Artist.......: The Sisters Of Mercy
Album........: Floodland (Remastered And Expanded)
Label........: Warner/Rhino
Genre........: Alternative
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-30-2006
str.date.....: 000-00-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. dominion (mother russia) 07:00
02. flood i 06:23
03. lucretia my reflection 04:57
04. 1959 04:14
05. this corrosion 10:55
06. flood ii 06:47
07. driven like the snow 06:28
08. never land (a fragment) 03:00
09. torch 03:55
10. colours 07:23
11. never land (full length) 12:00
12. emma 06:21
Runtime 79:23 min
Size 114,5 MB
Release Notes:
While the goth scene in England was picking up
commercial steam in the mid-'80s, the Sisters of
Mercy may have seemed quiet, but they roared back
with 1987's Floodland.
Opening with the driving two-part hymn
'Dominion/Mother Russia,' Sisters leader Andrew
Eldritch (along with bassist Patricia Morrison)
creates a black soundscape that is majestic and
vast.
While the earlier Sisters releases were noisy,
sometimes harsh affairs, Floodland is filled with
lush production (thanks to Meat Loaf
writer/producer Jim Steinman and the New York
Choral Society) and lyric imagery that is both
scary and glorious.
The slower tracks, like 'Flood' and '1959,' are
some of the best ethereal sounds goth has to offer,
and the downright regal 'This Corrosion' is one of
the best songs of the genre. A definite milestone,
newly remastered.