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Many flexi discs were produced by the allegedly Russian label BudKon.

Before 1989, very few records were allowed into Soviet Russia, so there was quite a demand on the black market.
And for a few short years, this label produced thousands of flexis from ABBA to Madonna, The Stranglers, Frank Zappa,
and of course - The Sisters of Mercy.

These records are low quality recordings, and low quality pressings, and materially are worth next to nothing to an avid collector,
though, very few of the same song were ever made, and for a completist collector of Sisters bootlegs, they are treasures.

If you want to know more about the phenomenon of flexi discs in general, please check this article at Wikipedia...

Anyway, not all flexi discs containing Sisters material have been coming from Russia.
More recently, some apparent repressing have surfaced more or less regularly from Poland.
Polish Art Postcard Flexis and other versions and formats of flexis are known to exist as well.

Basically, the average running time of a flexi is about 2:00 min. Insofar, some songs are splitted into parts and distributed over two or three flexis.
The standard flexi size is 5.5", but smaller ones of only 5" do exist as well. And although most flexis are recorded in mono on only one side,
there are also some with b-sides, partly featuring the second part of a song, or a different version, or a different song, just like a normal 7" single.
In addition, most flexis run at 45rpm, but not all of them. Some need a speed of 33⅓ rpm. And of course, there are mispressing and even promos ...

This is a list of all the The Sisters of Mercy Flexis found so far:

0-9

• 1959 in clear, brown, red & blue
• 1959 (Polish Postcard Flexi)

A

• A Rock And A Hard Place in clear, brown, red, green & yellow
• Adrenochrome in clear, brown & red
• Alice in red, brown & clear vinyl
• Amphetamine Logic in clear, red, green, yellow & blue
• Logic (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)
• Anaconda in clear, blue, yellow and brown

B

• Black Planet (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)
• Black Planet in clear, blue, brown & yellow
• Blood Money - Polish Flexi
• Body And Soul in blue, yellow, clear, red, green & brown
• Body Electric in clear, green & yellow (and blue)

C

• Colours 1 - The Sisterhood in clear, yellow & blue
• Colours 1 And 2 - The Sisterhood - double-sided flexi in blue
• Colours 2 - The Sisterhood in clear, red & green
• Colours 2 And 3 - The Sisterhood - double-sided flexi in clear, red & green
• Colours 3 - The Sisterhood in blue, clear & yellow
• Cry Little Sister 1 And 2 - non-Sisters flexis ascribed to the band and mentioned for clarification

D

• Doctor Jeep in clear, brown and & blue
• Dominion 1 in blue, green, red, clear, brown and yellow
• Dominion 2 in blue, clear, red, brown, green and yellow
• Driven Like The Snow in clear, blue, green, red and yellow

E

• Emma (Polish Postcard Flexi)
• Empire Down in red, blue, clear & green

F

• Finland Red, Egypt White in clear, green and yellow
• Finland Red, Egypt White 2 in clear
• Finland Red, Egypt White 3 in clear
• First And Last And Always in blue, brown, red and clear
• First And Last And Always (Polish Postcard Flexi)
• Fix in clear, blue and green - 2 versions
• Flood II in green, clear and blue
• Floorshow in green, clear and yellow

G

• Gimme Shelter in clear, blue & green
• Giving Ground 1 in blue, clear & red
• Giving Ground 2 in blue, clear & yellow
• Giving Ground 3 in brown, clear, green & red
• Good Things in clear

I

• I Was Wrong 1 in clear, yellow, red & green
• I Was Wrong 2 in clear, blue & yellow

J

• Jihad 1 - The Sisterhood in clear, blue, yellow, and green
• Jihad 2 - The Sisterhood in clear, green and red
• Jihad 3 - The Sisterhood in clear, blue and yellow
• Jolene in clear, blue, brown, red and yellow
• Jolene (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)

K

• Kiss The Carpet in clear, blue and brown

L

• Logic in clear, red, green, yellow & blue
• Lucretia, My Reflection 1 in brown, blue, clear, green, red & yellow
• Lucretia, My Reflection 2 in brown, blue, clear, green, red & yellow

M

• Marian in clear & brown
• Marian (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)

N

• Nine While Nine in clear, blue and green
• No Time To Cry in brown, clear, dark green, green, blue, red and yellow
• No Time To Cry (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)

O

• On The Wire 1 in clear, red and green
• On The Wire 2 in clear, red and brown

P

• Phantom in green, clear, red as well as light and dark yellow
• Poison Door in brown, clear & green
• Possession in clear, yellow & brown

R

• Ribbons in clear, blue & green

S

• Sisters Of Mercy Story Vol 1 - Polish Postcard Flexis Box Set
• Sisters Of Mercy Story Vol 2 - Polish Postcard Flexis Box Set
• Some Kind Of Stranger 1
• Some Kind Of Stranger 2 in clear, yellow, blue and green.
• Something Fast beige, clear, green, yellow and brown

T

• Temple Of Love 1 in clear, brown & blue
• Temple Of Love 2 in clear, blue & brown
• The Damage Done (in clear, red and green)
• Torch in blue, brown, clear, red, green and yellow

U

• Under The Gun in clear, yellow & green

V

• Valentine in green, clear & blue
• Valentine (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)
• Vision Thing (full print flexi) - fully printed clear flexi
• Vision Thing - the standard version in clear, brown, blue, red and yellow

W

• Walk Away in yellow, clear, blue & brown
• Watch in clear, brown, red and yellow
• When You Don't See Me in clear, brown, blue & red

Y

• You Could Be The One in clear, blue & red