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  • the classic line up. First and last and always always the best

  • Does anyone know where you can get a recording of THIS version of the song? i.e., not the one commonly found which Eldritch recorded much later?

  • This is one of my favorite songs by The Sisters,along with Maryann. :)

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  • I love it

  • I love The Sisters Of Mercy, saw them live. Love his voice.

  • it looks like the video version of one of those live in leeds type bootlegs that there are many of (not just from leeds). contact andrew pinnell maybe (no hints as ive no idea how) as he wrote 'heartland'- the 4 very rare merciful release biographies- of which i have..yes all 4! and i live in perth the most isolated capital in the world. good luck. alt. u could just get the 7" version which is more punchy anyhoo.

  • so einzige deutsche hier

  • cool miau wer will camen

  • I love this, I wish I could have seen it live. But I'm only 15, and this was before I was born :-(

  • Does anyone know where you can get THIS version of Alice?

  • I've always thought how appropriate it is that his last name is "Eldritch". . . brilliant song.

  • @RamBam3000 That's actually his stage name (not sure if he legally changed it or not). His birth-name was Andrew Taylor... yeah, not quite as exciting.

  • @sugarandspice4815 Awwww, now you've ruined my illusions. :grins:

  • Wow! This is fucking AWESOME

  • thanx :))

  • The band were superb,The Style,The Music I saw them on lots of occasions & they will always have a place in my heart.Its such a pity that Andrew despite being so talented was how should we say labelled as "Difficult to work with" that & them living above the chemist shop meant the formation of the band kept changing.

  • love the vid, love the song and love the very interesting and friendly discussions in the comments

    definately happy to find myself on this page!

  • @atomicKeeyu you're Welcome dude :)

  • @atomicKeeyu And we are happy to have you here!!

  • My favorite sisters song

  • It is so beautiful... Thank you! Is the last part of the video (from 4 min) from an another song, or is it an alternative ending of Alice? I really loved it!! :)

  • @AnnKristinVike happy that you lloved the video ;) the song after the end credits & "Alice" is "fix" I think but i'm not really sure.

  • @felixlechatbotte

    Thanks :) Yes, it is "fix". I found it on "Some girls wander by mistake". It has been so many years since I last listened to that album. Perfec on a rainy day like today ;) Or any day, really.

  • @AnnKristinVike why not try also "1959" on rainy day? I think it's my favourite Sister's Title for this kind of weather ;)

  • @felixlechatbotte I must agree with you on that one :) "Driven Like The Snow" also has the right atmosphere for bad weather, I think :) Or why not try Portishead?

  • @AnnKristinVike you're right with Portishead: "dummy" contains some subbtle songs that will fit perfect mood under the rain ;) maybe also The Mission Uk will have some in different albums..

  • @felixlechatbotte Have you listened to Tricky? "Hell is round the corner" or "Black Steel" are also great songs for rainy days, or simply when you want to listen to beatuiful music.

  • @AnnKristinVike I know Tricky by name but not by songs so i will put an hear about the songs. I'll tell you the result :)

  • @felixlechatbotte Do that :) I really like those songs. You should also try the Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør. Especially the songs The Brothel and Knight of Noir are fantastic. I love them :)

  • @AnnKristinVike Just watched the live video for "the brothel" by Susanne Sundfor...what an amazing song, I didn't know such a talented artist until I heard her :) thanks a lot! It remind me about an impressive song: "blow wind blow" by Alison Moyet, from the album "raindaincing"...perfect for that kind of weather.

    I'll tell you about tricky :)

  • @felixlechatbotte Thank you for reminding me of Alison Moyet! It has been years since I've listened to her music. I first and foremost think of Yazoo when I hear her name, but have to admit that I prefer the style of Alison Moyet compared to the style of Vince Clarke. Erasure never was my thing. "Blow wind blow" I really liked! "Winter kills" by Yazoo is also appropriate for cold and rainy weather ;)

  • @felixlechatbotte It is Fix! Thank you for the video!

  • Oh my!!!!! Beautiful is not exactly the word; it's more like superb!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much!!!!

