Heartland

Ladies, gentlemen, and others,

Please allow me to introduce myself, after having spent some time lurking in the ill-lit corners of this Forum, sampling the goodies, listening in on the banter and generally having a look around.

I'm Yggdrasil, a long standing Sisters addict. One fine day back in 1982 I was hanging out at my favorite record shop, when a sinuous, mystical, machine-like sound came oozing out of the speakers. A morose, ridiculously deep voice started to intone some amazing lyrics. I was stunned, and instantly hooked. And I guess I still am.

Me and my best friend started to collect all the bootlegs and tapes we could find by this amazing band -so little was available officially, which only made it all the more fascinating, as the unreleased stuff they performed live was absolutely ace, throwing in hilarious covers like "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" and "Jolene" with same deadpan, controlled energy.

This went on for some years, following the band through its various incarnations, loved them all in their respective splendor, and then -nothing. Then more nothing. Then even more nothing. My once favorite band slowly drifted to the back of my imagination, stashed away filed as "good memories from way back when".

Then last year one of my newer friends, after I had used the Sisterhood version of "Colours" in a podcast, turns out to be a huge Sisters fan. This rekindled my interest in the band. I started listening to them again, and was pleasantly surprised at just how great they were. It also turned out that they were indeed doing proper tours, not just the occasional festival for nostalgic Goths milling around in rainy German towns, and were even performing some great, unreleased material, which I clearly needed to collect...

So, I'm back to square one, in a sense! Which feels great.

Anyways, there's my story. Nice meeting you all.

Since I've been doing some leeching without showing proper courtesy to the people working hard to bring me the stuff, I'd like to start off right away with showing some well-earned respect and giving something back, so here's a remastered, substantially improved version of the show from the Cleveland, House Of Blues show from November 13. Kudos and many thanks to the original poster!

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 657#448657

Meanwhile, one question: the newest song, I reckon the title is "Slept", am I correct? I've been comparing it to the song which is mostly labelled "Still", and they clearly seem to be different songs -or is it just the evolution of the same song? There seems to be some confusion, as the titles are often interchanged. Any info on this would be much appreciated!

/ Yggdrasil

Welcome aboard.

Slept and Still are different songs, with the latter being introduced slightly more recently. Threads on Slept and Still are in the Lyrics forum, in case you want to take a look.

Petseri wrote:Welcome aboard.

Slept and Still are different songs, with the latter being introduced slightly more recently. Threads on Slept and Still are in the Lyrics forum, in case you want to take a look.

Thank you.

So it appears that the band is really writing new material again, great!

Welcome indeed! Enjoy the land!
Nice first post!

Welcome to hell.
How do you pronounce your name then?

..and thanks for the share.

Greetings, a most excellent introduction. Enjoy your stay....

witam!

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

markfiend wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

I feel so uneducated now.

Wilkommen

Wotcha.
Nice first post & thanks for the share.

markfiend wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

Indeed!

Obviousman wrote:Wilkommen

Danke schön. But I'm afraid my German skills aren't anywhere near Von's...

Pista wrote:Wotcha.
Nice first post & thanks for the share.

Oh, the pleasure is mine, I assure you. This forum is really a fantastic place. So much SoM stuff and knowledge, all within a mouseclick. It's like one of those incidents where all of a sudden a social handicap becomes an advantage... (Which were the other incidents now again? The autistic bomb maker? Hmm...)

Yggdrasil wrote: It's like one of those incidents where all of a sudden a social handicap becomes an advantage...

Welcome to our world.

markfiend wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

Wotan hates it when you call it 'mythology.'

sultan2075 wrote:

markfiend wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

Wotan hates it when you call it 'mythology.'

Quite the contrary, I'd wager... we're not talking about Jahve or other all-powerful entities of the foreskin-measuring ilk, mind.

Yggdrasil wrote:

Obviousman wrote:Wilkommen

Danke schön. But I'm afraid my German skills aren't anywhere near Von's...

Nor are mine really, but I always kinda like the sound of the word wilkommen, which is why I go that way

welcome.

Hi Yggdrasil... welcome to the Heartland, sir(?)

Nice read by the way!

Still is my current favourite of the new(er) songs.
Welcome aboard

silentNate wrote:Still is my current favourite of the new(er) songs.
Welcome aboard

Yes, it's a great song. And hello everyone!

Hom_Corleone wrote:

markfiend wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

I feel so uneducated now.

Even my 7 year olds know that....the world tree that is - not that yer a higgerant fool

ooops....Allo

sultan2075 wrote:

markfiend wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:How do you pronounce your name then?

IG-drass-eel

The world tree in Norse Mythology.

Wotan hates it when you call it 'mythology.'

Wotan hates it when you call it Norse.

Odin, on the other hand, is totally down with it

Pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr Worldtree