Sisters of Mercy - Mofi Silver series "First and Last and Always"

Yes it was always a pretty murky sort of sound from that Lp but it was all the rage at parties I was at many moons ago. That recording has a troubled history, much like the band that made it.

 

Have you heard the original mixes? They're fairly snappy!

 

I just found an original Dutch pressing of FLAA for $10. I like more than I do the MOFI. There seems to be way more punch.

 

I'm spinning my original UK vinyl of this right now. It is (as I remembered it) quite a cheap sounding recording. I don't think remastering would change that much TBH. All that mid '80s digital reverb isn't helping anyone. I can remember being really disappointed when it came out - I'd heard them doing 'Marian' on a 'Whistle Test' TV spot and it just sounded so much more intense than the LP.

 

The original uses different mixes, which are punchier

 

All the mixes are the same for both versions of the album, except the mixes of "Black Planet", "No Time to Cry", "A Rock and a Hard Place", and "First and Last and Always" are different.

Although the original mixes weren't re-released until 2006, the original mix of "No Time to Cry" can be found on the Sisters of Mercy compilation album "A Slight Case of Overbombing". However it fades a couple of seconds before the copy that was released on the 2006 reissue of "First and Last and Always".

 

Possession is also a different mix for the Japanese vinyl, which is where those other re-mixes originated.

 

Didn't know that, as I've only ever heard the British and Japanese CD versions of the album.

 

There was never a "British" CD pressing, they all come from Germany. Both the German and Japanese CDs use the same mixes.