Through The Years

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Through The Years - Box Cover (front)

Through The Years - Box Cover (Spine)

Through The Years - Box Cover (back)

This is a three record box bootleg that features the complete recordings of two concerts of the Sisters of Mercy.

The first concert was performed in 1983 during the Trans-Europe Excess Tour when Ben Gunn still played the second guitar in the band. The other gig is from the Tune In - Turn On - Burn Out Tour in 1985 when Wayne Hussey had already joined the band on guitar, replacing the before mentioned Ben Gunn.

This change of personnel through the years has obviously changed the sound and the modalities of the songs, too, and is well reflected on this bootleg. Some songs are repeatedly featured on the different sides of the records, and they sound amazingly varied as they were recorded at different concerts or in different eras.

Release Notes

• Label: unknown

• Catalogue#: none

• Run-out Matrix: SM8385-A to SM8385-F

• Format: 3 x 12" vinyl LP box

• Released: 1986

Remarks

• The box is made of resistant cardboard with a black snakeskin surface. On this cardboard an adhesive, printed plastik layer is glued in a way that it links the box and its top through the left side, so that it can be opened as a folder.

• There are different editions of this bootleg that vary in the color of the vinyls and their labels.

One edition has 3 blue/black splattered clear vinyls and plain labels.

One edition has 3 marbeled dark purple vinyls of the same color and labels with a dogs head.

One edition has different coloured vinyls and labels with the Merciful Release Logo.

• Cover Notes:

Sources

• The first record features the full concert at Loft, Berlin, Germany on 30 August 1983.

• The second and third record contain the whole concert at Top Rank, Brighton, England on 01 April 1985.

This was the last time Gary Marx performed on tour with The Sisters of Mercy. One day later, on April 2nd, he was still present, when The Sisters of Mercy performed two songs during the Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast with BBC TV, but left the band afterwards for good.

Track List

Record One

A1   Burn	B1   Temple Of Love
A2   Valentine	B2   Floorshow
A3   Anaconda	B3   Adrenochrome
A4   Heartland	B4   Gimme Shelter
A5   Alice	B5   Kiss The Carpet
A6   Emma	B6   Body Electric

Record Two

C1   First And Last And Always	D1   Possession
C2   Body And Soul	D2   Walk Away
C3   Train	D3   Burn
C4   Marian	D4   Emma
C5   No Time To Cry	D5   Amphetamine Logic

Record Three

E1   A Rock And A Hard Place	F1   Knockin' On Heaven's Door
E2   Floorshow	F2   Sister Ray
E3   Alice	F3   Ghost Rider
E4   Body Electric	F4   Louie Louie
E5   Gimme Shelter