More (single)

More - 7" single cover (front)

More - 7" single cover (back)

The first single release from The Sisters of Mercy's

third album Vision Thing.

The title song More was co-produced and co-written

by Jim Steinman who had worked with The Sisters

before in connection with their tracks This Corrosion

and Dominion/Mother Russia for the former album

Floodland.

The single peaked at number 1 on the Billboard

Modern Rock Tracks Chart for five weeks, counting

from 15 December 1990. Like in Germany, More

reached position 14 in the UK Single Charts,

and position 10 in Ireland.

Release Notes

Label: Merciful Release / WEA, Elektra
Catalogue#: MR047 basically, see table below
Format: various, see table below
Released: Autumn 1990

Releases

Label	Catalogue#	Released	Format	Country	Notes
Merciful Release / WEA	MR047 / 9031-72662-7	1 October 1990	7"	UK	some copies have reversed labels, wrongly large centre holes or mispressed covers (in dull blue-ish colour)
Merciful Release / WEA	MR047T / 9031-72692-0	1990	12"	UK	Side A - extended version of More
Merciful Release / WEA	MR047C / 09031-72662-44	1990	Cassette	UK	2-track cassette single
Merciful Release / WEA	MD047CD / 9031-72693-2	1990	CD	UK
Merciful Release /WEA	MD047CDX / 9031-72694-2	1990	CD, Special Edition	UK	12" triple gatefold cover with picture disc, allegedly a limited edition of 5000
Elektra	9 66595-2	1990	Maxi-CD	USA	available as maxi-cd pack and, allegedly, also in a gatefold cardboard cover
Elektra	4-64923	1990	Cassette	USA	2-track cassette single

Track Lists

	7" single		12" single		CD-single		Cassette
1	More	4:41	More (Extended)	8:30	More *******	4:37	More	4:41
2	You Could Be The One	3:59	You Could Be The One	3:59	More (Extended)	8:30	You Could Be The One	3:59
3					You Could Be The One	3:59

Announcement for the release of More single on Monday, 1 October 1990. The second gig at the Wembley Arena on 26 Nov 1990, did also take place on a Monday.

*** Note: The duration of More on the Elektra CD-single here differs and is 4:44 min.

Further Remarks

Highest entry on German charts: no 14; number of weeks on German charts: 19 weeks.
Highest entry on UK charts: no 14, on Irish charts: no. 10 and on US charts: no. 1

Several promotional editions do exist as well, for some information on these, please look under Promos

A few mispressings of the 7" have occured.
- Some vinyls have a large centre hole, cutting off the info on the labels and
- some covers got misprinted in a blueish tone.
For both of which please see the pictures down below...

Band Line up at the time

Andrew Eldritch - Vocals

Andreas Bruhn - Guitar

Tim Bricheno - Guitar

Tony James - Bass

Doktor Avalanche - drums

Additional Pictures

Please click into pictures for larger views...

More - 7" label (side A)	More - 7" label (side B)	More - 7" with large centre hole	More - 7" cover (misprinted)
More - 12" cover (front)	More - 12" cover (back)	More - 12" label (side A)	More - 12" label (side B)