------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SISTERS OF MERCY DISCOGRAPHY PART V bootlegs of studio material,videos INDEX. I. Bootlegs of legitimately released material II. Studio Outtakes,Demos and Unreleased recordings III. Bootlegs of mixed contents. IV. Bootlegs of undetermined contents. V. Bootleg video FORMATTING: Title Track listing Release info Notes Recording Notes Quality notes Cover art notes Packaging Notes Total running time I. BOOTLEGS OF LEGITIMATE MATERIAL the Damage Done b/w Watch/Home of the Hitmen a. 7" NOTES: Bootlegged extensively see notes on official release Damage Done Watch b/w Watch a. 7" Primary PY 715 PACKAGING NOTES: Gatefold with poster sleeve. Damage Done b/w Watch Adrenochrome b/w Body Electric a.7(2) Twelve Tracks Records 712tr01 & 712tr02 1987 NOTES: made in UK QUALITY NOTES: Good sound quality on all but adrenochrome. COVER ART NOTES: Pg 41 of Heartland anthology. B&W & purple. Inside has a picture of AE kneeling on a brick path. PACKAGING NOTES: Gatefold poster sleeve. Enter the Sisters(version1) Temple of Love/Burn/Floorshow/Anaconda/Adrenochrome/Alice/Body Electric Lights/Heartland/Gimme Shelter a. LP Black Swan Records BS.R 2001 NOTES: Compilation of studio tracks. COVER ART NOTES: Cover is as Walk Away, but blue. Enter the Sisters(version 2) Temple of Love/Burn/Floorshow/Anaconda/Adrenochrome/Alice/Body Electric/Lights/Heartland/Gimme Shelter a. LP Metal Speed ms021 NOTES: Compilation of studio tracks. Gimme Shelter is missing everything after the final spoken war)i,e; 'children, it's just a kiss away, kiss away). Possibly a second pressing of the Black Swan version. Or the other way 'round. RECORDING NOTES: 1 is the extended version 7 is the original version QUALITY NOTES: Slightly quiet and muffled, drops considerably for the last two songs. COVER ART NOTES: Cover is as Walk Away but red. Back cover has logo box with band member listing above it. Track listing is at the top left. all writing is in red. There are also versions of this or the Black Swan version in green and white sleeves. PACKAGING NOTES: The record itself is on black vinyl with red labels. A side label is a picture of two Spider-Man type eyes. B side is a girl in bondage garb holding a chainsaw, with her reflection underneath her. Some copies with plain black labels. Enter the Sisters-Black October Adrenochrome/Alice/Floorshow/1969/Anaconda/Lights/Valentine/Fix Temple of Love(7")/Heartland/Gimme Shelter/Blood Money/Bury Me Deep/Emma a. CD NOTES: Compilation of studio tracks. Mastered from vinyl copies of the original singles. First pressing has Lmt. Ed. of 500. Other pressings just say Lmt. Ed. Made in England QUALITY NOTES: Sound quality is quite good. COVER ART NOTES: Cover is photocopied as per Walk Away cover. B&W PACKAGING NOTES: Disc has MR logo screened on it rather poorly Total Running Time: 59:24 Some Boys Wander by Mistake Body and Soul/Train/Afterhours/Poison Door/On the Wire/Blood Money/Bury Me Deep/Untitled/Emma/Long Train/Lucretia My Reflection 12" ver/This Corrosion 12" ver. a. CD 1993 COVER ART: SGWBM logo woth Boys replacing Girls. Total Running Time: 66:10 II. STUDIO OUTTAKES,DEMOS AND UNRELEASED RECORDINGS Acoustics from the Beehive Valentine #1/Body Politic/Lights/Anaconda/Driver/Good Things/Phantom Burn/Kiss the Carpet/valentine #2/Flood I/Lucretia/Neverland/Untitled Driven Like the Snow/Flood II a. CD Beehive 184 BEE 1993 NOTES: Contents derived from Hard Reign and Kill the Lights bootlegs. See those entries for real song titles. RECORDING NOTES:1-10 are portastudio demos 11-17 are floodland demoes COVER ART: Picture of AE from TC video. "...and You Won't Make Me Jealous... Poison Door/No Time to Cry b/w Emma/Walk Away a. 7" NOTES: Title Taken from the Leonard Cohen Song. One of the first Sisters 7" bootlegs, mostly because of the demand for a studio recording of Emma was so great. Initial limited run of 500 numbered copies. RECORDING NOTES: Peel session 1984 COVER ART NOTES: Color photo of a statue. Before the Flood Valentine 