in the next week (starting tomorrow), i will listen to "temple of love [extended verision]" by sisters of mercy at least 1000 times. i will monitor the play count in itunes.

All your plays must seem as nothing.

Andi, just because you have a lot of time on your hands . . .

my experiences in 1986 suggest that you will max out at about 150

My experiences in 1988 suggest WOAH AWESOME!

goff millioncount.com

I WILL DO THIS.

bless

Andi, as a representative and curator of the "John Justen and Fluffy Bear will do terrible things to themselves" series of threads, I would like to welcome you to the august society of true ILX warriors.

John, have you forgotten how "Temple of Love" goes????? This isn't terrible, it is precious and wonderful.

I have been doing something similar with "Someone Great" by LCD Soundsystem. If I can listen to a song about a dead baby on repeat for days, Andi can listen to a song about... um... wtf is this song about, anyway?

HAHAHA!

With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land

In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

In the temple of love: shine like thunder
In the temple of love: cry like rain
In the temple of love: hear my calling
In the temple of love: hear my name

And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away

With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another its all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside

With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder cry like rain
And the temple grows old and strong
But the wind blows longer cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more

In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust and only air remains

In the temple of love: shine like thunder
In the temple of love: cry like rain
In the temple of love: hear the calling
And the temple of love is falling
Down

In the temple of love: shine like thunder
In the temple of love: cry like rain
In the temple of love: hear my calling
In the temple of love: hear my name

In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust and only air remains
The only haven you can trust

And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away

With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain you

You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder cry like rain
And the temple grows old and strong
But the wind blows longer cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more

In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

In the temple of love: shine like thunder
In the temple of love: cry like rain
In the temple of love: hear my calling
And the temple of love is falling
Down

I guess this was the inspiration for Apocolypto...?

Naw dude that's one of my favorite SoM tunes for sure, I think it's right up there with Body Electric and Floorshow, but 1000x in a week...nothing can survive that

http://img39.picoodle.com/img/img39/9/7/28/f_templeoflovm_173c663.jpg

dying

Did Ofra Haza really sing on a redone version of this song or was this due to some You Tube magician?

I AM PUMPED.

JOHN D., THE THING IS, THAT I THINK THIS SONG CAN FUCKING SURVIVE IT.

FUCKING YES.

Bimble: She did.

A 1000 times is going to take you a really really long time.

FIRST LISTEN OF THE FIRST DAY.

this can only end in blood

According to my Dashboard (tm) calculations, you'll need to listen to the song about 8 hours a day during this week to reach 1000. This may trigger the apocalypse. Good luck to us all.

andi OTM x1000 as usual

I'm going to do this with "Phantom"!!!!!

I wonder how many times could I listen to "Dancing in the Dark" without becoming homicidal.

I recently found this 12" in the vault at WREK, the metal show had been bogarting it for some reason!! They probably haven't played it since like 1987, if at all.

xpost you should listen to the Culturcide cover milo

andi good luck

you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who loved SoM's pre-1st 'n' Last 'n' Always work more than I did, and Temple of Love got played at least a few times a week for I think two years in my house...but 1000 times in a row, that's gonna murder it

exciting to watch the progress though! report regularly!

my roommate did this with Danii Minogue - "Put the Needle On It" this week

You are all frightening.

Says me who listened to iLikeTRains for like sixty jillion hours.

I spent three days in 1989 listening to "The Same Deep Water As You" nonstop. I even made a "Same Deep Water As You" C90 "mixtape" to make it easier.

on July 4th 1985 I listened to Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" for four hours straight

I felt like I was going to explode from pure joy

wait no '86, that was '86

I once spent an entire afternoon listening to "Great Big No" by the Lemonheads. My friend made me stop in the end, but I just really liked that song. 1000 times is a lot though. That's over 140 times a day. Besides being insane, where will you find the time?

I think I've only ever done anything like this once and I didn't pass three times, it was "The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme", tiring of a song I love this much scares me man

Listening to the same song 8 hours a day is terrifying. Let alone the fact that it's a Sisters song. This can't be a healthy thing, overall.

I wonder how many times could I listen to "Dancing in the Dark" without becoming homicidal.

OTM and god forbid, mate. God forbid!

PLAY 105. I'M JUST GETTING WARMED UP. EEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I've done obsessive relistening to McLusky "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" and Firewater "Bourbon and Division" in recent memory, but I still topped out at a few hours of each, and I was busy doing stuff at the time.

