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Favourite PART of a Sisters song
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 00:24
by DomConway
Just wondering what people’s favourite parts are of a Sisters song. Not the whole song but which snippets / lines do you love best?
For me:
- The “I got nothing to say...� verse in This Corrosion.
- The “angel� in Afterhours, which always puts me in mind of Bowie’s “angel� in Golden Years:
https://youtu.be/JUuRGRcY9O0?t=31s
https://youtu.be/bq7Yu5WIKao?t=217s
- The loudly whispered “...shine� from any live recording of Summer I’ve heard.
Shoot to kill.
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 00:34
by Afflikönig
Memories may last for years but names are just for souvenirs
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 01:56
by EmmaPeelWannaBe
And “Seen the way that careful lingers undecided at the door�
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 02:04
by mh
Forget the many steps to heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Happiness is a loaded weapon
And a short cut is better by far
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 02:25
by Dust Witch
mh wrote:Forget the many steps to heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Happiness is a loaded weapon
And a short cut is better by far
That whole section of Under The Gun is mine too
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 05:29
by czuczu
The 8 beats between Capricorn and Glitter, the perfect anticipation of big stupid riff
Tim's Corrosion intro
1969. All of it
SKOS, "All my words" onwards
"Stuck inside of Memphis", when he could still really holler.
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 07:28
by ROBBIE
Lipstick on my cigarettes
Frost upon the window pane
Nine while nine and I'm waiting...
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 08:33
by Pista
Guitar riff in Temple Of Love
The massive scream in Body Electric (1984)
The screams in Floorshow
The huge "FLOOD" screams in Flood II (live)
The bass sound coupled with the gun-shot snare in the Lucretia intro
The bass line from Detonation Boulevard
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 09:38
by Purple Light
The first 35 seconds of this Romeo Down opening. Scintillating.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXAyt3-3HI
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 12:16
by DomConway
Yeah that's lush. Great to read all of these. Another couple to add to my list:
- the last couple of choruses of Logic live, where they're all hollering together. So powerful (eg
https://youtu.be/zKKo5x4f9EQ?t=2104)
- just love the line "Nothing ventured, nothing lost" in Good Things
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 14:13
by Dust Witch
Excellent choice and I wish this got played more frequently.
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 22:32
by XidiouX
First "Seven shades of Shiva rising, I am come"
War on Drugs - Victorian Night boot
If only he had truly followed through on that. If only he actually still played that song, which remains, by a country mile, the best unreleased but performed Sisters song.
War on Drugs - still the best.
Posted: 12 Oct 2019, 23:09
by sam donut
Agree with most of the above, but also do a giddy kid goat heel click at "I'm lost with stupid again".
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 02:58
by Being645
sam donut wrote:Agree with most of the above, but also do a giddy kid goat heel click at "I'm lost with stupid again".
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/lyrics/susanne.htm ... "I'm lost
for stupid again" ... and yes, I agree.
Another example is simply the song title "I have slept with all the girls in Berlin" ...
... extremely useful ...
...
Apart from that and an endless lot of other lines, here's one from the FALAA songs:
Follow your imagination
Tear apart what you believe
Make a mess of your conviction
Take away my pride and
Real nothing
But the debris
Cuts
Two ways
Call it possession or what. It just works that way. In perfection.
And the music is great. I love all this repetitive stuff like in Heartland, On The Wire or in a different way in Wide Receiver ...
Of course, these are only few aspects from relatively early tracks. I could go on and on and on ...
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 03:06
by sam donut
Being645 wrote:sam donut wrote:Agree with most of the above, but also do a giddy kid goat heel click at "I'm lost with stupid again".
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/lyrics/susanne.htm ... "I'm lost
for stupid again" ... and yes, I agree.
Another example is simply the song title "I have slept with all the girls in Berlin" ...
... extremely useful ...
...
Thankyou for the correction:)
I'm afraid, in the words of Paul Whitehouse, I was very, very drunk.
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 03:14
by sam donut
(Still am
)
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 03:26
by Being645
Well, your "drunken" version is not bad, either ...
...
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 12:02
by sam donut
Also in my drunkenness I merely (mis)quoted a few lyrics, which isn't really what was asked for.
I do love the whole "forget the many steps to heaven..." section of UTG, particularly "you can set the controls for the heart or the knees, and the meek'll inherit what they damn well please".
Sam Donut, embarrassing himself on the internet since about 1997.
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 15:15
by Swinnow
At a gig it is usually the Mother Russia bit, though I think it needs to be later in the set than often seen nowadays.
At the "disco", or maybe on the jukebox in the boozer, the opening of Temple Of Love, original version, still kicks me, even after 36yrs.
Posted: 13 Oct 2019, 23:47
by Gaijin
The intro of Fix on Wake. When Craig comes in is a fine moment.
Those weird growling/gurgling sounds in Flood I (@ 2:53-3:00) are a spooky one.
The ending of Doctor Jeep Extended Version is a rewarding moment, after the previous 'More, More, More Stupid Guitars' indulgence that preceeds it.
Posted: 14 Oct 2019, 23:29
by situationalism
The segment near the end of RAAHP with the "far away"-s interlaced and more pronounced drum machine pounding away. Wake and the Rare Obscurities version are pretty good examples. Have always felt this way and this thread was the perfect/only opportunity to explain!
Posted: 15 Oct 2019, 10:31
by Dr. Moody
Here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqnN-m4dw28
@37mins 38 seconds "Turn the Gold to Chrome"
Click on it you'll see what i mean.
Currently it's the howls in Flood II live and the bits in VT where he lets rip.
Ahh there's too many but this too..towards the end, sisters on full form..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ujpHTACOE
I'll stop there lest it take over my day.
Posted: 15 Oct 2019, 10:54
by eastmidswhizzkid
the minimal cymbal beat in first bars of Fix which then doubles.
the whole introduction to Kiss
Heartland when the x40 repeat kicxks in and Marx' guitar goes mental
the teachers segue into Adrenochrome.
Dominion segue into Mother Russia
...too many to list
Posted: 15 Oct 2019, 13:11
by iesus
One
Two
One Two Three Four
HEY NOW....
Posted: 15 Oct 2019, 13:20
by Planet Dave
The bit in War On Drugs where the Dok ups the BPM
and / or
any single second of Emma at the RAH.
Dr. Moody wrote:I'll stop there lest it take over my day.
This