1/Body Politic/Lights/Anaconda/Driver/Good Things Phantom/Burn/Kiss the Carpet/Valentine 2/Floorshow/Lights Teachers-Adrenochrome/Damage Done/Watch a. CD Portasound CDSIS 17 NOTES: CD version of Hard Reign see notes on it. RECORDING NOTES: 1-10 labeled "portastudio demos" 11-13 demos for projected Floorshow ep 14-15 the first Sisters of Mercy single Sept 80 PACKAGING NOTES: Disc marked "for promotional use only. not for sale" MR/WEA logo photocopied on back of box COVER ART NOTES: Cover is photo of AE looking mean while the rest look on. in side has AE with 'the Hat' and 'tune in,turn on,burn out" back also has another shot of AE and 'the Hat'. Black Dominion Black Dominion/a Rock and a Hard Place/Burn/Home of the Hitmen This Corrosion(3:59)/Body Electric/Body and Soul a. LP(box) NOTES: Comes with a concert photo of AE. Black Dominion is set at 45rpm and takes up the entire first side. Most copies are not boxed sets. RECORDING NOTES: 2 is the German Disco mix. 3 is from the '84 Kid Jensen session. 6 & 7 are rough mixes. COVER ART NOTES: Glossy black sleeve with triangular white sticker on both sides. Front sticker has Black Dominion and circle logo, back has tracks. Black Horizon Black Planet b/w a Rock and a Hard Place a. 7" MR 31 9.90.71009 NOTES: On lavender vinyl. RECORDING NOTES: Instrumentals recorded at Strawberry studios. COVER ART NOTES: Black with Sisters of Mercy at the top and Black Horizon at the bottom. PACKAGING NOTES: In folded paper sleeve. The record labels are black white. Deja Vu a. ? RECORDING NOTES: Peel session material Demos & Remixes This Corrosion(long mix)/Lucretia My Reflection(remix)/Marian(japan-version) No Time to Cry(alternative version)/Burn(demo)/Anaconda(outtake)/Afterhours (demo)/Dance on Glass(demo)/Heartland(demo/Jolene(demo)/Body Electric (session)/Valentine(demo)/Floorshow(demo)/Dominion-Mother Russia(eldritch mix)/A Rock and A Hard Place(alternative version) a. CD somcd 57 1993 NOTES: made in sweden. lmt. ed of 100 Don Juan Jolene(demo) a.? Echoes Vol. IV Anaconda/Floorshow/Floorshow/Afterhours/Black Planet/Train/Burn Afterhours/Marian/Marian/Afterhours/a Rock and a Hard Place a. CD Live Life llcd9213 RECORDING NOTES: 2-3 labeled as Phantom 3-4,6 are 'short versions' 2,7,11 are 'long versions' 9 is the lp version with some extra distortion 10,12 are instrumentals all tracks are early demos COVER ART NOTES: Picture of AE against same background as Vol. I Total Running Time: 68:24 Entertainment or Death Body Electric/Long Train/Afterhours/Kiss the Carpet/Jolene Heartland/Burn/Valentine/Alice/Floorshow/1969/Anaconda/Dominion Lucretia My Reflection/Temple of Love/Gimme Shelter a. CD RECORDING NOTES: 2 is listed as Train 1-7,9-12,16 are single versions 5-8 are from the Kid Jenson session 13-14 are Floodland demos 15 is the 7" version Total Running Time: 70:38 Fiercer Than Thou Nrub(Bizarro remix) b/w Ripsters of Mercy(aural terrorist mix) a. 7" FIERCER 002 NOTES: Overall not worth having except for obsessive fans. RECORDING NOTES: Nrub is Burn played backwards. Ripsters of Mercy is FALAA with movie samples in it. QUALITY NOTES: Good sound ROGI: A) "rocking the boat in swansea b) 'thanks to the teen messiah (young adult) the Floorshow ep Floorshow/Lights b/w Teachers/Adrenochrome a. 7" NOTES: Teachers/Adrenochrome are sequenced as one song. Bootleg of demos used to label shop. Originally 500 numbered copies. There are at least three pressings now. All other versions are repressings, some leaving out the serial numbers and numbering and with a large center hole(adapter needed). A case of where there are bootlegs of a bootleg. One of the first Sisters 7" bootlegs. RECORDING NOTES: Home studio demos Spring '81 COVER ART NOTES: Photo on pg 68 of Heartland anthology the Floorshow ep Floorshow/Lights b/w Teachers/Adrenechrome a. 7" EP MR1 RH1 BMCN2 KROI 3213 NOTES: See notes above. Limited to 1000 copies. Garden of Delight Dance on Glass b/w Black Planet a. 7" NOTES: Red or white vinyl. RECORDING NOTES: Demos from Strawberry Studios, early 