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Thanks guys, that was a really fun watch. 😂 (new subscriber!).. I'm a big fan, have been since the early 80's. I got to see them a handful of times during the late 80's and 90's and to answer the question, that's why I'm such a fan because every time they rolled into the UK it was the best night out ever! They were such a fun band and I miss them so much, my life is more boring and far less exciting knowing I'll never experience seeing them again. It is a bit of a patchy discography to listen through I will admit. I think a lot of the albums suffer for different reasons. 'Off The Bone' was the first record I owned and probably still the one I listen to most, it sounded completely wild in 1983 to a 13 year old me because I hadn't heard all those 60's garage rock bands and obscure 50's rock and roll records that inspired them. My sister was listening to Duran Duran, I was listening to 'Human Fly' 😁

how about Cop Shoot Cop?

I watched Cunning Stunts almost daily when I was 12 years old. Also saw them on the Load tour and learned all the songs. But I NEVER go back to listen to this period of the band…..ever.

Beyond the fact that the blood brothers are objectively a sick band, these guys sound like 8 years old whining and complaining about them for 1+ hour. Wtf? Such a waste of time tbh

Garage ink best 90s metallica of the 90s!

Hi... Thanks for your episode. Congratulations on episode 200!!! i do listen to your podcast a lot (as i enjoy a lot of the same bands). Metallica's one of my favorite ever bands, and i am actually one of the few folks who consider St. Anger to be one of the top 10 greatest albums of all time (so much that i did a six hour documentary on it)... i also love 72 Seasons (as i love all of their albums, including Lulu), but i understand why some people may not like these albums. Everyone has their preferences. i'm responding here more to say, some of the songs you've said they don't play, they actually have been playing more regularly, in recent times. They've alternated between both 'Ktulu' and 'Orion' every night on the first leg of the M72 tour. There are times they've busted out 'Leper Messiah', 'Trapped Under Ice' and 'Hit The Lights', which they also played at the 30th and 40th anniversary shows. They've done the full version of 'To Live Is To Die' once, at the 30th anniversary show. They've done 'Suicide & Redemption' a few times as well. In terms of 'Frayed Ends', one of the most notable times they did it (after the Justice tour) was on May 28, 2014, which i think was on one of the 'All Request' tours. That was one of the songs Rob really wanted to do with them, so we have him to thank for that!!! i think with 'Eye of The Beholder', Lars has publicly said he did not like the song, despite everyone else loving it. Same with 'Escape'. Also, Lars is my biggest musical inspiration, so your giving him props made me smile. For me, i think what makes the band work is because they haven't restricted themselves to metal. That said, the best artists aren't restricted in terms of influences to the genre they play in. i look forward to listening to part 2 (even though i know i'll disagree with a lot of it, hee hee...) i've also seen Metallica 18 times (my first time being in December of 1991)- so i am kind of biased... but Mike, i think you should go see them! it is a fun time. As a punk/hardcore kid, i also prefer smaller shows, but i love the band (and they are one of the best live bands for me). That said, i go mostly because there's so many people i have built community with who also go. it's really more about that than anything else. It's like a family reunion of sorts. Be well...

I’m surprised you guys didn’t touch upon the _slap-bass_ break on “Cure”

The influence of Danzig on The Black Album is rarely discussed, but I believe it’s significantly underrated.

Reload easily worst, interestingly Load would be my best personal favorite.

Fuckin A.

You should do a loose ends on Lulu and get Robert to join in

Unfortunately, I heard the Kid Rock song before the Metallica original. Now I can only hear Kid Rock when Metallica plays that song. It's sad, but true. At what point did Metallica decide that every album needed to be over 75 minutes long? I get that the arrival of CDs gave them more room to work with, but they went from tight 50-minute classics to bloated 80-minute endurance tests.

"Sex Bomb is the punk rock Smoke on the Water". -King Buzzo

Also, Bob Rock's kid did the Now I lay me down to sleep part on Enter Sandman.

2+ hours for ep. 2? Uh boy. You guys deserve a medal (pun intended).

Intro/Where we left off in part 1 00:00 The Black Album 10:01 Load 49:55 Reload 1:16:21 Garage, Inc. 1:36:04 Outro 2:07:34

the guy that screams "YOU'RE A FUCKING A-DULT!!" at the end of Ever (Live) on the 'Sex Bomb Baby' comp is actually Flipper's guitarist Ted Falconi lol. apparently some kids were on stage fucking with his gear. i read an interview with Steve DePace the other day where he talks about it, will send it to you guys if you wanna check it out

Wrong is probably my second favorite. [shrug] My first is Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy? It's my go-to sanity album. Not the first I heard, either. It just got me.

There's a couple other Cardiacs connections: Tim Smith co-produced Borland's last (non-posthumous) album in 1997; and back in 1976 Tim Smith performed live for the first time alongside Borland.

Tom, Alex and Mike - Thanks a lot for taking the time to put this together. - Mark

Eugene: "If you come in that door before I've finished, I can't be responsible for what happens to you." I've said that same exact thing, only I was in my bedroom.

Wow. I had no idea about oxbow breaking up. So big thanks for putting me on to Bunuel

Young Machetes is return to form. Actually is kick ass record. Produced by Guy Picciotto from Fugazi. Man this record is really amazing.

By the time Crimes came out I was out. I actually just recently started listening to it. There’s some good tracks.

