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# Life Soundtrack: Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/201518life-soundtrack-sisters-of-mercy/
- Published: 2015-01-08T21:34:02.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-08T21:34:02.000Z
- Author: Elke Nominikat
- Tags: Music, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

The year 2015 is still young and the holidays, together with what they’ve brought us, are still lingering around. Almost 25 years ago, Christmas 1990, I received my first CD player and with it one CD. My back then boyfriend surprised me with this special gift. While I no longer possess the player, I have kept the CD, although I currently couldn’t find it but I know it made it to New York, I definitely held on to that thoughtful man and married him a couple of years later. 

![](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/4fa3199ee4b068df94b4cbaf/52a7ae2ae4b077af2713ad5e/54aef5a5e4b0eeb82c64d3e5/1420752294226//img.png)

Oliver knew that I loved “goth” in music and style, and so my very first CD ever was [*Vision Thing*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%5FThing%5F%28album%29?ref=glamglare.com) by [The Sisters of Mercy](http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/?ref=glamglare.com). While there’s something very memorable about this particular gift, the CD itself not really is, despite the Q Magagazine having named it one of the 50 best albums of 1990\. Then again, I am hard pressed to name 10 albums of that year that I would still want to listen to besides Depeche Mode’s *Violator* and Pixies’ *Bossanova* that come spontaneously to mind.

Well, I still like *Vision Thing*, I never ‘loved’ it though, not as much as I did The Sisters’ first one *First and Last and Always*. For me, *Vision Thing* simplyis not as rich and dark as its two predecessors, and I would imagine that the issues [Andrew Eldritch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%5FEldritch?ref=glamglare.com) and band were battling with their label at that time were reason for this rather -may I say it?- comparably lame product. It also was their last full length album. They did call it quits regarding labels and albums.

There’s a stand-out song on *Vision Thing* though, and the visuals for the official video also support this. So, let’s enjoy [*More*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More%5F%28The%5FSisters%5Fof%5FMercy%5Fsong%29?ref=glamglare.com) and with all I’ve said above, I’d be happy to catch Andrew Eldritch, who’s still touring live. I only saw [The Mission](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FMission%5F%28band%29?ref=glamglare.com) (founded by former Sister’s band mate [Wayne Hussey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FHussey?ref=glamglare.com)) once. Thinking of it though, it’s often better to let old memories remain just that… memories.