84. Dance on Glass is AE vocal. COVER ART NOTES: Grey picture of three nude fat ladies. Garden of Delight Garden of Delight[5:13] b/w Dance on Glass[4:15] a. 7" Scatterbrainchild Records SR10 Nov 1987 NOTES: on white or grey vinyl. Lmt. ed. of 500 RECORDING NOTES: A side is AE vocal. B side is WH vocal. QUALITY NOTES: Reasonably good COVER ART NOTES: Same as the above with Taoism symbol, a lady in a bikini and an embossed record label logo on the back. Ghostley Crew 1969/Anaconda/Phantom/Valentine/Fix/Jolene/Heartland/Burn Valentine/Alice/Floorshow/Phantom a. LP Trademark of Quality TMQ 71124 NOTES: Limited to 500 copies. RECORDING NOTES: demos 1984 Good Things b/w 1969 a. 7" Dutch import NOTES: Home studio recording quality Good Things a.7" COVER ART NOTES: Comes in official looking glossy sleeve proclaiming it to be the unofficial theme to Angel Heart with a nice looking picture of Lucifer sitting in a chair holding a cane. RECORDING NOTES: Home studio quality sound. sounds slightly better than one above. Hard Reign Valentine 1/Body Politic/Lights/Anaconda/Driver/Good Things Phantom/Burn/Kiss the Carpet/Valentine 2 a. LP Portasound NOTES: Supposedly a promo item. Driver contains some music and the first two lines of Heartland. Body Politic is really Fix, Kiss the Carpet is really Burn and it is in instrumental version Burn is a new song that contains the characteristic Burn drum intro,as well as the lines "burn me/burn me/burn me/burn me down" probably as _very_ early version of the Reptile House song. It was used as the backwards part of the RH Burn. Lights ]s the Floorshow ep version. The two Valentines have no real difference. Phantom is the same version that is on Studiouttakes COVER ART NOTES: Pg 82 of the Heartland anthology. Kill the Lights Flood 1/Lucretia My Reflection/Neverland/Untitled/Driven Like Snow/Flood 2/Afterhours/Lights/Fix/Good Things/Walk Away a. LP Pallazzograssi 1990 NOTES: Untitled is a long guitar version. Walk Away is supposed to be a dance mix, but is exactly the same as the FALAA version. RECORDING NOTES: 1-6 are Floodland demos. 7-10 are demos 1983 11 is an alternate mix COVER ART NOTES: Photo of AE in fencing outfit. the Last Magician of Rational Thought No Time to Cry/First and Last Always b/w A Rock and a Hard Place/Walk Away a. 7" Pallazzograssi NOTES: Limited to 1500 copies. 26 copies lettered a-z, which come in a gatefold sleeve, have been reserved for private distribution . On white vinyl. Title taken from the Stephen King novel 'the Stand'. RECORDING NOTES: Alternative studio recordings. COVER ART NOTES: Photo on pg 70 of Heartland anthology. Lord of Darkness a. LP RECORDING NOTES: contains the Peel and Kid Jenson sessions Lucretia My Reflection(2.10) b/w Flood 1 a. 7" Japanese NOTES: Lmt ed of 200 numbered copies. RECORDING NOTES: Demos 1987 Psychedelic Sessions a. CD TCC32 NOTES: radio material Radioland 1969[2:44]/Floorshow[3:23]/Good Things[3:35]/Alice[3:24] Heartland[3:27]/Jolene[2:43]/Valentine[4:18]/Burn[3:43]/Poison Door[3:30]/No Time to Cry[3:53]/Walk Away[3:27]/Emma[6:56]/Train [7:09]/Floorshow[3:24]/Red Skies Disappear[3:43]/Kiss the Carpet [5:24]/Garden of Delight[5:06] a. CD Handmade HAM 010 NOTES: Red Skies Disappear is listed as Marian(demo). Kiss the Carpet is listed as Kiss Me Carpet. RECORDING NOTES: Track times listed are slightly off. Tracks 1 and 2 are indexed as one track. 1-4 Peel session 1982 5-8 Kid Jenson session 1983 9-12 Peel session 1984 13 demo 1984 14 is the Floorshow ep version 15 demo 1985 16 demo 1983 17 is Andrew Eldritch vocal QUALITY NOTES: Many minor sound problems. COVER ART NOTES: Cover is photo of AE in fencing garb against a white background. PACKAGING NOTES: Back is red lettering on a crimson background. Total Running Time: 69:23 [listed as 70:05] Saints + Martyrs Red Skies Disappear/Good Things/Garden of Delight/Marian/Body Electric/Dance on Glass/Burn/A Rock and a Hard Place/Dominion- Mother Russia/When Spirits Fly a. LP(2) NOTES: Red Skies Disappear listed as First and Last and Always. RECORDING NOTES: 2,6,9 are demos. 