![]() They had begun inauspiciously with Damage Done and Watch, but they ended with this brilliance. Some Kind Of Stranger (First And Last And Always, 1985)Īndrew Eldritch and Gary Marx had started The Sisters of Mercy together in 1980. Eldritch, minus swordstick, but with white suit and beard, went on Top Of The Pops, seemingly channelling Bryan Ferry.Ģ. It was accompanied by The Sisters’ best promo video by far: Morrison and Eldritch looking magnificent in Petra, but possibly in Greeneland or Under The Volcano. And of course, it’s a pop song you can shake your ass to. By the end of Mother Russia, Eldritch has mashed-up of a Cold War-era mini-treatise on the geopolitics of West Berlin and fantasised about the fallout from Chernobyl raining down on Americans “stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home” – Dylan, again. In essence, this is The Sisters at their most Gang of Four: groove + back-up singers + lit-referencing disquisition on human relations in an Age of Imperialism. Eldritch, himself not averse to the occasional “sneer of cold command” repurposes Shelley’s Ozymandias to point out the futility of both. This is Floodland's opening diptych that elides dreams of inter-personal and political domination. ![]()
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