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Merciful Release: First and Last and Always/Floodland/Vision Thing - Remastered & Expanded
RRP: £23.99
Our Price: £17.19 (subject to change)
All their 'pop' stuff in a cool black box
Review date: 2008-09-30 Rating: 10 out of 10
Pureists will prefer the old 12" singles from the early 80's that were assembled into 'some girls wander by mistake', but anybody who heard just one or two tracks on the radio or saw an epic video on MTV should start with this.
It includes the extended versions of all 3 mainstream studio albums with my personal choices being the very first track 'black planet' which gives you a taste of most of which will follow, the epic 'some kind of stranger' the non-single tracks on Floodland and 'Ribbons' on Vision Thing.
Don't go cheap and get 'a slight case of overbombing' (singles album) as the sly genius of the more testing tracks will be missing.
Once you are hooked - search out 'The Gift' by the Sisterhood (vinyl only).
These are 3 different albums with individual feel, recorded over 15 years - find your own gems in the best box set I own!
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The Apocalypse never sounded better.....
Review date: 2007-11-07 Rating: 10 out of 10
An excellent box set with a noticeable improvement in audio courtesy of the remastering, rendering First and Last and Always even more spooky and Floodlands writ even larger in Super-Panavision. Never cared much for Vision Thing but it's growing on me. I hope it isn't Eldritch's final word and that we get some new material from him soon. The packaging is well-thought out and the sleeve notes are insightful and.....funny! So buy it!
Sister Rock, but in a goth way.....
Review date: 2007-10-09 Rating: 10 out of 10
The previous reviewer "A. hogg "Hybrid" is talking pure bull, the sisters in their various incarnations have always had the same driving force behind them - fabulous.....
Nostalgia comes at a price
Review date: 2007-07-14 Rating: 4 out of 10
Mr Eldritch has to be one of the luckiest men in the music business in that the Sisters have a devoted, if very much smaller these days, fan base who devour anything in any form that is made available to them.
From the truely groundbreaking sounds of the first album that indeed he should be proud of, through to the second over produced comic pomposity to be followed by the utterly absurd rock posturing of the sisters third album its all here.Even the inclusion of the added material on each album of which there isnt anything that a lot of fans dont already own isnt anything special. Suprisingly its the first album that still stands the test of time while the other two dont altho im sure this will be hotly contested by followers of the band as each seperate album has its own fans and detractors
Eldritch sings "Ive got nothing to say i havent said before" on the aptly titled "This Corrosion" and its true,after the three albums in this Box set and one greatest hits album nothing more was to come. Eldritch has for well over a decade survived on the bands early reputation and music royalties from the much hated record company the sisters were contracted to without releasing anything new. This is another stab at increasing the amounts on those royalty cheques with the least effort on behalf of both artist and record company.
This isnt nosalgia at its best, altho there are a few fleeting glimpses of excellence theres not enough to justify the release of the whole back catalogue other than to again cash in on the bands loyal cult followers.
Fantastic ... but ...
Review date: 2007-02-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
Needless to say, a box which contains all of the Merciful Release albums - from the Hussey/Eldritch/Marx/Adams material (1st Last and Always) through the Eldritch/Morrison material (Floodland) culminating in the (thus far) final Sisters album of Vision Thing is a fantastic idea. All of these in and of themselves are five star albums, and the additions of extra B-side, twelve-ince and previously unreleased material from each era is wonderful. I was particularly taken with the full length version of 'Never Land' which I'd not heard at all since the release of Floodland, twenty years ago. But - and here's a big one for you - where is the extended version of the track 'Vision Thing', which I believe was on the B-side of the 12-inch of 'Dr Jeep'? I remember grooving away to it at the student disco when I was at university way back when, and would have loved a CD version of it.
Is this being held out for yet another release? I think we should know. Otherwise, a cracking box-set. More than worth the £[...] I shelled out.
Product Details/Specifications
Artist(s):
Sisters Of Mercy
Recording label: Rhino
Manufacturer: Rhino
EAN: 5051011918629
Binding: Audio CD
Format: Box set,
Release date: 2007-02-26
Number of discs: 3
Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Black Planet
2. Walk Away
3. No Time To Cry
4. Rock And A Hard Place
5. Marian
6. First And Last And Always
7. Possession
8. Nine While Nine
9. Amphetamine Logic
10. Some Kind Of Stranger
11. Poison Door
12. On The Wire
13. Blood Money
14. Bury Me Deep
15. Long Train
16. Some Kind Of Stranger
Disc 2 Tracks:
1. Dominion/Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like The Snow
8. Never Land
9. Torch
10. Colours
11. Never Land
12. Emma
Disc 3 Tracks:
1. Vision Thing
2. Ribbons
3. Detonation Boulevard
4. Something Fast
5. When You Don't See Me
6. Doctor Jeep
7. More
8. I Was Wrong
9. You Could Be The One
10. When You Don't See Me (1)
11. Doctor Jeep
12. Ribbons
13. Something Fast
Publishers: Rhino