Tag Archives: the sisters of mercy

The Vlogging Goth – Updates on YouTube

Posted on July 26, 2021 by The Blogging Goth

Good morning readers, and apologies for the lack of updates recently. I had a vague plan to update monthly if not more often, but between a new job and various home upgrades, not to mention the devastating effects of a … Continue reading →

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Floodland by The Sisters of Mercy

Posted on November 16, 2020 by The Blogging Goth

Whoever he is, whatever incarnation the Eldritch has assumed for this chapter of The Sisters of Mercy story, Floodland is his success story writ large. It isn’t the difficult and contested production of the debut album, nor is the uneven and anticlimatic ‘final’ release, Vision Thing. As discussed above, this album is a true conjunction of forces and circumstances that define Andrew Eldritch and therefore this band and this release. Continue reading →

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Thirty Years and I Need More – Vision Thing 1990-2020

Posted on October 27, 2020 by The Blogging Goth

The thirtieth anniversary of the third and final album from The Sisters of Mercy passed quietly on the 22nd October. Sadly it’s the latest in a long line of dismissals for the outsider album that simply can’t compete with the icy arrogance of Floodland or the legendary goth-rock pioneer that was First and Last and Always. Continue reading →

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First and Last and Forever: The Sisters’ debut album

Posted on March 11, 2020 by The Blogging Goth

To many fans, the cowboy-hat wearing smoke-wreathed silhouettes are the golden-age lineup… Continue reading →

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Salad Daze – the autobiography of Wayne Hussey

Posted on November 21, 2019 by The Blogging Goth

“…the clichéd licentious, degenerate, promiscuous rock star – everything my mother had feared I’d become.”
SALAD DAZE – the autobiography of Wayne Hussey. Continue reading →

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