Heartland

I wasn't been deliberately provocative - I have often wondered how the 'Red Skies' song leaked out on bootleg and naturally assumed if it was doing the rounds then the Nine while Nine version recorded at the same time was out there too.

It had the working title 'Child Of Light' and contained a line which mentions 'the children of the dust..' When we were deciding on a title for FALAA I pitched that one in even though it didn't seem likely the lyric would surface on the finished version. Quite reasonably the Von pointed out that we were over egging the 'something of something' being called the Sisters of Mercy after all.

I think I mentioned nabbing some of the words for a later Ghost dance song (A Deeper Blue) on the www.ghostdance.co.uk recording diaries.

Quiff Boy wrote:see mr marx's post here

i asked him to clarify his comment about a demo of "9 while 9" that he made on the above-mentioned thread... i thought his reply was worth a thread of its own as it might start a little discussion

it appears there is another FALAA-era demo track that has yet to see the light of day entitled 'Child Of Light'

I wasn't been deliberately provocative - I have often wondered how the 'Red Skies' song leaked out on bootleg and naturally assumed if it was doing the rounds then the Nine while Nine version recorded at the same time was out there too.


It had the working title 'Child Of Light' and contained a line which mentions 'the children of the dust..' When we were deciding on a title for FALAA I pitched that one in even though it didn't seem likely the lyric would surface on the finished version. Quite reasonably the Von pointed out that we were over egging the 'something of something' being called the Sisters of Mercy after all.

I think I mentioned nabbing some of the words for a later Ghost dance song (A Deeper Blue) on the www.ghostdance.co.uk recording diaries.

lordy

sunset yellow wrote:...and what are our possibilities to listen to this song please,
what do we have to do?
i just feel ready to do almost(!!) anything..... haloooooooo.....

Dan wrote:Robin won't have it or he'd have mentioned it along with all the other rare stuff you weren't allowed to have.

Dammit Quiffy, you should have told Mr Marx that "Yes, we do have a copy but the quality is a bit poor and can I have a nice new copy please Mr Marx Sir."

RobF wrote:Surely everyone prefers side two

dear lord, i hope there are no "Side oners" (as I like to call them) out there, unhealthy little beasts.

hallucienate wrote:

RobF wrote:Surely everyone prefers side two

dear lord, i hope there are no "Side oners" (as I like to call them) out there, unhealthy little beasts.

good to see you again

dedicated side twoer myself

James Blast wrote:My initiation to FALAA land was getting it from my friend at the local library who worked in the music section, she used to let me see what had been bought but not catalogued and if there was anything I fancied I was free to take it, tape it and return it ASAP. FALAA fell into that category, so I nipped up the road, taped it onto a TDK C-90 and returned it all inside an hour. It has always sounded like one side of a tape to me.

Quiff Boy wrote:incidentally, when you play vinyl can you sometimes here a "ghost" version of the track itself? its very quiet and starts milliseconds before the real one?!? its noticable on my FALAA album because of the piano chord at the start of black planet...

Quiff Boy wrote:

James Blast wrote:My initiation to FALAA land was getting it from my friend at the local library who worked in the music section, she used to let me see what had been bought but not catalogued and if there was anything I fancied I was free to take it, tape it and return it ASAP. FALAA fell into that category, so I nipped up the road, taped it onto a TDK C-90 and returned it all inside an hour. It has always sounded like one side of a tape to me.

but did you not find that the tape missed the last few seconds of SKOS as its just a tad too long? mine always did (oddly enough i got that from the local library's music dept too!)

hallucienate wrote:When I retaped the album on the same tape I managed to fit the ending in.

RobF wrote:Surely everyone prefers side two

dear lord, i hope there are no "Side oners" (as I like to call them) out there, unhealthy little beasts.

markfiend wrote:

hallucienate wrote:When I retaped the album on the same tape I managed to fit the ending in.

Strangely enough I had the same thing. It must be because the tape stretches slightly over time.

Quiff Boy wrote:on further investigation, my vinyl copy of the cure's "disintegration" album does that too - you can hear the intro to the first track begin "in the background" a split second before it really starts...

odd

i seem to recall this happening on my old deck too, so its not just my turntable being wierd

MrChris wrote:On weird tape-effects...in my taping days, once or twice I had the unnerving phenomenon where for a few seconds what's on side two can be heard 'underneath' what's on side one.