3 is AE vocal. 4 is an instrumental version. 5,7-8 are alternate mixes. 10 is a soundcheck. the Shuttered Room Heartland b/w Jolene Valentine b/w Burn a. 7"(2) FUNN8(9) RECORDING NOTES: Kid Jensen session from 1983 the Sisters of Mercy Demos 1982 Lights/Teachers-Adrenochrome/the Damage Done/Watch/the Home of the Hitmen/Floorshow/Alice/Floorshow/1969/Good Things/Phantom Adrenochrome/Body Electric/Floorshow/Teachers a. CS Victims of Circumstance Red Skies Disappear/A Rock and a Hard Place b/w Dance on Glass/Garden of Delight a. 7" Pallazzograssi NOTES: Limited to 1000 copies. RECORDING NOTES: Demos 1985 2 is the Disco Mix COVER ART NOTES: Photo of AE with arms upraised in front of a huge MR logo. III. BOOTLEGS OF MIXED CONTENTS 8 CD Box Set DISC ONE: Enter the Sisters More Sisters volume one 1981-1983 MRCD1 Damage Done/Watch/Adrenochrome/Body Electric/Anaconda/Phantom 1969/Alice/Floorshow/Kiss the Carpet/Lights/Valentine/Fix/Burn (conclusion) DISC TWO: Enter the Sisters More Sisters volume two 1983-1985 MRCD2 Burn/Temple of Love/Heartland/Gimme Shelter/Body & Soul/Body Electric/Train/Afterhours/Poison Door/On the Wire/Blood Money/Bury Me Deep/Temple of Love NOTES: 2 is the 7" version 14 is the extended version DISC THREE: Psychedelic Sessions MRCD3 1969/Floorshow/Good Things/Alice/Heartland/Jolene/Valentine Burn/Poison Door/No Time to Cry/Emma/Gimme Shelter/Sisters of Mercy/Body Electric/First and Last and Always/Marian RECORDING NOTES: 1-4 Peel session 1982 5-8 Kid Jensen session 1983 9-12 Peel session 1984 15-16 Whistle Test Studios performance DISC FOUR: Rare Obscurities MRCD4 Dance on Glass/Garden of Delight/Teachers-Adrenochrome/Red Skies Disappear/Good Things/Marian/Body Electric/No Time to Cry/First and Last and Always/a Rock and a Hard Place/Walk Away/Gimme Gimme Gimme/Jolene/Spirits/Dominion RECORDING NOTES: 1-5,16 are demos 6 is an instrumental version 8 is a rough mix 9-12 are alternative studio recordings 13-14 are early live recordings 15 is a soundcheck DISC FIVE: Live in Newcastle 13.3.1985 MRCD5 First and Last and Always/Body & Soul/Train/Marian/No Time to Cry/Possession/Walk Away/Burn/Emma/Logic/a Rock and a Hard Place/Floorshow/Alice/Body Electric/Gimme Shelter/Nine While Nine/Ghostrider DISC SIX: Live in Amsterdam, 28.8.1983 MRCD6 Burn/Valentine/Anaconda/Heartland/Alice/Emma/Temple of Love Floorshow/Adrenochrome/Gimme Shelter/Kiss/Body Electric/Lights Sister Ray/Ghostrider/Louie Louie DISC SEVEN: Knockin' on Heaven's Door MRCD7 First and Last and Always/Body & Soul/Marian/No Time to Cry/Walk Away/Possession/Emma/Amphetamine Logic/a Rock and a Hard Place Floorshow/Alice/Fix/Knockin' on Heaven's Door DISC EIGHT: Promotion CD for MR Box Only MRCD8 Alice(2 time starting)/Ripsters of Mercy NOTES: the eight CDs come in a flimsy cardboard box with the MR logo on all sides but the bottom. The bottom has the family tree on it. Discs 1 & 2 come in a double CD case. All others come in a normal jewelbox. All discs have the crescent Walk Away symbol and the MR logo. They all say "see card inlay for details" and they all look the same except for the MRCD number. Afterhours [1] Long Train/a Rock and a Hard Place/Afterhours [2] Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Stairway to Heaven/Ghostrider/Louie,Louie a. LP NOTES: See notes for the Sisters 1983-1986 RECORDING NOTES: 1 and 3 are demos(actually, just run through a mixer) 2 is the German Disco mix Medley recorded in Manchester 10/13/84 COVER ART NOTES: Woman hanging from a big clock hand. Armageddon Outtakes First and Last and Always/Body and Soul/Possession/Amphetamine Logic/Jolene/Fix/Train/Nine While Nine/Ghostrider/Kiss the Carpet a. LP Reptile Records MRO 0 35 L BEL. NOTES: Limited edition of 250. there are copies up to 264 though. Some copies on white vinyl. RECORDING NOTES: 1-3 recorded in Germany 4/?/85 4,6-7 recorded in Germany 4/?