The Sisters Of Mercy – First and Last and Always Collection (1985/2015) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Sisters Of Mercy – First and Last and Always Collection (1985/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:05 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Rock, Gothic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © WM UK

The debut studio album by Sisters Of Mercy. “First and Last and Always” proved to be a major record and extremely influential in shaping the gothic rock genre. On this new “Digital Edition” sound quality wise this isn’t any improvement on earlier versions and could do with being made louder. But as an album there are lots of great tracks here and the bonus tracks especially after hours are worth downloading if you don’t already own them.With the band itself falling to bits shortly after the March 1985 debut of First and Last and Always, the album’s place in the skewed history of the rise of goth rock would, on one hand, be permanently linked with that discord but, on the other, not impacted in the slightest, leaving the fractious set’s success and structure to become a blueprint for an entire generation of up-and-comers. With static drumbeats and jangle-angled guitars backing Andrew Eldritch’s atonic, graveyard vocals, the songs on First and Last and Always paid to play alongside the ghosts of myriad forgotten post-punkers as well as the band’s own goth forebears. From the opening air-fire claustrophobia of “Black Planet” to the melancholy “No Time to Cry,” Eldritch continually assured listeners that “everything’s gonna be alright” – but, really, coming out of that mouth, did anyone actually believe him? Even on the occasional wobbly patches imbedded in the now classic “Marian” and the title track, where the song threatens to dissolve into irrelevance despite Eldritch’s chirky vocal, they pull up wonderfully on the bass-driven, bee-stung guitar gem “Possession” and the closing “Some Kind of Stranger,” an untouchable epic that, clocking in at over seven minutes, is the best of its kind from any time – period. “Some Kind of Stranger” not only became a love song for the doom and gloom crowd, but was also an anthemic, anemic declaration of intent laid bare in a haze of sonic smoke and mirrors. Copied to death, its brilliance has never been replicated. Indeed, the entire album remains unequaled in the genre, permanently granted top place on a pedestal from which it cannot be toppled.

Tracklist:

01. Sisters Of Mercy – Black Planet (04:28)
02. Sisters Of Mercy – Walk Away (03:23)
03. Sisters Of Mercy – No Time to Cry (04:06)
04. Sisters Of Mercy – A Rock and a Hard Place (03:36)
05. Sisters Of Mercy – Marian (Version) (05:44)
06. Sisters Of Mercy – First and Last and Always (04:02)
07. Sisters Of Mercy – Possession (04:39)
08. Sisters Of Mercy – Nine While Nine (04:12)
09. Sisters Of Mercy – Amphetamine Logic (04:50)
10. Sisters Of Mercy – Some Kind of Stranger (07:20)
11. Sisters Of Mercy – Body and Soul (03:40)
12. Sisters Of Mercy – Body Electric (04:41)
13. Sisters Of Mercy – Train (02:47)
14. Sisters Of Mercy – Afterhours (07:28)
15. Sisters Of Mercy – Poison Door (03:42)
16. Sisters Of Mercy – On the Wire (04:20)
17. Sisters Of Mercy – Blood Money (03:15)
18. Sisters Of Mercy – Bury Me Deep (04:45)

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