A thread for the Siouxsie reissues

"Sorry honey, we'll have to postpone the Disney trip so that I can buy CDs. Wait, where are you going?"

Some of these are going to be must haves though. I agree about "Kiss In The Dreamhouse".

I'm a Hyaena fan too.

"Remasters Clarification. All studio albums and Nocturne to be remastered. Not Once/Twice Upon A Time. Only The Scream and Juju have the go ahead for the deluxe double editions at present, the rest will be single CDs with three to four bonus tracks which is likely to include non album singles.

Remaining BBC Sessions are not set to appear on any other albums with the possible exception of Juju.

Early next year sees the release of Join Hands, Kaleidoscope and the deluxe double Juju provisionally all set for release in February."

Slow release schedule! Kaleidoscope et al early next year? It'll be forever before the magical tri-fecta of Tinderbox/Looking Glass/Peep Show.

That was a problem with me for the Cure re-issues. I still haven't bought the last 3 because I already have those albums in so many formats I couldn't get myself to spend that much money. Should I?

I've been holding off on The Cure albums, because they're so damn expensive, and Boys Don't Cry is missing key tracks like "Killing An Arab" and "Plastic Passion." Has anyone compared the remasters with the originals side-by-side?

As for The Cure, I would skip Three Imaginary Boys, but Seventeen Seconds and Pornography are both stunning with great extras. Faith is an album I never really appreciated, but hearing it spun remastered with Carnage Visors on the end is excellent listening.

As for Siouxsie, if you've heard any of the B-Sides boxset, you'll know firsthand how much better the albums will potentially be when remastered.

I put most of it down to remater technology available now as opposed to 15+ years ago when record companies were rushing everything out to CD bc the format took off.

Unrelated one: does anyone know if the Downside Up box is ever getting a US release?

Unrelated two: PRINCE. MUST. BE. REMASTERED. Purple Rain and (to a bit lesser extent) Around the World in a Day are acceptable, but the rest sound absolutely horrid. Sign o' the Times especially. Flat, lifeless, way too quiet...urgh.

Got mine for a decent price (like $60?) on one of those Amazon z shops. Check it out. Didn't take long to arrive either. The packaging is mint. The sound is mint. Also bought one for my brother as a b-day gift (and so I don't have to lend mine out).

I did but didn’t know Pornography could sound that good. The reasons why this process is taking so long and with delays is because Robert Smith wouldn't have it any other way. The other thing with the Cure is that the original issues are really poor. I feel that it's more than worth it money wise, but than again I'm a big fan.

I'm stunned that these are not going to be all double CD's. Than you say that it might be import only? Thought Siouxsie was a bit bigger.

A thread for the Cure reissues

Hurrah!

"# Make Up To Break Up (Riverside Session)
# Love In A Void (Peel Session)
# Mirage (Peel Session)
# Metal Postcard (Peel Session)
# Suburban Relapse (Peel Session)
# Hong Kong Garden (Peel Session)
# Overground (Peel Session)
# Carcass (Peel Session)
# Helter Skelter (Peel Session)
# Metal Postcard (Pathway Session)
# Suburban Relapse’ (Pathway Session)
# Staircase (Mystery) (Pathway Session)
# Mirage (Pathway Session)
# Nicotine Stain (Pathway Session)
# Hong Kong Garden (7” Single Version)
# Staircase (Mystery) (7” Single Version)

So once again (as with The Cure reissues) you're expected to buy the Downside Up box if you want "Voices" or "20th Century Boy"; and most importantly where's "Captain Scarlet"?!?

"Surely, the next one will have the "Live at the punk festival" version of "The Lords Prayer" etc... ?"

Logically (chronologically) I'd have thought it really should be on this one - although it really is pretty bloody dreadful and; unless there are substantially better quality recordings of it about than any IIII've ever heard; I can't imagine it ever being legitimately released.

Oh yeah, "Captain Scarlet!"

There are studio demos available for all of these!

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Yup. Completely blew me away the first time I heard it; none of the others have ever really come close.