/85 5,10 are demos 82/83 8,9. recorded in Newcastle at Tiffany's 3/13/85 QUALITY NOTES: Demos are decent. UK tracks are good. Germany tracks are pretty bad. Carmina Burana Alice/Valentine/Anaconda/1969/Floorshow/Teachers-Adrenochrome Ghostrider/Sister Ray/Good Things/Garden of Delight a. LP NOTES: Limited to 700 copies. 100 copies on colored vinyl. RECORDING NOTES: 1-4 recorded in London at the Brixton Ace 3/17/83 5-7 from the Floorshow ep. 8-9 are studio medley (11 1/2 min.) 10 1982 demo COVER ART NOTES: Drawing of Jesus surrounded by angels. Damage Done + Three Live Tracks Damage Done/Watch/Teachers/Adrenochrome a. 7" Pan Vox Records, Portugal NOTES: Large center hole. In a folded paper sleeve. RECORDING NOTES: Recorded at St. John's Hall, Leeds 5/4/81 COVER ART NOTES: Pg 70 of Heartland anthology. First pressing is B&W. Second pressing is purple and black. Third pressing is yellow and black, numeral '1' in front corner. Dancers Reward Love Hits/Electric Shades/Lights Go Out/Don't Take It Lightly/ Poison Door/No Time to Cry/Emma a. LP RECORDING NOTES: SOM and March Violets Peel Session material Dark Psychos a. CD IST143 Echoes Vol. II a Rock and a Hard Place/Flood III/Afterhours/Jolene/Adrenochrome Body and Soul/Gimme Shelter/First and Last and Always/Marian Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Stairway to Heaven/Ghostrider/Louie, Louie/Gimme Gimme Gimme a. CD Live Life llcd9211 RECORDING NOTES: 1,3 are demo 84 2 is a demo 86 4-5 are live 83 6 is live, 4/26/85 Zurich Switzerland 7 is live 84 8-9 are live 85 10-15 are live 10/13/84 Manchester University and sequenced as one track. 16 is live New york 84 COVER ART NOTES: Picture of AE on stage, same background as Vol I Echoes Vol. II a Rock and a Hard Place/Flood III/Afterhours/Jolene/Adrenochrome Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Stairway to Heaven Ghostrider/Louie,Louie a. LP Speed of Light Records NOTES: See notes on the Sisters 1983-1986 for covers medley info. RECORDING NOTES: 1&3 are demos '84 2 is a demo '86 4&5 recorded in Norwich at the Gala Hall 4/21/83 6-11 recorded in Manchester 10/13/84 COVER ART NOTES: Picture of AE against same background as Vol. I Total Running Time: 66:21 Echoes Vol. III Lucretia My Reflection/Garden of Delight/Kiss the Carpet/Jolene Train/Dominion-Mother Russia/Where Spirits Fly/Floorshow/Red Skies Disappear/Burn/Ghostrider/Sister Ray/Train/Louie, Louie Possession a. CD Live Life llcd9212 RECORDING NOTES: 1 is Floodland demo, labeled as Empire Down 2 is final demo, 85 3-4 are Reptile House demos 5 is a demo 84 6 is Floodland demo 86 7 is an instrumental soundcheck, labeled When Splits Fly 8 is a demo 81 9 is a demo 85 10 is an instrumental 11 is live 84 12-13 are live 85 14 is live 4/26/85 Zurich, Switzerland QUALITY NOTES: varies from rather good to rather poor COVER ART NOTES: Picture of AE against same background as Vol. I Total Running Time: 59:08 Good Things + Two Live Tracks Good Things b/w 1969/Sister Ray a. 7" Pan Vox Records, Portugal NOTES: Sequel to Damage Done + Three Live Tracks. Large center hole on earlier pressings. RECORDING NOTES: Recorded at York University 5/7/81 COVER ART NOTES: Pg 70 of Heartland anthology. First pressing is B&W. Second pressing is purple and black. Third pressing is red and black. Numeral '2' on the front cover. Halloween in Arkham [1] Alice/Valentine/Anaconda/Body Electric/1969/Sister Ray [2] Poison Door/No Time to Cry/Walk Away/Emma a. LP Arche Noire Records 024 NOTES: Limited to 500 copies RECORDING NOTES: 1-6 recorded in London at Brixton Ace 3/17/83 7-10 Peel session 1984 QUALITY NOTES: Live tracks are fairly good. Peel session vary from average to poor. Hand of God Red Skies Disappear/Good Things/Garden of Delight/Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Emma/Long Train/Louie,Louie/Damage Done/Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Teachers-Adrenochrome/Dance on Glass/Sister Ray Gimme Gimme Gimme(a Man After Midnight)/When Spirits Fly Ghostrider/Watch/Stairway to Heaven a. LP MR48052-1 1988 b. CD MR48052-4 1988 NOTES: Claims to be a WEA release, but obviously isn't. Emma is listed as Emmaline. Heartland