First and Last and Always

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First and Last and Always
Studio album by The Sisters of Mercy

Publication
(s)

March 11, 1985 (UK)
March 15, 1985 (USA)

Label (s) WEA Records Ltd. (Great Britain)
Elektra Records (USA)

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Gothic rock , dark wave

Title (number)

10

running time

46 min, 33 s

occupation
  • Bass guitar: Craig Adams
  • Drum computer: Doctor Avalanche

production

David M. Allen

Studio (s)

Strawberry Recording Studios, Stockport
Genetic Studios, Streatley ( Berkshire )

chronology
- First and Last and Always Floodland (1987)

First and Last and Always is the debut album by the British band The Sisters of Mercy . It was published in 1985 and shaped a number of subsequent bands in the field of Gothic Rock .

Prehistory (1980–1984)

The band was founded in 1980 by Andrew Eldritch and Gary Marx in Leeds and had produced five singles and one EP by 1983 , which were released on the band's own label Merciful Release and distributed independently. As the band became increasingly successful and regularly appeared in the independent charts , the first studio album was planned for the coming year in 1983. Eldritch estimated the production cost at £ 40,000, a sum that was beyond the financial means of an independent band. At the same time, talks began with major labels who showed interest in signing the band.

In October 1983 guitarist Ben Gunn got out and was replaced by the former dead-or-alive guitarist Wayne Hussey towards the end of the year through the mediation of CBS Records , which were interested in the Sisters of Mercy .

Hussey quickly noticed, however, that there was serious tension in the band: “I started rehearsing with Craig and Gary in the basement of Andy's house […] we rehearsed a lot, but never with Andrew. […] Gary became disaffected and after about three weeks in the band, he asked me if I wanted to get out with him and Craig. I think from then on I kept the band together more or less. "

Eldritch, who single-handedly ran the business and management of the band, negotiated with various major labels at the beginning of the year and finally signed a satisfactory contract with WEA Records . Merciful Release opened an office in London and their own music publisher, Candelmaesse Limited , which licensed the future songs to RCA Records ' music publisher , RCA Music Limited .

The new band lineup played its debut concert on April 7, 1984, at which the new songs Body and Soul , Train and Walk Away were presented, after which the Sisters went on a short US tour until April 16.

On his return Eldritch wrote a song called Wide Receiver , which was inspired by a term from American football and which he recorded as a home demo on which he played guitar and bass himself. The rudimentary song was ultimately not used, but Eldritch's solo demo recording was found on a bootleg album in early 1992.

In the Strawberry Recording Studios in Stockport The Sisters of Mercy finally recorded her first single for WEA ( Body and Soul on), which was composed entirely of Eldritch and produced and appeared on June 4 1984th Body and Soul didn't make it into the top 40 and stayed in 46th place.

From May 2nd to June 6th, the band toured the UK and Europe, including a new piece composed by Gary Marx that he later used in Ghost Dance . Marx: "The song was called 'Surfing Glam', the name certainly related to the guitar style [...] This song, which then became 'Where Spirits Fly', was nothing more than an instrumental piece that we experimented with during sound checks, and we didn't even plan to record it as a demo ”.

Through WEA Records , Cure producer Dave Allen attended the concert in Amsterdam (June 2, 1984) to get to know the band, and later received a telegram from Andrew Eldritch stating: "The Sisters say yes to Dave Allen."

After the tour ended, the Sisters began to seriously prepare for the studio recording of the album. First they went to London's Maida Vale Studios on June 19, 1984 to record some new songs for a John Peel session on BBC Radio 1 . The session aired on July 13th when The Sisters of Mercy were already in the studio.

Recording sessions

Parkside Studios demo sessions (Spring 1984)

After intense songwriting sessions, Gary Marx and Wayne Hussey went to Parkside Studios, a "small studio in a rehearsal complex near Armley Road, where I recorded some new demos with Wayne on vocals." The recordings were made by sound engineer Steve Allen produced.

Eldritch was enthusiastic about the new song material and played some instrumental demos for the melody maker journalist Adam Sweeting: "I think these things are going to be incredible, what we've done so far cannot be compared with them at all."

Strawberry Recording Studios (June to July 1984)

The Sisters of Mercy and producer Dave Allen went to Strawberry Recording Studios in Stockport near Manchester for five weeks at the end of June 1984 to record their first album. The studio use alone cost £ 500 a day or £ 3,250 a week, Eldritch spent the entire five weeks in the studio around the clock and, according to Dave Allen, abused amphetamines on a daily basis .

