Terri Nunn
Posted: 17 Feb 2006, 19:24
Apologies if you've seen this, found randomly, it's a post from Ms. Nunn herself on www.berlinpage.com....found it scouring the web.
I do hope Eldo 'interrogated' her appropriately.
http://www.berlinpage.com/ubb/Archives/ ... 01-11.html
Terri Nunn
Member posted August 25, 2004 11:05 PM
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Reese and Greg B, thanks for your great stories! I want to post a question here that I love asking music lovers: Tell the story of a song that blew you away so completely when you first heard it that you remember where you were the moment you heard it? And how did it impact you after that?
I'll start: I was in my home alone listening to the Swedish Egle's import show on KROQ here in Los Angeles. Egle played all the latest stuff from overseas, all kinds of weird **** , I LOVED the show. When he played this song I stopped what I was doing, sat on the floor in front of my speakers and my mouth just fell open. For the whole song. It just kept getting better! The guy's voice had to be one of the lowest, sexiest voices I ever heard in my life. At the end, Egle DIDN'T SAY WHO IT WAS! So I called the station. Luckily I didn't have to wait 3 hours for Egle to answer (it was like 2 in the morning on a Sunday). He told me it was a song called "This Corrosion" by a band called Sisters of Mercy on a new record called "Floodland." I went out and bought it the next morning.
The record changed my life. It's hard to explain all the ways, there were quite a few. On a musical level, I loved it so much I called Andrew Eldritch (the lead singer and writer for the band) and asked him to write with me for my solo record. He actually said yes! We ended up doing a song together, "Under The Gun," for one of the Sisters' Best Of albums. My record company rejected this song for my own record. It went Top 40 in England and the Sisters invited me to perform it with them on The Top Of The Pops show over there. That was huge for me, my first time ever on the show (it's like American Bandstand, it's been around forever).
On a pleasure level, "Floodland" combined dark and dance for me in a way that even today still stands out. Bowie did it with "Fashion" (my favorite disco song ever). Trent Reznor's another guy who does this well. But the combination of Andrew Eldritch's straight-from-hell voice (with a depth most men can't even touch), his insanely intelligent lyrics, the religious choir harmony vocals and the pounding at the center of everything does me in. It made me want to do more dance music and since then, we have.
I want to hear more stories. There are a lot of music lovers on this site so I know you have them, I LOVE these stories! I have more too (all musicians do). I'll share them later.
Terri
P.S. I was blown away also recently when I saw a movie I skipped in the theaters (everyone said it was stupid), "The Butterfly Effect." WOW! Be sure to watch the Director's Cut, not the Theatrical Release (you get both versions when you rent it). It's DARK and HEAVY, so don't rent it if you only like comedies. But it introduced a concept that's never been attempted like this before. I highly recommend it.
I do hope Eldo 'interrogated' her appropriately.
http://www.berlinpage.com/ubb/Archives/ ... 01-11.html
Terri Nunn
Member posted August 25, 2004 11:05 PM
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Reese and Greg B, thanks for your great stories! I want to post a question here that I love asking music lovers: Tell the story of a song that blew you away so completely when you first heard it that you remember where you were the moment you heard it? And how did it impact you after that?
I'll start: I was in my home alone listening to the Swedish Egle's import show on KROQ here in Los Angeles. Egle played all the latest stuff from overseas, all kinds of weird **** , I LOVED the show. When he played this song I stopped what I was doing, sat on the floor in front of my speakers and my mouth just fell open. For the whole song. It just kept getting better! The guy's voice had to be one of the lowest, sexiest voices I ever heard in my life. At the end, Egle DIDN'T SAY WHO IT WAS! So I called the station. Luckily I didn't have to wait 3 hours for Egle to answer (it was like 2 in the morning on a Sunday). He told me it was a song called "This Corrosion" by a band called Sisters of Mercy on a new record called "Floodland." I went out and bought it the next morning.
The record changed my life. It's hard to explain all the ways, there were quite a few. On a musical level, I loved it so much I called Andrew Eldritch (the lead singer and writer for the band) and asked him to write with me for my solo record. He actually said yes! We ended up doing a song together, "Under The Gun," for one of the Sisters' Best Of albums. My record company rejected this song for my own record. It went Top 40 in England and the Sisters invited me to perform it with them on The Top Of The Pops show over there. That was huge for me, my first time ever on the show (it's like American Bandstand, it's been around forever).
On a pleasure level, "Floodland" combined dark and dance for me in a way that even today still stands out. Bowie did it with "Fashion" (my favorite disco song ever). Trent Reznor's another guy who does this well. But the combination of Andrew Eldritch's straight-from-hell voice (with a depth most men can't even touch), his insanely intelligent lyrics, the religious choir harmony vocals and the pounding at the center of everything does me in. It made me want to do more dance music and since then, we have.
I want to hear more stories. There are a lot of music lovers on this site so I know you have them, I LOVE these stories! I have more too (all musicians do). I'll share them later.
Terri
P.S. I was blown away also recently when I saw a movie I skipped in the theaters (everyone said it was stupid), "The Butterfly Effect." WOW! Be sure to watch the Director's Cut, not the Theatrical Release (you get both versions when you rent it). It's DARK and HEAVY, so don't rent it if you only like comedies. But it introduced a concept that's never been attempted like this before. I highly recommend it.
ho, ho mr. chris -and a big how's it going to all of you. 