  • @babylucretia Thanks;)

  • I'd prefer a new studio album by SoM but if Eldrich doesn't want to make one then I guess that won't happen. On the other hand, he must have enough live recordings of the new material of good enough quality to make an album. I don't mind bands taking their time to get things right, but they've been beaten to it by Duke Nukem Forever!

  • Everything from Black Metal to Pop owes Andrew Eldritch and Patricia Morrison...

  • OO and im from NYC

  • saw them 3 times  awesome! I miss those days , lots of fog machines!!!

  • "Alice", "Temple of love", "Marian"... greats songs.

  • im 16 and thanks to great parenting i listen to sisters and heavy metal and rock. i hate it when people automatically asume if you are a teen you are either a chav or an emo. i am neither, i am a rocker!

  • aborted kiss........but she she became wife

  • the perfect song made !

  • pure bass orgasm

  • Nice performance on the electric bass. Killer tone, and right on the money. Surprised what a great live Band the Sisters were in the early days. Sorry I did't get to seem them in this period.

  • damn andrew..to much drugs on that day..maybe he had no more downers..

    1985..Royal Albert Hall London..GREAT!!

  • shhhhhhhhhh enjoy.

  • wish it was the 80s 4ever!!!!

  • Love this song love goth music, but still have a problem with all the goth clones. If you say your an individual then dress so. Not in velvet, corsets ect ect.

  • Love for the sisters ;)

  • andrew is beautiful

  • brings back memories when the played good music at the chiro partiees now it's all R&B shit

  • Great guitar riff. Very 80s. Very fun to play.

  • I watch the beginning several times because it's so epic!

  • Trust the Sisters to make a poncho look gothic ;)

  • @bembridgebabe - It's all in your head. There were probably people furious with him for doing that.

  • Love this video!! Have been watching from last 3 years or so and never got bored!!

  • Royal Albert Hall is a classic example of this immortal line up of The Sisters luv,cherish and forever more adore these dark angels that changed our live's.

  • Saw these guys in the 80's, love the music just as much now as I did then.

  • 44 thumbs down? some people lack musical taste apparently.....

  • fantastic

  • Transported back to Rock City, Sat. alt. nights as the intro pumped out,mass stampede to the dance floor,Dickensian fog of dry ice,a cig,black pentagram t-shirt with obligatory ripped off sleeves and away to your own perceived gothdom. They played there many times and always delivered.

  • ...needs you like she needs her pills to tell her that the world's okay...

  • Sisters of Mercy are the Fathers of Goth.Forever I will love them *.*

  • @lunaria86 that was Bauhaus, but with that said Sisters are still a true deathrock band and no one can doubt their influence or staying power

  • aaah, the good ol' days...

  • Used to love watching the sweet goth girls go berzerk on the dancefloor to this, NYC. 

  • @zzGRENDELzz used to? trust me my fellow ghoul, they still do =D live version is so much better though!

  • yo los vi por primera vez en la universal sur de leganes en madrid en marzo del 91.como pasa el tiempo demonio

  • @tiotono72

    daj pederčino piši nekim jezikom da te svi razumeju

  • @DeathJadeCore woop de fucking doo! do you know how many bands and films and books people can say that about stating an age with something doesnt make you "cool" if anything its made you a prick. i saw these in 92 i was 5 years old i think i deserve a medal PRICK!

  • Don't you just hate when on near enough every video there's always someone stating how old they are "I'm 13 and I love bands like this".

    I'm 16, I don't think anyone cares to be fair. Great music is for all people so theres no need to state how old you are, Not that I don't think it's good that young people such as myself listen to such music. But still, Give it up :/

  • don,t like goth music but this is a cklassic :)

  • 44 people don't get it....

  • This comes from the time that Andrew and Wayne actually willingly shared the stage, living and well!! LOL

  • awsome band many great mem listening to them

    

  • There Amazing and even though Im just 14 and I wasn't even born when the existed.

    I still love bands like Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus.

  • @DeathJadeCore

    sister of mercy still exist m8 they're doing a tour later this year :)

  • @DeathJadeCore Good on you dude theres so many dark and wonderfull sounds to find...I was 12 when I saw my first Nephilim gig and at 36 Im still wearing the TShirts and blasting these tracks out

  • @DeathJadeCore Mate, Pete Murphy from Bauhaus is still touring

  • @DeathJadeCore They're still kickin' around, I believe. I read something about Eldritch doing a new album on Ultimate-Guitar...I found these guys when I was your age, fell in love. I'm 20 now, and they're one of my favorites even still.