The instrumental backing tracks and vocal takes for the album were recorded in Stockport. For additional vocal recordings, overdubs and the final mix, they wanted to go to the Genetic Studio in August. The release of the finished album was planned for the third week of October 1984.

The band immediately began recording, with Hussey and Marx often making so-called guide vocals from their own texts, provisional singing takes that the singer would later use for orientation on his own recordings and some of which appeared on bootlegs. Both Hussey and Marx later used some of these lyrics in their bands The Mission and Ghost Dance .

A first version of First and Last and Always , which according to Gary Marx "was originally called 'The Scottish One'", was "pretty much finished at the beginning". Marx sang an early draft of the later Ghost Dance song text for When I Call , in which the name of a friend of the band from Hamburg, Marianne, appears.

For Nine While Nine , which according to Marx was "recorded around the same time" and "had the provisional title 'Child of Light'", Gary Marx originally sang a text that he later reused for the song A Deeper Blue on Ghost Dance .

Black Planet, on the other hand, first existed in a version to which Wayne Hussey sang his own lyrics, which he later used in part for the mission songs Dance on Glass and Naked and Savage .

Additionally recorded songs that were ultimately not used were the later Mission song Garden of Delight and the later Ghost Dance song Yesterday Again . Gary Marx: “The Sisters without Eldritch actually recorded a version of the song that later became 'Yesterday Again' at Strawberry Studio. It was originally called Frail and Torn, and Wayne sang my half-finished lyrics one afternoon, along with a first draft of Garden of Delight. We jokingly called a potential Sisters Christmas single 'Frail and Torn'. "

Eldritch later made his own version of Garden of Delight , but there was no use for it either: “There are a couple of bootlegs where I try to sing lyrics by Wayne and you can hear that I can't interpret it convincingly . I just can't make sense of it. ”“ The guy just had no idea at all, he just lined up some catchphrases. ”

The recordings dragged on, to the band's frustration as Eldritch was still working on lyrics. Gary Marx: “He was too busy with the business side and lost his creativity. We wasted weeks in the studio waiting for him to come up with a few lyrics. That was very annoying and very expensive. "

Marian was an exception . Eldritch was inspired by Gary Marx's original text for First and Last and Always and wrote a new text for a Wayne Hussey composition, which was partly in German: “'Marian' is a very special song, it's not like that other pieces. This song was written in ten minutes, normally it takes me six months to write the lyrics. "

Eldritch proved to be overly careful with the vocal recordings. Marx: "After every take Andy said 'Is it really great?' And then we said 'Sure, Andy, that was great!' And then he did it all over again. Andy is a total perfectionist. ”“ You could have composed and recorded a double album in the time it took to set up a headphone mix that he was happy with. ”

At the end of July 1984 the recordings were finished and the band had completed 18 songs on ten analogue master tapes in raw mix:
Role 1 : Tones / No Time to Cry
Role 2 : Emma / Walk Away
Role 3: Poison Door / A Rock and a Hard Place
Role 4: First and Last and Always (LP-Version) / First and Last and Always (Japan-Version)
Role 5: Possession / Spit on Your Grave / Evil Come Evil Go
Role 6: Marian / Wide Receiver
Role 7: Nine While Nine
Roll 8: Some Kind of Stranger
Roll 9: Some Kind of Stranger (Early)
Roll 10: Down to E ..... / On the Wire

In Tones , Spit on Your Grave , Evil Come Evil Go and Down to E ..... is according to Dave Allen for provisional title of known songs. Amphetamine Logic, on the other hand, had the provisional title Horned One Stabs , according to Gary Marx , which suggests that this song did not come from the Strawberry Sessions, but was recorded later.

In early August 1984 the band flew to the USA for three gigs.

Genetic Studios (August to September and November 1984)

After the three US appearances, The Sisters of Mercy went as planned with producer Dave Allen to the Genetic Studios near Reading to finish the album with sound engineer Tim Baldwin. The sessions in the Genetic Studio dissolved into “insanity” according to Gary Marx, “Eldritch ran into walls in the breaks between the vocal recordings, and the rest of us just went nuts. Tim Baldwin seemed to like to remember it later. "

Weakened by constant amphetamine abuse, lack of sleep, and malnutrition and hypoglycaemia, Eldritch finally collapsed in the studio one night. Marx: “He was completely exhausted and hallucinating. He still wanted to keep working, even though he knew he was doing so badly that he had to stop. "Eldritch:" I just enjoy being drunk for long periods of time so much. I've been told that you can't go through this for that long. "

Eldritch was admitted to the nearest hospital on an emergency basis, where he had to remain inpatient for a long time due to cardiac complications and a generally poor general and nutritional condition.

