By now, the rumours of a new album signed Andrew Eldritch should have reached just about everyone. But somehow they have not.
The SSV (Screw Shareholder Value) album was recorded by Eldritch in an effort to be released from his contract with WEA/EastWest. EastWest agreed to not hear the album in advance before it was released, and in return they could keep a fortune of royalty money that mr. Eldritch probably would never have seen anyway. So, Andrew recorded the album they deserved, spending approximately one afternoon mumbling into a microphone. Keep in mind that mr. Eldritch neither wrote, nor composes this album and that it bears no resemblence to sisters, or any quality product, and the album was rather boring even BEFORE the drumtracks were mysteriously removed. Simply it is a crap album.
But unfortunately EW figured this out and decided to not release the album, which was already and is still available on the net as MP3. The full name of the project might give you an idea of the lyrical quality of the product; "SSV .- NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW" titled "Go Figure"
The letters are short for "Not so much a band as another opportunity to waste money on drugs and ammuntion courtesy of the idiots at Time Warner"
And not surprisingly the lyrics are about unmotivated killing and selling drugs to school children.
The SSV (Screw Shareholder Value) album was recorded by Eldritch in an effort to be released from his contract with WEA/EastWest. EastWest agreed to not hear the album in advance before it was released, and in return they could keep a fortune of royalty money that mr. Eldritch probably would never have seen anyway. So, Andrew recorded the album they deserved, spending approximately one afternoon mumbling into a microphone. Keep in mind that mr. Eldritch neither wrote, nor composes this album and that it bears no resemblence to sisters, or any quality product, and the album was rather boring even BEFORE the drumtracks were mysteriously removed. Simply it is a crap album.
But unfortunately EW figured this out and decided to not release the album, which was already and is still available on the net as MP3. The full name of the project might give you an idea of the lyrical quality of the product; "SSV .- NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW" titled "Go Figure"
The letters are short for "Not so much a band as another opportunity to waste money on drugs and ammuntion courtesy of the idiots at Time Warner"
And not surprisingly the lyrics are about unmotivated killing and selling drugs to school children.
However if you still want the album, it is available as a bootleg recording titled "The Sisters of Mercy - Screw Shareholder Value", with the text "The unreleased album from 1997".
Keep in mind that the label is incorrect. The album has nothing to do with The sisters of Mercy at all.
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