Sisters Of Mercy Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Vision Thing
2. Ribbons
3. Detonation Boulevard
4. Something Fast
5. When You Dont See Me
6. Doctor Jeep
7. More
8. I Was Wrong
From the Album
1. Dominion
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like The Snow
8. Never Land
From the Album
1. Black Planet
2. Walk Away
3. No Time to Cry
4. A 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
Other Songs
1969
Adrenochrome
Afterhours
Alice
Anaconda
Blood Money
Body and Soul
Body Electric
Burn
Bury Me Deep
Christian Says
Colours
Cry Little Sister
Dance On Glass
Dominion Mother Russia
Dominion Mother Russia
Driver
Emma
Emma (Hot Chocolate Cover)
Finland Red Egypt White
Fix
Floorshow
Garden Of Delight
Ghostrider
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Gimme Shelter
Giving Ground
Good Things
Heartland
Jolene
Kiss The Carpet
Kiss The Carpet (Reprise)
Knockin On Heavens Door
Lights
Logic
Louie Louie
Marian
Mother Russia
On The Wire
Poison Door
Possesion
Romeo Down
Summer
Temple Of Love
Temple Of Love (1992)
Temple Of Love (Extended Version)
The Damage Done
The Temple of Love
This Corosion
Torch
Train
Under the Gun
Valentine
War On Drugs
Watch
We Are The Same Susanne
You Could Be The One
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band formed in Leeds in 1980. After achieving early underground fame there, the band had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new records in protest against their record company, WEA. Currently, although the band are a touring outfit only, they continue to perform new and unreleased music live.
The group has released three original studio albums: First and Last and Always (1985), Floodland (1987), and Vision Thing (1990). Each album was recorded by a different line-up; singer-songwriter Andrew Eldritch and the drum machine called Doktor Avalanche are the only points of continuity throughout. Eldritch and Avalanche were also involved in the Sisterhood, a side project connected with Eldritch's dispute with former members.
The Sisters of Mercy ceased recording activity in the early 1990s, when they went on strike against East West Records, who they accused of incompetence and withholding royalties, and had pressured the group to release at least two more studio albums; instead, the label released the album Go Figure under the moniker SSV in 1997. Although the Sisters of Mercy were eventually released from their contract with East West, they have never been signed to another label nor released any new material. They have continued to perform new songs live.
Former members of the group established the bands Ghost Dance and the Mission.
Members:
The group has released three original studio albums: First and Last and Always (1985), Floodland (1987), and Vision Thing (1990). Each album was recorded by a different line-up; singer-songwriter Andrew Eldritch and the drum machine called Doktor Avalanche are the only points of continuity throughout. Eldritch and Avalanche were also involved in the Sisterhood, a side project connected with Eldritch's dispute with former members.
The Sisters of Mercy ceased recording activity in the early 1990s, when they went on strike against East West Records, who they accused of incompetence and withholding royalties, and had pressured the group to release at least two more studio albums; instead, the label released the album Go Figure under the moniker SSV in 1997. Although the Sisters of Mercy were eventually released from their contract with East West, they have never been signed to another label nor released any new material. They have continued to perform new songs live.
Former members of the group established the bands Ghost Dance and the Mission.
Andrew Eldritch - vocals, keyboards, guitars, drum programming (1980-1985, 1987-present), drums (1980)
Ben Christo - guitars, backing vocals, bass (2006-present)
Kai - guitars, backing vocals (2023-present)
Chris Catalyst - guitars, backing vocals (2005-2019), Doktor Avalanche operator (2023-present)
Former members
Gary Marx - guitars, (1980-1985) vocals (1980)
Keith Fuller - vocals (1980)
Claire Shearsby - keyboards (1980)
Jon Langford - keyboards (1980)
Dave Humphrey - guitars (1981)
Tom Ashton - guitars (1981)
Craig Adams - bass (1981-1985)
Ben Gunn - guitars (1981-1983)
Wayne Hussey - guitars, backing vocals (1983-1985)
Patricia Morrison - bass, backing vocals (1987-1989)
Andreas Bruhn - guitars (1989-1993)
Tony James - bass (1989-1991)
Tim Bricheno - guitars (1990-1992)
Adam Pearson - guitars, backing vocals, bass (1993-2006)
Chris Sheehan - guitars, backing vocals (1996, 2000-2005)
Mike Varjak - guitars (1997-2000)
Dylan Smith - guitars, backing vocals (2019-2023)
Name Origin:
The band name was influenced by Robert Altman's film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), which featured the Leonard Cohen song "Sisters of Mercy" from his album Songs of Leonard Cohen, "because [calling ourselves] the Captains of Industry wouldn't have been as funny".
From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Genre(s): Gothic rock, post-punk, new wave
Active From: 1980-1985, 1987-present
Associated Acts: The Sisterhood, the Mission, the Mission UK, Ghost Dance