Teachers-Adrenochrome/Damage Done/Watch/Floorshow/Lights/Burn Jolene/Good Things/Heartland/Emma/a Rock and a Hard Place/Red Skies Disappear/Flood/Dominion-Mother Russia/Ghostrider a. CD Handmade HAM 012 NOTES: Damage Done listed as Demage Done. Red Skies Disappear is listed as Marian. Ghostrider is listed as Ghostriders. RECORDING NOTES: 1-5 demos 1981 6-9 demos 1982/83 10-14 demos 1985/87 15 live 1985 QUALITY NOTES: Mostly pretty good 11 & 12 have a few squiggles. COVER ART NOTES: Same as the Ohm and Possession. Total Running Time: 68:01 I Can't Wait to Meet My Deadly Friends Damage Done/Watch/Burn..... a. LP NOTES: Burn is from the first Bremen gig. RECORDING NOTES: Damage Done and Watch are studio outtakes. Parts recorded in Bremen, Germany at the Schlachthof 11/8/84 and 5/10/85 COVER ART NOTES: Two covers. One yellow of three angels. One red of a dagger. PACKAGING NOTES: Damage Done and Watch are misspelled and listed in the wrong order. In the Shadow of Angels Wide Receiver/Walk Away/Red Skies Disappear/No Time to Cry Fix/a Rock and a Hard Place/Black Planet/Marian/Candle/Temple of Love/Poison Door a. LP Pallazzograssi PG 09 NOTES: Envelope sleeve. RECORDING NOTES: 1-2,4-5,10 are demos 1 is new song 5 is the same as the ep version, with 'Satanic' poetry.possibly a pseudo cover by a band called Candlemasse 6-8 are instrumental versions 9 is an early instrumental version of Driver 11 is live version by Ghostdance 5/12/85, Croydon, UK and is not listed on the sleeve. COVER ART NOTES: Purple background with a picture of some classical architecture close-up, mostly a column and fence covered in vines. Super-imposed in the center is angel(statue) covered in moss with plants around it Kama Sutra DISC ONE: Body and Soul/Ribbons/Alice/Dominion-Mother Russia Amphetamine Logic/Detonation Boulevard/Marian/This Corrosion Gimme Shelter/Flood II/Temple of Love/Something Fast/Jolene Valentine/Vision Thing DISC TWO: Body Electric/Long Train/Afterhours/Kiss the Carpet Jolene/Heartland/Burn/Valentine/Alice/Floorshow/1969/Anaconda Dominion-Mother Russia/Lucretia My Reflection/Temple of Love Gimme Shelter a. CD(2) NOTES: Disc one is labeled 'black disc' and disc two is 'red disc'. RECORDING NOTES: Disc one is live from the later half of the Vision Thing Tour. Disc two is a combination of studio tracks and demos QUALITY NOTES: Disc one is decent and clear. Disc two is not too great, a poor mixing job. COVER ART NOTES: A large red star of David on a black background. The Sisters of Mercy in cursive script on the top and Kama Sutra on the bottom in an Indian style font. Total Running Time: Disc one: about 75 minutes Disc two: about 70 minutes a Merciful Release Burn[3:25]/Heartland[3:57]/Body and Soul[3:55]/Anaconda[3:29] Walk Away[4:00]/Emma[7:21]/Floorshow[4:09]/Adrenochrome[3:42] Body Electric[4:11]/Gimme Shelter[6:09]/Ghostrider/Sister Ray [16:55]/Temple of Love[3:48]/Body Electric a. CD BOSS BOSS 81087 RECORDING NOTES: 1-12 recorded in Detmold at the Hunky Dory 5/29/85 13 recorded in Munster 9/1/83 14 is the single version COVER ART NOTES: White cover with MR logo. QUALITY NOTES: Very very good sound a Merciful Release a. LP Reptile Records,Inc. MR O 35 L NOTES: Lmt. Ed. of 250. Made in Belgium RECORDING NOTES: Contains demos and live material from the UK and Germany. Psychedelic Sessions Good Things/1969/Alice/Floorshow/Poison Door/No Time to Cry/Emma Walk Away/Burn/Jolene/Gimme Shelter/Adrenochrome a. LP NOTES: At least eight different pressings available. RECORDING NOTES: 1-4 John Peel session 1982 5-8 John Peel session 1984 9-10 Kid Jensen session 1983 11-12 Recorded at the Paradiso, Amsterdam 8/28/83 QUALITY NOTES:Sound quality on live tracks is excellent. COVER ART NOTES: Psychedelic looking. Quality of Mercy Nine While Nine/Ghostrider/Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Alice/Train a Rock and a Hard Place/Marian/Good Things/1969/Sister Ray Teachers-Adrenochrome/Jolene/Damage Done/Watch a. CS Home of the Hitmen Productions 1988 NOTES: Came with the