The Sisters Of Mercy

First And Last And Always (1985)

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With the band itself falling to bits shortly after the March 1985 debut of First and Last and Always, the album's place in the skewed history of the rise of goth rock would, on one hand, be permanently linked with that discord but, on the other, not impacted in the slightest, leaving the fractious set's success and structure to become a blueprint for an entire generation of up-and-comers. With static drumbeats and jangle-angled guitars backing Andrew Eldritch's atonic, graveyard vocals, the songs on First and Last and Always paid to play alongside the ghosts of myriad forgotten post-punkers as well as the band's own goth forebears. From the opening air-fire claustrophobia of "Black Planet" to the melancholy "No Time to Cry," Eldritch continually assured listeners that "everything's gonna be alright" -- but, really, coming out of that mouth, did anyone actually believe him? Even on the occasional wobbly patches imbedded in the now classic "Marian" and the title track, where the song threatens to dissolve into irrelevance despite Eldritch's chirky vocal, they pull up wonderfully on the bass-driven, bee-stung guitar gem "Possession" and the closing "Some Kind of Stranger," an untouchable epic that, clocking in at over seven minutes, is the best of its kind from any time -- period. "Some Kind of Stranger" not only became a love song for the doom and gloom crowd, but was also an anthemic, anemic declaration of intent laid bare in a haze of sonic smoke and mirrors. Copied to death, its brilliance has never been replicated. Indeed, the entire album remains unequaled in the genre, permanently granted top place on a pedestal from which it cannot be toppled.





foobar2000 1.4.3 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1

log date: 2020-11-25 16:12:36



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Analyzed: The Sisters Of Mercy / First And Last And Always

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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track

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DR11      -2.87 dB   -16.11 dB      4:38 01-Black Planet

DR13      -2.77 dB   -17.37 dB      3:28 02-Walk Away

DR12      -0.70 dB   -15.28 dB      3:57 03-No Time To Cry

DR12      -2.91 dB   -17.58 dB      3:35 04-A Rock And A Hard Place

DR11      -1.61 dB   -15.15 dB      5:45 05-Marian (Version)

DR11      -3.27 dB   -17.24 dB      4:14 06-First And Last And Always

DR13      -2.51 dB   -17.89 dB      4:42 07-Possession

DR12      -2.64 dB   -16.82 dB      4:09 08-Nine While Nine

DR12      -2.02 dB   -16.82 dB      4:52 09-Logic

DR12      -4.03 dB   -18.49 dB      7:24 10-Some Kind Of Stranger



Number of tracks:  10

Official DR value: DR12



Samplerate:        96000 Hz

Channels:          2

Bits per sample:   24

Bitrate:           2821 kbps

Codec:             FLAC











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