C&L's Late Nite Music Club with The Sisters Of Mercy
By Howie Klein Wednesday May 14, 2008 10:00pmHappy birthday Andrew Eldritch, lead singer of UK goth band The Sisters of Mercy-- a name derived from a Leonard Cohen song and a logo straight out of Gray's Anatomy. They've been on strike since 1994, although they've done some live shows since then. Their debut album, First and Last and Always came out in 1985 and included "Walk Away," which had already been released as a single 5 months earlier.
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Thank you so much for this...one of my favorite bands and Floodland is one of the best albums I've ever owned in the 25 years I've been buying them.
I guess I'm dating myself when I say I remember those guys :)
HERE HERE Andy E. is THE MAN
God drives a white Mercedes as the kids used to say.
HAHAHAHAHA on strike since 1994! I like that, I think I'll steal it for myself. "I'm not unemployed, I'm on strike - you guys feel free to keep stabbing each other in the back for a lousy dollar, just leave me out of it!" :)
can someone plz carbon date this video
"Walk Away" is an interesting choice, the lyrics (it has always been assumed) were a veiled message from Mr. Eldritch to Wayne Hussey, guitarist in the band's original line-up. Shortly after the release of First & Last & Always the animosity finally split the band and began 1 of the greatest legal conflicts in music industry history over the rights to the name "The Sisters of Mercy". Andrew solidified his claim with the release of the ep "Gift" which was full of beautiful vitriol directed at his former bandmates.
I had thought that the Sisters of Mercy got their name from the infamous irish religious organizations. Not that that Leonard Cohen is a bad thing, but it made the kickass bass lines all the more rebellious.
Amphetamine logic baby!
marko @ 5:
this isn't the video for Walk Away, just a collection of pictures, there were no "videos" of Sisters songs made before the second album, Floodland.
Greg Hanigan @ 7:
i read in an interview with Andrew years ago that it was a combination of the Cohen song, the religious organization & that it was alway a northern england slang term for prostitute.
Why? Why always the 80's bubble gum pop?
VegasRage @ 10:
How bout some 60's bubble gum pop?
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhYLz63csS0
Canned Heat - Amphetamine Annie
http://www.last.fm/music/Canned+Heat/_/Amphetamine+Annie
This is a song with a message,
I want you to heeeeed my warning.
Wanna tell you all a story, about this chick I know.
They call her Amphetamine Annie, and she's always shovelin' snow.
I sat her down and told her, I told her crystal clear
I don't mind you gettin' high but there's one thing you should fear
Your mind might think it's flyin' baby on those little pills
But you ought to know it's dyin', cause - speed kills!
But Annie kept on speedin', her health was gettin' poor
She saw things in the window, she heard things at the door
Her mouth was like a grindin' mill, her lips where cracked and soar
Her skin was turnin' yellow, I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flyin' on those litte pills
She didn't know it was going down fast, cause - speed kills!
--- Solo ---
Yaaaa, speed can kill you too baby, yaa
Well I sat her down and told her, I told her one more time
The whole wide human raice has taken far too much methadrine
She said "I don't care what a limey says, I got to get it on
I'm not hip to the seen of the man who come from across the pond."
She wouldn't heed my warning, Lord she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's here in the grave yard, and she's awfully dead.
Ya, speed gonna kill you!
Anybody.
Speed will get you!
Speed from over the pond.
There ain't no hope baby...
Yaa, aah hah.
Spoon a Spoon a Spoon.... huah...
ALBUMS: Boogie With Canned Heat / Uncanned / On The Road Again
A buddy of mine (thanks SB!) made me a cassette with the Sisters of Mercy LP (I think next one?) that has "More", "Dr Jeep", "Ribbons" on one side of the tape (and Jesus and Mary Chain's Automatic on the other side). A cool yet odd group of songs that was the soundtrack to many hours of late-night, amphetamine-fueled drives on the LA and OC freeway system.
Goth night is never the same without the Bauhaus-Siouxsie-Sisters-Cure. Been listening to this for 20 years now.
