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has any famous band covered sisters?
I was listening to lucretia the other day and thinking it would be very interesting to hear the Cure do that....
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Paradise Lost covered Walk Away
Cradle of Filth covered No Time To Cry
Taake covered Heartland
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Ariel Pink did Damage Done, Foetus did (I think) FALAA, Lambchop did This Corrosion.
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Mark Morriss of the Bluetones did a great version of Lucretia (My Reflection) a few years back.

The video's a right laugh where he plays all his band members, with the singer character resplendent in Aviators and leather gloves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Zt8hMl-No
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Supersuckers did Afterhours many years ago. I rather liked that one.

edit: found it on youtube.

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Scooter - Marian
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In Extremo - This Corrosion
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System of a Down - Marian (did a short live rendition)
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That Guitarist - Marian (live version)
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GC wrote: 09 Nov 2021, 22:34Scooter - Marian
Probably, in terms of sales, the most famous band who covered them.
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Superchunk do a pretty good Alice:
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I saw Pink Floyd have a go at Comfortably Numb, wasn't as good though.
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Warrel Dane's cover of Lucretia is one of my fave Sisters covers.



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czuczu wrote: 09 Nov 2021, 23:59 I saw Pink Floyd have a go at Comfortably Numb, wasn't as good though.
The Rolling Stones did Gimme Shelter, but they altered lyrics.
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czuczu wrote: 09 Nov 2021, 23:59 I saw Pink Floyd have a go at Comfortably Numb, wasn't as good though.
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Nonesuch wrote: 09 Nov 2021, 22:17 Mark Morriss of the Bluetones did a great version of Lucretia (My Reflection) a few years back.

The video's a right laugh where he plays all his band members, with the singer character resplendent in Aviators and leather gloves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Zt8hMl-No
I quite like that....a different but effective take on it.
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Listening to some of these cover versions has made me appreciate some of Eldritch's vocal techniques even more. He may not be the greatest ever 'singer', but his delivery always takes it to another level. His use of rhythm, emphasis and pauses etc. is very evident when you listen to other people singing the words.

I know it's good to interpret things in different ways, but sometimes these singers sound like they don't really know the song that well, as if they're just reading the lyrics from a sheet. Seems to lose a bit in translation.
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I know these have been mentioned here before, but they're definitely worth listening to again. Stripped back acoustic versions and very good they are indeed.

Heartland - Sisters of Mercy cover by Lymon Willis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htWFNtcUaPM

Adrenochrome - Sisters of Mercy cover by Lymon Willis
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A load of monks did More, some woman butchered TC on stage with Von and the Mekons (Sally Timms) did a pretty great Alice.

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czuczu wrote: 10 Nov 2021, 15:14
I love that one actually. She has a whole album with covers of songs by Siouxsie, the Cure, etc
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Kreator did Lucretia in their goth phase at the end of the 90s.

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Just found a brandnew release on my Spotify Release Radar - Body Electric by Then Comes Silence. I think it‘s crap. :|
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Icon wrote: 11 Nov 2021, 19:23 Just found a brandnew release on my Spotify Release Radar - Body Electric by Then Comes Silence. I think it‘s crap. :|
I don't know if I'd call it crap necessarily, but by 90 seconds in I'm thinking "bland and uninspired; ultimately, really boring." Which I suppose is worse than being bad, really.

OK, I got all the way to the end. There's absolutely no intensity to this.
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