Burn, Piano Island Burn is when they got super popular and started selling at the mall in Hot Topic.

March On Electric Children is not Epitaph. It was sold to Epitaph from 31G records which is the legendary Justin Pearson from The Locust.

This Adultery Is Ripe makes so much more sense at the time it came out because there was nothing like it at the time.

I love that you covered their EP. Devon Welch is such is amazing guitarist. He played in other BB side projects like The Vogue and Soiled Doves. He also played with Jordan, Morgan and Mark in Past Lives which was post BB.

The drums in Friendship Village is the reason I fucking love that song.

Desert kisses is so good!

Crazy yall made fun of how they looked for the reunion in 2014. now they are touring at 43 year olds and so jacked and in shape.

we're 5 seconds in and he got the title of "Marian" wrong... fuuuuuhhh....

One last wish was ROS. Just as amazing.

The Sisters' lyrics are never only the words. For Black Planet, "And I ride down the Highway 101 / by the side of the ocean, headed for sunset"... Highway 101 is on the edge of the west coast US; if you're headed for sunset (west), what's there? China and Japan. A bit prophetic? Sisters lyrics should (almost) never be taken at face value. The Sisterhood material was released under that name to prevent Wayne Hussey & Co from continuing to tour as The Sisterhood, which they had been doing. Also, if somehow you find yourself looking for a more spaghetti-western-goth sound, you should check out Fields of the Nephilim's album Dawnrazor...

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Good episode, I completely disagree with your take on Vision Thing though.

25:39 If you like their cover of Gimme Shelter, then you'd love their cover of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene'. Oh, and when you do an episode on Fields of the Nephilim, please be sure to include their cover of the Roxy Music song, ‘In Every Dream Home a Heartache’, which is on the B-side to the Blue Water 12”.

Nurse With Wound 30 min remix of "This Corrosion" exists

For Goth Western music, look no further than Fields of the Nephilim! They nailed it on Preacher Man.

You have to realize how steeped in irony Vision Thing is, even Floodland carries a bit of that as well, and it becomes a bit more enjoyable. It's like he's deliberately trying to make you not take it too much at face value by giving you something that's unexpectedly too direct and straightforward. Not saying it really worked or it greatly deepens the listening experience but from there on I think the guy was just far too self absorbed to want to make anything that came off as too accessible to his own fan base, by, again, ironically making something that seemed to try to be extremely accessible in its own strange way. Eldritch is a really clever guy, so it's worth analyzing it this way to some degree, so thought I'd just drop my 2 cents on that. It's fun to think about it at least!

48:36 The racist dog is actually Seth from Big Black's Bulldozer EP, on the contrary, Knuckles the dog is a very good dog.

Next year do skinny puppy!

A great read on The Sisters is the book, 'Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy' (2021) by Mark Andrews. It covers the early years of the band, including their indulgence in Amphetamines and their hardcore fans, known as The God Squad. Eldritch's interviews with British music mags, like NME and Melody Maker, were always highly entertaining. He's one of the smartest dudes to have ever graced the halls of rock/independent music. P.S, I hope you cover Fields of the Nephilim one day (funny that you should mention Ennio Moriconne when talking of The Sisters. Wait till you listen to the Nephilim's first album).

58:57 Alex points up the flaw in ‘This Corrosion’ 😅

I first heard them when "Never Land" was played on an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I always found it funny they named themselves after a Leonard Cohen song despite sounding absolutely nothing like him, although I think that was done intentionally as a joke. First and Last and Always is my favorite. It's the most consistent, with the tightest songwriting and catchiest tracks. I do like Floodlands as well, but there are moments when it felt like Eldritch should've had other people there to reel him in.

I'm surprised you did not like More that much; I think it's OK Sisters pop/goth song. Its only dated way more than other and on down spiral of that terrible last album. It's also produced by same Meatloaf dude from This Corrosion. About that song, like it or not it's one of genre defining songs, you might call it THE Goth song. And it's a diss track...apparently. That song is like Song 2 from Blur in the 90s - a deliberate ironic mockery of a genre sound. And in spite of itself its awesome. There are a lot of country covers of This Corrosion. Lyrics are also intentional gibberish, and Andrew is well known as one of better lyricist among musicians. A lot of Sisters songs have really good lyrics...for pop/rock music standards. About what happened with that last album...After 85 split Andrew became the band, gave all he got in Foodland and after it was creatively spent. Too much drugs and booze, I guess. Thats the main reason he refuses to put another album for 34y, he has nothing more to give. There is maybe enough new content for one good album in 3 decades of touring and most of those songs were not even written by him but other band members (Slept, Summer, Suzanne, Romeo down...) As you said in 2 albums he defined sound of a genre for 2 decades, but I guess that was all he got. As closing of Sisters as a working band I always see 1992 Under the gun, a rock ballade duo he did with Terri Nun from Berlin. You might not like that same as More but even that was actually not his song but some cringe stupid soap opera opening theme he distorted into something different.

You gotta give it to them, they are just such great podcast presenters engaging with great musical insights

Great choice of topic :)

Intro/Band Overview 00:00 Some Girls Wander by Mistake 12:04 First and Last and Always 33:48 Floodland 52:01 Vision Thing 1:08:59 Where are they now? 1:19:20

.45 Grave! Its right there! Also Dead Moon would be the most epic show due to extensive discography