It would be nice to have someone who actually appreciates your old records and didn’t throw them away without your consent (That is what happened to me)
I think if you are an artist/musician you may not like being labeled. In a similar vain many heavy metal bands of that era denied being metal. Often the answer was ‘Heavy Metal? No, we are more diverse than that’... at my high school in the 80’s there was kind of a war between the Metal fans & alternative/goth fans... I liked both 😄
on the dance floor? who says that term anymore? you can dance anywhere you want to.theres no designated spot. i suppose now youll speak about the disco ball at your local dew drop inn.
With old gothic rock bands we can hear the bass, it's not muffled in the background drowned by guitar, it has an importance. Besides nostalgia it's what keeps me forever in the 80's music.
Being a kid in ANY era is a buzz; all eras have their charm. '80s were bad except for the Alt/Goth/Rock vein 💜finding a few like-minds & civilised laxer licensing laws which let 14-15yr olds into Pubs, clubs & gigs. I prefer 21stC, all music ever at our finger tips! No traipsing round sneery record shops with half remembered lyrics or taping it off a mate, then having to re-spool said tape with pen after it randomly explodes, only seeing music vids on 4-channel TV [99% mainstream guff] or paying £1 to view the only 2 alt videos [Damned- Grimly Fiendish or the Ramones] on the Pubs new-fangled video-dukebox'! or Thatcher, nuclear thereat & 'yuppies'. But I DO miss my 1980s waistline, & wonder why I ever, ever wasted time thinking I was 'fat'.. 🙄
Went to a Sisters' gig recently, with 17yr old offspring & her chum; wasn't expecting the gig to be so great-! Kind've blew my mind & re-ignited my love for everything SoM; new, old & inbetween. Also nice to see that besides my fellow 'elders' there were many far younger; good taste is alive! Real music is eternal, never ages, unlike us mere mortals..
@@TheMercury-13Haven't been to a show in ages, and I probably last saw Sisters 20 yrs ago, but after reading your comment, next time they pass through, I'm going to try to go! I'm sure I can somehow let something from my old wardrobe out enough to still look fabulous!
Oh man that bassline. It's not difficult but it's soooooo good. Been playing that riff on my bass the whole evening. Can't get if out of my head. Awesome song!
Know exactly what you mean mate off to give mine a thrash, sounds like a precision to me, i know Patricia Morrison had a Jazz but Eldritch claimed she never played on anything, as a bass player i alway watch the bass and watching her closely on the (mimed) performances i think he has a point as she barely seems to know the tunes and half the time seems to be playing notes that arent even there, still she was the instantly reconisable face of SOM, more so than Eldritch.
I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill I hear dive bombers and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then We don't doubt, we don't take direction Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel I don't feel But I don't feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down We got the empire, now as then We don't doubt, we don't take reflection Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me. 🌌🌌🌌🌄🌄🌄🌄👏👏👏👏👏
@@mjade1673 I don't think they're really referring to the Roman Empire, but the rape of Lucretia by the son of the last king of Rome was what triggered the rebellion that overthrew the kingdom of Rome and began the Republic of Rome.
Mid to late 80s was such a good time for music and being a teenager! Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the banshees, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order/the division, the smiths, Sinead O’Connor.I could go on and on❤
I agree. I was born 1970, would never change that. The ´80s were magical when it comes to musical developement. I LOVED being a curious teenager in the ´80s.
So they recently opened a pretty nice skating rink in my city here in Costa Rica and the dj was playing some 80s music and I had a USB flash drive inside my pocket with this song. Went up to him and told him if he would play this song. Cool guy agreed ( Sisters of Mercy were never really popular down here) and the whole skating rink ended up dancing and skating with this kick ass song. What a kick ass night !
I got into them in the mid 2000s and listened the absolute shit out of them all through high school. The album with this song and the one before it are solid gold. Greatest Hits isn't all that great (couldn't help myself with that pun) but it does have the best versions of a few excellent songs and one very good song I believe is unique to it. If you're interested in hearing more, then check out First and Last and Always (less production values but catchy as hell) or Floodland (which has this song and some other amazing tracks with big production - but I would argue a little more filler than the first album).
According to Roman tradition, Lucretia, anglicized as Lucrece, was a noblewoman in ancient Rome, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius and subsequent suicide precipitated a rebellion that overthrew the Roman monarchy and led to the transition of Roman government from a kingdom to a republic
He forced her to yield to his sexual advances by telling her the alternative was that he would kill her and one of her slaves, place their bodies together, and claim he had defended her husband's honour when he caught her having adulterous sex. Soon after, Lucretia sent a message to both her husband and her father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus, telling them everything. She then killed herself.
Ahem. This is not the goth national anthem. You're thinking of Temple of Love. It's an easy mistake to make - I mean, lots of people think that Jerusalem is the English national anthem (and it bloody well should be - much better tune and lyrics), but it isn't.
Now if you go out to a "goth" night the 18-24 year olds are dancing to some shit that sounds like rap minus the ghetto posturing. Nothing really dark or "goth" about the music except that everyone is wearing black.
Yes and in the beginning you had also good afterpunk bands like Killing Joke. You had lots of good music in the eighties. Loved beginning off the ninetees too. Sound garden, Faith no more.
