:Today I'm enjoying the original '82 version, which makes me think about buying SGWBM.
I did visit a record store in the city I live in, but they didn't have TSOM LP's, not even second hand
)
in fact doesn't wanna make carefully designed, emotional or dark music, but be a big fat rock star 
which are more emotional), the Sisters' more poppy songs (Body and Soul, Walk Away, No Time to Cry, Under the Gun) and their really big fat hits (TOL '92, Dominion, This Corrosion, Lucretia my Reflection). Whether this is because Eldritch think these are his best or because he think tis is what the general public will like best puzzles me...
meh.
