What are you favorite sisters songs?

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Under The Gun, Driven Like The Snow, Susanne, Ribbons, FALAA (the last three Eldritch/Christo/Catalyst live)
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Floorshow
All of The Reptile House EP
Temple Of Love
Train
Walk Away
No Time To Cry (live 2010/2011 version)
Marian
Some Kind Of Stranger
1959
Flood I
Never Land (whether it's a true edit or not, the long version circa 2006)
(Of course the singles from Floodland are great as well)
Vision Thing
Ribbons
Something Fast
I Was Wrong
Under The Gun
Come Together
War On Drugs
We Are The Same, Susanne
Summer
Crash And Burn
I Have Slept With All The Girls In Berlin
Still
Arms
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Does "driven like the snow" not often come in concerts? I tried to find it in youtube but can find no live-performances of this song..
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Sonya Marmeladova wrote:Does "driven like the snow" not often come in concerts? I tried to find it in youtube but can find no live-performances of this song..
Never been performed live.
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markfiend wrote:
Sonya Marmeladova wrote:Does "driven like the snow" not often come in concerts? I tried to find it in youtube but can find no live-performances of this song..
Never been performed live.
Is it only syntesizers and machines except from the song?
or why is it that they do not play it in concerts?
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Sonya Marmeladova wrote:
markfiend wrote:
Sonya Marmeladova wrote:Does "driven like the snow" not often come in concerts? I tried to find it in youtube but can find no live-performances of this song..
Never been performed live.
Is it only syntesizers and machines except from the song?
or why is it that they do not play it in concerts?
Maybe it's NINE WHILE NINE part 2.
"as we walk on the floodland"
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I love Driven like the Snow too. One of my favourites. And 1959. And Flood II, and, and... oh I just like all the slow ballad types!

I know I'm weird, but I never cared much for FALAA and Marian (maybe cause I'm a Floodland person, or because FALAA was the kind of album my sister + her juvenile delinquent type friends had on heavy rotation when they would get stoned and puke in the bath tub), but in the Christo/Catalyst live versions I can't get enough of them.
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Sita wrote:I love Driven like the Snow too. One of my favourites. And 1959. And Flood II, and, and... oh I just like all the slow ballad types!

I know I'm weird, but I never cared much for FALAA and Marian (maybe cause I'm a Floodland person, or because FALAA was the kind of album my sister + her juvenile delinquent type friends had on heavy rotation when they would get stoned and puke in the bath tub), but in the Christo/Catalyst live versions I can't get enough of them.
It is not so weird, they are very different albums.
First and last and always is more like regular rock I think, a little harder and straightforward. I think Marian has a beautiful melody, and I LOVE Possession!!
Floodland more poetic, mystic and syntetic? music.
In Floodland I think Neverland and Flood I are the best songs.
I do not like 1959 at all, it sounds so AMERICAN.
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Sita wrote:I love Driven like the Snow too. One of my favourites. And 1959. And Flood II, and, and... oh I just like all the slow ballad types!

I know I'm weird, but I never cared much for FALAA and Marian (maybe cause I'm a Floodland person, or because FALAA was the kind of album my sister + her juvenile delinquent type friends had on heavy rotation when they would get stoned and puke in the bath tub), but in the Christo/Catalyst live versions I can't get enough of them.
However, the melody in the song called "first and last and always" is almost the same as "driven like the snow", very similar almost like it is just a rougher variation of the same song.
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Ozpat wrote:
Sonya Marmeladova wrote:
markfiend wrote:Never been performed live.
Is it only syntesizers and machines except from the song?
or why is it that they do not play it in concerts?
Maybe it's NINE WHILE NINE part 2.
really? "nine while nine" so boring, the text suits the song very well!
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Alice
Floorshow
Lights
Burn
Bury Me Deep
Marian
Nine While Nine
Logic
Giving Ground
Rain From Heaven
Flood I
Driven Like The Snow
Neverland
Colours
Ribbons
Summer
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Sonya Marmeladova wrote:
Ozpat wrote:
Sonya Marmeladova wrote: Is it only syntesizers and machines except from the song?
or why is it that they do not play it in concerts?
Maybe it's NINE WHILE NINE part 2.
really? "nine while nine" so boring, the text suits the song very well!
Excellent song it is! :wink:
"as we walk on the floodland"
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(We Are The Same) Susanne
1959
1969
A Rock And A Hard Place
Adrenochrome
Afterhours
Alice
Amphetamine Logic
Anaconda
Arms
Black Planet
Blood Money
Body And Soul
Body Electric
Burn
Bury Me Deep
Colours
Come Together
Detonation Boulevard
Doctor Jeep
Dominion / Mother Russia
Driven Like The Snow
Driver
Emma
Far Parade
Finland Red, Egypt White
First And Last And Always
Fix
Flood I
Flood Ii
Floorshow
Gimme Shelter
Giving Ground
Good things
Heartland
Home Of The Hitmen
I Was Wrong
Jihad
Jolene
Kiss The Carpet
Lights
Lucretia
Marian
More
Never Land (Full Length)
Never Land (a fragmant)
Nine While Nine
No Time To Cry
On The Wire
Ozymandias
Poison Door
Possession
Rain From Heaven
Red Skies Disappear
Ribbons
Romeo Down
Sandstorm
Some Kind Of Stranger
Something Fast
Still
Summer
Teachers
Temple of Love ( T by the H of Ofra Haza )
Temple Of Love
The Damage Done
This Corrosion
Top Nite Out
Torch
Train
Under The Gun
Untitled
Valentine
Vision Thing
Walk Away
War On Drugs
Watch
When You Don't See Me
Wide Receiver
Will I Dream?
You Could Be The One
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You forgot :

Crash And Burn !!!

as well as Comfortably Numb, Confide In Me, and the whole rest of the covers ...

oh, and Phantom, but that's a special case, anyway ... :wink: :lol:
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You're right.

It seems I forgot Sugar Baby Love too. :oops:
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and where's slept? :evil: you don't like it, huh? :evil: :lol:
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lachert wrote:and where's slept? :evil: you don't like it, huh? :evil: :lol:
Yeah, Slept , which is quite as lovely as YCBTO ... :lol: ...
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Anaconda is by far the best Sisters song.
Only the Americans could have built a place like this in the middle of a jungle.
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markfiend wrote:
Sonya Marmeladova wrote:Does "driven like the snow" not often come in concerts? I tried to find it in youtube but can find no live-performances of this song..
Never been performed live.

there are snippets of Driven like the snow in Birmingham concert

according to http://tours.tsom.org/faq.htm

Driven Like the Snow (snippets were sung in 1992/06/27 Birmingham show)

so it's not an absolutely never ;D
i heard this concert, it was lovely, they played even 1959 intro in that one :innocent:
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Hello, I'm new :-)

My favourites are

Bury Me Deep
Afterhours
Some Kind of Stranger
Fix
1959


I'm curious, why is Poison Door so popular with Sisters fans?
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xseawitch wrote:Hello, I'm new :-)



I'm curious, why is Poison Door so popular with Sisters fans?

Rumors , never proved true ;D

I actually like YCBTO as all proper fans 8)

Ofc this statement will lead to another endless fighting how bad or good this song is :twisted:

Welcome btw :D
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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Thanks for the welcome!


Oh, I didn't mean to start any arguments, I was once sent a CD by a friend with 5 versions of Poison Door on it and was a bit bemused as to why

It's good to dance to, I suppose and each to their own :-)
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i meant about YCBTO :lol: not Poison Door ;D

YCBTO yeah :innocent:
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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