(Apparently I am the only person who thinks "Dear Prudence" is deeply embarrassing.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
revive....for Desert Kisses, and of course Switch
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 2 March 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Several years on, I'm pretty sure my answer is "Night Shift".
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Monday, 2 March 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
yep, it's terrifying, the most disturbing track on juju, and that's saying something
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 2 March 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Monday, 2 March 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
My answer to this is DEFINITELY "Night Shift".
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Although I can't be the only one who will rep for "Suburban Relapse" or "Mirage"!
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
My answer is almost definitely "Icon" but partly for personal reasons.
― My Slow Descent into Assholism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"Mirage" is great but I can't get into 'Suburban Relapse' at all.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.'
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Just realized the other day after listen # ~837 that 'Cities in Dust' is abt Pompeii,,,,,lols?
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
did she ever give a reason for that?
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Irony, I think.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
dumb
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Shock value.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe she's long since recanted it. Kind of late in the day to get mad at her about it.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
But she DID call Killing Joke goth. Oh wait.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm amused that Alex's neighbor had a copy of the BBC bootleg set.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
What bootleg set? A formal edition came out a couple of months ago, 3 CDs and 1 DVD I think.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
AT THE BBC, I meant.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
YEAH RIGHT etc.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
He's amused his neighbors had the BBC set bootlegged while they were AT THE BBC.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I should get that BBC box set.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 08:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess my pick would be Love In A Void.
― Dr.C, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
and mine probably 'Overground'
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
really? The last album is pretty good I find!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― which was a bit synth-cheese-tastic for my tastes (Bimble), Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck the mothers kill the othersfuck the others kill the mothers
― DJP, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Cities In Dust. Should prob. do a search to see if I already said that.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Dazzle
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― communist kickball (m coleman), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The live version of "Spellbound" on disc three is life-affirming.
This, only moreso.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
a compilation of all of these songs would be amazing
― DJP, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, i had no idea Capella swiped the intro melody oh Happy House for U Got 2 Know
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I gotta go for "Desert Kisses", man I love that tune.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Loving "Desert Kisses"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
It may be the nostalgia (the first song I heard by SATB) but I gotta say "Kiss Them For Me".
― daavid, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Man, why I don't have all of their albums is offensive and confusing to me.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
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.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
"Desert Kisses" is really amazing, true
I think I'd have to go with "Slowdive" though
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 October 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
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. 😌
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
Oh this is opo- “Kiss them for me” is so memorable- that.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
“Green Fingers” for me - febrile pastoral witchcraft
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
green fingers is sooo sick. but if i have to OPO it's either gonna be icon or spellbound.
― J. Sam, Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Night Shift all day every day
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
'Spellbound' without a doubt.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
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"
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Thursday, 9 May 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Debut album bangs from start to finish
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 9 May 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
Placebo Effect
― Duke, Thursday, 9 May 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
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?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
"Thorn" EP version!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link