  • @jigaboon The new album of TSOM? With the Second Coming, I guess.

  • @DeathJadeCore - Check out the Virgin Prunes. Perhaps the first Goth band of all, but around at the same time as both the Sisters and Bauhaus.

  • band of cult..TSOM is the goth band with more influences in others bands.

    Saludos paganos.

  • Is this from the 1985 Wake concert?

  • @AliceSympathy

    Yeah. I would recognize that crazy, flailing figure anywhere. :D

  • I want his hat :D

  • Merci beaucoup !! j'ai passé un moment très Goth ! Vive les sisters.....

  • the best is... SISTERS OF MERCY!!!!!!!!

  • Sisters allways the best by gothic and new romantic in the 80ies....cult !!!!!

  • great performance :) lovely song :)

  • He's practically making out with the mic! not that I'm jealous... *looks sheepish

  • This is so dark and gloomy, I love it.

  • Best band ever!!!!!

  • Hehe, check out good old Fields of the Nephilim and Tony Pettitt

  • The Sisters of Mercy is one of the only rock bands where the bassists tend to be more high-profile than the guitarists: Craig Armstrong in the first lineup (and in this vid), then Patricia Morrison (who could ever forget her?), and then Tony James. All bigger names than their guitarist counterparts (except for Wayne Hussey). And when you listen to SOM's songs, particularly "Alice," you can see why: so much more emphasis is placed on the bass line, lending SOM a truly unique sound.

  • @sugarandspice4815 It's not Craig Armstrong. It's Craig Adams. He's from Horsforth in Leeds. So am I. He went out with my sister. He's still a friend. He's still a grumpy bastard!

  • @davymgaunt Ooops! Sorry, my bad! :-)

    Craig Adams, good bassist.

  • @sugarandspice4815 As a bassist, I love playing SOM basslines. Not difficult, but extremely essential to the songs and a lot of fun to play!

  • @sugarandspice4815 I dig the drummer.....  LOL

  • @EDWARD8478 Don't we all!

  • I feel special!

  • Epic!!!

  • Perhaps the best song ever....

  • This is how I remember the sound with which I fell in love

  • Wake was the shit. I remember collecting all the Eps I could mid-80s. Those were the days. Bald as a coot now, Eldritch? =]

    PS I used to hang out with the guy who wrote the official fanzine, Andy Pinnell. What a grade a cunt he was... :D

  • I wish I had been alive in the 80's...

  • wow... my ultimate favorite song this has been.

  • Yeah! I was there :0)

  • It's from "Wake" recorded live at their final gig at the Royal Albert Hall 18 June 1985. Gary Marx had left the band by this time Hussey and Adams followed a little later. I've had the video since 1987. Mike Mansfield was the director and the video was release by Channel 5.The concert was first aired on ITV.

  • It's from "Wake" recorded live at their final gig at the Royal Albert Hall 18 June 1985. Gary Marx had left the band by this time Hussey and Adams followed a little later. I've had the video since 1987. Mike Mansfield was the director and the concert was fist aired on ITV.

  • I believe this was at the powerhouse, Birmingham? and i was there!!

  • @MrWolves666 Live at Royal Albert Hall 1984.

  • Thanks for posting this. I don't want to sound like a pedant, but Eldritch is already an adjective, so 'eldrichtian' is redundant.

  • @thaddeuslowe The word "Eldtrich" and it is a word ....means ...eerie...strange......!

  • @somame69 Yes, you are correct. Well done. For bonus points can you tell me which C19th writer of the uncanny popularised the word?

  • @thaddeuslowe Henry Kingsley?

  • the bass line is as hot as morrison ^^

  • one of the best bands ever

  • Its more gothic to say you are not gothic :P

  • joy division était un cran au-dessus, ça c'est que du recuit

  • Incredible band, great version of a great song.

    Being German, I remember how baffled I was when I saw Andrew giving an Interview some 20 years ago and responding in absolutely fluent, almost accent free German.

  • @somalnicht He's fluent in several languages: German (I believe he actually lives there now), French... and I think Mandarin. I remember reading that his father was in the military, so his family pretty much lived all over the world.