In time for two festival appearances in Germany in early September 1984, Eldritch was released from hospital, but the band could no longer meet the planned release date for the album. In an interview on September 8th in Ahlen , Eldritch stated that the album had been postponed until the beginning of next year.

The band then returned to Genetic Studios to complete the album.

It was probably during these final sessions that the band recorded a studio version of the Bob Dylan song Knockin 'on Heaven's Door , which, given Eldritch's poor health, proved the band's black humor.

There are also studio versions of the two later Mission songs Serpents Kiss and Wake . Wayne Hussey: "Both songs were actually recorded during the sessions for The Sisters of Mercys 'First and Last and Always', but not finished at the time." With these two songs, however, it is not clear whether they were in Strawberry Studios or Genetic Studios.

On September 22, 1984, the band gave a first test appearance at a festival in York and then went from October 4 to November 18, 1984 on the Black October tour of Great Britain and Europe, which was originally supposed to coincide with the release of the album .

In keeping with the tour, the first single on the album, Walk Away , was released on October 8, 1984. A 5,000-piece limited edition was also accompanied by a Flexidisc with an “Amphetamix” of the song Train . Since the release schedule was mixed up and the album would not appear until the new year, the record company had advised to postpone the single until then. Like the previous single, Walk Away did not make it into the top 40 and got stuck at 45th place.

After the tour ended, the band returned to Genetic Studios without bassist Craig Adams and without producer Dave Allen, where Eldritch mixed the album. On that occasion, two new songs, Blood Money and Bury Me Deep , were recorded, produced by Eldritch and intended as B-sides for the next single No Time to Cry .

Also at the end of 1984 Eldritch produced the mini album Clash of Dreams by the band Salvation at Strawberry Recording Studios in Stockport, which was supposed to appear on his label Merciful Release in March 1985, but remained unreleased.

After a break over the Christmas holidays, the band spent January and February 1985 preparing for the album's release, which had been postponed to March. The cover design was completed and submitted, and tapes with various mixes of album tracks to choose from were also circulating at WEA Records . In addition, the band negotiated with Polygram the publication of a concert recording on video, for which the Royal Albert Hall was booked for Gary Marx's birthday on June 18, 1985 .

At that time, lead guitarist and band founder Gary Marx decided to leave the Sisters: “My relationship with the other three was completely shattered.” “It was a very frustrating time as a songwriter with the Sisters of Mercy. I wrote a lot of songs, but there was no use for them. ”“ Before I got out, we were still working on things where we wanted to regroup the lineup a bit, but with the same members. ”Apparently the talk was about Wayne Hussey to switch to the keyboard, a step that Hussey would certainly never have tolerated.

Album release and breakup of the band

On March 8, 1985, the first single No Time to Cry was released , which again did not make it into the top 40 with 63rd place .

A UK tour began on March 9th to coincide with the album's release.

On March 11, 1985, the album was released by WEA Records Ltd. published in the UK. The reviews in the music press were mostly positive.

On April 1, 1985, Gary Marx gave his last concert with The Sisters of Mercy, followed by a television appearance the day after with the band playing live in the studio First and Last and Always and Marian .

As a trio, in which Wayne Hussey now had to master all guitar parts, the Sisters began another tour through Europe and the USA on April 12th, which lasted until June 7th. A second TV appearance on the German music program Formula One , in which the band played No Time to Cry to full playback, was broadcast on April 15, 1985.

The Sisters of Mercy gave their last concert on June 18, 1985 at the Royal Albert Hall , as planned . Gary Marx canceled the previously announced participation at the last moment. The video was released by Polygram in 1986 .

In the summer of 1985, the music press announced that The Sisters of Mercy were next planning an ABBA cover version as a single. Eldritch confirmed that he had tried to get Jim Steinman to produce it: “I called him [1985] when the band had Gimme Gimme Gimme in their repertoire and I told him about the song and that our version was absolutely 'stupid 'had to sound. He was entirely of my opinion, but had too little time. Then the band broke up. "

On November 2, 1985, the breakup of the band was announced in the music press. Andrew Eldritch: “When we went our separate ways, the people who are now The Mission and I agreed that no one would continue to use the band name.” “The band was good and successful, we could all go on. The split came at a time when none of us hurt. "

instrumentation

  • Lead guitarist Gary Marx used a rented Telecaster guitar for the album recordings . He had used a Shergold guitar on previous studio recordings. He only used his black and silver painted Gibson Les Paul for live concerts at The Sisters of Mercy. Marx: "As stupid as it sounds for people who play guitar, I hardly ever played chords with the Sisters - I didn't know how to do it." An e-bow was used on the song Marian .
  • Bassist Craig Adams used an Ibanez Roadster bass. Adams: “It has always been my policy to play as few notes as possible. I always stuck to that. ”On the song A Rock and a Hard Place , the bass was taken over by a synthesizer.
  • For the album sessions the band had bought a new drum computer, an Oberheim DMX. Hussey: "When we had written a new song, it took us three days to program the fucking drum machine."

