Episode 120: The Sister Of Mercy When you don´t see me.- year 1990 English Version.
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00:00:30 - Hello friends from all over the world of rock, pop, hard rock and metal in the world.
00:00:35 - Today Gothic Rock is on this podcast.
00:00:45 - Finding classic rocks all time the most incredible stories and anecdotes.
00:00:51 - Musicians Bruce Dickinson.
00:00:53 - Want to see us.
00:00:55 - And people want to see us and you know, I mean first of all we love you know, we love doing it. It's
00:01:03 - It's really a kind of a privilege to be you know 51 years old
00:01:12 - I'm being able to go out just still to have a boy
00:01:16 - Let me well, it's felt differently. Everything is called orgasm a charm
00:01:20 - I think a useful, just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and...
00:01:33 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley
00:01:35 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.
00:01:43 - I think I was very driven period.
it was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.00:02:15 - The Sisters of Mercy is an English rock band, formed in 1980 in the small town of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, in the north of England.
00:02:28 - After achieving early underground fame in the pubs of this city, the band had its commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and maintained it until the early 1990s.
00:02:38 - Their style was a combination of rock with psychedelia, with the presence of keyboards and powerful guitars, with a great and particular voice of Andrew Eldridge, he interprets the songs as if he were speaking, with a very personal tone of voice.
00:02:53 - The band has cited as influences Leonard Cohen who was a Canadian poet and novelist and as a musician, he developed a career with a continuous exploration of themes such as religion, politics, isolation, also Lemmy Motorhead's band, The Stooges, The Velvet
00:03:08 - Underground and Suicide, among others.
00:03:11 - Which was the fascination that Cohen himself wrote and performed a song titled, Sisters of Mercy, on his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, from which the band took his name.
00:03:22 - His influences also include numerous proto-punk and punk groups, such as the exploited, the Ramones, etc.
00:03:31 - Sisters of Mercy shared these influences with other groups of what was called the first wave of Gothic music.
00:03:37 - This vision-things album is from the year 1990 of the best that the band has recorded, being the band's third studio album, recorded at the Poop Recording Studios in Jarl of Denmark and released in November 1990 by Merciful released WEA, with production by Andrew Eldridge,
00:03:54 - Jim Steinman and Chris Sangerides, who worked with Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzie among others.
00:04:00 - The album was conceived by singer-songwriter Andrew Eldridge as an attack on the policies of the George H.W. Bush the title comes from an oft cited quote by Bush.
00:04:11 - There are different versions of what the lyrics of When You Don't See Me represent.
00:04:16 - Some say that the singer is pranking his fans, an inside joke at this point, as Vaughn already told people once with first and last and always.
00:04:24 - Hence the almost amused arrogance present on the track.
00:04:28 - Others think it's more about someone expecting too much from a person, and then expecting them to behave the same way all the time, which they do when they're with them, you bought the mask, I put it on, you never thought to ask me if I wear it when you're gone, she expected him to be something he's not, and she tried, but only when he was with her.
00:04:47 - Others say it talks about a ghost of a dead friend, relative, lover, whatever talking to someone who is hallucinating them.
00:04:56 - The song is excellent, very strong, with memorable high-pitched women's choirs, contrast with the singer's voice.
00:05:03 - Let's remember that to elaborate this rock sound, sisters of Mercy had an unknown German guitarist, Andreas Brun, whom Eldridge apparently discovered playing in a Hamburg pub and brought him into the band in April 1989, bassist Tony James former guitarist for Seagay Seagay
00:05:19 - Sputnik and bassist songwriter for Generation X and last minute recruit Tim Bricheno, formerly of All About Eve, on guitars.
00:05:30 - On a visit to Argentina in 2012, when asked how he would like his band to be remembered, the singer said, I would like some of the songs to be remembered.
00:05:40 - Even when the songs are not good, we still try very hard.
00:05:44 - Trying to make them work.
00:05:46 - That's why I'd like us to be remembered for having tried.
00:05:49 - Personally, I'm not interested.
00:05:51 - I want to live in peace and privacy.
00:05:53 - I don't like being the center of attention.
00:05:56 - That's why if no one remembers me as a person it's not a problem for me.
00:06:26 - It's not a matter of time or how I feel
00:06:34 - I'm throwing up the shadow of a better man
00:06:41 - But what you see is what you've never had
00:06:48 - Carry on, get on over
00:06:57 - I don't exist when you don't see me
00:07:05 - I don't exist when you're not here
00:07:12 - What did I don't see?
00:07:14 - You won't break the heart
00:07:16 - You can may believe
00:07:18 - When fear abounds
00:07:21 - But when you leave
00:07:23 - I disappear
00:07:27 - When you don't see
00:07:33 - Or it's kinda different
00:07:35 - When you're there
00:07:41 - You can lease the peace
00:07:43 - You bought a mask, I put it on You never thought you'd ask me
00:07:57 - If I didn't wear it When you're gone
00:08:01 - I don't exist when we don't see
00:08:13 - I don't exist when you're not here
00:08:21 - But the eye don't see home breaks the heart
00:08:27 - You don't make believe when you feel about you
00:08:32 - But when you leave, I disappear
00:08:38 - But you don't see me
00:08:41 - You never learn
00:08:44 - You bought me everything I'd last
00:08:50 - Or I turned you
00:08:52 - You couldn't let me move
00:08:56 - I guess if I don't deny it, don't disprove
00:09:03 - What you see is what you've lost
00:09:08 - If I were me, I wouldn't try
00:09:14 - Can I kneel?
00:09:18 - Yeah, I know I won't
00:09:20 - I don't exist when you don't see
00:09:28 - I don't exist when you're not here
00:09:35 - What did I don't see?
00:09:37 - Oh, praise the heart
00:09:39 - Give me relief
00:09:41 - When fear the heart
00:09:44 - But when you leave
00:09:46 - I disappear
00:09:50 - When you don't see, I don't exist when you don't see
00:09:59 - I don't exist when you're not here
00:10:06 - But if I don't see, you won't pray to the Lord
00:10:10 - Even me running, when you hear about
00:10:15 - But when you leave, I disappear
00:10:20 - When you don't see
00:10:22 - I don't exist
00:10:24 - When you don't see
00:10:30 - I don't exist
00:10:32 - When you're not near
00:10:36 - One day I don't see
00:10:38 - All the way into the heart
00:10:40 - You can be a goodie
00:10:42 - When you feel my heart
00:10:44 - But when you need
00:10:46 - I
00:10:48 - Thank you.