RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Good Things (MP3)

We're getting closer to the summer festivals tour from TSOM, so it's a good ocassion to do an upgrade on the unreleased material from the band, including some 2009 recordings. This compilation gathers the best sounding versions of each song and was done by Mr. Wah, who was kind enough to let me post his link here. A big Thank You to him, for his effort and generosity and to Being645 for the Megaupload mirror. The compilation is so nice, I thought it deserved some artwork, my photoshop skills are limited, but I hope you enjoy it.

01. Arms (Lisbon 2009) different recording from the one already shared here
02. Crash And Burn (Frankfurt 2003)
03. Come Together (Madrid 2006)
04. Capricorn (Hamburg 2001)
05. We Are The Same, Susanne (Version from TSOM website)
06. Summer (Wiesen 1997)
07. Will I Dream (London 1998)
08. Good Things (Brussels 22.2.2009)
09. War On Drugs (Wiesen 1997)
10. Slept (Tabor 2005)
11. Still (Brussels 2006)
12. Romeo Down (London 1998)
13. Confide In Me (London 10.6.1997)
14. Top Nite Out (Frankfurt 2003)
15. Arms (Instrumental - Cleveland Soundcheck 2008)

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RE-UPLOAD: Ghost Dance - Marquee, London, UK - 28.11.1988 (DVD)

Another Ghost Dance DVd shared by Egg_Crisis.

VHS(TDK HS E180,unknown gen) > LG DVD/VCR combo > DVD-RW disc > TMPGenc DVD author(add chapters & menu,no re-encode) > VIDEO_TS folder
PAL DVD
Menu
Chapters at the start of each track
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 6556Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps

Marquee - audience.  At the end of Walk In My Shadow there was a section repeated (possibly someone had had it on 2 tapes with a bit of overlap) so I've edited it the best I can, but there's a small click on the edit.
Bay 63 - pro shot ... but appalling quality because it's gone too many generations.  Celebrate is particularly bad with a very unstable picture in parts, A Deeper Blue isn't as bad.  Someone is bound to have it in better quality than this.


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01 Intro : It's A Man's World
02 This Way Up
03 Cinder Road
04 Down To The Wire
05 Everything Worth Giving
06 Fool's Gold
07 Walk In My Shadow
08 The Love I Need
09 Spin The Wheel
10 Stop The World
11 Falling Again
12 When I Call
13 Turn To Me
14 Doctor Love
15 The Grip Of Love
16 Celebrate
17 Sea Of Faith
18 I Will Wait
19 Last Train
(75:57)

Bay 63, London, UK, 1986.05.27
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20 Celebrate
21 A Deeper Blue
(7:51)

Total - 83:48

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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Roundhouse, London, UK - 13.11.2011 (DVD)

Excellent DVD. Got this one in a trade recently, don't know much about the lineage, the guy I traded it with, said he bought the DVD from the filmer. Very good image and sound quality, filmed with a tripod or something, since it's very steady.

Lineage: Trade DVDr -> TLH -> DIME

Filmer: Bootsy

Video:
DVD "VOB" format
MPEG-2 Program Stream << { 1 vid, 1 aud }
Sys Bitrate: 10080 kb/s VBR
720 x 576

Audio:
DVD_LPCM_AUDIO



Setlist:

First And Last And Always
Ribbons
Train / Detonation Boulevard
Crash And Burn
Marian
Alice
No Time To Cry
Gift That Shines
Arms
Dominion/Mother Russia
Summer
A Rock And A Hard Place
This Corrosion
Pipeline
Never Land
Flood II 

Encore 1
Something Fast
More

Encore 2
Lucretia, My Reflection 
Vision Thing
Temple Of Love 


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RE-UPLOAD: Ghost Dance - Polytechnic, Leeds, UK - 01.12.1987 (MP3)

And the Ghost Dance concert from the same night as the one from Groovin' With Lucy. Again Thanks to Egg_Crisis.

01 Intro
02 The Grip Of Love
03 Born To Be Your Slave
04 The Last Train
05 It Means Nothing Without You
06 When I Call
07 I'll Wait
08 Heaven And Beyond
09 Doctor Love
10 He Loves To Applause
11 Only The Broken Hearted
12 Celebrate
13 After The Rain
14 Where Spirits Fly **
15 A Deeper Blue
16 Crazy Horses

Length - 67:38

** Abandoned after 45 sec due to some people fighting! (And people had been shouting for the song all night!)  Marx did a spectacular dive right  into the audience, then Anne Marie jumped in too as they both tried to break up the fight.  I never did find out what the fight was about.

