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From: cy888@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Thompson)
Subject: REPOST: Sisters of Mercy, Various
>THE SISTERS OF MERCY - "Black Planet"
>Comments, corrections etc. welcome.
>Par Svensson, t89par@tdb.uu.se
I find this riff a little easier to play than all the stretching in the
previous version:
Main riffs:
e ---5---0-------------------|
B ----------6--------0-------|
G -------------7--6----------|
D -7---7---------------7-----|
A ---------------------------|
E ---------------------------|
>e -------------------------3---1-0---|
>B -0/1-1--0/1-1--1/3-3-3-3---3-------|
>G -----------------------------------|
>D -----------------------------------|
>A -----------------------------------|
>E -----------------------------------|
>A twelve string guitar plays, at "Run around in the radiation":
>e -0-1-----0--0-1-----0--0-1-----0--0-1-----0---|
>B ---------------------------1----------1-------|
>G -----2-2--------2-2----------2----------2-----|
>D ----------------------------------------------|
>A ----------------------------------------------|
>E ----------------------------------------------|
>...and an Am Gm F pattern at "So still, so dark..."
>Listen where to play the respective part. Not that tricky.
>The chords are pretty easy, simply Am F in the intro, Am D in
>the verses, and Am F in the chorus.
>There are several guitars playing on the record. To play it on just
>one guitar, the following blend of the chords & riffs can be used
>(leave the notes ringing for as long as possible) :
>For the Am F pattern :
>e ---0---0----1---0----------|
>B ------------1-------3-1-0--|
>G -2---2---2--2-2---2--------|
>D -2----------3--------------|
>A -0-------------------------|
>E ---------------------------|
>, and for the Am D one :
>e -------------------------------------------------------------|
>B -0/1-1-1--1-1-1--0/1-1-1--1-1-1--1-3-3-3--3-3-3--3---1---0---|
>G -2---2-2--2-2-2--2---2-2--2-2-2--2-2-2-2--2-2-2--3---1---0---|
>D -2---2-2--2-2-2--2---2-2--2-2-2--2-0-0-0--0-0-0--2-2---2-----|
>A -0---0-0--0-0-0--0---0-0--0-0-0--0---------------0-0---0-----|
>E -------------------------------------------------------------|
>(The rhythm of this can look difficult to follow, however it will
>hopefully make sense when you listen to the song.)
>In the western sky, My kingdom come
>So still so dark all over Europe
>And I ride down the highway 101
>By the side of the ocean headed for sunset
>For the kingdom come
>for the
>CHORUS
>Black, Black planet
>Black, Black world
>(repeat)
>Run around in the radiation
>Run around in the acid rain
>On a
>Black, Black planet
>Black planet hanging over the highway
>Out of my mind's eye
>Out of the memory
>Black world out of my mind
>So still so dark all over Europe
>And the rainbow rises here
>In the western sky
>The kill to show for
>At the end of the great white pier
>I see a
>CHORUS
>Run around in the radiation
>Tune in turn on burn out in the acid rain on a..
>CHORUS
>(repeat to fade)
>(Lyrics transcribed by Corey W. Nelson)
I happened to have FALAA on tonight, and got inspired to figure out
what he's *really* playing. Close to what I had, but not exactly.
(It's almost exactly what I'd had about two revisions ago... :) Here's
the Real Thing.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Christian Wanna Be |
#1 by Christian Chavez at Sep 3, 1979 at 4:44 AM EST |
| You can be pretty sure that it is about the third world war. the eighties were all about it. We who grow up then, lived with the nuclear holocaust as a reality, with the newest numbers of warheads presented almost daily in the papers. The likely scenario was Battlefield Europe, with both parts fighing it out in Europe, devasteting the continent in the process, both parts reluctant to bomb the other sides homeland due to M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction). That is why Europe are mentioned specifically in the text. But Eldritch had apparently (for very good reasons) that the nuclear waste and of course the constant winter predicted as an effect of a A-war would not encompass USA as well. In short, that is why Europe is specifically mentioned but why death seems to reign in USA as well. Ohh.. the song. It is a very good one, not Sister's best, but among them. | |
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No Picture
chris Average |
#2 by chris jenko at Oct 28, 1981 at 12:37 AM EST |
| I love this song. It stirs up something dark and evisceral as you listen to it. I wonder if indeed it's all about nuclear war, or just the despoiling of the planet in general: either way, the results are dreary, and the song is fantastic. | |
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