Turned 38 and today is the 1st time hearing this song by a band I only heard of. Thanks again, Type O Negative for the intro to an amazing song. I'm envious of you both.
I saw them in Manchester recently and it was one of the Best concerts I have ever been you. They played this right at the end of the set and the crowd was going completely MAD at the time. 😂😂😂😂😂
If you like this style, I'd recommend(besides everything from Sisters ofc) Dreadful Shadows, The Mission, Clan of Xymox and so many more that just don't come to mind right now 😄
I am familiar with this song from my youth. Listening to it at almost 50 years of age, it makes me realize how much music today is garbage. The composition, bass line and lyrics of this song are hypnotic.
I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction, Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take reflection, Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me
What an iconic sound. One of those songs that makes you wish you could somehow unhear it and then instead hear it for the first time on the night you rise as a vampire. I feel so lucky to have been born at the start of the 70's so I could live through this era right when I was creating myself by my own will.
My buddy had a Sisters of Mercy poster on his bedroom wall in the late 80s. He swore that Patricia Morrison's eyes followed him when he was in the room. I believe it.
I was at a party at a night club in Washington DC last week when over the loudspeaker system came this song. . .in all its glory. Damn, was I ever happy.
+frostmaiden85 It was indeed a cool club. Located downtown not far from the Verizon arena. It's a regular nightclub for the kewl people but, on that night, the them was fetish as it was around Halloween. I used to go to clubs back in the '80s where you could here industrial/goth/metal music like this song all the time. Those clubs are few and far between now. Sign of the times.
+The Screaming Severed Heads It wasn't Spellbound. We actually went to that one too but, on different nights. This club is downtown and a regular , popular spot for the hip crowd. I'll look up the name.
the days when there was alternative/goth clubs downtown with great dark deco and visuals ...with dark corners and big screens with experimental videos with me on acid and rockabillies playing pool and alternative godess dancing on this music and front 242 was a hell of a world apart from today ! ....we were a futuristic generation in a dark past that flew away too soon --- -- - ✈
I'm just thankful my taste led to the goth & industrial clubs & scene in my teens & 20's, while they were still awesome. It was more a way of life than a scene, but you know what I mean. Back in the days of wearing full length black satin gloves & taking 4 hrs to get ready, dropping a tab, doing the two step on the dancefloor & spending a fortune on eyeliner & the most fabulous velvet, lace & leather concoctions. When you'd be called a freak just walking down the street. I do miss it, but I'm just thankful I've mostly always had different & eclectic taste & did the alternative thing rather than boring bland popular genre shite. I'm sure there's a whole new generation of teens discovering all the old favs & bigger old goth & industrial stuff now who are thinking the exact same thing every generation who's discovered it think-that they're completely original & hardcore.
@gigawatt Who knows. Several probably already have. Why do you ask? I can only think of how press & opposing candidates would use someone's past against them in public office, but in that case there's been far more interesting & 'different' politicians & candidates. Take Jello Biafra for example, lead singer of The Dead Kennedies & brilliant highly political spoken word artist. Now he would've totally kicked ass over the farce that is Trump. ;)
Used to dance and flail aggressively all night back in the late '80s and '90s, but those days are over for me too. Hard to do that shit anymore after back surgery and chronic joint pain. Getting old sucks!
The fastest 4 minutes in music set to coolest lyrics ever: I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down, I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill I hear a dive, bombers, and Empire down, empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get it down, get undressed Get pretty, but you and me We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then We don't doubt, we don't take direction Lucretia, my reflection Dance the ghost with me
ThirdLantern the coast. dance the coast with me. thats why theyre walking on the beach at the end. get ready. is also supposedly what hes saying. instead of get pretty...
Love this! 80's darkness with that primal beat. Ahhh, I remember this girl I was dating and dancing to this. She was a freak! She expanded my world and took me to places...I better shut up. This song just takes me to such incredible places. 🫦
this song made me goth. i was kind of trying to get into goth music and i had listened to some the cure and siouxie and the banshees and i liked it but then i stumbled upon this song and it changed my lifeeeee. i became absolutely obsessed with it and the whole Floodlands album. It was the song that took me from casual fan to goth. No matter how many times I listen to it, it’s always fantastic.
It's amazing how many songs AHS: Hotel has resurrected for newer and older generations alike. The Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, Bahaus, Souix and The Banshees, Peter Murphy, She Wants Revenge. Freaking sweet!!
Listen to actual Goth from this era... They were always Post Punk to me.. Goth was Human Drama and London After Midnight etc.. Boring mostly... This gets called Darkwave and whatever.... The Smiths are goth now haha.. mislabeled like many.... We got called DeathRocker by the older Punks... Jack from TSOL.. always called me this.. cheers from Huntington Beach CA 🇺🇸
I don't believe it was their original intention which is why they disregarded that title in the past. In reality that's what they actually accomplished in their career.
Same. I was actually watching the episode of southpark when stan becomes a goth, and they're telling him to listen to their music and dress like them, so I googled goth music and this was one of the bands. I did not expect to like it so much lol
I was around 16 years old in 1998 when I was drinking my first beers in the rock bar of my neighborhood in the center of Athens. My first drinks, making up with my girlfriend in a dark corner with these songs as soundtrack. Good times goddamnit. I want more.
