First And Last And Always Era (4LP)

Sisters Of Mercy Sisters Of Mercy

LPA FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS

  1. Black Planet
  2. Walk Away
  3. No Time To Cry
  4. A Rock And A Hard Place
  5. Marian (Version)

LPB FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS

  1. First And Last And Always
  2. Possession
  3. Nine While Nine
  4. Logic
  5. Some Kind Of Stranger

LPC BODY AND SOUL

  1. Body And Soul
  2. Body Electric (1984 version)

LPD BODY AND SOUL

  1. Train
  2. Afterhours

LPE WALK AWAY

  1. Walk Away

LPF WALK AWAY

  1. Poison Door
  2. On The Wire

LPG NO TIME TO CRY

  1. No Time To Cry

LPH NO TIME TO CRY

  1. Blood Money
  2. Bury Me Deep

 

 

The Sisters of Mercy mastered the art of dark and foreboding rock in 1985 with the band’s influential major-label debut, FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS. To commemorate the album’s 30-year anniversary, Rhino will release a vinyl boxed set that includes the original album together with three 12” EPs from that era: BODY AND SOUL, NO TIME TO CRY and WALK AWAY.

FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS ERA VINYL COLLECTION will be available at retail outlets on July 24th. The set contains four slabs of vinyl, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl, with faithfully reproduced artwork, housed in an attractive card slipcase. On the same day, the set will also be released digitally. The album and EPs that make up the set will also be available for download as a Collection and individually.

When The Sisters of Mercy signed with WEA in May 1984, the band consisted of Andrew Eldritch (vocals), Gary Marx and Wayne Hussey (guitars), Craig Adams (bass) and a drum machine named Doktor Avalanche. The group’s first release for the label was the 12” EP Body and Soul. Eldritch once described the release as: “a vision of heaven with everyone on speed.” Two of its four-tracks—“Body Electric” (1984 Version) and “Afterhours”—have only been available on the original 12”. This new release makes these songs available digitally for the first time ever.

In March 1985, almost a year after Body And Soul, the The Sisters of Mercy released their landmark album, First and Last and Always. It climbed to #14 on the national album charts in the band’s native UK. Among the standout tracks are “Marian,” “Rock And A Hard Place” and the ominous “Black Planet,” which was released as a single in the U.S., and even featured the band in a promo video incongruously driving around Los Angeles in the Monkee Mobile. Even though the album was enthusiastically embraced by goth rock culture, Eldritch has steadfastly rejected the gothic tag, saying the band had more in common with classic rock from the Sixties and Seventies than the post-punk scene of the early Eighties.

Also featured in this set are two singles from First and Last and Always that were issued as 12” singles with multiple b-sides. “Walk Away” was backed with “Poison Door” and “On The Wire.” With was followed by “No Time To Cry,” which was backed with “Blood Money” and “Bury Me Deep.”

 

 

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