first 25 copies of the Quality of mercy 'zine. RECORDING NOTES: 1-2 recorded in London at Tiffany's 3/13/85 3 recorded in London at the Royal Albert Hall 8/16/85 4 recorded in Stockholm at Kolingborg 5/17/85 5 recorded in Florence at the Tenax 1/5/85 6 recorded in Rome at the Teatro Espero 5/2/85 7 is the Whistle Test Studios performance 8 is a demo 9-10 recorded in York at the University 5/7/81 11-12 are Floorshow ep demos from 1981 13 recorded in Norwich at the Gala Hall 4/21/83 14-15 from the first single Both sides include short snippets of the '84 WYNU and Canadian interviews. COVER ART NOTES: Pink with photo of the painting Dancer's Reward by A. Beardsley. Rare Obscurities a. CD austro mechan RECORDING NOTES: Two demos, two live tracks,alternate versions. Rise and Reverberate a. LP(2) the Sisters of Mercy-Don't Give It Away Alice b/w Alice a. 7" NOTES: Limited to 666 copies. RECORDING NOTES: A side is 82 Peel session version. B side is from York Racecourse Festival 9/22/84 and is the double intro. COVER ART NOTES: Photo of a girl. the Sisters of Mercy 1983-1986 Rock and a Hard Place/Flood III/Afterhours/Jolene/Adrenochrome Knocking on Heaven's Door/Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Stairway to Heaven Ghostrider/Louie,louie/Marian/Amphetamine Logic/Body Electric a. CD Sacred Records Release 230 NOTES: Knocking on Heaven's Door and Purple Haze are sequenced as one track. Hey Joe comes in the middle of Knockin'. Stairway to Heaven,Ghostrider and Louie,Louie are sequenced as one track. Marian is listed as Marianne. RECORDING NOTES: 1 demo '84 2 demo '86 3 demo '84 4-5 Norwich '83 6-11 Manchester '84. the famous 'covers medley' 12-15 Brighton '85 QUALITY NOTES" Mostly fairly good. Covers medley is a bit muddy. COVER ART NOTES: B&W MR logo. Total Running Time: 55:53 Studiouttakes Lights/Blood Money/Home of the Hitmen/Good Things/Phantom/1969 Sister Ray/Floorshow/Alice/1969/Heartland/Jolene/Valentine Burn/Kiss the Carpet/Alice/Anaconda/Burn/Heartland/Jolene Valentine/Adrenochrome/Floorshow/Gimme Shelter/Body Electric a. CS Emerald Tapes RECORDING NOTES: Mainly live material and most of the Peel sessions with a few demos. QUALITY NOTES: Ranges from dismally poor to bloody impressive. Suns of Mercy Ghostrider-Sister Ray/Red Skies Disappear/Dance on Glass/a Rock and a Hard Place/Garden of Delight/Garden of Delight/Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Emma/Afterhours/Jolene a. CD Mongoose Records MONG CD018 1991 NOTES: All contents are from the infamous Victims of Circumstance tape. Track one is listed as 'the Sisters of Mercy Victims of Circumstance'. An obvious error by a not too careful transcriber RECORDING NOTES: 1-2 are a live medley. 3 is listed as First and Last and Always 4 is listed as Black Planet 5 is the disco mix 6 is the WH vocal 7 is the AE vocal 8-9,11 are demos 10 is an outtake 11 is mislabeled Jeolen QUALITY NOTES: Many sound problems. Severe dropouts in Dance on Glass,Garden of Delight(WH vocal) and Knockin'. COVER ART NOTES: Photo of Tony and Andrew from LA 'Q' session. Total Running Time: 58:46 min UNTITLED Good Things b/w 1969/Sister Ray a. 7" ICM-the Collector series CM 802 RECORDING NOTES: A is a studio version. B were recorded at York University 5/7/81 PACKAGE NOTES: Produced for Luxor Company, Madrid Spain by Sister Productions. Victims of Circumstance Ghostrider/Sister Ray/Red Skies Disappear/Dance on Glass/a Rock and a Hard Place/Garden of Delight/Garden of Delight/Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Serpent's Kiss/Emma/Jessica's Crime/Afterhours/a Rock and a Hard Place/Temple of love/Some Kind of Stranger a. CS NOTES: Supposedly originally circulated by Gary Marx to a few friends. RECORDING NOTES: 1,2,14-15 are live. 3 is labeled as Marian(original demo) 4,8,10,16 are demos 5 is the disco mix 6 is the WH vocal 7 is the AE vocal 9,13 are instrumental demos 11 is a Salvation demo 12 is a remix IV. BOOTLEGS OF UNDETERMINED CONTENTS the Acid Rain a. LP RECORDING NOTES: Contains instrumental Where