Heartland

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 17:40**

I don't know if all Sisters fan here have heard about the french electro-rock band The Penelopes, they did a great cover in my opinion of "Alice", it was released this year on a vynil called "Steal this", it is maybe hard to get out of France.
Here is a direct link if you want to get it, hope you will like it cause I think it is really interesting ...
http://footnostalgie.free.fr/sons/alice ... elopes.mp3

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 17:56**

Thank-you for that

indeed a very good cover....will see what A'dam has to offer and then let you know! Please say something, anything in french....in the "General chat" PLEASE....love the language.

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 19:23**

I genuiniely don't want to be controversial, but that was almost uniquely dreadful

IMHO nobody but Lambchop has really pulled off a Sissies cover, as all the others seem to be by bands who almost wilfully ignore what the songs are actually about, wheras Kurt Wagner has a good grasp of the Eldo' idiom, and had the balls to take a bombastic masterpiece and turn it into a fragile beauty of a tune.

Honorable mentions to Creaming Jesus (obviously) and Nouvelle Vague (sort of)

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 19:47**

.. but his accent is lovely.

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 19:53**

canon docre wrote:.. but his accent is lovely.

That's the only reason I like the Nouvelle Vague cover of Marian, though it loses Brownie points for missing out the German bit... Bottlers. Their versions of Too Drunk To f**k and Making Plans For Nigel make the album worth it all in all.

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 19:56**

RobF wrote:
canon docre wrote:.. but his accent is lovely.
That's the only reason I like the Nouvelle Vague cover of Marian, though it loses Brownie points for missing out the German bit... Bottlers. Their versions of Too Drunk To f**k and Making Plans For Nigel make the album worth it all in all.

They're great, just saw them on saturday performing on the summer party of the company I work for. Them and B3 (or whatever the newest boyband was called again...

)

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 20:10**

RobF wrote:I genuiniely don't want to be controversial, but that was almost uniquely dreadful

I agree completely

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 20:15**

Well I quite liked it. French people have cool voices

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 21:07**

I've found many Sisters covers to be better than original versions.
I can only listen to the originals so many times until I need something different.

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 21:08**

great sound,really!

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 22:49**

the last 3 posters need a good stabbing!

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 22:57**

"Well I quite liked it. French people have cool voices "
It makes me think about a marian's cover which was singing by a french band called "poesie noire".It was powerful and great.
I think I still have it on a tape I'll search in my garage ("back in the jungle"...)

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 23:21**

i just know i'm going to hate this....no vocals yet and it's not looking good....vocals

well,erm..no.i don't like it.didn't think i would but at least i gave it a listen (though i must have done something bad in a past life to deserve that).

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 23:23**

James Blast wrote:the last 3 posters need a good stabbing!

I wouldn't go quite that far...

But it is genuinely frightening in here sometimes...

s**t, we're agreeing about music

Let's have a row about Throbbing Gristle

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 23:28**

<----- passes Rob Culling Is Coming by 23 Skidoo

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 23:32**

That's quite frightening as I am currently listening to said act's "Islamic Fundamentalism"

Posted: **30 Aug 2005, 23:42**

I saw 23 Skidoo, but it when Sketch (of Lynx fame) was playing bass for them. They had mellowed and got into a dance groove. Pretty damn good as I recall.

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 00:54**

I'm with James - on the stabbing, not the 23 Skidoo thing.

Pretty fucking awful. Musically, the Dirty Funker Mix did it better, and those vocals are just completely fucking terrible.

My only mitigating comment would be that it possibly isn't quite the worst Sisters cover I've ever heard.

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 02:09**

Pro Tools + cheap PC - talent - skill = a load of crappity, crap, crap.

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 07:25**

RobF wrote:
James Blast wrote:the last 3 posters need a good stabbing!
I wouldn't go quite that far...

But it is genuinely frightening in here sometimes...

s**t, we're agreeing about music

Let's have a row about Throbbing Gristle

Did you know that the founding members of Throbbing Gristle met in Hull?

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 07:52**

Does not sound great. Couldn't anyway...as there is only one Alice.
She lives in Merciland...

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 08:00**

Ozpat wrote:Does not sound great. Couldn't anyway...as there is only one Alice.
She lives in Merciland...

Original or 93?

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 08:05**

RobF wrote:
James Blast wrote:
Let's have a row about Throbbing Gristle
wot?! surely its snot possible to have a row about the popular beat combo Throbbing Gristle - they are the true gods of easy listening family orientated MOR pop!!

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 08:11**

Motz wrote:
Ozpat wrote:Does not sound great. Couldn't anyway...as there is only one Alice.
She lives in Merciland...
Original or 93? ;D

Or live? All of them. Alice is just growing older...she still lives in Merciland and always will.

Posted: **31 Aug 2005, 10:12**

NEXT!

Heartland

Excellent cover of "Alice"

Excellent cover of "Alice"