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During an interview with David Bowie, Rolling Stone(German edition), Eldritch extended some opinions regarding NIN. (UTR 14,winter '95) "(NIN at Woodstock '94) looked like an ephemeral eighties band of the most despicable kind." and "I hold myself personally responsible for Nine Inch Nails (among others), but not for the fact they look like Alien Sex Fiend." During the Distance Over Time Tour he mentioned that their `next album Butt-fuck Parlour Game was to be released through Cleopatra records' A NIN reference, not to be taken seriously.
No 94: type in the Metal Hammer article.
THE SISTERS STRIKE BACK (under pic of 93/94-ish Von)
After more than a five year lay of The Sisters of Mercy are due to break their recording silence in 1998. The band, centered around frontman Andrew Eldritch who was recently linked to new outfit SSV, have just completed their first major European tour since 1993 including two shows at the London Forum.
"It's not so much of a comeback since we've never really been away from the live circuit per se, just England," says the black throated one. "We toured because there's still a chance that (former label) East West might stupidly try and put out a record that I recently delivered to them under a different name."
That record being the SSV project which features a spoken word only performance by Eldritch over an ambient score.
"Basically SSV is the record that frees me from my contract with East West. I've been on strike for the last seven years and now we have to go out there as the Sisters and persuade people that SSV means nothing and shouldn't be in any way considered a Sisters endorsed product. SSV is alarmingly dull and no-one should go near it!" However, the one-time G*** lord is adamant that Sisters fans will finally get to hear new product sooner rather than later. "Because it's been years since we last released any new material (1990's Vision Thing) I think we owe it to people to do a big tour and release some major records. So as soon as we're contractually able to put my voice on a record, which should be soon, we will be releasing a number of independent singles in the spring." Depending upon which side of the high court you prefer to stand, Eldritch may (or may not) have also been found tinkering with the odd computer game soundtrack, and according to the man in black [who that then? - CS], Sisters fans may also hear "more familiar music" on two low-key releases through the band's own Merciful Release label called "Paris Riots" and "The Leeds Underground".
Important Notice: Anyway, Mr Eldritch is now free to resume his recording career with The Sisters Of Mercy, who have been waiting very patiently for him at a chemist's round the corner, and very sensibly having nothing to do with the SSV album - because they didn't have to. The Sisters will be celebrating the liberation with a small tour of Europe and America in January/February, and the release of a stonking new (Sisters) single on the day after Mr Eldritch's contract officially expires, which will be a couple of months later. Work has started on the next (Sisters) album. Normal service has been resumed.
Covers / Soundtracks:
Cover of Songs by The Sisters:
Walk Away - Paradise Lost
Temple of Love - Midian
Temple of Love - Crematory
Body Electric - The Dawn of Oblivion
Body Electric - Girls Under Glass
Temple Of Love - Creaming Jesus
Jolene - Strawberry Switchblade
Marian - Poesie Noire
Under The Gun - Syria
Giving Ground - Syria
Lucretia - Syria
Something Fast - Jonette Napolitano (Not out yet)
Sisters Songs of Interest
1959-Eldritch/Eldritch
1969-Iggy and The Stooges
Amphetamine Logic (aka Logic)- Eldritch/Marx
Finland Red, Egypt White-The Sisterhood
Garden Of Deligh-Hussey/Hussey
Ghostrider-Suicide
Gimme Gimme Gimme (a Man After Midnight)-ABBA
Gimme Shelter-The Rolling Stones
Giving Ground-The Sisterhood
Heartland-Eldritch/Marx
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands-Traditional
He's Got the Whole World In His Hands/Always Look to the Bright Side of Life (live)
Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix
Knockin On Heaven's Door/Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Stairway to Heaven/Ghostrider/Louie Louie (live) (22:53)
Home of the Hit-men-Marx/Marx
I Was Wrong-
Jihad-The Sisterhood
Knockin' On Heaven's Door-Bob Dylan
Louie Louie-Richard Berry
Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix
Rain From Heaven-The Sisterhood
Sister Ray-The Velvet Underground
Stairway To Heaven-Led Zeppelin
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around-Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty
Teachers-Leonard Cohen
Amphetamine Logic
Watch them do
the falling over
watch them do
the standing still
nothing but the knife to live for
one life all I need
give me one good reason
give me more s...
(women) and the women come and go
(talk) talking about me like they know
(men) bought and sold
and the world keeps turning
people cold
and people burning
nothing but the knife to live for
one life all I need
give me one good reason
give me more s...
Nothing but the knife to live for
one life all I need
give me one good reason
give me more s... (Amphetamine logic)
hit up
steel in hand
lit up
like candles burning
like catherine wheels turning on
nothing but the knife to live for
one life all I need
give me one good reason
give me more s... (Amphetamine logic)
Nine While Nine
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.....
repeat last verse(X2)
Temple of Love
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land
In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain
On walls as wide as
Lovers eyes
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear my calling
In the temple of love: Hear my name
And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside
With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder cry like rain
And the temple of love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more
In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust and only air remains
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear the calling
And the temple of love is falling
Down
In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust
And air remains the only haven you can trust
With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
Some Kind Of Stranger
And yes I believe in what we had
But words got in the way
And only yesterday
As I was leaving
Lord knows I've tried to say but I've
Heard a million conversations
Going where they've been before
Seen the way that careful lingers
Undecided at the door
And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch
All my words are secondhand
And useless in the face of this
Rationale and rhyme and reason
Pale beside a single kiss
And I've heard so many things
I fail to understand at all
I'd settle anytime for
Unknown footsteps in the hall outside
Because the world is cruel
And promises are broken
Don't try to tell me anything
Don't try to tell me you'll be true to me
You know the real truth is never spoken
And I know the world is cold
But if you hold on tight to what you find
You might not mind too much
Though even this must pass away
And memories may last for years
But names are just for souvenirs
Some kind of angel let me
Look into your eyes
Don't give me whys and wherefores
Reason or surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called
Tell me later if at all
I can wait a long long time
Before I hear another love song
Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of stranger come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside