Heartland

very sad to see where most here are obviously stuck ... ...

A short reminder seems urgently necessary, so hey, treasures, what is the best new Sisters song so far?

I voted for Summer, but it could just as easily have been Crash and Burn. Both of them would make fine a-sides for a single (if this were a band that did such old-fashioned things as release singles). Both of them could score radio play too, I think (Still might make a good single as well, though not as good a single as these other two).

I generally like all of the (ahem!) new songs. Romeo Down live, though, is like watching paint dry. I think a studio version--with all the subtlety that would entail--would probably be fantastic. I'm not so sure it works live.

dafuq is good things doing there?

War On Drugs.
But it is wrong that songs like C+B and Suzanne sound tired, theyre just never given a break...

panzerfaust wrote:dafuq is good things doing there?

At least givin' me a reason to take part in this poll and vote for it

Wide Receiver?
C'mon, Good Things its there

Here i would prefer multiple choices My vote goes for We Are the Same, Susanne but i love Good Things just as well

Summer.

I can't believe Susanne is in the lead. I always skip over it on live recordings. Tedium.

markfiend wrote: I can't believe Susanne is in the lead. I always skip over it on live recordings. Tedium.

Too right, but i'm going for 'the sample size is too small to be indicative'.

Normally it would be War On Drugs or Crash & Burn for me, but the temptation was too much...

Suzanne. But shouldn't it be in the covers section?

Are we really considering 'good things ' a new song ?

Summer.

I was being fair and trying to imagine what these songs would sound like if they were studio recordings. I decided that most of them would sound great but I would never hear them. I got so overcome with emotion I couldn't make a decision.

C&B for me

I can't stand Summer, it's too formulaic. Suzanne I can tolerate, although again...

WoD, Romeo Down, Slept, C&B and Arms I all love and I'd be hard pressed to choose between.

From this list Good Things, but I'm not gonna put that down as it's hardly a new one (okay, 'new' is kinda fishy in Sisters' terms anyway).
Suzanne, Romeo Down or War On Drugs. Come Together also jolly good.

Today Romeo Down wins, tomorrow could be another...

Far Parade

eh?

Arms/Romeo Down/Arms (extended) would be a killer single.

Undecided. I've missed Wide Receiver ... but that was never ever played live, iirc.

Come Together, Susanne, Slept, Will I Dream?,
Still and Arms are not yet fully worked out, imo.

Far Parade is perfect, but not my favourite.

Top Nite Out is great, but I didn't know until I heard The Sisters play it in The Netherlands, recently.

I abolutely love War On Drugs, but I guess The Sisters couldn't play it again the way they did in Hasselt 2001.

Crash And Burn, Summer and Romeo Down have almost come to full blossom by now,
especially the guitars have become just gorgeous ... but I also love these Arms riffs (great rock),
and those of Still and Will I Dream (so sweet and funny) ...

Good Things is straight away wonderful. The only song without a shadow of a doubt.
So, that's the one - Good Things ... clearly the best ... but so very, very old already ... damned!

Hell, I can't but chose for Summer.

I'll have to get back to you on that. Meanwhile, lots of YooToob TSoM bootlegs are in order. *Ahem*...

LouLou wrote:

Far Parade

eh?

Aye. What? Where? Linky, please, if someone has one...

SINsister wrote:

LouLou wrote:

Far Parade

eh?

Aye. What? Where? Linky, please, if someone has one...

Lyrics here, written in 2009, but never played live so no one outside the band has ever heard it played (apart from PiB, who got the demo version in 1982).

lazarus corporation wrote:

SINsister wrote:

LouLou wrote: eh?

Aye. What? Where? Linky, please, if someone has one...

Lyrics here, written in 2009, but never played live so no one outside the band has ever heard it played (apart from PiB, who got the demo version in 1982).

Thank you, good sir! And damn.

After an hours-long sonic session, I've come up with my "short list" of the following (for their sound alone):

Still

Susanne

Slept

War on Drugs

Crash and Burn

Arms

For their lyrics as well? Up in the air, really. But, since I'm pressed for a choice, I'm gonna go with C&B. For now. Christ, I've not listened to the Girls like this since roughly November '08. Shame on me. They just never get old. Ahhh, so lovely to be back home in their black embrace. \m/