Watching AHS Hotel has me binging on all my old favourite goth & industrial music. Brilliantly put together soundtrack & perfect mood music, specially for those of us for whom this music formed the soundtrack & backdrop of our clubbing years. Not to sound cliche, but there haven't been any good goth clubs for at least 2 decades now!
Not true - listen to "She Past Away". Best new goth band to come out in years! Funny how a band with such an old-school sound can be SO refreshing, but they really are.
Wendigo Heart I just checked them out to see if I'd agree. Looking for good & unique sound. Hard to find these days. Sorry, I didn't care much for it.. Thx, anyway. Sisters will always be First, and Last, and Always! Might I suggest Ghost BC? They're different. Their frontman, Tobias Forge, also has a unique, "I don't give a sh* t" attitude like Andrew and causes internal and external band conflict & controversy. Even has a female bassist. He's not an Eldritch clone or wannabe. Unique but similar. Check it out. Tell me what you think.
The fellow from Rosetta Stone... Miserylab is also good.... There is a new "wave" (excuse the word) of these bands doing this.... She Past Away was good... I have not heard anything from them since 2015 but I am sure they have something coming! Lost Tapes, Empereur, etc. are also on the list.
The song and this video is mesmerizing. I'm on a spree of goth/postpunk iconic classics right now, this one, Killing Joke-the Wait and Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)-Cuts You Up. All three absolutely killer!🤘
Su música siempre me anima, son de lo mejor en su estilo y sus vídeos me encantan. La música gótica es sisters of merci. Además fueron mis ídolos de juventud!!.
I'm 54 and still love the Sisters. My daughter now loves them and I've given her all my Sisters vinyl from the 80's. Passing on the torch.
omg that’s so great!! i bet you’re the best mom!! rock on
U understand Everything
It would be nice to have someone who actually appreciates your old records and didn’t throw them away without your consent
(That is what happened to me)
Our futures so bright we gotta wear shades.
62 and still dance to this when no one is lookin 🖤
Awesome band
They hated their goth tag, but sounded more goth than many of the goth bands of that era. This song is pure class.
they were the kind of goths who were too cool to be goths
I kinda like this song!!
I think if you are an artist/musician you may not like being labeled. In a similar vain many heavy metal bands of that era denied being metal. Often the answer was ‘Heavy Metal? No, we are more diverse than that’... at my high school in the 80’s there was kind of a war between the Metal fans & alternative/goth fans... I liked both 😄
You're goth damn right! xD
It’s sad that a lot of the classic goth bands hate being called “goth”
That bass line is fire
CIA raven meant a man down..
Its so good they have no award good enough to present.
Extreme fire
Most fire
Ridiculous fire
More fire than
In deed screams meat.
some people take a smoke break,
i listen to this bass line
I'm 72, this is my new favorite song.
❤
you're generation has better music.
How cool 😊👍❤
Listen to Talk about the weather by red lorry yellow lorry and wild world by days of sorrow
Muito foda
Good stuff Mike!
The notes if you are ever trying to make this song in Animal Crossing: A C C C F E- DDDDD FE-A
The only information I need in my life.
@rozztonishing It is real, you are not hallucinating this time.
Omg, you're my savior.
Omg, I love you for this. Seeing my special interest intertwined with another special interest is great, RAHHH!
based, ty kind lady
The song that gets your 80 year old goth grandmother to break her hip on the dance floor.
haha i am 62, TOTALLY get it :)
I just love you .....
🍻
on the dance floor? who says that term anymore? you can dance anywhere you want to.theres no designated spot. i suppose now youll speak about the disco ball at your local dew drop inn.
Freaking hilarious
With old gothic rock bands we can hear the bass, it's not muffled in the background drowned by guitar, it has an importance. Besides nostalgia it's what keeps me forever in the 80's music.
100% right
Listen to deathstars?
@@bradfortner8254
but not dead music
There's still bands that feature bass prominently like Alice in chains and kings of leon
You have to listen to
She past away
They are turkish
"I . DON'T. FEEL". I praise the younger generations that appreciate our goth/industrial/ new wave. Oh to be a kid in the 80's again.
Well I'm 15 and I love this song.
Being a kid in ANY era is a buzz; all eras have their charm. '80s were bad except for the Alt/Goth/Rock vein 💜finding a few like-minds & civilised laxer licensing laws which let 14-15yr olds into Pubs, clubs & gigs. I prefer 21stC, all music ever at our finger tips! No traipsing round sneery record shops with half remembered lyrics or taping it off a mate, then having to re-spool said tape with pen after it randomly explodes, only seeing music vids on 4-channel TV [99% mainstream guff] or paying £1 to view the only 2 alt videos [Damned- Grimly Fiendish or the Ramones] on the Pubs new-fangled video-dukebox'! or Thatcher, nuclear thereat & 'yuppies'. But I DO miss my 1980s waistline, & wonder why I ever, ever wasted time thinking I was 'fat'.. 🙄
Went to a Sisters' gig recently, with 17yr old offspring & her chum; wasn't expecting the gig to be so great-! Kind've blew my mind & re-ignited my love for everything SoM; new, old & inbetween. Also nice to see that besides my fellow 'elders' there were many far younger; good taste is alive! Real music is eternal, never ages, unlike us mere mortals..
