Heartland

http://www.post-punk.com/the-sisters-of ... floodland/

http://www.post-punk.com/the-sisters-of ... ion-thing/

Yes ... ... ...

eventually 25 years are done, only not yet for UTG, SGWBM and ASCOOB ... ...

Gospel choir? I'd pay to hear a gospel version of This Corrosion.

Were either of these albums really released on 13th November (Friday in 1987 and Tuesday in 1990)? I bought both of them on the day of release and seem to remember both days being Monday (in fact, I'd put money on it being a Monday when I bought Floodland). Monday was traditionally the day that new albums were released in the UK. I suppose Friday 13th seems a lot more "goth" but I don't think that was actually the release date despite what it says on the always 100% trustworthy Wikipedia

metal on metal wrote:Were either of these albums really released on 13th November (Friday in 1987 and Tuesday in 1990)? I bought both of them on the day of release and seem to remember both days being Monday (in fact, I'd put money on it being a Monday when I bought Floodland). Monday was traditionally the day that new albums were released in the UK. I suppose Friday 13th seems a lot more "goth" but I don't think that was actually the release date despite what it says on the always 100% trustworthy Wikipedia

I always remember albums or singles having their release date on a Monday. Charts were always Sunday night so to get a good run at the charts it had to be Monday. I definately remember bunking off school on Mondays , jooking* the train into Glasgow to get Iron Maiden's latest single/album in the very early eighties.

*a popular pastime for Scots with very little money or better things to spend it on.

There's a flyer for Floodland that says 15 November.

i know vision thing came out on a monday: i'd had no idea the sisters were bringing out a new album for some reason, and when i saw it in the record shop window it blew my mind that here was a whole new sisters album that i had had no knowledge of! i was told it had come out that day and of course i had to have it there and then. i know it was monday cuz i had to spend my bus-fare to work for the rest of the week on buying it.

I remember being in a queue of black-clad layabouts in Our Price in Manchester Arndale Centre, all of us clutching a copy each of Floodland.

I think I must have bought it at the weekend though, not the Monday; I was still in school back in those days and I was a good little boy (pipe down at the back) and never bunked off school.

Not like now

markfiend wrote: I was still in school back in those days and I was a good little boy (pipe down at the back) and never bunked off school.

Not like now

You bunk off school now?

He's not little anymore.

I work at a university, which (by some definitions) counts as a school...

As for bunking off, well, you might think that but I couldn't possibly comment.

Do you smoke behind the bike sheds too?

Not any more