Cassette(aud,master,TDK D90,recorded on Saisho PS 35R with built-in mic) > mp3 256kbps
Transfer done at least 7 years ago when I didn't know anything about flac, etc, and I no longer have the tape. :/

Uploaded by Egg_Crisis for Dark Circle Room

Split into individual tracks for personal use only since that causes more damage to the file. Do not circulate without this info file.


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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Rare Obscurities (FLAC)

Another CD with demos and alternate versions, most of them are already in other bootlegs posted here, with the exception of NRUB, that is probably the strangest bootleg mix, since it's Burn played backwards, enable that way to hear the lyrics of the song, since they're originally backwards on the song... Part 4 of the Merciful Release Box.

01. Dance on Glass (Demo)
02. Garden of Delight (Demo)
03. Teachers / Adrenochrome (Demo)
04. Red Skies Disappear (Demo)
05. Good Things (Demo)
06. Marian (instrumental)
07. NRUB
08. Body Electric (Rough mix)
09. No Time to Cry (Alternative Studio version)
10. First & Last & Always (Alternative Studio version)
11. A Rock and a Hard Place (Alternative Studio version)
12. Walk Away (Alternative Studio version)
13. Gimme Gimme (Early Live)
14. Jolene (Early Live)
15. Spirits (Soundcheck 84)
16. Dominion (Demo)


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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, UK - 17.02.1991 (Flac)

Another of Egg_Crisis master recording, a huge Thank You to him for his generosity. Excellent sound.

Cassette(Aud, Master, TDK SF90's, Recorded on Sony Recording Walkman with T-shaped external mic[Eurochannels EMC3630]) > wav > Soundforge(even up L+R chans) > CDWave > split on sector boundaries > flac(6)

I don't do the CD1 / CD2 thing. If you're burning it on 2cd's just use your common sense. (Hint: Put the encores on CD2). :)

Recorded from the side balcony, approx halfway along.

Tape flip(auto-reverse) during Marian, less than a second missed, the missing piece replaced with another piece from later in the song.

The second of the two 10th Anniversary gigs.

Before Ribbons, "Here's another song about... sex."
Before Marian, "Not even close."
Before This Corrosion, (something in German)
As Flood II starts, (sounds like "That's as maybe" but it might be something in German?)
Before Jolene, "Who wasn't here yesterday?... (*he raises his shades to show his eyes*) ...nearly human!"
After 1969, "Thank you... ...(something in German??)..."

And is that Elgar's Cello Concerto playing from the PA at the end? I assume it is as Eldritch once named it as one of his favourite pieces of music.

I copied the tape for a few people back in the day, but don't know if it's currently circulating.



01 Intro : Afterhours
02 First And Last And Always
03 Lucretia My Reflection
04 Body And Soul
05 Ribbons
06 Dominion/Mother Russia
07 Alice
08 Amphetamine Logic
09 Detonation Boulevard
10 Burn
11 Marian
12 This Corrosion
13 Gimme Shelter
14 Flood II
15 Temple Of Love
16 (encore break)
17 Something Fast
18 Jolene
19 (encore break)
20 Vision Thing
21 1969

Length - 98:29


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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Leeds University, Leeds, UK - 16.02.1991 (Flac)

Now this is a pleasant gift from Egg_Crisis to all TSOM fans. Huge Thanks!

Cassette(Aud, Master, first part:TDK SA100,encores:TDK SF90, Recorded on Sony Recording Walkman with T-shaped external mic[Eurochannels EMC3630]) > wav > Soundforge(even up L+R chans) > CDWave > split on sector boundaries > flac(6)

I don't do the CD1 / CD2 thing. If you're burning it on 2cd's just use your common sense. (Hint: Put the encores on CD2). :)

Recorded from the balcony at the back, in the centre.
Tape flip(auto-reverse) during This Corrosion, less than a second missed, the missing "hey now now" replaced with another "hey now now" from a moment earlier to patch up the missing piece.

The first of the two 10th Anniversary gigs.