@@TheMercury-13Haven't been to a show in ages, and I probably last saw Sisters 20 yrs ago, but after reading your comment, next time they pass through, I'm going to try to go! I'm sure I can somehow let something from my old wardrobe out enough to still look fabulous!
You don't know jack shit about it, geezer
The gothiest goth that ever gothed.
Until Type O Negative came around.
And he denied being goth!!! How ironic!
@@TheKing-uu7jn Dude. Yes. Love you to Death is right up there
*Andrew Eldritch is triggered*
No. Everything from that time gothed hard )
Oh man that bassline. It's not difficult but it's soooooo good. Been playing that riff on my bass the whole evening. Can't get if out of my head. Awesome song!
Know exactly what you mean mate off to give mine a thrash, sounds like a precision to me, i know Patricia Morrison had a Jazz but Eldritch claimed she never played on anything, as a bass player i alway watch the bass and watching her closely on the (mimed) performances i think he has a point as she barely seems to know the tunes and half the time seems to be playing notes that arent even there, still she was the instantly reconisable face of SOM, more so than Eldritch.
For my daily harmonica challenge som popped into my head... straight to the bass line... lots of room for improv
It's an F#min/Amaj power chord fyi...
That's what I always loved about Peter Hook, his basslines were always so simple yet powerful
@@nobbytart27 what are you talking about? even Dr. Avalance is more recognizable than Patricia Morrison, and isn't even a person LoL.
@@maryhash7588 fair point, i stand corrected 😁
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill
I hear dive bombers and
Empire down
Empire down
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don't doubt, we don't take direction
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel
I don't feel
But I don't feel
A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
We got the empire, now as then
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me. 🌌🌌🌌🌄🌄🌄🌄👏👏👏👏👏
So which empire is this about? I see south asia is featured in the video. Was it part of the lyrical inspiration as well?
@@mjade1673 India was once known as Jewel of British Empire
love the deep meaning of this song so beautiful
Deep meaning ?! It's fucking nonsense 🤣🤣
@@mjade1673 I don't think they're really referring to the Roman Empire, but the rape of Lucretia by the son of the last king of Rome was what triggered the rebellion that overthrew the kingdom of Rome and began the Republic of Rome.
Mid to late 80s was such a good time for music and being a teenager! Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the banshees, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order/the division, the smiths, Sinead O’Connor.I could go on and on❤
Yes! All of this!!
Check the current scene, Molchat Doma, Nuovo Testamento, Boy Harsher , Selophan, Lebanon Hannover, The End of Electronics, She Past Away etc
Yes I lived it…. I want to return - we were so lucky to have those bands back then
Joy Division, Pixes, Peter Murphy etc..
I agree. I was born 1970, would never change that. The ´80s were magical when it comes to musical developement. I LOVED being a curious teenager in the ´80s.
My parrot just turned into a raven.
Bahahahahahahaus
My parakeet just turned into a rabid weasel
Long live Vinland
Actually, there's already a goth parrot species out there:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesquet's_parrot
My pet mouse just turned into a vampire bat
That bassline deserves a grammy
But grammy does not deserve this bassline
yeah, don't insult the bassline with a fucking grammy ...
Tunnelvision Antwerp everything about this song deserves a Grammys
she didnt write shit on this album, tho
2methylaminocyclohexan1 Tunnelvision word.
So they recently opened a pretty nice skating rink in my city here in Costa Rica and the dj was playing some 80s music and I had a USB flash drive inside my pocket with this song. Went up to him and told him if he would play this song. Cool guy agreed ( Sisters of Mercy were never really popular down here) and the whole skating rink ended up dancing and skating with this kick ass song. What a kick ass night !
exionem Congrats, sir! :D
exionem would of loved to of seen that :')
Fantastic
exionem That is really cool stuff :)
exionem I don't think you realize the opportunities you had with a guy who saw a flash drive and said "Sure I'll play what you say is on it."
Wow... My dad really had a great taste in music
Your dad new his shit 🤘
@@Retropangolin* knew
❤
Music mogels not musicians so much now.
Woah I'm 16 again listening to this in my bedroom and my parents asking me why I don't smile anymore. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Sue TheCrowlady Ha, this music always brought a smile to me.
Sue TheCrowlady I'm still wearing black !!-30 years on.xx
Phil philly Dark doesn't mean bad. It's how we know the light, neh?
U know it !!....peace.
+NorthForkFisherman it's why black is my favorite color. It makes everything else that much brighter.
The song that gets all the Goths on the dancefloor, including the 70 year olds
Just wait until Type O Negative enters. This guy is nothing compared to the Peter Steele.
48 and still dancing to this!
