Siouxsie & the Banshees: OPO/POO

Though I do love their cover of "This Wheel's On Fire"

I once dreamt about an imaginary video for "Swimming Horses."

Also 'Melt' (their greatest lyric).

They did the best Batman film theme, too, I thought. 'Face to Face' was another fine track.

I didn't get to ee them last year in London, but a friend who went reckoned they were better than ever. And she's looking pretty amazing, too.

(Apparently I am the only person who thinks "Dear Prudence" is deeply embarrassing.)

Is my memory faulty, or was there some cheezy club rekkid that blatantly copied the guitar intro figure from "Happy House", only played on a synthesiser?

revive....for Desert Kisses, and of course Switch

Several years on, I'm pretty sure my answer is "Night Shift".

yep, it's terrifying, the most disturbing track on juju, and that's saying something

Hybrid. For so many reasons - John McGeoch's sick-cat guitar; the bitten-off finger on the floor; the oh-OH-oh, HO-ohs. The very, very odd drumming. The goth bassline (Hi Bimble!) The surging and crashing pace. Siouxsie's fantastic vocal. Yes, Hybrid. (Or maybe Icon, Cities In Dust, or Skin).

My answer to this is DEFINITELY "Night Shift".

Although I can't be the only one who will rep for "Suburban Relapse" or "Mirage"!

Am currently listening to the AT THE BBC box (borrowed from a neighbor) and am gobsmacked. The live version of "Spellbound" on disc three is life-affirming.

A friend and I once had a minor-key bass and guitar jam/improv, which after a long while (and we both realized this at about the exact same moment) we morphed into "Tenant" (from Kaleidoscope .) Love that song, but don't know if it's OPO.

My answer is almost definitely "Icon" but partly for personal reasons.

"Mirage" is great but I can't get into 'Suburban Relapse' at all.

Dan I hope you had written, in spirally penmanship, 'a happy-go-lucky child always dressed in black' on some or another highschool notebook.

I think my #1 song of theirs is 'Take Me Back.'

Just realized the other day after listen # ~837 that 'Cities in Dust' is abt Pompeii,,,,,lols?

haha Abbott, I never actually heard "Night Shift" until maybe 9 years ago? So well past high school!

Basically my discovery of the depth of the Siouxsie & the Banshees back-catalog makes me very, very angry that I saw that picture of her with the swastika way way back and vowed to never listen to their pre-1986 material.

did she ever give a reason for that?

Irony, I think.

dumb

Shock value.

dumb

I believe she's long since recanted it. Kind of late in the day to get mad at her about it.

But she DID call Killing Joke goth. Oh wait.

I'm amused that Alex's neighbor had a copy of the BBC bootleg set.

What bootleg set? A formal edition came out a couple of months ago, 3 CDs and 1 DVD I think.

Thus:

http://www.amazon.com/BBC-3CD-DVD-Set-Region/dp/B001UJGK7C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1247011973&sr=8-1

AT THE BBC, I meant.

YEAH RIGHT etc.

He's amused his neighbors had the BBC set bootlegged while they were AT THE BBC.

I should get that BBC box set.

I guess my pick would be Love In A Void.

and mine probably 'Overground'

If I go by album (because I like making lists):

"Metal Postcard"
"Icon"
"Christine"
"Night Shift"
"Cascade"
"Dazzle"
"This Unrest"
"Gun"
"Ornaments Of Gold"
"Kiss Them For Me"
... "Stargazer" by default, I've never heard this entire album

really? The last album is pretty good I find!

I'm hearing most of their albums as proper albums (as opposed to scattered tracks) for the first time via the reissues! I only had Hyaena, Tinderbox, Peepshow and Superstition back in the day, and then I turned into a techno/trip-hop head and never got around to getting the others. They are (or were, anyway) a massive blind spot in my musical tastes; I really didn't know how much I'd like them until way way way WAY after the fact because of the aforementioned swastika boycott.

I agree that Night Shift is truly spectacular and genuinely scary, though it didn't make much of an impression on me when I first bought the album.

I don't think anything by them has ever had quite the impact on me as the two b-sides "Staring Back" & "Return", and I find it pretty impossible to choose between them.

fuck the mothers kill the others
fuck the others kill the mothers

Cities In Dust. Should prob. do a search to see if I already said that.

Dazzle

came on to post "Christine" after considering half-dozen others then I saw "Cities In Dust" and remembered blasting that song like every day during summer 1985...

OPO/POO might be impossible w/this crew

The live version of "Spellbound" on disc three is life-affirming.

This, only moreso.

"Happy House" will always instantly, INSTANTLY evoke one of the first times I ever went goth-clubbing, at 19, and was crushing all over the tall, adorable 17-year old goth boy dancing in the corner to that song. Such a vivid memory.

So yeah that.

a compilation of all of these songs would be amazing

wow, i had no idea Capella swiped the intro melody oh Happy House for U Got 2 Know

I gotta go for "Desert Kisses", man I love that tune.

Loving "Desert Kisses"

It may be the nostalgia (the first song I heard by SATB) but I gotta say "Kiss Them For Me".

Man, why I don't have all of their albums is offensive and confusing to me.

Noone's mentionned "Arabian Knights", but I think it would be my pick. The bass, the guitar, the drums, the vocals are all quintessential SATB to me.

"Desert Kisses" is really amazing, true

I think I'd have to go with "Slowdive" though

As someone who never cared to much about about siouxsie music before or after i bought hyaena in 1984, i am surprised by how much i’m totally enjoying almost every song on “through the looking glass.” I just heard _the passenger_ tho and that arrangement/production tho... never mind this cale cover is cool. 😌

Oh this is opo- “Kiss them for me” is so memorable- that.

“Green Fingers” for me - febrile pastoral witchcraft

green fingers is sooo sick. but if i have to OPO it's either gonna be icon or spellbound.

Night Shift all day every day

'Spellbound' without a doubt.

I am still ride or die for "Night Shift" but it's a little startling to realize that my second choice would be "Suburban Relapse"

Debut album bangs from start to finish

Placebo Effect

I still can't pick one for this band, its between Desert Kisses, Melt, Switch, Into the Light; the swirling, the mesmeric or the dazzling?

Placebo Effect

"Thorn" EP version!