an album from the reptile@the reptile house [go figure] (Some Girls Wander By Mistake - Sisters Of Mercy)

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Product:	Some Girls Wander By Mistake - Sisters Of Mercy
Date:	27/12/00 (59 review reads)
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Advantages: hear the first single without paying £100.00 or so for it

Disadvantages: sounds sterile on CD

Next to the Wayne Hussey material (not included here), this album contains some of the best musical output from The Sisters.

The music is very raw throughout - the same tin-pot drum machine sounding the same no matter what the pattern used. the voice is typically monotonous - the only thing that's missing is the dry ice, the taunting of the audience ("okay, hippy scum, here it comes..." and disgusting shirts! All the singles and b-sides (except for the 7" version of "Temple Of Love") are here but the CD version has something missing - the scratching of the needle on the record as it plays. A little bit too sterile to those of us who bought the records in the first place.

I'm not a fan of these so-called "greatest hits" collections as they are solely issued to get the fan to buy the same material twice (slightly different in this case, apart from bootlegs, some of the material was nealy impossible to get hold of).

The bit that stinks about this album is that it was a 'political' release - the "singer" giving his back catalogue to the vultures at EastWest records to free him from his contract instead of releasing new material.

I only bought it for the first two "singles" (The "Damage Done" was done to my eardrums and "Body Electric"). Still, good music all the same (even if the "singer" is a prat).

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