I wish you luck. Don't die.

I will do this someday but it will be with a bunch of songs and I will call it My Life.

ALL THE VODKA HELPS.

How have your perceptions of the song changed since you started? Has your appreciation of the song increased or decreased? What is the Temple of Love?

What is the Temple of Love?

You're just trying to get me to post wallovagina.jpg again, aren't you.

i read the first couple lines of this and immediately thought: "andi has been drinking again"

NEW PROGRESS REPORT PLS

I refuse to believe this until I see your last.fm userlink, andi.

yeh! POST IT! POST IT!

I'LL POST A SCREENSHOT LATER.

I LIVE IN THE FUCKING TEMPLE OF LOVE. THAT'S ALL THAT I FUCKING WANTED. FUCKING YES.

SCREENSHOT NOT GOOD ENOUGH, LAST.FM OR NOTHING.

fucking hell, i now have an overwhelming urge to listen to "temple of love" so loudly my house falls down.

I've done obsessive relistening to McLusky "She Will Only Bring You Happiness"

I'm listening to the Future of The Left album for the fifth time in a row while reading this thread. I'm doing this because I'm trying to write about them, not to impress strangers on the internets, but I find even this quite difficult. The scenario presented here is completely mindboggling to me for any reason other than to get South American dictators to surrender

Next up is "Your kisses are wasted on me" X 1000

that will really kill you.

'web in front' > 'temple of love'

o_0

i did this the first time i heard the knife's "heartbeats," but even then i maxed out at around 150 or so. the same with the replacements, "i will dare" and "hey ya!" when that first came out.

godspeed to you, andi.

I am listening to this now, I forgot how much I love this song. Remember when you used to have to wait 10 seconds of runoff groove when you had a 12" on repeat?

My guardian angel walks away

Haha! You just know you're fucked when that happens, like when you hear "We've lost R2!" in the old Star Wars coin op.

godspeed to you, andi.

I hope that this isn't a suggestion for andi to try this with a GodspeedYBE! song, because if he does, we will all die of old age before he hits the 500 mark.

(psst, andi be a grrl)

i fucking hate that godspeed shit.

jesus, i'm a goth, but shit, i still have some fucking taste besides that.

Andi you are a v. wise person.

Ned, I've been trying to prove this to these shitfucks for a couple months now. Thanks for the support.

(psst, andi be a grrl)

-- mitya, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:20 (Yesterday)

I didn't think so, but I could be wrong.

Is this the usual "andi mags" vs. "andi" confusion?

"Temple of Love" 12" is the "shit I need the toilet and a beer" song for DJs at the clubs I go to =D

Which version are we talking here? The original or the maxed-out shiny beast that is the '92 re-recording.

The original 12" version, or at least that's what I'm talking about.

214 I WANT MORE I WANT MORE

Here is the METAL COVER VERSION!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZINKBVeaoA

214 in the room next door
214 and I want more

the Ofra Haza version is terrible, I hate metal Sisters.

Am I the only one that prefers the 1993 version? Better production and female vocals will do it for me every time. I was totally obsessed with that song sophomore year of high school, though. I even wrote a short script based on it.

The 1983 version does everything better. It's darker, more oppressive, more aggressive, more apocalyptic.

Maybe it's because I only have the CD version on Some Girls and not the vinyl, but the 1983 version sounds tinny and flat to me. It just doesn't sound as deep and atmospheric to me.

That sure was some redundant phrasing there...

Of course, I am a metal guy, so that might explain our different aesthetics.

I'm a metal guy and the '93 ToL is ass

not the good kind of ass

Yes, but you're a metal guy who's WRONG.

what, should I have pluralized "ass"? you're probably right about that I guess

I honestly don't get what's so terrible about the 1993 version... maybe it's because it was the first version I was exposed to? At any rate, I really don't like the 1983 version. Their more, I suppose, operatic stuff has always appealed to me more than the minimalist dance floor stuff.

The 1993 version was the first Sisters song I ever heard. I like the "tinniness" of which you speak, the buzzsaw synths/guitars sound like sheets of lightning ushering in the apocalypse.

i knew a guy who had a tape with this one neurosis song over and over again on both sides, and he listened to that quite a lot. i wonder what happened to him...

http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml

I don't know, the part where Eldritch comes in with "And the Devil in the black dress" at 5:50 in the 1993 version is simply transcendent for me. I can't explain why, it just is.

http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml

-- Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:02 (32 minutes ago) Link

WHAT THE FUCK

ugh ugh ugh I had to close that window, it felt like my brain was being invaded by some horrible lovecraftian evil

I realize dude is probably just high-functioning autistic, but still, that shit was fucking ridiculous

The 1993 version is actually the 1992 version.

yeah. that.

