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existing demo recordings
Posted: 20 Feb 2004, 15:06
by jost 7
hello everybody
although i am into the sisters since the floodland area this is my first post in here.
i am interested in some infos about demos - maybe somebody out there could help a little:
1. floodland: has anybody ever heard (of) any demo tracks beside the common kill the lights/ dominion stuff? especially this corrosion would attract my interest, althoug i haven't ever heard of any tracks beside the mentioned ones.
2. vision thing: afaik no demo tracks have made their way into collectors' circles. has anybody ever heard such demo tracks or the various different takes/versions which have been mentioned by eldritch himself?
sisters demos have influenced the way i listen to the whole sisters stuff enormously. maybe floodland is the only album(collection of tracks) where i prefer the official versions to demo/live material.
thx, j.
Posted: 21 Feb 2004, 18:17
by Ghostrider
i have a promo of this Corrosion with the radio edit on 1 side..and....a verry long version on the other side... i timed it..to check for myself ( there is no info in the record..black label, black cover) and indeed it was longer...
also a different version on the Dominion promo...(short + long)
the lucretia version from the lucretia 12" is also a longer version (at least imho)...nothing special though...
but i do recall hearing a weird version of Lucretia once...have no info bout that i'm afraid..
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 11:17
by MrChris
There are demos of This Corrosion done with the Sisterhood setup, but they are very jealously guarded by those who have them (not me, unfortunately!)
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 13:41
by paint it black
MrChris wrote:There are demos of This Corrosion done with the Sisterhood setup, but they are very jealously guarded by those who have them (not me, unfortunately!)
also pre-sisterhood setup. Even more jealously guarded
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 13:59
by MrChris
See? It's mean, isn't it?
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 14:13
by paint it black
MrChris wrote:See? It's mean, isn't it?
Possibly
but as a non-owner it gives me something to aspire too
all the demos sound crap anyway, that's why ther're demo natch
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 14:47
by mh
But as archive material they are of interest from the historical perspective of the band's development.
OK, so Von considers them "baby photos" or whatever, so let's do a fair trade...
Now, GIMME!!!
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 16:41
by jost 7
the news about the sisterhood version of this corrosion definitely is good news - although i don't know how long it will take me to get hold of it yet..... - and, who is on vocals? james?
i once read that torch used to be already an old track the time it was released - so i guess that torch was written and recorded first by the sistershood lineup also - ?
dominion: is the version featured on the some boys wander... cd (the doubled intro bars) fake? at least it sounds like one...
cheers, j
Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 18:14
by mh
Torch was the famous track that Craig refused to play on, precipitating the split in 85.
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 05:47
by James
jost 7 wrote:dominion: is the version featured on the some boys wander... cd (the doubled intro bars) fake? at least it sounds like one...
Always wondered about that one, I have the USA promo of dominion and it isn't the same as the Some Boys track. Does anyone know if the SB version is legit?
I also have a rare demo of
The Sisters of Mercy - Cry Little Sister 2004 (Dirty Funker Remix). Who's jealous now?
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 10:59
by mh
Not me - that thing from the Lost Boys soundtrack ain't the Sisters!!!
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 11:29
by jost 7
i think the man from down under just made a joke....
it's hot there right now, and cold in europe....
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 11:40
by mh
Ah. Me <- Duh!
Soz. I blame the cold.
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 12:04
by jost 7
@ mh: do you have any further details about the famous torch sessions? if torch were around in 85 it might have been part of the sessions including serpents kiss, garden of delight, knocking, emma?
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 12:16
by Karst
Don't think Serpents Kiss was ever part of that. The instrumental of that one was done at the Slaughterhouse, Driffield.
Posted: 24 Feb 2004, 12:19
by mh
Nothing beyond what's fairly well known. During the second LP sessions, Von refused to sing Waynes lyrics and Craig refused to play the bassline of Torch. My own feeling is that they would have split shortly after anyway, despite that.
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 01:56
by jenzi-benzi
what's up with demos of vision thing anyone heard about those tracks to exist?
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 10:32
by markfiend
jenzi-benzi wrote:what's up with demos of vision thing anyone heard about those tracks to exist?
My understanding of it is that the official release of
Vision Thing is the demos. The band rejected the more developed studio versions as "over-produced" IIRC.
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 12:37
by jost 7
according to actual track lenght and what is printed on the cd/lp there must have been a change of some trackversions straight before the start of pressing - maybe also causing a change in the production level.
the remix version of wydsm is definitely an improovement over the album version - although on the same production level
i always wondered if the more mixes from 93 were closer to the bands original versions - despite of the chosen names for these mixes they still seem to me a little powerless... a mix combining elements of the album version and the 93 version (and the live version) would have provided the best results i guess.
andrew, give me all the mixes that i can't get to
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 14:16
by Red_Kola
markfiend wrote: My understanding of it is that the official release of Vision Thing is the demos. The band rejected the more developed studio versions as "over-produced" IIRC.
I never heard anyone call them "Demos". I do recall the phrase "Monitor Mixes", however but can't remember where from...
It does beg the question what the f**k were they doing in PUK for 9 months to eventually go back to these earlier versions?
This is when the relationship with the record company began to break down, exacerbated by the below expectation sales, leading durectly to the release of the two compilations to try and pay for the studio time for Thing. And you wonder why East West weren't pushing the Sisters as hard as they could...?
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 14:21
by markfiend
Demos, Monitor Mixes, pshaw! Same difference.
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 14:38
by Quiff Boy
Red_Kola wrote:It does beg the question what the **** were they doing in PUK for 9 months to eventually go back to these earlier versions?
http://www.sputnikworld.com/history/history89_3.asp
watching the cricket, sightseeing, sticking pictures of girls from Vogue all round my part of the studio, getting a letter from Joanna Lumley and photocopying it 100 times, playing games on our new Amiga computers, and discovering Tetris on a new thing called a GameBoy, going to Berlin to see Roger Walters perform the Pink Floyd album The Wall and getting really drunk with my friend Kristianne Backer from MTV and then waking up next morning and going for a canal boat ride round the east German part of Berlin in a strange sunshine... and we made a rocking record... even if on the really slow track Andrew had to play the bassline for me cos I just couldn't get it... my lasting vision of those days in Denmark is when Andrew recorded 120 vocal takes of the 9 minute song Vision Thing (and he never credited me with the lyric "another black hole in the killing zone...)... anyway it took Andrew a week just to listen back to the vocals..... and you wonder why it took a year?
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 14:45
by markfiend
From quiffy's link:
Eldritch hated her cos she laughed at his Marks and Spencer (very washed out) underpants and was immediately banned from the dressing room
Who'd have thought it?
the goth god
doesn't wear black undies?
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 14:50
by Quiff Boy
markfiend wrote:From quiffy's link:
Eldritch hated her cos she laughed at his Marks and Spencer (very washed out) underpants and was immediately banned from the dressing room
Who'd have thought it?
the goth god
doesn't wear black undies?
ahhh! i always assumed they would be paisley...
Posted: 25 Feb 2004, 14:54
by markfiend
Quiff Boy wrote:markfiend wrote:From quiffy's link:
Eldritch hated her cos she laughed at his Marks and Spencer (very washed out) underpants and was immediately banned from the dressing room
Who'd have thought it?
the goth god
doesn't wear black undies?
ahhh! i always assumed they would be paisley...
Well, if they're M&S, you never know...