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Which year did YOU discover the Sisters?
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 11:15
by Loki
By popular request and the results should make interesting reading.
Peterborough 83 for me, but apparently I 'saw' them in 81 but it doesn't register on my memory scale.
NB: Limitations on the maximum number of options possible meant I've had to bracket years together.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 11:44
by randdebiel²
I'm the latest
1996
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 11:48
by elguiri
Mid 82 when Adrenochrome/Body Electric was being played at a certain "Legendary Club" in Leeds.........
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 11:59
by Loki
randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest
1996
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 12:02
by mugabe
Johnny Boy wrote:randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest
1996
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old.
Let's run a "How old are you?" poll, then. Should be really interesting.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 12:14
by andymackem
1991/2. I'm 28, btw.
Around the time of Temple of Love in the charts and SCOOB coming out. Was listening to a lot of JAMC at the time as well.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 12:20
by Suleiman
1988: a bootleg copy of top of the pops! thats pretty much all we got in Kuwait. Dominion sounded so different from everything else in the charts (no suprise) and the band (Well Von, Patsy and James Ray?) looked so 'otherworldy'. I was hooked.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 12:48
by ryan
half way through 2000...im a young fan and im dam right proud
and i like them because of their music and not for the tedious goth tag. I also like The velvet underground, stooges, bowie and the rolling stones.
ok..you can shoot me now
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 13:04
by randdebiel²
Johnny Boy wrote:randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest
1996
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old.
troof!
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 13:05
by randdebiel²
ryan_w_0000 wrote:half way through 2000...im a young fan and im dam right proud
and i like them because of their music and not for the tedious goth tag. I also like The velvet underground, stooges, bowie and the rolling stones.
ok..you can shoot me now
I even like Jacques Brel
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 13:55
by The Green Lantern
I'm 32. I was 16 back in 1986. Or was I only 15? Listened to Temple of Love. Then I got hold of FALAA. I was instantly hooked. Started to collect vinyls in absurdum. But it was fun at the time and I didn't have anything better to do.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 15:39
by Gary
i started in 1996, when i was a wee 15 year old
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 16:23
by mh
I'd been aware of them for a few years prior, but it was 1987 and This Corrosion that first got me really hooked. Then hearing Dominion finished the job.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 16:51
by Planet Dave
1985 - me brothers tape of FALAA on the car stereo. Still never heard anything like 'Marian'.
Then the Wake vid and This Corrosion stomped on any minor doubts.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 18:17
by James Blast
Their apperance on OGWT was the one that turned my head, I had heard them on Peel and had the Alice 12" on tape from me old Leeds based flatmate, but that Tuesday night on BBC 2 was the defining moment, I still have it on video with Ulravox (Foxx on vox humana) doing Hiroshima Mon Amour inbetween.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 18:31
by mugabe
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 18:34
by wintermute
Johnny Boy wrote:randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest
1996
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old.
age shall not wither us, nor custom stale our infinite variety
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 18:37
by Black Planet
mugabe wrote:Johnny Boy wrote:randdebiel² wrote:I'm the latest
1996
Makes no difference when. Just means some of us are very, very old.
Let's run a "How old are you?" poll, then. Should be really interesting.
No Mugabe it won't. It's well known Who is Elderly Bastard Groovy. And some of us are even more EBG than the 30 somthings who complain about it.
You know who you are!
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 18:55
by James Blast
Black Planet wrote:You know who you are!
Whoever could you be thinking of BP?
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 19:16
by Black Planet
Red Sunsets wrote:Black Planet wrote:You know who you are!
Whoever could you be thinking of BP?
Well, Barman Blast, three names come to mind.....
I really do laugh at the *kids* who Think they are EBG...but really they aren't.
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 19:23
by James Blast
So it's you me and JB? Check out stephansonics Bidet...
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 19:46
by Andy TG
mh wrote:I'd been aware of them for a few years prior, but it was 1987 and This Corrosion that first got me really hooked. Then hearing Dominion finished the job.
@ "mh"
Same goes for me - I could have been tying those very words!
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 20:16
by MrChris
I was aware of Floodland at the time, and impressed in some sort of way, but it was a couple of years before it became my all-time favourite album. 1990, in fact, with the release of Vision Thing. I was just a bit too young before.
The poll results are interesting, because I thought there'd be a bigger proportion of FALAA-era and even pre-FALAA votes. Or is it just that these old codgers are more vocal?
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 21:05
by Angelchild
A good friend from the time introduced me to them in the Summer of 1987. I had no real idea of how anyone looked,just sounded amazing.
Then of course I saw the vid of "This Corrosion" and was delighted to find out Von was an utter sex god too
Posted: 05 Feb 2004, 21:33
by Gripper
Black Planet wrote:It's well known Who is Elderly Bastard Groovy. And some of us are even more EBG than the 30 somthings who complain about it.
You know who you are!
I'm 37. Mind of a 14 year old. Body of a 36 year old. Spirit of a 3000 year old.
Hey, BP...I have it in me to be a bastard (which a few of us have heard somewhere before, right?), one daughter thinks I'm groovy, and one thinks I'm bordering on elderly. Can I be EBG too?