Heartland

Hmmm...Mebbe this should be in the Where Are The Now? strand...

Just rather surprisingly seen on (UK's) Channel 4 in between yet another re-run of Reservoir Dogs...an ad for new compilation CD: "The Dark Side of the 80s"

...Guess Who's on there????

Full running order is:

1. Lullaby - The Cure
2. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
3. This Corrosion - Sisters Of Mercy
4. Wasteland - The m*****n
5. Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
6. Eloise - The Damned
7. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
8. Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
9. April Skies - Jesus & Mary Chain
10. Never Take Me Alive - Spear Of Destiny
11. The Beat(en) Generation - The The
12. Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
13. Moonchild - Fields Of The Nephilim
14. No Rest - New Model Army
15. Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
16. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
17. Mr Pharmacist - The Fall
18. Brassneck - Wedding Present
19. Christine - House Of Love
20. Marthas Harbour - All About Eve
Disc Two
1. Tower Of Strength - The m*****n
2. Dominion - Sisters Of Mercy
3. Real Wild Child - Iggy Pop
4. Peaches - Stranglers
5. True Faith - New Order
6. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
7. Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
8. Reward - Teardrop Explodes
9. Today - Talk Talk
10. Go Wild In The Country - Bow Wow Wow
11. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
12. 68 Guns - The Alarm
13. Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp
14. A Wish Away - Wonder Stuff
15. E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite
16. Shine On - House Of Love
17. There She Goes - The LA's
18. Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole
19. Sexuality - Billy Bragg
20. Pearly-Dewdrops Drop - Cocteau Twins

Ad included snippets from This Corrosion, W*s*e*a*d by the M*s*i*n, etc etc etc...Is this the first time t'Sisters (and, indeed, t'M*sh) have been included on a 'mainstream' compilation..?

Wierd selection anyway, eh???



Out on Monday 2nd June...I shall, of course, be first in line in the queue at my local recorded material emporium...

i have seen / listened / bought lot of dark / gothic / etc compilations and this one seems far better than majority of them
but the real strange thing - Black Sabbath and "Paranoid" and 80s

I saw that too but I didn't gleen all that detail in the 30 second ad. Just a bit of the cult and a bit of the sisters.

I picked up a nice compilation album at a boot sale yesterday morning called Absolution : Rock The Alternative Way.

Has The Cure, The m*****n, Killing Joke, The Wonder Stuff, Echo & The Bunnymen, Siouxie, Gene Loves Jezebel, Bauhaus, The Jesus And Mary Chain, All About Eve, The Stranglers, Depeche Mode, The Psychedelic Furs, The Creatures, The Damned, The Ramones, Fields Of The Nephilim and NMA. Some of the same songs as the album above.

Not bad for a quid!

Think I'll still buy a copy of that one though!

the ad is very funny - some goth chap poncing about in his bedroom, the walls full of sisters and cure posters... snippets of songs playing - and he changes his outfit to look like the type of goth that would like the song playing at that time - ie: hussey/fat bob/etc etc

very funny - and the sisters logos are plastered all over the walls!

am sure von would hate it though

why do they alsways choose "never take me alive"? "rainmaker" and "liberator" are far better tunes and much better dance-floor stomp-a-thons

goth revival? you betcha

I hope there's also a 'Bow Wow Wow' revival.

Hi Lars....where ya been ?

Saw that ad too....nice that it ended with the Sisters as the main kind of
selling point.

Wonder who got the money for the deal though ?

Zodiac Mindwarp!!!!!!!!

Ha.

One day we will rule the world. One day.

I picked one up that was almost identical to the above list, by the name of "Nocturnal".

It's good for washing the pots to.

Zuma wrote:Hi Lars....where ya been ?

Greetings Zuma!

Ummm...Sadly the answer is nowhere!! Shame really...

'The Dark Side of the 80s'.
Eh?
half the songs aren't even remotely 'dark', and many aren't even from the 80s!

There's a lawsuit there somewhere

And am I the only one who thinks that the jingly jangly indie pop of The Las, Billy Bragg and House of Love are completely out of place?

Jim wrote:Zodiac Mindwarp!!!!!!!!

Ha.

One day we will rule the world. One day.

Im with Jim
Zodiac Mindwarp!!!!!!!
Ha.

Ok. We have in poland some kind of list, top 40. It going week by week from a 23 years. It is the older radio broadcast of that kind and it goes on channel 3 of polish radio. And maybe 3-4 years ago they realized a cd's from every year of existance with the great number ones. And if I remember well, Sisters was with This Corrosion in 1989 or something in companion with many different bands. It can be bought in shop in poland and it isn't a bootleg at all. Uffff Thanks a lot everybody. Good Night.

Yeah, I think Billy Bragg will be surprised to find out he has a 'dark side' too...especially given the song, which is just a shiny happy call for sexual toleration - and there's even a very eighties safe sex message in there - don't tell me, condoms are gothic...

MrChris wrote:Yeah, I think Billy Bragg will be surprised to find out he has a 'dark side' too...especially given the song, which is just a shiny happy call for sexual toleration - and there's even a very eighties safe sex message in there - don't tell me, condoms are gothic...

only if they are black ribbed latex

I noticed that the aforementioned "dark" CD is now at number 22 in the ASDA uk chart...(well you have to shop somewhere!).

....course I didn't buy it....weird mix of stuff as discussed before, and how many copies of Dominion and This Corrosion do you need

Hey Lars, keep hearing the odd rumour about a Hitch Hikers movie - heard anything yourself.....?

Zuma wrote:Hey Lars, keep hearing the odd rumour about a Hitch Hikers movie - heard anything yourself.....?

I heard that "Disney" hold the movie rights and that the director "Jay Roach" (of Austin Powers fame) was on board - and the much missed Dougie Adams had finished the script, with Roach contributing, just before his untimely death - 2 years ago!

BTW - Douglas Adams passed away whilst training at the "Gym" - that being the case at least "He Knew Where His Towel Was"

Thanks Andy..was just wondering.

However, a Disney version of Hitchhikers ?
maybe best left alone!