The Sexton Was Here

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The Sexton Was Here - Coffin-shaped Box
The Sexton Was Here - Coffin-shaped Box (content)


This 2CD box comes in the shape of a cardboard coffin, filled with quite a load of everyday utilities that all feature a "Sisters of Mercy" print in a very baroque font.


Release Notes

  • Label: Poetry In Motion
  • Catalogue#: 03013 / Lim ES3013
  • Format: 2 × CD Coffin Box Set
  • Released: 1993 (Italy)



Sources / Recording Notes

  • Disc 1 Germany 1991-05-07, Böblingen Sporthalle
The reccorcing on CD 1 is the same as on No Mercy - POET 9211
  • Disc 2 recorded "live in U.S.A. 1991"
CD 2 features the same recording as Suffer In Vain - POET 9215



Remarks

  • This box set is a limited edition of 300 copies.
  • The contents are:
2 factory pressed discs,
1 pasteboard card sized 15x12cm with the track list
Live In The Temple of Love - CD Cover (front)
1 numbered certificate denoted as an "Identification-Card"
1 black shopping (tote) cloth bag (16" x 16" / 39 x 41cm) with a golden print
   of the bandname in a rather baroque font and the bootleg title in a different font
1 black key pouch or purse with the same golden print
1 disposable gold-coloured "Tokai" lighter with the same print, though, black as the lighter is golden
1 red button showing a clipart of a skull with hat on and a bone between his teeth
   plus again the bandname in that before mentioned black font.
  • All these items are stored in a unique custom coffin-shaped box (23x12,8x2,5cm pasteboard)
with a comprehensive tracklist and serial number (xx / 300) printed on the back.
as was used for the Live In The Temple Of Love CD,
which, btw, also features the concert in Böblingen, Germany that is here on CD 1


For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/thesextonwashere...


Track Lists

CD 1   -   Total Running Time: 73:52           CD 2   -   Total Running Time: 71:08
Track Duration                   Track               Duration
  1.  Body And Soul    3:29   1.  First And Last And Always    3:55
  2.  Alice    3:31   2.  Lucretia, My Reflection    5:01
  3.  Dominion / Mother Russia    7:32   3.  Body And Soul    3:20
  4.  Ribbons    4:14   4.  Ribbons    3:52
  5.  Amphetamine Logic    4:06   5.  Alice    3:25
  6.  Detonation Boulevard    3:39   6.  Dominion / Mother Russia    7:24
  7.  This Corrosion    7:41   7.  Amphetamine Logic    4:02
  8.  Gimme Shelter    5:51   8.   Detonation Boulevard    3:37
  9.  Something Fast    2:41   9.  Marian    4:31
 10.  Jolene    2:49  10.  Stop Draggin' My Heart Around            3:03
 11.  Marian    4:39  11.  Gimme Shelter    5:56
 12  Flood II    5:36  12.  Flood II    5:10
 13.  Temple Of Love    7:45  13.  Temple Of Love    8:21
 14.  Valentine    4:42  14.  This Corrosion    7:53
 15.  Vision Thing    4:31


Additional Pictures

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The Sexton Was Here - Coffin-shaped Box (lid & bottom)
The Sexton Was Here Box Set - Tote Bag
The Sexton Was Here Box Set - Purse
The Sexton Was Here Box Set - Lighter