  • These guys, along with Type O are some of the most incredible music to grace this planet. I'm so greatful.

    A reason not to commit suicide, guys. ;-)

  • So nice to hear male vocals that aren't reminiscent of Barry Gibb in any way nor whiny, pre-pubescent crap.

  • excelent

  • seems they were using a botmachine here .. right ? ;)

  • @Dubconferencedotorg His name is Doktor Avalanche! :)

  • Sets on fire.

  • I know about two live albums: kiss the Blade (KTS RECORDS ITALY) THAT SEEMS LIKE MAKE WHITH A PORTATIL RECORDER AND ANOTHER CALLED "TRIP THE LIGHT " (LIVE AT THE FORUM 6 SEPTEMBER 2000), A LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES OF THE SAME RECORD QUALITY

  • In 1983 my absolute favorite song.

  • Thanks for sharing this one: real gem!

  • There is a very good bootleg CD called "Disguised in Black" which is worth tracking down on e bay!

  • Is there a DVD or Album on this concert?

  • Last gig with the old band:-)

  • art!

  • I loooooove it!

    =D

  • utterly bastard groovey.....

  • This is not the early years. This is the Sisters' final concert at Albert Hall before breaking up. Marx had already left the band at this point.

  • @Xestroulis Now that it's 2010, 1985 is definitely the early years - even if was the end of their first lineup.

  • ...looks like wayne hussey on guitar and the bass player out of "the mission"..(mission u.k. if your in the states)..

  • it's dark wave , right ?

  • First saw them at The Barrel Organ in Birmingham in about '84-'85. Been in love with them ever since. True pioneers of the Goth movement.

  • Sublime..... 

  • espectaular..vaya recuerdos..temazooooooooo!!!!b­esos dsd españa!!

  • Que vuelva la musica gotica, siniestra.!!Que vuelvan los Ingleses a hacer musica a lo grande. Estamos hartos de sonidos groseros, vulgares y calientes.

  • my favorites first , last and always in my life (from italy)

  • this guys are the best

    they rockkkkkkkkkk

  • this guys are the best

    

  • the mission on guitars

  • THE BEST ROCK OF ALL TIMES

  • There was a box of 9 CDs back in the day that included several live recordings. This one is from the 1985 video Wake....which was also available on VHS.

  • terminology and genres are for marketing im here for music.

  • Its funny how everyone thinks they know what goth is yet this music is so underground.

  • i like the way he added "Say it!" at 1:44 and "Child!" at 2:50 to the lyrics.

  • About this G thing.. he has the right to decide what he is and what he isn't.. and not have labels designated to him by some idiots.

  • @sp45ih G as in Gangsta, right?

  • They sound just the same live as in studio, mark of a great band.

    I saw them in Philadelphia many years ago live.

  • Funny tho, Sisters always swore that they were NOT goth and Andrew would get quite pissed when it was suggested

  • @dillymaumoon Yeah, he's known to get pissed at that. :-)

  • GGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrr de Paris

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  • The bassline in this song is killer.

  • @sugarandspice4815 i agree... awesome

  • @sugarandspice4815 the basslines are the best of them!

  • Their last show with this line up , Garry Marx had already left . After the last song he says " And goodbye " Not goodnight ,they didnt play again until Vision Thing album shame because this was easily the best line up . Lot of people doubted Hussey coming from Dead or Alive . First Last and Always , then they split bastards !

  • @skullzero77 There was a huge soap opera involving their split. Initially it was because of Eldritch's drug use, but then tensions became really heated when Hussey and Adams wanted to call their new band "The Sisterhood"--which was what SOM fans called themselves. Eldritch wasn't having that, so he scrambled to put out a CD with "The Sisterhood" (which included Patricia Morrison on bass) and sued Hussey & Adams for ₤25,000. Hussey & Adams later called their new band The Mission.

  • @sugarandspice4815 Two - five - zero - zero - zero!

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  • @mattowarrior I's not even old-school because this is real Goth;the shit people Goth today is some form of metal,techno or grunge,pseudo-alternative bull-shit.Real Goth will always be and today there are still bands making this music.

  • @mattowarrior bravo

  • hussey n adams at their best