Musical style and self-image

Andrew Eldritch did not understand The Sisters of Mercy as a gothic rock band, but strictly rejected this assignment. He saw the band as a modern continuation of the classic rock of the sixties: “We have our roots in 1969, we are the children of Altamont . We don't give a shit who these Alien Sex Fiends are, and we don't want to know anything about it! […] Throughout our careers, we have had to fight the prejudice that most of the public has of us that we somehow come from the post-punk movement . We see ourselves as coming from rock music of the sixties, as heirs to this tradition and as the only ones who can continue it. "" I find the first song dark, but not the others. Maybe they're not overly optimistic. […] Gloomy and dark implies an atmosphere of apathy and resignation, and I don't find that something like that can be said of us. "

Band founder Gary Marx took the same view, but later stated that Wayne Hussey's entry into the band changed this weighting: “There was my view of the Sisters and Wayne's view of the Sisters. My version is called simple American rock, while Wayne's version was more banshee-like . ”“ I can't say I was against this change of direction at the time, but looking back I think it made us sound like a dozen other bands - like The Cure or the Banshees . Much of what made the Sisters unique had already vanished into thin air. "

Wayne Hussey said that his songwriting changed the musical direction of the band significantly: “I think that joining the band has led to more attention to arrangements and that sort of thing, embellishments and textures, rather than how just chasing a few guitar notes through a distortion beforehand . The songs were good, but not properly executed. "

In the same interview, Eldritch stated that the production in a high-quality recording studio had also influenced the execution of the songs: “A lot of people didn't understand that we were more than happy to be able to finally make records on them all instruments and all lyrics can be heard properly, and it sounds good on the radio too. It pisses off a lot of people when you make records that way that think you've somehow changed. "

Eldritch and Marx later put this into perspective, with Eldritch speaking of "Wischi-washi production" and Gary Marx of "weaknesses in production". Eldritch in 2011: “This could have been a great album if only it had been produced better. After this album we decided to produce ourselves in the future. "

Textual content

The lyrics to the album were all written by Andrew Eldritch, who stated that he used the cut-up method for his lyrics . In terms of content, the lyrics, with their numerous references to separation and drugs, reflect Eldritch's mental state at that time: "I was so exhausted when I wrote the lyrics on the album that there is no distance at all from the characters involved."

Gary Marx: “When we were doing 'First and Last and Always,' Andrew was breaking up with his long-time girlfriend and I was about to leave the band. These two circumstances led to a series of allusions in the texts that seemed to be about his departure from both of us. "

Eldritch confirmed that the text of Walk Away was indirectly addressed to Gary Marx: “I figured that one of you in particular would find that quite apt.” Gary Marx: “'Walk Away' may or may not be addressed to me, I don't care because I don't like the song anyway. The only passage in the text that annoys me again and again is this line in 'Some Kind of Stranger' ("careful lingers undecided at the door"), which I definitely understood as a point against me. "

Commercial success of the album

The band owed the production costs of the album heavily to the record company. Gary Marx: "We're going to have to make a lot of money to pay back the cost of the album because the budget has been so overrun." According to Andrew Eldritch, it wasn't until 1988 that the album recouped the cost.

In Great Britain the album reached silver with 60,000 records sold on October 30, 1987 and gold status with 100,000 records sold on May 8, 1989 . It reached the highest position in the British album charts at number 14.

In Germany, the album reached gold status in 2011 with 250,000 records sold. It reached the highest position in the German album charts at number 40.

In the US, the album did not get on the Billboard 200 .

Regarding the failure of the singles, Eldritch later said: “We were close. It wasn't because of us that we didn't make it. I think the band did everything it took, but we weren't ready to sell ourselves like certain other bands do. "

Different versions of the album

  • The original vinyl album was released in the UK, US and Europe in March 1985.
  • In July 1985 the Warner-Pioneer Corporation in Japan released a version of the album that partly contained different mixes ("Black Planet" has slightly different instruments and is 10 seconds longer, "No Time to Cry" offers different opening and closing options Instrumentation and sound effects, "A Rock and a Hard Place" with additional guitar tracks and a slightly different drum track, while the "First and Last and Always" has an intro about 15 seconds longer, a completely different drum computer part and a changed arrangement, the rest of the songs are unchanged).
  • In March 1988 the album was first released on CD, but the Japan mix was used.
  • In May 1992 a digitally remastered version of the CD was released, again using the Japan mix.
  • In October 2006 a CD version of the original mix was released for the first time in digitally remastered form. This CD version contained an early version of Some Kind of Stranger with different lyrics as bonus tracks , as well as the B-sides of the singles Walk Away ( Poison Door , On the Wire and Long Train ) and No Time to Cry ( Blood Money and Bury Me Deep ).

Track listing (original LP)

  1. Black Planet (4:26)
  2. Walk Away (3:25)
  3. No Time to Cry (4:03)
  4. A Rock and a Hard Place (3:34)
  5. Marian (version) (5:44)
  6. First and Last and Always (4:02)
  7. Possession (4:39)
  8. Nine While Nine (4:12)
  9. Amphetamine Logic (4:54)
  10. Some Kind of Stranger (7:20)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cocatalog.gov.loc United States Copyright Office website
  2. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ralf Niemczyk: Plus-Minus Null - Sisters Of Mercy (in: SPEX -Magazin October 1983, page 5)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.the-sisters-of-mercy.info  
  3. ^ Martin Roach, Neil Perry: The Mission - Names Are For Tombstones Baby (Independent Music Press 1993, p. 20)
  4. ↑ both 19 All Saints Road, London W11
  5. ↑ [2] Jayne Houghton. Mercy Me (in: ZigZag magazine May 1984)
  6. ^ [3] Information from Gary Marx (on: MyHeartland.co.uk website November 18, 2003)
  7. ↑ [4] Entry on Discogs.com website
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  10. ^ Information from producer Dave Allen (Sound Seminar at The Woodmill, London, August 29, 2010)
  11. ↑ [5] Eleanor Levy: Bad Habits (in: Record Mirror magazine June 1984)
  12. ↑ [6] Entry BBC website
  13. ↑ Parkside Studios , since 2006 The Rock and Roll Circus (44 Canal Road, Leeds LS12)
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  16. ↑ Strawberry Recording Studios (3 Waterloo Road, Stockport SK1), closed in 1993
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  18. ^ Information from producer Dave Allen (Sound Seminar at The Woodmill, London, August 29, 2010)
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  26. ^ Andrew Eldritch television interview (ZTV, Sweden 1993)
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  30. ^ [15] Gary Marx Interview ( Rise and Reverberate -Fanzine at the end of 1984)
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  32. ↑ List shown in the cover of the 2006 CD re-release
  33. ↑ unpublished, the version that was later released as the B-side of the single Dominion was recorded in January 1988
  34. ↑ listed under the provisional title Scottish One A or Scottish One B.
  35. ↑ listed under the provisional title Marianne
  36. ↑ listed under the provisional title Little Wing
  37. ↑ listed under the provisional title Andy's Little Wing
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  39. ↑ Genetic Studios (Streatley Hill, Streatley RG8)
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  46. ↑ Wayne Hussey April 2007 (liner notes for The Mission : The First Chapter , CD re-release September 12, 2007)
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  55. ^ Whistle Test ( BBC 2 Tuesday April 2, 1985)
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  58. ↑ Sounds magazine November 2, 1985 (page 3)
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  65. ↑ Dave Dickson: Mercyful Fate (in: Raw magazine March 1985)
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  67. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gary Marx interview (in: Kiss the Blade -Fanzine, late 1985) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ghostdance.co.uk
  68. ↑ Ken McIntyre: The Sisterhood (in: Classic Rock -Magazin July 2007, page 60)
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  75. ↑ Claire Shearsby (sound engineer, producer and DJ from Leeds)
  76. ^ [40] Gary Marx interview (on Heartland.co.uk website July 6, 2003)
  77. ↑ [41]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Andrew Eldritch Interview (Andrew Collins Show, BBC 6 Music April 17, 2003)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.the-sisters-of-mercy.info  
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  80. ↑ Dave Dickson: On Eldritch Boulevard (in: Heartland Issue Four -Fanzine Jun 1991, p. 46)
  81. ↑ according to the BPI.co.uk website
  82. ↑ according to the Musikindustrie.de website
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