@the king meh
This was actually a dance song at our wedding
@@TheKing-uu7jn Type o Negative is shit compared to TSoM
I'm 33 years old and I've never listened The Sisters of Mercy until tonight. Man, this is good!
just stumbled accross them tonight, wow, wow and fuckin wow
I got into them in the mid 2000s and listened the absolute shit out of them all through high school. The album with this song and the one before it are solid gold. Greatest Hits isn't all that great (couldn't help myself with that pun) but it does have the best versions of a few excellent songs and one very good song I believe is unique to it. If you're interested in hearing more, then check out First and Last and Always (less production values but catchy as hell) or Floodland (which has this song and some other amazing tracks with big production - but I would argue a little more filler than the first album).
I'm fourty. Same here
if you like this ...listen to combi christ
Me too. Discovered this band today, love it 💗❤️💜🍻🍺🤩👍🏼👊🏼
My name is Lucrezia (Italian version) and I’m so proud that they made a song with my name in it😍
According to Roman tradition, Lucretia, anglicized as Lucrece, was a noblewoman in ancient Rome, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius and subsequent suicide precipitated a rebellion that overthrew the Roman monarchy and led to the transition of Roman government from a kingdom to a republic
Damn that's deep ☠️
Thank you , I love finding things like this out. Top marks mate
I always thought it was a reference to Lucretia Borgia.
He forced her to yield to his sexual advances by telling her the alternative was that he would kill her and one of her slaves, place their bodies together, and claim he had defended her husband's honour when he caught her having adulterous sex.
Soon after, Lucretia sent a message to both her husband and her father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus, telling them everything. She then killed herself.
🔥 When an event like that revolves around a name like that, it becomes eternal 🔥
All Goths please stand up for your national anthem
Edit:Why the hell are you still liking and commenting on this sh**?
Ahem. This is not the goth national anthem. You're thinking of Temple of Love. It's an easy mistake to make - I mean, lots of people think that Jerusalem is the English national anthem (and it bloody well should be - much better tune and lyrics), but it isn't.
@@TJ-xe2hv this corrosion is definitely the iconic one. But I prefer Lucretia. 😋
I thought the Goth National Anthem was "BELLA LUGOSI'S DEAD!" At least it was when I was in high school. Is that no longer the case?
So goth are basically Scotland?
Nobody seem to agree on what the oficial one is
The fact that 240p is the best quality makes it even more epic
I have said it before and I will say it again, I am so very thankful for having grown up in the 80s. What a time.
beetlegeuse beetlegeuse beetlegeuse
Music was so dark and cool in the late 80s. I miss the dark clubs back then so much! You could go out and totally lose yourself.
I totally agree that is why I still do that at home. Black curtains and only 80's music. The 80's were awesome!
acid
Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness
Now if you go out to a "goth" night the 18-24 year olds are dancing to some shit that sounds like rap minus the ghetto posturing. Nothing really dark or "goth" about the music except that everyone is wearing black.
Yes and in the beginning you had also good afterpunk bands like Killing Joke. You had lots of good music in the eighties. Loved beginning off the ninetees too. Sound garden, Faith no more.
Goths to the dance floor, all Goths to the dance floor please.
That is the Gospel. And we did fly to the Dance floor :)
I'm Goth but I don't dance. Nah. Great song though.
@@greygreenblack I don't dance either but I could make an exception for this song - only with a lot of alcohol going on though
Yep
Not a fan of the band then?
Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Fields of the Nephilim, London After Midnigth, Bauhaus!!! The best Music of the history...
and clan of xymox
and tiamat bro
Antonio, you got it right man :)
👍😝
Fields of Nephilim is my favorite but all those bands rock yes!!
I' m still there in 2024.This Is pure class.Sisters of mercy forever!!!!!
Sisters of Mercy, keeping factories sexy since 1988
I'm the 69th like
Nice
I loved this song when I was 20 years old. I am 47 now and I still love it.
Same
Turned 38 and today is the 1st time hearing this song by a band I only heard of. Thanks again, Type O Negative for the intro to an amazing song.
I'm envious of you both.
@@m.ta.r.6443 Happy birthday! 🎉
@@nadicam1707 Thank you . Much Appreciated
Same!!😊
I just love this band. Helps my depression and anxiety.
I get this !!!!!!!
It’s a brilliant song isn’t it. Great to hear it helps your mood too
Ha - me too. Listening to Nick Cave is especially uplifting too. Murder ballads on the way to work always does the trick
Do you mean, You're auto-diagnosed depression and anxiety?
Agreed
I saw them in Manchester recently and it was one of the Best concerts I have ever been you. They played this right at the end of the set and the crowd was going completely MAD at the time. 😂😂😂😂😂
Im a starter goth, i herd this song was everything so I came in here and oh my god this is just amazing. I’ma new fan of sisters of mercy no doubt.
sameee
This whole album is flawless, Mother Russia is the jam.
If you like this style, I'd recommend(besides everything from Sisters ofc) Dreadful Shadows, The Mission, Clan of Xymox and so many more that just don't come to mind right now 😄
@@_Shadoh_ & Whores of Babylon
Welcome to the madness , it's beautiful.x
I TOLD MY KIDS TO PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL AND SEE IF I DON'T SIT UP TO IT. 🤟🤟
your kids are lucky ajahajakq my parents are not that cool
😁😁
Lol good call
who cares
@@paulmcdonough1093 I do
this song is so industrial it's in a factory
theres a tour where they used something used in civil construction ,that thing for the guys climb up..
