THE SISTERS OF MERCY - Demos & Studio Outtakes 1981-86 (TRIPLE DISC)

            DISC ONE
1-3: 1981 'Floorshow' demo EP
 - from the 'Before The Flood' bootleg CD
1. Floorshow
2. Lights
3. Teachers/Adrenochrome
4-13: 1982 Portastudio demos
 - from the 'Before The Flood' bootleg CD 
(superior to the version on the'Acoustics From The Beehive' bootleg CD)
4. Valentine
5. Body Politic (early version of 'Fix')
6. Lights (same version as above, but included for completeness' sake)
7. Anaconda
8. Driver (unreleased song with a couple of lyrics that ended up in 'Heartland')
9. Good Things (unreleased song)
10. Phantom
11. Burn (actually an unreleased song of which the intro and some lyrics were later re-used in 'Burn')
12. Kiss The Carpet (actually an instrumental demo of 'Burn', without the intro)
13. Valentine (basically the same as track 4, but included for completeness' sake)
14. Fix (bass-only version of 'Fix' with alternate lyrics possibly sung by Craig Adams; 
or maybe not Sisters related at all?)
15. Where Spirits Fly 
(instrumental version of a Gary Marx composition later recorded by Ghostdance)
 - not really a demo, but a soundcheck recording, from Hamburg 1984; 
taken from the 'Echoes Vol. III' bootleg CD)
16. Wide Receiver (unreleased song - 1983/1984?)
 - from the 'Wide Receiver' bootleg CD

DISC TWO
17-21: 1984 demo recordings
17. Walk Away (early demo from shortly after the 1984 Peel Session)
18. No Time To Cry (early demo from shortly after the 1984 Peel Session)
19. A Rock And A Hard Place (instrumental version)
20. Black Planet (instrumental version - not the final take, 
but the recording used for track B03, the 'Dance On Glass' lyrics version)
21. Marian (instrumental)
22-28: 1986 Portastudio demos for 'Floodland' (1986)
 - 22 from the 'Kamasutra' bootleg 2CD, 
 - 23-27 from 'Acoustics From The Beehive' (but ultimately from the 'Kill The Lights' bootleg LP; 
         clicks & pops manually removed), 
 - 28 from the '1983-1986' bootleg CD (clicks & pops manually removed)
22. Dominion/Mother Russia (from 'Kamasutra' bootleg 2CD)
23. Flood I
24. Lucretia
25. Neverland (complete 7'37")
26. Untitled (6'53" version with guitar)
27. Driven Like The Snow (wide stereo mix, bass left/drums right)
28. Flood II

DISC THREE
01. Candle (instrumental version of 'Driver', 1982-3? 
- from the 'In The Shadow Of Angels' vinyl bootleg; clicks & pops manually removed)
02-09: 1984 demo recordings
- from the superior 'Victims Of Circumstance' bootleg CD, not the flawed & hissy 'Suns Of Mercy' bootleg CD
02. First And Last And Always (alternate 'Marian' lyrics sung by Gary Marx)
03. Black Planet ('Dance on Glass' lyrics sung by Wayne Hussey)
04. A Rock And A Hard Place (German disco version)
05. Garden Of Delight (unreleased song sung by Wayne Hussey)
06. Garden of Delight (unreleased song sung by Andrew Eldritch)
07. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
08. Serpent's Kiss (unreleased song, 
     instrumental version later recorded by The Mission for their debut single)
09. Emma
10. A Rock And A Hard Place 
(alternate disco version - from the '1983-1986' bootleg CD; vinyl clicks & pops manually removed)
11-14. 1984-1985 outtakes
 - the same quartet of songs that also appeared on the 'Last Magician Of Rational Thought' 7" bootleg EP, 
but here taken from the 'Rare Obscurities' bootleg CD (vinyl clicks & pops manually removed)
11. No Time To Cry
12. First And Last And Always
13. A Rock And A Hard Place
14. Walk Away
   
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