It is! Look at that. My bad.

Also, crazy autistic dude = Andi's future.

argh I know I said that site was horrible and I couldn't bear to read any more of it but then it totally sucked me in, car-crash-style

apparently dude has very severe OCD, brought about by playing lots of video games (10+ hours a day) from the time he was very young. I dunno, that's what his site says, anyway.

favorite line so far: "Since mid-2003, when I first tried the classic Sonic games, I've been extremely involved with drowning Tails, the two-tailed fox. I'd toss the fox in the blue water, wait 30 seconds (more if it surfaces) for it to drown and get the new fox in which I'll put that one in the blue water and repeat."

that site has been discussed on ilx before, can't find the thread though. It does suck you in, though.

yeah, at first it was just like "wtf is wrong with this guy" but now I am getting caught up in his whole elaborate system of "motives" and "compatibilities" and... it's kind of perverse, really, like watching someone dissect their own mind in front of you

Its Weds andi - where are you up to? Come on show us a screencap or... something.

I got exposed to the two versions at the same time, ie. upon release of 'Some Girls...', and I'll go for the '92 any time. Now, "Alice '81" vs. "Alice '92" is another matter...

Can't really argue with that one.

yeah it may have to do with how into them one was & when. Sisters of Mercy when they were a singles-only band - for about two or three years - changed my life & owned a summer and half. Then came the "Walk Away" 12" which was decent but "First & Last & Always" was pretty disappointing by comparison: really diluted, maybe impressive as a debut if it hadn't come on the heels of such incredible promise. All the mystery & weirdness & especially single-ness of the band (they seem to write two or three songs at a time; release a single; do little tours, or excursions to NY; then go at it all again! how goddamn REFRESHING!) just went up in steam, and the lyrics took a nosedive too, so that when they remade one of their best songs, it just felt to me like a lame attempt to draw from the well that had once given the best water. I liked the band as goth miniaturists; the remix/remake of ToL is anything but.

Its Weds andi - where are you up to?

7750 minutes = 5.38 days. Still got a coupla days to go.

yeah, I guess for those who came after the 1986 split/re-birth, SoM also seemed more about bombastic kitsch than anything else. ToL totally fits in this mold. Agreed that F,L&A is the lame duck in their discography.

It's a great song, but I'd sooner give this treatement to "Adrenochrome" or "Body Electric" or "Marian," but y'know -- that's me.

Actually, never mind that. It would have to be Marian , absolutely without a doubt.

F,L&A is the lame duck in their discography.

you must be destroyed.

Alex otm

I dare someone to do this with "The Damage Done"

F,L&A is the lame duck in their discography.

This is far and away the most idiotic thing I've ever encountered on ILM.

"I liked the band as goth miniaturists" - actually, I feel the same way. I'm not dissing the later releases but I think there was a definite change when they started to do albums, and it didn't work so well for me.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1253/989119280_a39e08e2a6_o.jpg

by the way, the only reason the play counts are so low for the other songs is because i only just put this album into itunes recently. i've heard all of this way more than this. and, i've heard this version of "temple of love" probably about 100 times before this week.

also, i now live in the temple of love. that's all i wanted.

well played!

F,L&A is the lame duck in their discography.

This is far and away the most idiotic thing I've ever encountered on ILM.

Really? If I had to destroy one of their albums that'd be the one. Stuff like "Walk Away" or "No Time to Cry" is really sub-par. It does have one of my faves though, "Nine While Nine".

re: lame duck - VISION THING. Full o crap, with a few redeeming moments.

It's got 'Ribbons' and 'I Was Wrong'

That would be the few redeeming moments.

"Walk Away" is brilliant. You're wrong. Abjectly wrong. Sickeningly wrong.

Everything after First And Last And Always is a lesser incarnation.

worst track on FALAA >>>>>> best track on Vision Thing

I'm not sure what those would be specifically but you get the idea.

Amen

Ribbons >>>>>>>>>>>> Walk Away

But to each his own, I guess.

I'm not saying "Ribbons" isn't great (it's far and away the best thing on the album that spawned it, although that's saying precious little), but it still cannot touch "Walk Away."

