in the depths of my tape collection......

THE place for your Sisters-related comments, questions and snippets of Sisters information. For those who do not know, The Sisters of Mercy are a rock'n'roll band. And a pop band. And an industrial groove machine. Or so they say. They make records. Lots of records, apparently. But not in your galaxy. They play concerts. Lots of concerts, actually. But you still cannot see them. So what's it all about, Alfie? This is one of the few tightly-moderated forums on Heartland, so please keep on-topic. All off-topic posts will either be moved or deleted. Chairman Bux is the editor and the editor's decision is final. Danke.
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....I found some possible Sisters bootlegs - can anyone tell me if they are anything special? If they are I will gladly put them up on weeding. If not, then I will put them back onto my dusty shelf where they came from!

Enter the Sisters
1. Temple of Love
2. Floorshow
3. Anaconda
4. Adrenochrome
5. Alice
6. Body Electric
7. Lights
8. Heartland
9. Gimme Shelter

Saints and Martyrs
1. First and last and always (Marian lyrics)
2. Good things (demo)
3. Garden of Delight
4. Marian (instrumental)
5. Body Electric (alternate mix)
6. Dance on glass (Black Planet tune)
7. Burn (alternate mix)
8. A rock and a hard place (alternate mix)
9. Dominion (demo)
10. Spirits (Hamburg soundcheck)
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Enter the Sisters is a pre- "some girls....." bootleg compilation of merciful release stuff.i'm pretty sure the verrsions thereon are standard .


saints and martyrs is a bit like an lp version of "the last magician of rational thought" with a couple of other odds and sods thrown in.
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"

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The demos and stuff are all available through the weeding section.
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On another note but a bit the same:

I have a tape here from 1984, Pallieterhal, Lier, Belgium.

Sound is really s**t, but maybe for the completists this is not an issue ;)

I bought it a couple of years ago, because Lier is the place I live now. And I was too young then to go see them live.

If enough people are interested, I will suck the tape into my Big Machine and see what I can do with the sound.

I'm not into weeding at all, but for a good cause one can do something out of the ordinary eh Bobbie? ;D

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Thanks for the info everyone - if anyone does want a copy you know where there is one!
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As a sidenote, Enter the Sisters was being sold in ordinary record stores - who'd never deal with bootlegs otherwise - where I lived in the late eighties, pretty much as an official release. I have no idea why. It didn't even look remotely official, did it?
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The Green Lantern wrote:As a sidenote, Enter the Sisters was being sold in ordinary record stores - who'd never deal with bootlegs otherwise - where I lived in the late eighties, pretty much as an official release. I have no idea why. It didn't even look remotely official, did it?
i remember that too.it was late '87ish IIRC.and no,it didn't look at all official-front cover being a blue "walk away" cover and no MR head/star anywhere.it was being sold as an import,but wasn't brain eaters or a major,so it was fairly obviously illegit.at £4 i wish i'ld have gotten a few now!
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"

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AFAIK, it was a semi-official release.

Black Swan released the whole load normally, and since they were a real record label (as opposed to, say, Pallazograssi), it was treated as a real release, because to them, it was.

Just, they never got permission from the Sisters for the release.
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Does it matter? We all know that Von controls the production and distribution of the bootlegs anyway :innocent:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:saints and martyrs is a bit like an lp version of "the last magician of rational thought"...
having just read Dark's post elsewhere re. his "last magician ....,i realised that the above statement is incorrect.what i meant to say was:

"saints and martyrs" is a bit like an lp version of "victims of circumstance" (eldritch singing "garden of delight" etc.) with a few other odd and sods thrown in

my apologies. :oops: :innocent:
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"

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