| Identifier | 8050950 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | flac |
| Media Count | 4 |
| Note | various demo and studio takes |
| Source Info | various demo's and studio takes |
| Tech Note | text document i have: This is a reseed of two torrents I've done in the past, put together because there have been a few requests for demos of The Sisters of Mercy of late. First you get a folder with 42 recordings from the years 1981-1986, all painstakingly selected from various commercially released bootleg albums. Then there's another folder containing 8 more demos from 1981-1982, taken from a tape recording kindly provided to me by M.M.; this material also ended up on the "Kenny Giles Walked On Water" bootleg CD, but here you get it in slightly superior sound quality (forgetting for a minute that these recordings were made on crummy equipment kept in a basement - or was it the room above the chemist's?). ____________________________ A. Demos & outtakes 1981-1986 Here's a bunch of Sisters demos & outtakes I put together from what I believe to be the best circulating sources for all of these recordings. All of those sources are detailed below, so you can make out for yourself what you need/want and what you don't. Whenever vinyl sources were used (either by myself, or by the producers of the bootleg CD's), I have manually removed (nearly) all audible clicks & pops using the pen tool in SoundForge, so you might even consider downloading what you think you already have... Tracks labeled B01-B14 have been put aside because - they were mastered at a much louder volume than the other tracks, and I didn't want to subject the first 28 tracks to the same treatment (I'm all for dynamics in music, not just sheer volume); - I already seeded them once before I think this is a fairly comprehensive collection of unreleased Sisters studio recordings. I did not use any of the circulating 'rough mixes' of officially released tracks, because most of them are virtually indistinguishable from the latter AND of patently inferior sound quality (unless anybody knows differently, in which case I'd love to be told). Total time: 180 minutes; 1,03 GB FLAC (Level 8/Verify) 1-3: 1981 'Floorshow' demo EP - from the 'Before The Flood' bootleg CD 1. Floorshow 2. Lights 3. Teachers/Adrenochrome 4-13: 1982 Portastudio demos - from the 'Before The Flood' bootleg CD (superior to the version on the 'Acoustics From The Beehive' bootleg CD) 4. Valentine 5. Body Politic (early version of 'Fix') 6. Lights (same version as above, but included for completeness' sake) 7. Anaconda 8. Driver (unreleased song with a couple of lyrics that ended up in 'Heartland') 9. Good Things (unreleased song) 10. Phantom 11. Burn (actually an unreleased song of which the intro and some lyrics were later re-used in 'Burn') 12. Kiss The Carpet (actually an instrumental demo of 'Burn', without the intro) 13. Valentine (basically the same as track 4, but included for completeness' sake) 14. Fix (bass-only version of 'Fix' with alternate lyrics possibly sung by Craig Adams; or maybe not Sisters related at all?) 15. Where Spirits Fly (instrumental version of a Gary Marx composition later recorded by Ghostdance) - not really a demo, but a soundcheck recording, from Hamburg 1984; taken from the 'Echoes Vol. III' bootleg CD) 16. Wide Receiver (unreleased song - 1983/1984?) - from the 'Wide Receiver' bootleg CD 17-21: 1984 demo recordings 17. Walk Away (early demo from shortly after the 1984 Peel Session) 18. No Time To Cry (early demo from shortly after the 1984 Peel Session) 19. A Rock And A Hard Place (instrumental version) 20. Black Planet (instrumental version - not the final take, but the recording used for track B03, the 'Dance On Glass' lyrics version) 21. Marian (instrumental) 22-28: 1986 Portastudio demos for 'Floodland' (1986) - 22 from the 'Kamasutra' bootleg 2CD, 23-27 from 'Acoustics From The Beehive' (but ultimately from the 'Kill The Lights' bootleg LP; clicks & pops manually removed), 28 from the '1983-1986' bootleg CD (clicks & pops manually removed) 22. Dominion/Mother Russia (from 'Kamasutra' bootleg 2CD) 23. Flood I 24. Lucretia 25. Neverland (complete 7'37") 26. Untitled (6'53" version with guitar) 27. Driven Like The Snow (wide stereo mix, bass left/drums right) 28. Flood II B01. Candle (instrumental version of 'Driver', 1982-3? - from the 'In The Shadow Of Angels' vinyl bootleg; clicks & pops manually removed) B02-B09: 1984 demo recordings - from the superior 'Victims Of Circumstance' bootleg CD, not the flawed & hissy 'Suns Of Mercy' bootleg CD B02. First And Last And Always (alternate 'Marian' lyrics sung by Gary Marx) B03. Black Planet ('Dance on Glass' lyrics sung by Wayne Hussey) B04. A Rock And A Hard Place (German disco version) B05. Garden Of Delight (unreleased song sung by Wayne Hussey) B06. Garden of Delight (unreleased song sung by Andrew Eldritch) B07. Knockin' On Heaven's Door B08. Serpent's Kiss (unreleased song, instrumental version later recorded by The Mission for their debut single) B09. Emma B10. A Rock And A Hard Place (alternate disco version - from the '1983-1986' bootleg CD; vinyl clicks & pops manually removed) B11-B-14. 