But yet, let's agree to disagree.

EEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I came to this thread to express congrats to andi, but I can't stop looking at that http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml website, especially since his last site update was from the near-future date of June 1st, 2007.

by god, i think she's gonna make it!

I'M GONNA FUCKING DO IT.

Level 7 update on May 29, 2007

Go man go!

(I wouldve done this with "Ribbons")

I DID IT AND HERE IS THE PROOF:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1165/1020006255_d065babf3a_o.jpg

(TAKEN LAST NIGHT)

I THINK I'LL GIVE HER A HUNDRED OR SO MORE GLORY LISTENS.

awesome!!

I don't think I could listen to "Ribbons" more than once at a time.

i wonder if http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml"> http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml guy knows Being Geddy Lee guy.....

Congrats, Andi!

Okay I give in, Grimly is right, this thread makes me suddenly want to listen to the original 12" version of Temple of Love. Their early 12"es were the best, better than FLAA...by the time This Corrosion came along and that crap, they were shot to hell for good.

That site of the OCD guy just hurts my brain.

That's quite the feat, Andi. You have impressive testicular fortitude.

Are you insane? Floodland is their stone cold classic. Absolutely majestic.

that site has been discussed on ilx before, can't find the thread though.

Guys, here:
"I was otherwise very normal before I became 4 years old"

I even e-mailed Nick, he seems nice.

That reminds me, I should see if his video game works now that I'm on a newer computer.

http://www.youtube.com/ulillillia

Floodland < FL&A < the singles

I don't take any pleasure in being the "their early work was better" dude, in fact I usually hate that dude with a passion, but in this case it's just glaringly true

wooooah, andi dude. congratulations. i think.

SHINE LIKE THUNDER

CRY LIKE RAIN

http://laurentv.ifrance.com/sisters%20of%20mercy/Temple.Of.Love.Cover.small.gif

Damn pictures don't work *grumble grumble*

Can someone please upload a picture of this beautiful black and green 12" sleeve for "Temple of Love"? Please?

alright, you guys. . . i'm really, really sorry, but, i didn't actually listen to this song 1000 times last week. i'm sorry for deceiving you all.

you see, i was really drunk when i started this thread and claimed that i would do this. you see, i did actually have every intention of listening to this song 1000 times. and, even the next day, when i was hungover, i was still pretty serious about it. but, then, i realised what a daunting task this really would be, and i decided against going forward with it. and, then, some of you guys just seemed really into the idea of my doing this, so. . . i just kind of went along with it. i didn't really know how to break it to you guys that i couldn't do it. . . the screenshots were faked. i just fast-forwarded the song over and over again to get those play counts. . .

i'm really, really sorry guys.

the only reason i'm coming out and owning up to my deception now, is because it would take a real sicko to do this with any song at all, let alone this song, and i just didn't want anyone to think of my that way. i mean, yes, i am a bit of a crazy drunkard, but really. . . not enough of one to actually listen to the sisters of mercy's "temple of love [extended version]" 1000 times in one week!

i'm sorry, guys.

lol

The internet is full of LIARS!

YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL PALACE

EVERYTHING I THOUGHT I KNEW IS WRONG

CRY LIKE THUNDER

you go, andi

andi in starting-thread-to-announce-attention-grabbing-plan-and-not-following-through shockah.

as punishment he should have to listen to that Ulillillia song from Bubsy 1000 times for reals

not goff millioncount.com!

well, i did wonder.

anyway. it's the thought that counts.

andi, the fact that you fast-forwarded the song hundreds of times is kind of insane.

listening to Floodland in tribute

Remember: it's the Internet. You don't have to impress anybody.

Screwing with their heads, on the other hand, is a totally noble goal.

I kinda figured he'd do this (or 'shop the itunes window). Heh.

Yeah totally.

BUT I FORGIVE YOU, ANDI!!

andi, the fact that you fast-forwarded the song hundreds of times is kind of insane.

-- Lingbert, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:36 (2 hours ago) Link

yeah. i fast-forwarded the song through a couple hundred times at first, and that took about twenty minutes or so. that became tiresome, and i realised that i could set the song to start one second before it ended, and by doing that and having the song on repeat, it only took a few minutes to get up to 1000. i just said i fast-forwarded it that many times so that i wouldn't have to explain. so, not insane, just silly.

and, again. i'm sorry, guys. and, like i said, when i started this thread, i really did have every intention of listening to the song so many times in one week. . . i was just really drunk at the time, and really, really into the song at that moment.

thank you, all, for understanding.

it's cool man

yeah, never believed it, sorry.