Before Lucretia, "Thanks for coming."
Before Amphetamine Logic, "Now there's a funny thing".
Before Burn, drum machine failure, "I hope you all found somewhere to stay tonight... (audience sings 'Let's all laugh at Eldritch') ... Oh no."
Before Gimme Shelter, "I remember when this stage was big".
As Flood II starts, "Is my nose still bleeding?".
Before Vision Thing, "And while we're on the subject..."

Includes the "3rd encore", where after more audience cheering Eldritch came back onstage and everyone expected to get another encore, but he just said "thankyou" then left.




01 Intro : Afterhours
02 Alice
03 Lucretia My Reflection
04 Body And Soul
05 Ribbons
06 Dominion/Mother Russia
07 First And Last And Always
08 Amphetamine Logic
09 Detonation Boulevard
10 Burn
11 Marian
12 This Corrosion
13 Gimme Shelter
14 Flood II
15 Temple Of Love
16 (encore break)
17 Valentine
18 Vision Thing
19 (encore break)
20 Something Fast
21 Jolene
22 1969
23 (encore break & "3rd encore")

Length - 107:53

I copied the tape for a few people back in the day, but don't know if it's currently circulating.
I downloaded a bootleg called "Return to Arkham" for comparison and quality-wise it's about the same. Although of the 2 songs I checked, both had had the between song parts tampered with, one song had one of Eldritch's remarks removed ("now here's a funny thing"), and another had a "thankyou" added where there hadn't been one (right before the drum machine failure).  I didn't check any more after that and binned it.

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RE-UPLOAD: The March Violets - Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK - 23.02.1984 (Flac)

And another recording the March Violets, courtesy of Egg_Crisis.

cassette(unknown gen,TDK D90,record fair tape copied off a friend in 1990) > wav > Adobe Audition(Hiss removal-Standard setting) > Soundforge(normalise uneven L&R channels) > CDWave(split on sector boundaries) > flac(6)

This was on the other side of the tape that had their Pandora's Music Box gig on it. Tape wasn't great quality but removing the hiss made a huge difference.


Setlist:

01 Deep
02 Walk Into The Sun
03 1, 2, I Love You
04 Crow Baby
05 Kill The Delight
06 Snake Dance
07 Miracle Of The Rose
08 It's Hot
09 Big Soul Kiss
10 Grooving In Green

Length - 42:00



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RE-UPLOAD: The Batfish Boys - Discography (MP3)

Simon D. band formed after his demise from  The March Violets, almost completely forgotten these days, wich is really unfair because they're fabulous. Thanks to Appick for this collection.

Swamp Liquor 12''  Single (1985)

01. Swamp Liquor
02. Hounds Of Death
03. Hot Guns

The Gods Hate Kansas LP (1985)

01. Real Rough Dude
02. The Tumbleweed Thing
03. Killer Sub
04. Mrs Triffid
05. Swamp Liquor
06. Chronopolis
07. Lootenant Lush
08. The Birth Of Rock'N'Roll
09. Garth Rides Out
10. Hot Guns

Crocodile Tears 12'' (1986)

01. Not Enough Blue
02. Are You Gonna Br There (At The Love In)
03. Detroit Chrome Mountain
04. Peacock Machinery

Justine 7'' (1986)

01. Justine
02. Amoeba Rock

Head LP (1986)

01. The Whiskey Priest
02. Justine
03. The Gods Hate Kansas
04. Growlers
05. Fat Tuesday
06. Head
07. Love Pig
08. East West Turnaround
09. Gila Girl
10. (I Don't Wanna Be Your) Dinosaur (baby)
11. Amoeba Rock

The Bomb Song 12'' (1987)

01. The Bomb Song
02. I'm A Cadillac
03. Cooking With Gas

Another One Bites The Dust 12'' (1988)

01. Another One Bites The Dust (Purple Haze Mix)
02. The Bomb Song (Echo-Logy Mix)
03. Born To Be Wild (Live In Chicago)

Batfish Brew LP (1989)

01. Velcro Beach
02. Salvation $1
03. Sister Jane
04. Cubatão 88
05, The Green machine (In Memory Of)
06. Put Me Back Together Again
07. It's Good
08. Superslab
09. Another One Bites The Dust (Purple Haze Mix)


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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Echoes - Vol.4 (Flac)

Old vinyl bootleg, that was re-issued with some extra tracks on a 4 CD Deluxe bootleg box. This is the CD version with those tracks, all are early demos.

1. Anaconda (Early Studio Version) (3:12)
2. Phantom (Long Version) (10:30)
3. Phantom (Short Version) (2:59)
4. Afterhours (Short Version) (5:39)
5. Black Planet (Instrumental) (3:30)
6.Train (Short Version) (2:31)
7. Burn (Early Studio Version) (2:55)
8. Afterhours (Long Version) (11:30)
9. Marian (3rd Mix - Distortion) (5:36)
10. Marian (Instrumental) (5:34)
11. Afterhours (Long Version) (10:40)
12. A Rock And A Hard Place (Instrumental)



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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Echoes - Vol. 3 (Flac)

Volume three of the 4 CD Box.

Empire Down (Lucretia Floodland Demo)
Garden Of Delight (Final Demo 1985)
Kiss The Carpet (The Reptile House Demo 1983)
Jolene (Demo 1984)

Train (Demo 1985)

Dominion / Mother Russia (Floodland Demo)

Where Splits Fly (instrumental demo)

Floorshow (Demo 1981)

Red Skies Disappears (Demo 1985)

Burn (instrumental)

Ghostrider / Sister Ray (Live 1984)
Train (Live Zurich 1985)

Louie Louie (Live 1985)
Possession (live 1984)


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RE-UPLOAD: The March Violets - Warehouse, Leeds, UK - 22.11.1984 (Flac)

Another gem shared by Egg_Crisis here, A Big Thank You to him.

01 Kill The Delight
02 Grooving In Green
03 Crow Baby
04 Big Soul Kiss
05 Love In A Nightmare
06 Don't Take It Lightly
07 The Face Of The Dragonfly
08 Burning Through
09 Deep
10 Snake Dance
11 Walk Into The Sun
  (1st encore)
12 Lights Go Out
13 Rich City
  (2nd encore)
14 Snake Dance (end cut)

Length - 60:04

Cassette(aud, unknown gen, TDK D60, from Camden Market in 1993) > wav > Adobe Audition(Dehiss-Light setting) > Soundforge(normalise uneven L&R channels) > CDWave(cut on sector boundaries) > flac(6)

The encore of Snake Dance cuts out before the end (Comparing it with the other Snake Dance there's only 34 seconds missing).  When this show appeared on Dime in 2008 it also had an incomplete Snake Dance.  Since a c60 was used to make the master (tape flip is at 30 min) I'd make a guess that they're all like this and a complete version doesn't exist (unless there was a 2nd taper).  This isn't the Dime version, so I don't know how they compare.

I've made a 2nd version of the 2nd Snake Dance, adding the missing 34 seconds from the first Snake Dance.  For the purists who think this is taking things too far, the cut version is also included.  Listen to whichever version you prefer.

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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Echoes - Vol. 2 (Flac)

The second volume of the Box. The highlight is the 22 minutes medley of covers (track 10).

1. A Rock And A Hard Place (Demo 1984)
2. Flood III (Floodland Demo 1986)
3. Afterhours ((Demo 1984)
4. Jolene (Live 1983)
5. Adrenochrome (Live 1983)
6. Body And Soul (Live Zurich 1984)
7. Gimme Shelter (Live 1984)
8. First And Last And Always (Old Grey Whistle Test 1985)
9. Marian (Old Grey Whistle Test 1985)
10. Knocking On Heavens Door / Hey Joe / Purple Haze /Starway To Heaven / Ghostrider / Louie Louie (Live 1984)
11. Gimme Gimme Gimme (Live New York 1984)


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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Echoes - Vol. 1 (Flac)

The first volume of the Box set, composed entirely of live tracks.

30.8.83 - Loft, Berlin

1. Burn
2. Valentine
3. Anaconda
4. Heartland
5. Alice
6. Temple Of Love
7. Floorshow
8. Adrenochrome
9. Gimme Shelter
10. Kiss The Carpet
11. Body Electric

12.8.83 Electric Ballroom, London

12. Valentine
13. Heartland
14. Adrenochrome
15. Floorshow
16. Body Electric


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RE-UPLOAD: The March Violets - Natural History - Live 1983/84 (DVD)

Huge thanks to Egg_Crisis for sharing this one here.

