This Corrosion

The Sisters of Mercy released their second album back in 1987 and brought gothic to many people at my place. We didn't knew much about the dark and black scene Andrew Eldrich tried to explain about but the music was one of the sounds of these summer. Produced by Jim Steinmann who made Meat Loaf great Floodland were THE sound of the year when a few of my friends turned into dressing in black. A few month ago I saw the Sisters live and was disappointed what they offered to me. Nothing more than some retired musicians grabbing some money for what they did a few decades before. But this song grabs me from time to time when I listen to it - if only brings back some memories from times long gone by.

Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds

It was a long time ago since I heard something by The Mountain Coats, that Californian new-folk band but I remember that it made fun listening to them. The more I was surprised that they are still a band and able to release a new album next month. I was more confused about the title of the song Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds and thought it will be worth to listen to the lyrics closely. Sounding like a singer-songwriter doing country, this song is a simple, smooth and somewhat modernized MG anthem, which just happens to be about Sister Of Mercy's erstwhile leader.

There's indifference on the wind

But a faint gust of hope

At a club nobody goes to

With a musty velvet rope

Guys in Motörhead jackets

Who knew him way back when

Haven't raised a drink in years

But now meet up again 

To remember how it was

When they all thought they'd move away

And ride in Lotus 7s

Through the London streets one day.

Nobody ever gets away

Even the best of us come back some day

To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds

Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

No-one anticipates the rush

The breezy feeling of the faceless crush

At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds

Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

They don't throw him a parade

He just comes in on a train

One suitcase in his hand

And an old army backpack

From the second world war

From a Leipzig secondhand store

And as a bonus one of the Sister's classic songs: