FrankRay wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 3:59 am
shadowplay wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 6:54 am
Magic track.
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Yeah... first time I saw the sisters live, they played Emma half way through and then ended on Afterhours, with a last chord played by the band put through infinite delay. It was still going after everyone had left the club. Genuinely fantastic.
I used to man their merch stall as a kid before they had hits and the fans became arseholes. An incredibly frustrating band, either amazing* or terrible and IMO Eldriches descent into pantomime rockism and total creative desert is one of music's great losses. When the cringey geetar started to come in I decided to leave them to it, first with Hussey's 60's isms and then later with the skeewiddle.
Weirdly Eldrich had a decent feel for the dancefloor displayed on
Mexico Sundown Blues which is like Dead or Alive crossed with the Sisters, though the best James Ray track is probaby
Edie Sedgwick which isn't far off Afterhours crossed with Never Land (A Fragment).
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*Independent singles great (though not much of a fan of Temple of Love and I fucking despise the rerecording), Body and Soul great, First and Last and Always 80% crap, Floodland 10% crap, Vision Thing 100% crap. Sisterhood Gift is good. I've not seen them live since 1985 or something by I've heard the are rockist claptrap these days with all sorts of cell disrupting shred guitar and the like. For me they are best at their most simple and repetitive like a minimal wave band with guitars.