For final retribution/restitution/whatever, how many times did you actually get up to?

i listened to the song probably about 10 times, last week.

ok that's weak sauce

50 is minimum

J0hn now its your turn, I dare you to listen to "Romeo's Distress" 1000 times next week! You know you want to. Gwannn.

I dare anyone to listen Rosetta Stone's "Adrenaline" 1000X this week.

dudes I've been listening to 4'33" for hours

I love that andi probably listened to it less during the week than everybody else reading the thread.

I now have the urge to listen to "Kathy" by Altered States 1000x in the next week, but that way madness lies.

(or is it "Cathy"?)

I'd completely forgotten the video to the '92 version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI4KKfXFxnA

Seems like they only had enough money to collect scraps of films from previous videos and add some cheap computer animations..

Hah, thats kind of shit.

I'm going to pretend to listen to Now I'm Feeling Zombified by Alien Sex Fiend 1000 times next week.

Singstar: Sad Old Goth Bastards

Temple Of Love (extended version)
Horse Nation
Kick In The Eye
Love Like Blood
Subterraneans
Promised Land
Release The Bats
Spellbound
Ignore The Machine
A Hundred Years
Snake Dance
Heaven Is Waiting
LA Rain
Romeo's Distress
Walking On Your Hands

I would play this game 1000x in the next week.

Killing Joke are not Goths, goddammit.

"Love like Blood" is a staple of all good local goth clubs!

Alex, you're going to have to admit someday that there is a not-so-negligible line between gothdom and Killing Joke.

Love Like Blood sounds more like King than goth.

Alex may kill me now.

good local goth clubs!

These do not exist.

Alex, you're going to have to admit someday that there is a not-so-negligible line between gothdom and Killing Joke.

One would only "admit" this if they weren't paying attention.

Love Like Blood sounds more like King than goth

An apt statement coming from somone who calls themselves "poo".

Yeah, GOTH WARS IV!!

Snake Dance
Heaven Is Waiting

Mmmm, March Violets still work for me.

Danse Society, however, isn't much more than that one song.

I used to love the March Violets, I think I will dig out The Botanic Verses tonight.

Danse Society patchy, but there's a pile more great stuff there. The "Somewhere"/"Hide" single for starters.

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Less-Lived-Gothic-Box/dp/samples/B000GIWS4M/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/002-9264579-4106421?ie=UTF8&qid=1186584649&sr=8-1#disc_1

See Disc 3, Track 14. It kind of doesn't matter what the band says if a particular demographic latches onto them.

See also the Chameleons, who are goth favorites despite being utterly ungoth in visual approach and general attitude.

hah yeah - when I think of my goth clubbing years, the first thing that springs to mind is 'Swamp Thing'.

Same here, plus all my older goth friends love them.

And I agree on LLB - I can attest to it being a staple at plenty of good goth clubs in melbourne. And always got lots of people up on the floor.

And let us not forget that Andrew Eldritch himself has gone out of his way to stress that his band is not under any circumstances Goth... even though, let's face it, it is.

Theres plenty of "gothfriendly" bands. I mean Depeche Mode, for example.

Eldrtich: I'm not a Goth! Will you please listen? I am not a Goth, do you understand?! Honestly!

Divina: Only a true Goth denies his gothdom.

Eldritch: What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am a Goth!

Gloom Cows: He is! He is a Goth!

Eldritch: Now, fuck off!

(silence)

Sebastian: How shall we fuck off, O Andrew?

http://yinepu.net/nicehair66.jpg

get drunk and stay drunk. this is my som thread. rah.

ok. so, on "floorshow" he is saying "pagans" right?

i hope so. i love him i love himi love him i love him. rarararraraaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrahhhhhhhh

I once read Valor saying that Christian Death wasn't goth.

What band admits happily to it, really? Other than London After Midnight maybe but they're nobs.

Siouxsie called Join Hands goth, I think. Abbo referred to a UK Decay single as goth. I think Joy Division were the first band called goth by the music press.

This guy's Amazon list agrees with the thread.

anybody that agrees to being goth is darkwave. we've been over this.

i do believe that sir eldritch really doesn't want anything to do with it, though. so, i guess it's sad that gets it so much.

He's turned down really big paychecks to headline festivals because they were Goth festivals.

that he*

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT