Some Girls Wander By Mistake

The Sisters Of Mercy

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1992)
• Original Release Date: October 20, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000008KR0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #283,066 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Deleted in the U.S., this is their 1992 collection of 7in & 12in singles, both A sides & B's, released between 1980-1983on Merciful Release. 19 tracks including the extremely rare 'The Damage Done', 'Watch' & 'Home Of The Hit-Men', as well as the original extended version of 'Temple Of Love', their covers of 'Gimme Shelter' & '1969', plus 'Alice', 'Kiss The Carpet', 'Valentine', 'Floorshow', 'Phantom' & more. This is the only legitimate CD to find all of these tracks! A Merciful Release/ Warner Brothers release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 80s Goth-Rock, July 30, 2002

By	eRgO (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Girls Wander By Mistake (Audio CD)

The Sisters of Mercy in their short life (they only put out 3 proper albums in their existence) had tremendous influence on the Goth genre. This album spans their early, and nearly impossible to find, singles. There are some real gems here, namely Alice, Valentine, Lights, and Temple of Love. The cover of Gimme Shelter is heavy-handed but great fun nonetheless. If you liked Vision Thing and Floodland, be aware that this does not have the same production quality of those later efforts. However, the Sister's power and energy are still there, and Andrew's vocals are steadfast, except for on a couple songs like The Damage Done (where he sounds like a deranged Elvis), one of the worst songs on the album (along with Home of the Hit-Men). But the other songs more than make up it.

If you like bands like Bauhaus or even early Cranes, you'll find this CD worth your 30 bux. If you're more into the high production albums (Vision Thing), or heavy guitars, you might want to hear some of the songs before parting with your hard-earned money.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doktor Avalanche strikes..., June 12, 2002

By	N. P. Stathoulopoulos "nick9155" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Some Girls Wander By Mistake (Audio CD)

This is 100% essential for any Sisters fan, period. Forget the import price, buy it. If you have even half a passing interest in this band, this is still worth the price. Intrigued by goth? Alice, Adrenochrome, Body Electric, Temple of Love, Valentine--these are the highlights that will stay with you. Most of them instantly likable and memorable.

The EP tracks are in order, but the order of the EPs is off. (In other words, The Damage Done and Home of the Hitmen, the first record, are together as a and b-sides, but they don't appear until later in the disc.) Perhaps all the better that this disc starts with Alice, an instantly catchy and driving goth classic. Midway through we get perhaps the best achievement of this album--Temple of Love Extended Version. Amazing--driving, dancy, deep, broad vocals from Eldritch. This is preceded by the Reptile House EP: 5 songs that are deep, dark, dark, and dark. Keep the knives away from yourself. Great songs. All in all the collection is very balances.

This was basically put together so that fans didn't have to hunt down the original singles or buy shoddy bootlegs. A great idea. They cover Gimme Shelter and 1969, though it's strange that they didn't record studio versions of some of the other tunes they constantly covered (making them part of every set) like Emma, Sister Ray, Ghostrider, etc. They would have sounded great in the more raw studio form of the time. (Emma would appear as a b-side non-lp track in 1988.)

Sure, the sound quality on all of the tracks is not up to Floodland, of course, but there's a lot to appreciate here. Marvel at Eldritch's drumming on The Damage Done. He described himself as the worst drummer in Leeds, and...he's right.

Not to fear--you get to hear the evolution of Dr. Avalanche from drum machine to the rig he is now.

Buy this album. Buy it now. Worth the extra import dollars; it's essential Sisters.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dancefloor smoke, strobe lights, and... The Sisters!, June 26, 2000

By	Konrad Rode (Cape Town, South Africa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Some Girls Wander By Mistake (Audio CD)

I remember when this compilation was released I was ecstatic about finally having all their early vinyl on one CD. As some reviewers here mentioned, there is a lot more early material available on B-sides from the FALAA era and of course the Body And Soul EP, but this has all the official releases before their first album and said EP. I regard this era as their best, with classic goth anthems such as "Alice" and "Temple Of Love", "Gimme Shelter", "Body Electric", "Floorshow" (the list goes on...), and my favourite EP, "Reptile House" featuring the dark, slow, passionate numbers "Fix" and "Valentine". This is memory lane (early eighties), GOOD memories, emotional stuff! The Sisters of Mercy represent the part of "goth" I choose to remember, timeless music that still sells by the truckload, and for good reason. This compilation is a must, together with the albums "First, Last And Always" and "Floodland".