Fields of the Nephilim - Revelations (a compilation album) poll

Moulding Shapes, no shame to POLL: Bauhaus - In the Flat Field poll
Dead Can Dance - A Passage in Time (Comp for albums 2 - 5) poll

This number three spot is always the most daring. I've been skipping the most obvious Goth bands The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees and/or the Sister of Mercy as we have done just about everything from those bands. I was able to do Bauhaus and the upcoming stuff isn't bad but that's the future. As for the Fields, I just want to do this and it was originally going to be the second album but then missing so many songs from the first. I really didn't consider their third album but it seems to have a lot of fans, I personally have never heard it. I then almost did their live album but that is more about the third album as well and is too short, even if it is 77 minutes long but only had nine songs. So a compilation instead, two in a row. This has seven songs from The Nephilim so this ultimately worked for me.

Forgot to add, this comp ends with a live version of "Dawnrazor" but has a bonus CD. I added that bonus CD, cutting any duplicate remixes and then added that single to close it out.

Oh this is hard. Played the hell out of that comp during my senior HS year

I really didn't consider their third album but it seems to have a lot of fans

Fans, you say?

Full version of "Sumerland," obv., especially when played at 33 rpm from the 45 rpm 12" and sounding even more like utter and total apocalypse. But their best album is Earth Inferno, a live release and not represented here (and the best song from it is "Last Exit For the Lost").

unfortunately this comp was not included in the boxset.
would have ended up the disc i played the most if it had been.

https://www.discogs.com/release/5129800-Fields-Of-The-Nephilim-5-Albums

~m~o~o~n~c~h~i~l~d~

I only know the first two albums, so this is the first time hearing this and will get my vote from my Goth heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf98j6MrR4w

^Psychonaut Lib. III btw, and there are four versions of Psychonaut but I doubt any are as good.

Full version of "Sumerland," obv., especially when played at 33 rpm from the 45 rpm 12"

This reminds me that I first heard Joy Division from my mom's copy of the "She's Lost Control" 12". But I didn't know that I had to change the speed. So probably the first 10 times I heard those songs was at 33 rpm. Those slowed-down versions are still baked into my brain.

I think Ned is on to something here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8NMayki4Uc

Ned is 100% OTM - even though I'm partial to the 16 minute opening medley "Intro (Dead But Dreaming) / For Her Light / At The Gates Of Silent Memory (Paradise Regained)"

Perfect example of a band that somehow, inexplicably, rose from the ludicrous to the sublime. They’re still a hard sell because of the frontman and the small town goth looks, but they locked into some type of musical trancelike nirvana. Strange that they never managed to do something interesting after they disbanded. I would have thought they would become even more interesting once they got rid of the spaghetti goth image they started with

This poll has been a revelation for me. I thought of this band as Sisters of Mercy clones but they're so much more than that. Hybrid of many bands, they're extremely talented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwIHWRHreKo

Lyrics online is saying:

Eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes {Possibly: Ice!}

lol, I thought and wished it was: lies, lies, lies, lies

Goth is so much fun! I'll shut up for now.

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Last Exit and Psychonaut are probably the rational choices, but I might vote for Chord of Souls

oops sorry I meant Love Under Will

I've never knowingly listened to the Nephilim. This thread made me curious, and damn if 'Moonchild' isn't some great Cult-y goodness.

And has Lee Dorian ever acknowledged how much he lifted from Carl McCoy for the vocal style he adopted for those early Cathedral records?

Ha, funny you mention Dorrian, I very much had him as a point of comparison in what’s my most detailed Fields review, done for a long gone website but preserved on Rock’s Back Pages (paywall):

https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/fields-of-the-nephilim-irevelationsi-iforever-remaini-ivisionary-headsi

Specifically this passage:

And yet. For all that the band, unlike nearly everyone of its immediate forebears, from Joy Division to, indeed, the Sisters, evinced not even the slightest bit of humor (intentionally at least), for all that one has to swallow everything whole in order to accept the whole package, the Fields had something. My own first encounter with them was finding the live album Earth Inferno used in late 1991 — I took a chance and right there, in the era of shoegaze and alternative's incipient triumph, I ended up being obsessed. Without knowing the studio versions at all, I was enthralled — and still am — by the sheer dark power of the music, by the seemingly outrageous fusion of Ennio Morricone's orchestral western twang with a glowering form of goth/metal cranked up to ten, not to mention a clever dollop of Pink Floyd's pre-Dark Side of the Moon extended tribal-hippie jams. Nod Wright's drumming in particular was a sheer rampage, but Tony Pettitt's sometimes hyperactive bass crawl and the combination of texture and feedback blast from Wright's brother Paul and Peter Yates were hardly holding back either. And then there was Carl McCoy, lead singer. Self-proclaimed seer but armed with enough knowledge on the matter to challenge the likes of Julian Cope about it if he chose, he possessed one of the most unearthly deep voices of the time. If Andrew Eldritch's moan was David Bowie meets Jim Morrison slowed down, McCoy was Ian Curtis on the high end, a hair above grindcore vocalists like Lee Dorrian and Justin Broadrick on the low end, and a heavy-duty rasp all around. Even when his words couldn't be understood (and sometimes, usefully, when they were), the sheer power and control in his, often echoed, roar was both surprising and just what the music needed.

Nice

"In Every Dream Home A Heartache" is a Roxy Music cover and they nail it!

^^^ whoa that's pretty great

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Damn, forgot to actually vote

I missed this, but the poll is missing Volcane which is the correct answer. So my vote would have been Dawnrazor I guess?