1984-1985 outtakes - the same quartet of songs that also appeared on the 'Last Magician Of Rational Thought' 7" bootleg EP, but here taken from the 'Rare Obscurities' bootleg CD (vinyl clicks & pops manually removed) B11. No Time To Cry B12. First And Last And Always B13. A Rock And A Hard Place B14. Walk Away _______________________________ B. Demos 1981-1982 Total time: 30 minutes; 198 MB FLAC (Level 8/Verify) 01. Good Things (1981 demo) 02. Body Electric (1981 demo) 03. Adrenochrome (instrumental) 04. Body Electric (instrumental) 05. Adrenochrome (CNT demo) REMOVED: same as MR/CNT 002 version 06. Body Electric (CNT demo) REMOVED: same as MR/CNT 002 version 07. 1969 (basement demo) 08. Alice (demo - psychedelic intro) 09. Adrenochrome (CNT reverb demo) 10. Wide Receiver (edit version) ...rise and reverberate... Jesus loves the Sisters! |
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| Taper Name | unknown |
Performance
| The Sisters of Mercy 1939-??-?? Demos & outtakes 1981-1986, Unknown, Unknown | |
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| Set 1 | Floorshow
Lights Teachers/Adrenochrome Valentine Body Politic (early version of 'Fix') Lights (same version as above, but included for completeness' sake) Anaconda Driver (unreleased song with a couple of lyrics that ended up in 'Heartland') Good Things (unreleased song) Phantom Burn (actually an unreleased song of which the intro and some lyrics were later re-used in 'Burn') Kiss The Carpet (actually an instrumental demo of 'Burn', without the intro) Valentine (basically the same as track 4, but included for completeness' sake) Fix Where Spirits Fly Wide Receiver Walk Away (early demo from shortly after the 1984 Peel Session) No Time To Cry (early demo from shortly after the 1984 Peel Session) A Rock And A Hard Place (instrumental version) Black Planet (instrumental version - not the final take, but the recording used for track B03, the 'Dance On Glass' lyrics version) Marian (instrumental) Dominion/Mother Russia (from 'Kamasutra' bootleg 2CD) Flood I Lucretia Neverland (complete 7'37") Untitled (6'53" version with guitar) Driven Like The Snow (wide stereo mix, bass left/drums right) Flood II Candle First And Last And Always (alternate 'Marian' lyrics sung by Gary Marx) Black Planet ('Dance on Glass' lyrics sung by Wayne Hussey) A Rock And A Hard Place (German disco version) Garden Of Delight (unreleased song sung by Wayne Hussey) Garden of Delight (unreleased song sung by Andrew Eldritch) Knockin' On Heaven's Door Serpent's Kiss (unreleased song, instrumental version later recorded by The Mission for their debut single) Emma A Rock And A Hard Place No Time To Cry First And Last And Always A Rock And A Hard Place Walk Away |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | 01-03: 1981 'Floorshow' demo EP
- from the 'Before The Flood' bootleg CD 04-13: 1982 Portastudio demos - from the 'Before The Flood' bootleg CD (superior to the version on the 'Acoustics From The Beehive' bootleg CD) 14: (bass-only version of 'Fix' with alternate lyrics possibly sung by Craig Adams; or maybe not Sisters related at all?) 15: (instrumental version of a Gary Marx composition later recorded by Ghostdance) - not really a demo, but a soundcheck recording, from Hamburg 1984; taken from the 'Echoes Vol. III' bootleg CD) 16: (unreleased song - 1983/1984?) - from the 'Wide Receiver' bootleg CD 17-21: 1984 demo recordings 22-28: 1986 Portastudio demos for 'Floodland' (1986) - 22 from the 'Kamasutra' bootleg 2CD, 23-27 from 'Acoustics From The Beehive' (but ultimately from the 'Kill The Lights' bootleg LP; clicks & pops manually removed), 28 from the '1983-1986' bootleg CD (clicks & pops manually removed) 29: (instrumental version of 'Driver', 1982-3? - from the 'In The Shadow Of Angels' vinyl bootleg; clicks & pops manually removed) 30-37: 1984 demo recordings - from the superior 'Victims Of Circumstance' bootleg CD, not the flawed & hissy 'Suns Of Mercy' bootleg CD 38: (alternate disco version - from the '1983-1986' bootleg CD; vinyl clicks & pops manually removed) 39-42. 1984-1985 outtakes - the same quartet of songs that also appeared on the 'Last Magician Of Rational Thought' 7" bootleg EP, but here taken from the 'Rare Obscurities' bootleg CD (vinyl clicks & pops manually removed) |