01 It's Hot
02 Kill The Delight
03 Slow Drip Lizard
04 Grooving In Green
05 Fodder
06 Crow Baby
07 Slow Drip Lizard
08 Strangehead
09 Long Pig
10 Undertow
11 1, 2, I Love You
12 Religious As Hell
13 Snakedance

(47:54)

14 Radiant Boys (Promo video, 1983) (3:55)
15 Turn To The Sky (Saturday Superstore, Blackpool, Summer 1985) (3:08)

Tracks 1-3,13. With Cleo. unknown venue, 1983/84. single camera
Tracks  4-12. With Rosie. Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University, 14th May 1983. multi-camera

I never knew the date or venue of any of the live footage but there's a clip of one of the songs on youtube captioned "Saturday 14th May 1983, Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University" so I'm assuming that's correct.  It definitely fits in with my original guess of "early'83" anyway.  The guy I got this from had asked a member of the band if they knew what the date or venue was only to be told "No idea. I didn't even know the video existed."

The live footage comes from 2 different shows, the undated one shot with a single camera, the other being a multi-camera job, or maybe just 2 cameras if they kept moving into different positions.

The Saturday Superstore clip wasn't part of the original tape, I added that from another tape.

VHS(TDK HS E-180,obtained Dec'87) > LG DVD/VCR combo > DVD-RW disc > TMPGenc DVD author(add chapters & menu,no re-encode) > VIDEO_TS folder

PAL DVD
Menu & Chapters
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 6556Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps


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RE-UPLOAD: The March Violets - Seaside-Festival, De Panne, Belgium - 10.08.1985 (Flac)

Another concert kindly shared by Egg_Crisis.

Original info file:

Lineage: TDK SA90 -> Tapedeck Yamaha KX-493 -> Soundblaster AWE32 -> Wavelab 4.0 -> TLH -> FLAC 6 -> Dime

Very good sound quality

Tracklist:

01. Silver Lining
02. Lights Go Out
03. Turn To The Sky
04. Face Of The Dragonfly
05. Avalanche Of Love
06. Deep
07.Snakedance

Don't buy or sell live recordings and go to the shows !

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RE-UPLOAD: Ghost Dance - Warehouse, Leeds, UK - 29.06.1988 (Flac)

Someone requested a GD concert from 1988, so here it is. Courtesy of Egg_Crisis.

Cassette(Audience,1st gen,Sony HF90) > wav > Soundforge(normalise uneven L+R channels) > CDWave(split on sector boundaries) > flac(6)

Tape flip after Spin The Wheel.
I was there but this was taped by a friend.  Support was by Drug Free America.




01 Down To The Wire
02 Celebrate
03 Dr. Love
04 The Blood Still Flows
05 When I Call
06 Born To Be Your Slave
07 Mirror Blind
08 Cinder Road
09 The Grip Of Love
10 Spin The Wheel
11 Walk In My Shadow
12 I Will Wait
13 Heaven And Beyond
14 Last Train

Length - 61:35

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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Brixton Academy, London, UK - 21.12.1993 (Flac)

Sourced on the bootleg CD.

01. Kiss the Carpet
02. Ribbons
03. Alice
04. Giving Ground
05. Come Together
06. Anaconda
07. On the Wire
08. More
09. Under the Gun
10. Body Electric
11. Amphetamine Logic
12. Flood II
13. This Corrosion
14. Comfortably Numb / Some Kind of Stranger
15. First and Last and Always
16. Vision Thing

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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - 1990 (DVD)

This DVD contains two concerts from 1990, from the comeback tour after 5 years without playing live. Similar to the 1983 DVD that was already shared. Thanks to cEnda for sharing this one here. Artwork done by Circle.

Philipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
21.11.1990

Tracklist:
01. First And Last And Always
02. Lucretia My Reflection
03. Body And Soul
04. Detonation Boulevard
05. Ribbons
06. Dominion/Mother Russia
07. Flood II
08. Valentine
09. Heartland
10. Doctor Jeep
11. Amphetamine Logic
12. Marian
13. Alice
14. Gimme Shelter
15. This Corrosion
16. Jolene
17. Temple Of Love
18. Something Fast
19. Vision Thing

Wembley Arena, England
26.11.1990

Tracklist:
01. First And Last And Always
02. Lucretia My Reflection
03. Body And Soul
04. Detonation Boulevard
05. Ribbons
06. Dominion/Mother Russia
07. Flood II
08. Valentine
09. Heartland
10. Doctor Jeep
11. Body Electric
12. Amphetamine Logic
13. Marian
14. Alice
15. Gimme Shelter
16. This Corrosion
17. Something Fast
18. Temple Of Love
19. Vision Thing
20. 1969


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