Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Black Planet
2. Walk Away
3. No Time to Cry
4. Rock and a Hard Place
5. Marian [Version]
6. First and Last and Always
7. Possession
8. Nine While Nine
9. Amphetamine Logic
10. Some Kind of Stranger
11. Poison Door [*]
12. On the Wire [*]
13. Blood Money [*]
14. Bury Me Deep [*]
15. Long Train [*]
16. Some Kind of Stranger [Early "Bell Tower" Version][#][*]

Disc 2:

1. Dominion/Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like the Snow
8. Never Land [A Fragment]
9. Torch [*]
10. Colours [*]
11. Never Land [Full Length][#][*]
12. Emma [*]

Disc 3:

1. Vision Thing
2. Ribbons
3. Detonation Boulevard
4. Something Fast
5. When You Don't See Me
6. Doctor Jeep
7. More
8. I Was Wrong
9. You Could Be the One [*]
10. When You Don't See Me [Remix][*]
11. Doctor Jeep [Extended Version][*]
12. Ribbons [Live][*]
13. Something Fast [Live][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105191 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-05
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Details
Renowned as the Kings of 1980's Goth, the Sisters of Mercy were Originally Formed in 1980 with Vocalist Andrew Eldridge and Guitarist Gary Marx and Recorded Its First Single with a Drum Machine Dubbed Doktor Avalanche. Guitarist Ben Gunn and Bassist Craig Adams were Added, and the Sisters Initially Built a Reputation Through Gigs and Several Singles and Eps. Gunn Left the Band in 1983 and was Replaced by Wayne Hussey. The Sisters of Mercy Recorded their First Full-length Album, First and Last and Always, in 1985, but Two Years Later, Internal Dissent Had Split them Apart - Marx, Adams and Hussey Departed and Thereafter Eldritch Chiefly Utilized Temporary Sidemen from this Point on (Although Former Gun Club Bassist Patricia Morrison was an Official Member of the Group for a Short Time) and Rebounded with the Second and Third Lps, Floodland and Vision Thing.

Customer Reviews

Long Overdue Sisters Boxed Set
Back in the early nineties, The Sisters of Mercy released a neat collection of their early EPs called "Some Girls Wander By Mistake," a fastidious testament to sparse, electronic beginnings of this soon-to-be-huge masters of sprawling goth rock.

The three full length albums that followed - all with entirely different lineups, exempting Eldritch - stamped a lasting impression in New Wave and the 80's alternative music in general.

This collection takes those three albums and aside from some subtle sonic renovation, adds bonus tracks and various treasures that only the most hardcore SoM fans will recognize. Some of them, particularly the b-sides on 'First Last and Always," have never been 'officially' available on CD before now.

The Sisters of Mercy - Merciful Release
The Sisters of Mercy, it doesn't get much better than this for me. They're one of those rare bands that I really did love all their albums, and here we have a set of their three main albums remastered, repackaged and laden with bonus tracks. If anyone deserved this treatment, it was The Sisters. First and Last and Always is notoriously known for having horrible mastering, and here you are treated to a much crisper version. Floodland and Vision Thing never really sounded bad in my opinion, but I can tell they have been remastered to a better state here. Add the multiple bonus tracks and you have an incredible set. If I wasn't an obsessive collector I would replace my old discs with this set, but I am, so own both still. This is a stellar box set very much worthy of purchase and not gratuitous in the least. A must have for not only Sisters fans but for anyone who likes rock music.

I have shed tears of joy!
I cannot express how excited it makes me to see this set in the year 2007. Part of the holy trinity of gothic rock (along with the Banshees and the Bauhaus, in my opinion), The Sisters of Mercy have been living legends; their music still echoing in clubs across the world. This awesome collection of their albums also has some great remixes and hard-to-find tracks (all in the oh-so-totable CD format). Let's keep our fingers crossed for a reunion album!!!