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“You And Your Sister” by This Mortal Coil
From the album Blood (1991)
“You And Your Sister” by This Mortal Coil appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1991 and 1994. It was first released in 1991 on the album Blood. Its best result is #5 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #87 alternative song of 1991 and #7,389 alternative song of all time.
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"You and Your Sister" turns up on Blood, This Mortal Coil's 1991 album, as a reading of a Chris Bell song. Bell, who had a brief run in Big Star, first put it out on I Am the Cosmos, the one solo album he made, and tucked it onto the B-side of his only single, "I Am the Cosmos".
Here it's handed to two voices, Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly, with a string section of Sally Herbert, Martin McCarrick, Jocelyn Pook and Sonia Slany behind them. Ivo Watts-Russell produced it, with John Fryer engineering and co-producing. Bell's original was an acoustic love ballad that invites comparison with Big Star's "Thirteen", and AllMusic's Mark Deming called it one of pop's great unknown love songs; this version gives that fragile tune a second life.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 1991 | 30 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 475 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) | 500 |
Also listed as: You and your sister.
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