Heartland

I just found this site:

http://www.songfacts.com/

It's saying about TC:

"This song takes a stab at Adams and Hussey, with lines like "Sing this corrosion to me" and "Selling the don't belong" indicating that Eldritch considered The m*****n's sound to be a copy or corrosive version of The Sister Of Mercy."

Is this true?

stolen guitar.
it's obviously that TC is a stab for Wayne and Gary. but it's still to long and boring sarcastic joke.

No?!?! Too Long & boring???? Say it ain't so!

hey now hey now and now sing only live version to me

Caravaggio wrote:I just found this site:

http://www.songfacts.com/

It's saying about TC:

"This song takes a stab at Adams and Hussey, with lines like "Sing this corrosion to me" and "Selling the don't belong" indicating that Eldritch considered The m*****n's sound to be a copy or corrosive version of The Sister Of Mercy."

Is this true?

it's generally regarded as a stab at hussey, yes. i'm not sure where that notion came from or if it's urban myth, but it seems to be a common perception.

Wasn't there an incident at a festival a few years back where he said "I'd forgotten why I wrote this song..." after having to go onstage after the m*****n?

Or something?

In a Melody Maker interview to promote Floodland, Eldritch said the song was about a particular person "and it doesn't take a genius to work out who. Although it'll probably take the person concerned some considerable time". Ooh, get her!!!

That remark was probably due to Wayne having reviewed Gift for a music paper. He totally missed the "two-five-zero-zero-zero"reference

robm wrote:Wasn't there an incident at a festival a few years back where he said "I'd forgotten why I wrote this song..." after having to go onstage after the m*****n?

Or something?

close, but no cigar
It was at the M'era Luna festival in 2000. The Mish played in the afternoon, & co headlined. Before Giving Ground Herr Eldritch said something like how diplomatic of me to forget what this is all about...

radiojamaica wrote:

robm wrote:Wasn't there an incident at a festival a few years back where he said "I'd forgotten why I wrote this song..." after having to go onstage after the m*****n?

Or something?

close, but no cigar
It was at the M'era Luna festival in 2000. The Mish played in the afternoon, & co headlined. Before Giving Ground Herr Eldritch said something like how diplomatic of me to forget what this is all about...

You're right!

The really interesting and entertaining ones might come from The Sisters having to get on stage before Teh Mischun.

Ozpat wrote:

radiojamaica wrote:

robm wrote:Wasn't there an incident at a festival a few years back where he said "I'd forgotten why I wrote this song..." after having to go onstage after the m*****n?

Or something?

close, but no cigar
It was at the M'era Luna festival in 2000. The Mish played in the afternoon, & co headlined. Before Giving Ground Herr Eldritch said something like how diplomatic of me to forget what this is all about...

You're right!

When it comes to useless Sisters trivia, I'm yer man!

I always thought This Corrosion was making fun of yuppies, hence the "gimme things that don't last so long" line and its satirical appropriation of the kind of overblown production style that was trendy in the late 1980s.

Maybe we can infer from this that it describes That Guitarist as a yuppie?