The Sisters of Mercy   Vision Thing
3.5
great
Ranking: #167 for 1990

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4.0 excellentSlowlyFallingAwake | December 13th 12

Though it somewhat pales in comparison to the rest of their already legendary discography, this album in itself most certainly has its merits and knows how to underline them effectively. Catchy, dark, meaningful: your typical Sisters' album.

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3.5 greatGary STAFF | May 17th 22

Solid gothic jam.

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4.0 excellentAlabaster Jones | June 12th 17

I refuse to call a band a "sell-out". It implies that artistic integrity is inherently more important than monetary gain. There are two things wrong with this mindset: if you're going to be making a career out of writing and playing music, one of your primary goals should be to make money. That's what pays the bills and makes sure your potentially extravagant lifestyle can stay afloat. The other thing is just because you possess artistic integrity does not mean your music is inherently good, and just because you have a lack of artistic integrity does not mean your music is inherently bad. Vision Thing was The Sisters Of Mercy's "sell-out" album, on which they replaced that amazing sequencer-based misery with a hard rock attitude. And you know what? It's awesome. Vision Thing probably has less artistic integrity than something like Lateralus, but it still doesn't stop it from being a better album. Some "sell-outs" have the best of both worlds: awesome music and lots of money. Here comes the moneeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy.

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2.5 averageiamathousandapples | April 5th 12

An album with some pretty decent tracks is marred by pointless filler that sounds nothing like the tracks worth listening to and killed the mood of the entire album. If this was reduced to half an hour it might get a 4, but as it stands only a 2.5

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