Love this song 🖤🎶🤘🏻
Paulo Henrique it’s called a scaffold
“I can’t feel”
-guy feelin on a pillar
Hahaaha Yeah !!
I am familiar with this song from my youth. Listening to it at almost 50 years of age, it makes me realize how much music today is garbage. The composition, bass line and lyrics of this song are hypnotic.
Agreed
It's hypnotic. The best '80s alternative is ageless.
The only way to classify music is: do you like it or not?
Gothic Werewolf the post-punk and gothic rock originated alternative rock
Cedric Herrera This is great sounding, front man favors Rick Ocasic of the cars
steele peter, I agree:)
+steele Pete Peter is alive ! I knew it
that bass line is a beast
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear
Dive, bombers, and
Empire down
Empire down
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me,
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take direction,
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel
A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection,
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me
What are they talking about?
About not being on a beach, on shores of a blue Lagoon, under a bright and shiny Skye, full of sunlight's heat and Coconut trees...
(Lol...)
@@shesfine9426 the video actually end in. A beach! :)
@@SaroShow ❤️😂😉
Hvala brate :)
aged 58 and still crazy for this song and the sisters
Same age & yes me too 🖤
Moi aussi ❤j'ai maintenant 59ans 😊
The 80s were the best ,still love this song and I am 59 ,where did all the years go and how we ended up in these shiny times
What an iconic sound. One of those songs that makes you wish you could somehow unhear it and then instead hear it for the first time on the night you rise as a vampire. I feel so lucky to have been born at the start of the 70's so I could live through this era right when I was creating myself by my own will.
Bro what ???💀💀
@@OGkush69x as you can see a lot of goths are quite mentally unstable
Same here!!!!
Ye man. Born in 66. Rocked to SOM through the 80s. What a time
That was beautifully said
My buddy had a Sisters of Mercy poster on his bedroom wall in the late 80s. He swore that Patricia Morrison's eyes followed him when he was in the room. I believe it.
pretty
I was at a party at a night club in Washington DC last week when over the loudspeaker system came this song. . .in all its glory. Damn, was I ever happy.
Sounds like a fantastic night.
+kilts4u2 You must mean club SPELLBOUND? Club MIDNIGHT is closed now
cool club for playing this tune.
+frostmaiden85 It was indeed a cool club. Located downtown not far from the Verizon arena. It's a regular nightclub for the kewl people but, on that night, the them was fetish as it was around Halloween. I used to go to clubs back in the '80s where you could here industrial/goth/metal music like this song all the time. Those clubs are few and far between now. Sign of the times.
+The Screaming Severed Heads It wasn't Spellbound. We actually went to that one too but, on different nights. This club is downtown and a regular , popular spot for the hip crowd. I'll look up the name.
Patricia Morrison is just the most beautiful other worldly creation..
She’s Michael Jackson’s long lost sister but Janet
real
So was Andrew Eldritch back then ❤
This is what Gothic Rock means, fantastic atmosphere and deep voice. Yeah! I love this shit.
intense atmosphere
Type O Negative is better
Never was Goth.
Sister of Mercy exists before label goth discovered.
So watch your words when you talking about Sisters.
No goth bullshit here please
SOM, Christian Death and Fields of the Nephilim were what goth and death rock meant to me back in the 1980s.
@@TheKing-uu7jn what?? Totally different style... This is gothic rock, Type O is closer to gothic metal.
Patricia is absolutely beautiful.. Look at those eyes.. My oh my
I always wondered who she was!
Oh My Gothess!
Patricia Morrison> Lucretia
Dave Vanian's wife,(lead singer of The Damned.)
Wasn't she the bassist for the band, too?
the days when there was alternative/goth clubs downtown with great dark deco and visuals ...with dark corners and big screens with experimental videos with me on acid and rockabillies playing pool and alternative godess dancing on this music and front 242 was a hell of a world apart from today ! ....we were a futuristic generation in a dark past that flew away too soon --- -- - ✈
damnit I missed it :(
I'm just thankful my taste led to the goth & industrial clubs & scene in my teens & 20's, while they were still awesome. It was more a way of life than a scene, but you know what I mean.
Back in the days of wearing full length black satin gloves & taking 4 hrs to get ready, dropping a tab, doing the two step on the dancefloor & spending a fortune on eyeliner & the most fabulous velvet, lace & leather concoctions. When you'd be called a freak just walking down the street.
I do miss it, but I'm just thankful I've mostly always had different & eclectic taste & did the alternative thing rather than boring bland popular genre shite.
I'm sure there's a whole new generation of teens discovering all the old favs & bigger old goth & industrial stuff now who are thinking the exact same thing every generation who's discovered it think-that they're completely original & hardcore.
@gigawatt Who knows. Several probably already have. Why do you ask? I can only think of how press & opposing candidates would use someone's past against them in public office, but in that case there's been far more interesting & 'different' politicians & candidates. Take Jello Biafra for example, lead singer of The Dead Kennedies & brilliant highly political spoken word artist. Now he would've totally kicked ass over the farce that is Trump. ;)
This made me tear up wow
Circling overlaaaaaand 🎶🎶🎶
Perfect sound!! Sister, Bauhaus, The Cult, New Model Army, always among my favorites!!