Spirits Fly, later a Ghostdance song. Out of the Mind's Eye Chase the Yellow a. LP IV. BOOTLEG VIDEO LIVE VIDEO Amsterdam '91 Glasgow '83 Kiss the carpet/Anaconda/Alice/Adrenochrome/Valentine/Burn Jolene/Floorshow/Heartland/Body Electric/Lights/Gimme Shelter Body and Soul/Walk Away/No Time to Cry/First and Last and Always Marian NOTES: Body and Soul/walk Away/No Time to Cry are promo videos. First and last and Always/Marian are Whistle Test Studios performance. Shot with one camera from a fixed position in the balcony. QUALITY NOTES: Good to excellent. Dusseldorf '90 Live at Brixton Ace 6/29/83 Kiss the Carpet/Alice/Anaconda/Valentine/Jolene/Heartland Adrenochrome/Gimme Shelter/Emma NOTES: Shot from the stage edge. Total Length: 35 min. Live at Exit/Chicago/APR 1984 Heartland/Walk Away/Anaconda/Body and Soul/Floorshow/Emma Adrenochrome/Alice/Gimme Gimme Gimme(a Man After Midnight)/Body Electric/Sister Ray + bonus video-Body and Soul promo NOTES: Front cover is TOL turned 90 degrees right. Close single cam with tripod. Perhaps the only video of the Sisters first US tour. They use the drum track to Ghostrider for Sister Ray, resulting in a few minutes of extra drumming after they leave the stage. GM breaks a string just as Emma starts. QUALITY NOTES: Very good. Audio is excellent. Total Length: 55 min. Live at the Reading Festival 8/25/91 First and Last and Always/Lucretia My Reflection/Body and Soul Possession/Ribbons/Alice/Dominion-Mother Russia/Amphetamine Logic/Detonation Boulevard/Temple of Love/Gimme Shelter/Flood II/This Corrosion/Something Fast/Vision Thing/He's Got the Whole World in His Hand/Always Look to the Bright Side of Life/1969 Live in San Francisco 4/17/91 First and Last and Always/Lucretia My Reflection/Body and Soul Ribbons/Alice/Dominion-Mother Russia/Amphetamine Logic Detonation Boulevard/Marian/This Corrosion/Gimme Shelter/Flood II/Something Fast/Jolene Valentine/Vision Thing NOTES: Shot from the balcony. Large breaks in the video due to ducking security. Not really worth the money paid for it-the guy who sells it sends copies out on really cheap video tape. QUALITY NOTES: Audio is good. Live at Wembly Stadium 11/26/90 Total Length: 2 hrs. Petersborough 1983 Wake: choruses from under the rock First and Last and Always/Body and Soul/Marian/No Time to Cry Walk Away/Possession/Emma/Amphetamine Logic/a Rock and a Hard Place/Floorshow/Alice/Fix/Knockin' on Heaven's Door NOTES: Photocopied cover. Possibly quite common. See notes on the real release. Reading '91 NOTES: has the MTV feature tacked on the end. York Racecourse Festival 22.SEPT/1984 Burn/Heartland/Marian/Anaconda/walk Away/Emma/a Rock and a Hard Place/Floorshow/Alice/Body Electric/Gimme Shelter/Sister Ray NOTES: "hardly worth the expense" "Band looks awkward in the daylight and seem to have little enthusiasm for the event" + the new drum machine repeatedly goes awry. "a complete shambles" -Heartland COMPILATION VIDEO Sisters of Mercy Walk Away/Body and Soul/No Time to Cry/First and Last and Always Xray/This Corrosion/Black Planet/This Corrosion/Wasteland Severina/Wishing Well/Marian/various interviews NOTES: 4 is from the Whistle Test Studios performance. 5 is from 120 Minutes 1987 7 is taped off MTV 8 is the Top of the Pops performance. 9 is a Mission video 10-11 are from the Mission's Joan River's Show performance. Includes some footage of the Royal Albert Hall gig after 6. QUALITY NOTES: Good Sisters of Mercy No Time to Cry/Black Planet/Interview/This Corrosion/First and Last and Always/Marian/WEA report/Dominion/Intro by AE/Possession/Emma/Amphetamine Logic/A Rock and a Hard Place/Floorshow/Alice/Body and Soul/Heartland Gimme Shelter/Walk Away/Adrenochrome/Jolene NOTES: 1-2,4,8,16,19 are promo videos 3 interview from Belgian TV 5-6 whistle test studios performances 7 internal WEA sales report 9-15 are excerpts from Wake 17-18 Live at York Racecourse Festival 84 20-22 Glasgow 83 QUALITY NOTES: Ranges from quite good to dismal TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 Minutes