CD: 5128292
RELEASED: 1993
LABEL: Warner

01. Under The Gun
02. Temple Of Love (1992)
03. Vision Thing
04. Detonation Boulevard
05. Doctor Jeep
06. More
07. Lucretia My Reflection
08. Dominion / Mother Russia
09. This Corrosion
10. No Time To Cry
11. Walk Away
12. Body And Soul

Drawn from the band's voluminous singles catalogue, A Slight Case Of Overbombing is a Sisters Of Mercy greatest hits package arranged in reverse chronological order that also highlights the band's first studio recordings since the Vision Thing album. The definitive post-Bauhaus Goth band, the Sisters of Mercy embarked on their dark journey in the mid-1980s, led by cavern-voiced singer Andrew Eldritch. Though the '90s found the group largely disappearing from view, their influence on subsequent waves of Goth rock is enormous. Most tracks on this compilation are different versions from the ones on the original albums. It includes all three collaborations with Jim Steinman "Dominion / Mother Russia, " "This Corrosion, " and "More." The latter is a masterpiece of bombast. The new tracks are "Under the Gun" and "Temple of Love 1992 ." The first, a duet with ex-Berlin vocalist Terri Nunn, is a semi-successful attempt to duplicate the sound of the Steinman collaborations.The second cut, a re-recording of the Sisters' seminal 1983 single "Temple of Love" in the light of the band's harder, more metallic sound, is a good idea. Adding the impressive vocal acrobatics of Yemenite singer Ofra Haza is a stroke of genius. A Slight Case Of Overbombing is a fine place to enter the world of the Sisters.

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