New Model Army isnt one you hear too many folks speak upon. Nice one.
Some of the best goth rock you'll ever hear.
So true!
One of my faves
Listen to Euroshima guys
Lucas Davis ever.
Just got here, but willing to believe that already, very good song!
Everything about this song is perfect.
Claudia Cutino as well for the video
Juz LaGrange
Except it's too short :P the extended version is better
Claudia Cutino Ikr
It really was one of there best....
one of the best bass lines ever made
One of the best songs ever written!
Who's here in 2024?
I'll be back
here
Absolutely
me!
Ich auch mit spiggy eldritch
I would never get tired listening to this song over and over again!
Me toooooooo
Aye, decades fly by and still nothing touches this!
My New (After) Work Song. Gives me Power for new Ideas!!! :-)
Me too!!! Can't get enough of this song!!
i love the bass line
I have to listen to this song at least three times back to back before I move on.
Even with my old age arthritis I feel like dancing to this ageless rockin' blast!
Ron Miller
Arthritis? I’ve had a stroke and still rockin 😂💪🏻
Ron Miller why are they called Sisters of Mercy when everyone is a dude? Yeah, yeah, retarded question, but I really want to know
Me and my old hip are right there with ya.
Used to dance and flail aggressively all night back in the late '80s and '90s, but those days are over for me too. Hard to do that shit anymore after back surgery and chronic joint pain. Getting old sucks!
Who is there in 2024?????
I'm
I'm
I'm
Im
I'm😊
The fastest 4 minutes in music set to coolest lyrics ever:
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down, I hear empire down
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill
I hear a dive, bombers, and
Empire down, empire down
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get it down, get undressed
Get pretty, but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don't doubt, we don't take direction
Lucretia, my reflection
Dance the ghost with me
ThirdLantern fastest?
John Green fastest?
Fastest as in I don't want it to end. Ever.
ThirdLantern the coast. dance the coast with me.
thats why theyre walking on the beach at the end. get ready. is also supposedly what hes saying. instead of get pretty...
GRUFF THATS ALL I HAVE 2 SAY WITH A SMILE AND SELIOUTE SKIN ON SKIN I WANT 2 LICK THE SWEAT OF
2022 and still a brilliant song 🖤
Aggre
heck yeah
And now 2023
As if time degrades music or something
@@Springfeeeel3 Well it's supposed to get better, but something happened and it started getting worse. Now we have Taylor Swift ..
The energy and darkness in the goth masterpiece is simply mind blowing
Love this! 80's darkness with that primal beat. Ahhh, I remember this girl I was dating and dancing to this. She was a freak! She expanded my world and took me to places...I better shut up. This song just takes me to such incredible places. 🫦
They don't make music like this anymore and never will
I went to their concert in 90 at the Wembley arena. I was so off my face, I can't hardly remember it....🤩
One of my favourite sisters songs, I used to love playing this live, with my band, way back in day...rock on Sister fans
this song made me goth. i was kind of trying to get into goth music and i had listened to some the cure and siouxie and the banshees and i liked it but then i stumbled upon this song and it changed my lifeeeee. i became absolutely obsessed with it and the whole Floodlands album. It was the song that took me from casual fan to goth. No matter how many times I listen to it, it’s always fantastic.
Who's listening to this in 2020 ? "Me" 😂
And me
Im with u
@@lolitavirolainen3474 vision thing is also a great album even re done faith no more "the real thing album" forgot how good that is
Today
Me love it
It's amazing how many songs AHS: Hotel has resurrected for newer and older generations alike. The Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, Bahaus, Souix and The Banshees, Peter Murphy, She Wants Revenge. Freaking sweet!!
Best music
I did the goth thing in my teens & 20's, & just watched AHS Hotel yesterday. Such nostalgia. Whoever did the music for it did a brilliant job!
tiamat ?
ahs introduced me to the greatest songs i’ll ever hear
Agreed, one of the reasons I love that show so much.
This is the meanest, toughest-as bassline ever laid down.
Просто офигенная группа! Люблю ее! From Russia 🇷🇺 ❤Столько лет прошло, а музыка вне времени.
🇷🇺💪😎🎖️
I'm almost 40 and I just heard this song for the first time. Very sad/happy about it 😂
Dang, welcome aboard.
There is a lot to discover about the 80s music, such a lot of hidden gems.
This playing full blast going fast around corners while on a motorbike is an unreal experience ❤
You badass! Good on ya.
J'ai découvert les Sisters au début des 90's et depuis je n'ai jamais cessé de les écouter. Un morceau culte d'un groupe de légende.
Eu os conheci na década 80.
I can't believe they hated their goth title. They were literally one of the bands that invented goth. Takes me wayyyy back.
Listen to actual Goth from this era...
They were always Post Punk to me..
Goth was Human Drama and London After Midnight etc..
Boring mostly...
This gets called Darkwave and whatever....
The Smiths are goth now haha.. mislabeled like many....
