Introduction
Posted: 22 Jul 2024, 12:56
I guess the first post should be an introduction, right? So, it's, well, about the Sisters and me...
In school there have been two path that could lead into coolness; one was athletics, being star of the football team, and so. Of course that wasn’t for me.
The other was the artsy, boheme thing, and that felt more apt. Soon enough I found that the older rock thing was a better canvas to throw my attitude upon than contemporary music (it was the mid-eighties, so not that much of a surprise), and some listening took me to the darker side of the sixties (think The Doors, „Paint It Black“, The Velvet Underground, MC5) than Bubble Gum and I was convinced that black suited me better than neon pink.
Then the summer of 87 came, MTV introduced me to The Cult and the Cure, there where posters from a band called the Mishies or so hanging all around Vienna, a movie called Gothic was the craze among us youngsters around here. I discovered new places, and on one of my explorations to those lesser promoted records stores I finally brought First And Last And Always home with me (among some Siouxsie, Dead Can Dance and Echo and The Bunnymen) and that was it for that.
It was consequently the Sisters that defined the soundtrack of this summer, dwelling in a dark, Byronesque attitude I’m afraid I was a bit prone to at these times.
But when in fall Floodland hit the shelves, I’ve recognized the band (or, Mr. Eldritch, to be precise), had a much wider range, and it might be that his sometimes more educated attitude encouraged me to become a bit more serious person myself. But anyway, who knows…
So, while I’m for sure not the one around here having attended the most gigs nor with the biggest range of Live records in my shelf, they remained being a mayor influence ever since.
When asked, what still gives them this influence for me, I’d say it’s simply Von’s vision of his band being that of an intelligent, kind of anti-naive, anti-simplish kind of a rock band. I like his take on post modernism as well. Intelligence, as I said.
Aren’t that many around these days.
Thanks for having me aboard, I promise to misbehave properly.
In school there have been two path that could lead into coolness; one was athletics, being star of the football team, and so. Of course that wasn’t for me.
The other was the artsy, boheme thing, and that felt more apt. Soon enough I found that the older rock thing was a better canvas to throw my attitude upon than contemporary music (it was the mid-eighties, so not that much of a surprise), and some listening took me to the darker side of the sixties (think The Doors, „Paint It Black“, The Velvet Underground, MC5) than Bubble Gum and I was convinced that black suited me better than neon pink.
Then the summer of 87 came, MTV introduced me to The Cult and the Cure, there where posters from a band called the Mishies or so hanging all around Vienna, a movie called Gothic was the craze among us youngsters around here. I discovered new places, and on one of my explorations to those lesser promoted records stores I finally brought First And Last And Always home with me (among some Siouxsie, Dead Can Dance and Echo and The Bunnymen) and that was it for that.
It was consequently the Sisters that defined the soundtrack of this summer, dwelling in a dark, Byronesque attitude I’m afraid I was a bit prone to at these times.
But when in fall Floodland hit the shelves, I’ve recognized the band (or, Mr. Eldritch, to be precise), had a much wider range, and it might be that his sometimes more educated attitude encouraged me to become a bit more serious person myself. But anyway, who knows…
So, while I’m for sure not the one around here having attended the most gigs nor with the biggest range of Live records in my shelf, they remained being a mayor influence ever since.
When asked, what still gives them this influence for me, I’d say it’s simply Von’s vision of his band being that of an intelligent, kind of anti-naive, anti-simplish kind of a rock band. I like his take on post modernism as well. Intelligence, as I said.
Aren’t that many around these days.
Thanks for having me aboard, I promise to misbehave properly.
