The Mission- Wasteland REACTION & REVIEW

[@bigneon_glitter]

_God's Own Medicine_ is an essential '80s *masterpiece.* You want to hear every track.

[@micke-sw]

Agree 😎

[@laurenthoffmann6511]

Best album of 1986 in my ears. Above other great albums of the same year like "Master of Puppets" from Metallica, "Heyday" by the Church, "Express" from Love and Rockets and some others

[@paulcollins5586]

Now your talking. Great band . The first album is classic.

[@Reani71]

Please continue reviewing the rest of the album... it's so worth it !

[@martin-vg7hf]

i saw this band many times around Leeds/Bradford from the mid to late eighties. i still play them to this day! Awesome!

[@chinard]

What a fantastic album, not a bad song on it. I'd also recommend some of the songs from the album 'Children' and 'Carved in sand' These guys are still very much active. Saw them earlier this year touring with the Chameleons.

[@Eduardo-Ferreira1982]

I confess: I clicked like before I watched the video 😅

[@JustJP]

I'll allow it ;)

[@Reani71]

same

[@bigjapi1]

same

[@DuctedDj]

Greetings from Valencia (Spain). The Mission, a band widely heard in Valencian nightclubs in the '80s. I recommend that you listen to "Butterfly On A Wheel" it is a beautiful song, but be careful if you can listen to "Butterfly On A Wheel (The Magnificent Octopus Mix)", if the song is already beautiful this remix makes it EPIC.

[@BadAppleBlues]

My first thought listening to this blast from the past is human pyramids!

[@eboethrasher]

Time for you to listen to the Sisters of Mercy album "First and Last and Always", the only studio album with Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams in the band before they left to form The Mission. They were going to call the band The Sisterhood but of course Andy got wind of this and put together a quick EP and released it under that name to prevent them from doing it, little evil bastard that he is. F&L&A is the true classic Sisters sound, the same sound they had on most of their early singles. Floodland was an extension of that on a few tracks but then a couple went an opposite direction with the Steinman production.

[@eboethrasher]

Individually, you could just start with Black Planet, which is the first song, that way you could go song by song.

[@bigjapi1]

Yes sir, now I request ONE MORE Serú Giran song, 1978 self tittled album and self tittled song, the lyrics have no translation, they only used them as another musical instrument, masterpiece. You know that I NEVER dissapoint you ;)

[@janosfernandez945]

Holy Trinity of UK Goth when I was young : Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim and The Mission...and a fourth was Creaming Jesus but they were nasty !

[@larsgutheil5520]

Can anybody please remind me how they were connected to Sisters of Mercy? Great reminder of The Mission. I even have this album on CD and haven’t heard it in 20 years. Time to revisit it.

[@edjones3390]

Wayne & Craig were both in the Sisters

[@Lightmane]

Hi Justin. Hey, I just wanted to tell you that the keyboard player from the band my brother used to play in has his own channel now, and is putting out a lot of music. You might like some of it. His channel is Ronn Dorsey. I know how much you enjoyed 'Rained Out'. Thought you might like to hear what he's doing now. Sadly, no one is listening to him on yt yet. Hope that changes : )

[@jfergs.3302]

"ESKIMOooooooooooooooooooooooo" If you ever saw them live, you'll know what I mean 🙂

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Do i get a Crackerjack pencil?

[@paulcollins5586]

Cool it.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

@@paulcollins5586 Is that a dig at me, or were you just joking? I know who the Eskimos were! 🙃

[@paulcollins5586]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 it was a joke at jfergs. No dig intended. I know about the eskimo chants.

[@jfergs.3302]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 Crackerrrrjackkkkkkkk !

[@jtenaz]

It reminds me the XTC song, Travels In Nihilon. Of course, the Andy Partridge song is very much better than that. By the by , Andy produced The Mission song, Hands Across The Ocean.

[@iainweller452]

Great band “Tower of Strength” was another good song, Wayne Hussey was guitarist in The Sisters of Mercy they’re worth checking out “Walk Away” , “No Time to Cry” or my personal favourite “Nine While Nine”

[@Kevvinm]

Check his history. I believe he reviewed the entire Floodland lp.

[@iainweller452]

@@Kevvinm thanks, ill check it out

[@df15gadget]

Yes, and Tower of Strength too... good thing because I think ToS is a great way to be introduced to the Mission.

[@eboethrasher]

@@Kevvinm yeah but we gotta get him to review First and Last and Always since that's when Hussey and Craig Adams were still in the band. The true classic Sisters sound.

[@eboethrasher]

@@df15gadget I personally think Wasteland is the best intro to The Mish.

[@df15gadget]

I agree with others that the album is worth a listen. I dont think it is a masterpiece, mainly because it feels like a collection of songs more than a cohesive musical narrative, but there isn't a weak track. I really appreciate the breadth of your reaction choices, btw. And quite glad you enjoyed Sisters, Fields, and the Mission. To me it makes sense someone who likes Archive's Londinium will appreciate these bands but kudos for trying them. Anyways, looking forward to Last Exit for the Lost (and the end of a Secret Wish), as well as discovering new stuff... Cheers

[@trashandcheese3636]

Wayne Hussey has more in common than one might wish to admit with Noel Gallagher. Both write (self-repetitive) gobbledegook lyrics which on closer inspection are always about either drugs, sex or feuds with certain other musicians. And both have a tendency to either borrow familiar riffs, or outright plagiarise.

[@6581punk]

Another goth classic. Only seen them once live, almost the original lineup (only the drummer was not from the OG lineup).

[@TheRamblingsofBry]

Another great band, still going today!

[@a.k.1740]

I've never been into The Mission, nor The Sisters of Mercy or Fields of the Nephilim. I've always preferred Bauhaus, Play Dead or even the early days of The Danse Society. I find their music probably more eclectic than those mentioned above. Oh, and there's an album by a post-punk band, pigeonholed as goth rock, that you might like to check out. I'm talking about Virgin Prunes and their 1982 album ...If I Die, I Die (a band that had always denied belonging to the goth movement, because their music was infinitely more diverse and above all more theatrical, with a kind of second degree and distance that prevented them from taking themselves too seriously).

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

Was the edge's brother a virgin prune? 🤔💨

[@jamesadkisson7510]

Same.

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

I asked u a question yesterday but it ain't here now so I'll answer it myself. Dave Evans' brother was a Virgin Prune. Hopefully I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't normally do this but on the basis of your description I gotta check em out this Saturday Morn. If I like em I'll suggest VP to JP too. The tension. Can u feel it? Livin on The edge. 🌸😎

[@a.k.1740]

@@HippoYnYGlaw Yes, I know that Dik Evans is The Edge's brother. I saw Virgin Prunes live in January 1983, two months after the release of ...If I Die, I Die. There was an opening band called Weekend, but musically it had nothing to do with Virgin Prunes 😉(I guess the common connection was their label Rough Trade Records).

[@eboethrasher]

So many bands that are goth because of influencing what became known as goth refused to call themselves goth, it's kinda sad, living in denial of a movement you were instrumental in creating. And lots of goth bands are VERY theatrical. And Bauhaus were very musically diverse too, but still instrumental in creating goth.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Ah, that's better! 🙃

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Could it have been worse?

[@pentagrammaton6793]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 always! Haha. Better than that brass soaked racket just before.

[@bozazz]

Can I humbly recommend Naked and Savage 🙏

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

You're less apprehensive with yer intros today JP Relaxed This ? 1986? It's a goth version of December by The Waterboys I know which one I like Or rather I knew which band I couldn't get on with at the time, as the singer's persona got me in All of a Hussey is that a saying? I liked the early u2drum rolls and the harmonic guitar and the Jim Kerr meets Bono vocals Nuttin new at the time though was it though! 😁

[@eboethrasher]

Christ this little bunch of negative nellies is obnoxious.