We got called DeathRocker by the older Punks... Jack from TSOL.. always called me this.. cheers from Huntington Beach CA 🇺🇸
I don't believe it was their original intention which is why they disregarded that title in the past. In reality that's what they actually accomplished in their career.
First time hearing this band .. they're good.
Welcome to the world of goth rock
Same. I was actually watching the episode of southpark when stan becomes a goth, and they're telling him to listen to their music and dress like them, so I googled goth music and this was one of the bands. I did not expect to like it so much lol
Next song temple of love
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 lol same
Same here for me now
I love this band! Dancing at goth clubs at 19 , know I am almost 50..still dancing to this today! I love this song 🎵 ❤️
Sisters of Mercy.....does not get any more GOTH then this. Awesome!!!
Or does it?. "Red Lorry Yellow Lorry" does come on par with this band...
One of my favourite bands in the 1980's when I was a teenager. This is still soooo good now as when I first heard it in 1987.
I was around 16 years old in 1998 when I was drinking my first beers in the rock bar of my neighborhood in the center of Athens. My first drinks, making up with my girlfriend in a dark corner with these songs as soundtrack. Good times goddamnit. I want more.
I really wish Type O Negative would have done a cover of this!!! Peter Steele's vocals would've been a perfect fit.
Check out Warrel Danes version.. rocks...
I think we are best friends now.
I love Type of Negative. Bring it !
Oh,hell yes.. that would've been perfect for Type O Negative
*Sigh*... alright, lemme find my Necronomicon.....
I was 11 when this came out. My older brother got the album. I still stick it on to this day.
First time hearing this and bloody hell where have I been, it’s brilliant
You're lucky, you get to hear this awesome band in 2024, they aren't making stuff like this much nowdays.
......Was jammin to this in the 80's....2021....and still jammin to this!
This reminds me of when I was 18....had such a thing for Sisters of Mercy in my babybat days
I probably wore out at least three cassettes and two CDs of Floodland. In fact Sisters of Mercy is the major influence for a lot of my music.
Dan Dubinsky And the lead singer is sooo pretty for a white guy...
I shamefully have to admit I dressed like him circa 1988.
Dan Dubinsky Why shame? I would be proud! I dress like him circa 88 today.
***** Marry Me,
No amount of iphone technology could ever replace watching these music videos as a kid on mtv Back in the day. Great times
one of the best songs I have ever heard
Watching AHS Hotel has me binging on all my old favourite goth & industrial music. Brilliantly put together soundtrack & perfect mood music, specially for those of us for whom this music formed the soundtrack & backdrop of our clubbing years.
Not to sound cliche, but there haven't been any good goth clubs for at least 2 decades now!
Still blasting this in 2017.
and, why not.
Georgina Fickova - they don't make music like that anymore...
Not true - listen to "She Past Away". Best new goth band to come out in years! Funny how a band with such an old-school sound can be SO refreshing, but they really are.
Wendigo Heart
I just checked them out to see if I'd agree. Looking for good & unique sound. Hard to find these days. Sorry, I didn't care much for it.. Thx, anyway. Sisters will always be First, and Last, and Always! Might I suggest Ghost BC? They're different. Their frontman, Tobias Forge, also has a unique, "I don't give a sh* t" attitude like Andrew and causes internal and external band conflict & controversy. Even has a female bassist. He's not an Eldritch clone or wannabe. Unique but similar.
Check it out. Tell me what you think.
The fellow from Rosetta Stone... Miserylab is also good.... There is a new "wave" (excuse the word) of these bands doing this.... She Past Away was good... I have not heard anything from them since 2015 but I am sure they have something coming! Lost Tapes, Empereur, etc. are also on the list.
This was epic in 1987... And in 2018 is still epic
The song and this video is mesmerizing.
I'm on a spree of goth/postpunk iconic classics right now, this one, Killing Joke-the Wait and Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)-Cuts You Up.
All three absolutely killer!🤘
Su música siempre me anima, son de lo mejor en su estilo y sus vídeos me encantan. La música gótica es sisters of merci.
Además fueron mis ídolos de juventud!!.
Can't get out of my head that bassline and Patricia Morrison's eyes.
Exactly.
Plus andrew eldritch kind of looks like steven king.
THE SISTERS OF MERCY LEGENDS.....Masterpiece Song 🎸♪€♬
GABRIEL BEHD 80' tracks classic
The original Sisters line up and music was a million times better
@@crowsbaneful I don't agree. This is a much slicker sound and Andrew's song writing really came into its own when out on his own
I was born in 88’ I missed this era! But luckily I got to experience the 90’s and early 00’s before it all went to shit.
The Cult brought me here... how could i have forgotten this song????? Love it!!!
My beautiful friend Pat on bass....i always knew she'd make it big...
Another 80’s dance classic that packed the floor
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
this is good
i like the bass and the emotion of the music
Just love it. The rythm. The bass. The voice. All makes you wanna dance and fly away.....
I’m starting to realize the hallmark of a good ol song is that it doesn’t give you all it’s got right away...
I am frustrated with the songs that peak in the beginning. 😂
Cyberpunk's habit of naming quests after music is great, especially when so much of it fits the game. New Wave goes with 2077 like butter on toast.