I love me some Sisters of Mercy. "Dominion" is actually on one of the radio playlists in GTA4.
so the wingnuttery has been having a field day with our buddy ko
funny, each one of them never fails to mention that his show has low ratings
if such low ratings, then why are they all spending hours disecting his statement?
and i listened to his rant again, and i do have some problems with it
not because he attacks bush...that is fine, but because he lets the dude from politico off the hook
the entire interview was a setup for bush's talking points
"doomsday scenario"???? what real reporter forms that sort of question?
of course it would lead bush into using his pat "emboldened" line
the very idea that we havent been attacked again being due to the war is absurd on its face anyway
and note....every wingnut is steering clear of the whole golf thing, which is really what olberman shouldve focussed on
but that too brings up a question as to whether the guy from politico created these questions or someone from the wh handed them to him to ask
Yay Sisters of Mercy!!!
Kudos!
The lipstick on my cigarette/frost upon the window pane...
Dusty Street introduced me to this album on KROQ. Thanks Dusty!
Still have it on vinyl.
lafin gas @ 12:
too true.
Never heard before- but loved them....( okay I confess any 80's music is one of my fav's....)
The Sisters of mercy - Temple of love (HQ sound)
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love - TOTP 1992 featuring Ofra Haza
my favorite band. Many a night I danced to this song at Helter Skelter. Awww the memories. Goth is not dead, it is undead.
Eldritch is king!
fastfeat @ 13:
They're from the last studio album Sisters did, "Vision Thing". They did a best of "A Slight Case of Overbombing" after that.
I miss them
Floodland!! Vision Thing ain't bad either.
Chuffy @ 18:
And it's passing strange
And I'm waiting for the train
Caught up on this line again
And it's passing slowly
Killing time but it's
Better than living in what will come and I've
Still got some of your letters with me and I
Thought sometimes or I read too much
And I think you know let's
Drink to the dead lying under the water and the
Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the
Lipstick on my cigarettes
Frost upon the window pane
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train.....
She said do you remember a time when angels
Do you remember a time when fear
In the days when I was stronger
In the days when you were here she said
When days had no beginning
While days had no end when
Shadows grew no longer I
Knew no other friend but you
Were wild
You were wild.....
Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the window pane and I've
Lost all sense of the world outside but I
Can't forget so I call your name and I'm
Looking for a life for me and I'm
Looking for a life for you and I'm
Talking to myself again and it's
So damn cold it's just not true and I'm
Walking through the rain
Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm
Only looking for what you want but it's
Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train....
"Nine While Nine" from First & Last & Always. My all time favorite song "Driven Like the Snow" on Floodland continues this tragic story.
"80’s bubble gum pop" indeed, the man is a poet.
fastfeat @ 13:
Those 3 songs are from the 1991 album "Vision Thing" where in The Sisters stopped being a "goth" band & became simply a rock band (and a pop band, according to Mr. Eldritch). First and Last and Always - 1985, Floodland - 1988, Vision Thing - 1991
lafin gas @ 11:
No that is much worse, my ears they burn! But it would be nice to see some a wider diversity, except for country music. Uhg please no country.
Hi, I haven't dropped by the music club for awhile.. since moving from Los Angeles to Daly City (just south of San Francisco).
I'm late to the thread so I don't know if anyone is going to see this.. but The Sisters of Mercy have been one of my favorite bands...ever since 'The Reptile House' EP came out.
A couple of quick corrections to posts above: 'The Sisters' put out promo videos long before Floodland. Here's the one for 'Walk Away.' Imo, not one of their best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7--QvyN0caM
Also.. they are far from "bubblegum pop." Heres a couple of songs from a concert they did in '84. It may have been the last one before most of the group split off to form 'The Mission:
Alice, and 'Fix' after the credits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsWZO8e2Po
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 16:
maby you could have done a better job! ever thought of giveing up your job at micky ds and seeking a job thats more suited to your station in life? i read your stuff religiously and your grasp on the nations condition impresses the hell out of us of the lower class , your doing a heck of a job brownie!
Ahhh - The Sisters..very very nice!!!
See, this is what goth is about. The Sisters, Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend, The Cure, Siouxsie. Not the crap that passes as goth today.
The Sisters are fantastic, intelligent & dark. Love 'em to bits.
Eldritch gets seriously annoyed with being labeled as "goth." he kicked a couple of bands off of a festival show a few years back citing that they were "too fucking goth" ...and i kind of understand, i've heard too many bands over the last 20 years whose lead singers are basically doing really terrible impersonations of Eldritch himself
Great band.
Woot!! Sisters of Mercy nice.. Love the Petra video for "dominion"
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