Short list today, we'll return to 'normal' next week... For those who have not joined in the Friday Five here is all you need to know; each Friday I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes and share my five and drop a little knowledge and insight for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes we have guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five [...]
Short list today, we'll return to 'normal' next week... For those who have not joined in the Friday Five here is all you need to know; each Friday I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes and share my five and drop a little knowledge and insight for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes we have guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five [...]
From this:- mp3 : Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion The ultimate goth single from 1987, included here in all its full extended glory of almost 11 minutes. To this:- mp3 : Lambchop - This Corrosion And as much as I admire the overblown pomposity of the original that somehow is just brilliant enough to be beyond parody, I so adore how Kurt Wagner et al stripped it back to reveal just what a work
I'm not the first, and I won't be the last (and always) to compare White Lies, here with their brilliant new single, To Lose My Life , with the grandaddies of goth, The Sisters of Mercy. The synth-driven, pomp pop of the 80s has been given a dust down and brush up by the London trio who have created something new and different. Watch them guide the BBC around their favourite haunts , including, fittingly, a graveyard. They're still just as doomy and gloomy as their forebears: wear black, don't smile and talk about death and [...]
Sisters of mercy - Body electric
The Sisters of Mercy, with Hypernova House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV Friday, November 28, 2008 Note: After being fairly disappointed with the last Sisters Of Mercy show I saw in Atlanta in 2006, I decided to sit this year's tour out. My friend Tyge is a bigger (better?) fan than I am, and that combined with the fact that he didn't have to travel to see them meant he caught their concert in [...]
Photography by Story WOOF, busy day Wednesday. Oy. Sorry for the delay... But let's get it on! Our little music brigade had ourselves a little contest over in the mixtape room. The challenge seemed simple enough, build a mixtape of essential songs, songs everyone MUST here before they die. But like I wrote the other day when I presented my 3 hour failure, the task is harder than it seems. The sheer weight added to a song by making it an "essential", [...]
I have a confession. I was fairly into goth music in the late-'80s. I mean a lot of it (Siouxsie, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, the various Bauhaus offshoots) was genuinely popular, but I also own records by Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry, Xymox, the Bolshoi and others. And I still like them! As we're experiencing a bit of a goth resurgence these days (Gang Gang Dance, Crystal Stilts, Shearwater) and 'tis the season to be spooky, I thought I'd post this Classic Goth mix that I made for my local [...]
Here's my picks for entertainment in Toronto this week...unfortunately they happen the same night: Sisters Of Mercy, Oct. 28th, Massey Hall Goth legends ("Temple Of Love", "This Corrosion") make their first Toronto appearance in satan knows how long. Sisters Of Mercy's website Of Montreal, Oct. 28th, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Kevin Barnes and his weirdos are back promoting the new album [...]
Heilige Lance Genre: Experimental / Experimental / Experimental From: The Nihilistic Wasteland, United Kingdom Stoke-on-Trent gothic rockers (that's gothic as in grotesque, mysterious, and desolate) Heilige Lance, named after the Holy Lance one of the most important Christian relics, are maintaining the gothic tradition of naming themselves after religious artefacts or groups ( Spear of Destiny , [...]
![Dolly Parton's "Jolene": A Popular Cover Choice For Musicians Ages 9-99 [More Dolly, I Say]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1293063_lg.jpg)
NPR's All Things Considered took a look at Dolly Parton's "Jolene" this week, which is not only the lone song my wife will sing at karaoke, but a popular target for actual musicians as well. (It was also performed by an unnamed fifth grader at my son's elementary school talent show last week. When a song hits the talent show playlist, you know it's moved into "classic" territory.) "It's a great chord progression—people love that 'Jolene' lick," Parton told NPR. "It's as much a part of the song almost as the song. And because it's [...]
Art by Matt Dorfman You know I love Dolly . And Dolly Parton is everywhere right now. Yesterday, NPR posted a great article about Dolly Parton's song, Jolene, detailing the origin and history of the song. Parton says that she got the story for her song from another redhead in her life at the time — a bank teller who was giving Parton's new husband a little more interest than he had coming. From Jolene : [...]
So I totally failed at the My Bloody Valentine tracks because I completely forgot to get the mp3 recorder from the car before I left for the show - sorry. Hey did that show piss off anyone else? I was so irritated by the fact that all I could hear was snare drum and feedback [...]
On a whim I went to a goth-cello concert a few weeks back because it sounded unique. Rasputina is just that, dueling cellos with an aggressive percussionist who plays songs with titles like “1816, The Year Without a Summer” and "Desert Vampire.” A couple amazing covers they did during their show, one of which is below, inspired a little gothic cover action. So light some candles, put on your black lipstick, and join me in my lair. Rasputina - Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival) In concert Melora [...]
F**ck yeah! The Sisters Of Mercy are coming to Southern California for a few select dates. Catch them at the House Of Blues in Anaheim on November 30th or December 2nd at the Henry Fonda. If you are Bay Area bound mark 11/26 down for a show at the Warfield. Random video of the week comes to us in the form of More -
I just got an email from Ticketmaster alerting me to concerts in my area, and I noticed the Sisters of Mercy are playing the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on November 11, 2008. WHAT THE EFF? Come to find out, band dictator, Andrew Eldritch, who hasn't released a lick of new material under the mothership SOM banner since 1990's under-appreciated Vision Thing , drags some incarnation of the Sisters of Mercy out on tour just about every year. Damn, the cloves smokers are loyal. Turns out, once Eldritch escaped the clutches of his evil imprisonment by EastWest records, he [...]
Everyone's favorite sisters have scheduled 6 live shows in November - the first since 2006 , I think. Unfortunately all shows will be at the House of Blues, but still - The Sisters of Mercy?! Are you kidding?!?! In the words of my roommate , "Do you think this means Andrew will wear Mickey Mouse ears?! Oh, lordy lordy lordy... I think this is one of those signs the world is ending.. Like soon." What she means: 2008 has already given us (when I say 'us' I mean L.A. - not to exclude, sorry) Portishead, The Breeders, Polvo, [...]
In an extremely rare tour stop, Goth icons Sisters Of Mercy have announced a Toronto show. The band, reknowned for such Goth anthems as "Temple Of Love" and "This Corrosion" will roll into The Phoenix on October 28th. Break out the eye liner and black hair dye. www.thesistersofmercy.com
After yesterdays post on " Fish ", I have been playing some of my old Marillion discs and reminiscing to myself. I decided to pour through all my CD's and check out items I haven't heard in a while. At one point in my life I started to go to underground clubs, but not the club kids type of thing more on the industrial border line goth stuff. Most places would play decent punk and industrial stuff from Dickies and Ramones to [...]
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Drawer B![The Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet [video-clip, 1985]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/qiHSYu5iKv8_130.jpg)
Love Shack, Baby![Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet [original version]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/x6Oh4aaLCFM_130.jpg)
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