"Tinderbox is a perfect album. The Scream is not."

Tinderbox was a predictable album. The Scream was not.

It's kind of akin to saying, "Oh, that just sounds like a typical Cure album" when none of them really sound alike (ESPECIALLY pre-1989).

Actually I've always thought that Seventeen Seconds and Faith very definitely belong together stylistically. ;~P

Be that as it may 'though, I'm not particularly saying that any particular album sounds specifically like any preceding one, just that (in the both cases) pretty much everything that either band released from, say, 1984 onwards was immediately recognisable as being by that band, and that from that point onwards the contents of each band's musical pallette was always far more familiar than it was unfamiliar.

i do agree with you a bit on this stewart, but it kind of made it great in that way that it was sort of like the ultimate definition of the banshees at that point. it was a great record and the tour was fantastic, but ultimately as you inferred it was a bit expected for long standing fans. i have to say though, some of the songs were a bit sweeter than usual such as in the case of "sweetest chill" one of my favorite songs, "lands end" another schorcher and "party's fall", but the banshees vibe was still very much there. unlike the following two records which broke the mold, especially peepshow.

however, I still stand by kaleidoscope as their best record... i just can't sway on that. :)

"shoulders form rows to make waves again..."

How I'd feel about their albums if I'd heard them in a different order other than chronologically as they were released (when they released), I have no idea - but (having only seen them once and heard the first couple of Peel sessions and Hong Kong Garden beforehand) The Scream astounded me in a way very few albums by anyone have done before or since.

Peepshow
Tinderbox
Superstition
Hyaena
(bits of Kaleidescope, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, Join Hands)
Nocturne
The Scream
Juju

Immediately got the entire back catalogue, then Looking Glass, Peepshow, Superstition as they were released. With the exceptions of Join Hands and The Rapture I say they are all chock full of goodies. Yes, Kaliedoscope is awesome.

Initially I was dissapointed that Through The Looking Glass had no originals, but can you imagine their canon without it now? And I trust it will continue to age more gracefully than any other work of theirs.

Tinderbox was the first LP I got. I remember distinctly that my first impression upon hearing it was that it reminded me of ... Sinead o' Connor...
Tinderbox, Scream, Juju and possibly Rapture are the only SATB albums that are consistently great

Having investigated further I'm now seeing different and conflicting information and release dates everywhere! Does anyone here actually know for certain what's happening about this?

This means that as each album is reissued without a nice extra disc, they won't look as 'important' as the Cure. Right?

http://video-c.co.uk/artistfeatures/siouxsiesioux/about.html

"This means that as each album is reissued without a nice extra disc, [Siouxsie And The Banshees] won't look as 'important' as the Cure. Right?"

I wonder if there'll be a bonus disc with the reissue of Blue Sunshine?

TS: Night out with Bob and Severin vs. Suzie and Budgie?

Didn't they appear on the Oxford Road Show, back in...

When they're together 'though, they're like Laurel and Hardy, only with a substantially larger drug habit.

"This is another fine mess you've gotten me into Severin"

LOL

though i think i would rather spend a night with siouxsie and budgie, a) the shit-talking would be better and b) the cats...

don't do a disservice to the excellent album tracks on kaliedescope please!

If these are following the cure format, expect bsides to be omitted, there's a box set for that for both bands.

There will be a reissue of The Glove LP with the cure reissues!
I can't wait to have siouxsie and pitts--I mean Nocturne on DVD! Robert's guitar is so cool looking!

I can't wait the most for Hyeana remastered---it needs it the most out of all of them so we can hear all the crazy stuff going on!

But, I can't wait to BLAST LAND'S END out into the neighborhood.

Finally, I always buy the remaster because there's always a reason to inside, and I keep the old packaging in the new--my old cure cassette and cd covers fit nicely in the cure packaging, so if these are the same....

And finally, I have the A Short Term Effect live version that was remastered for Pornography and it FAR surpasses the remastering on their reissue. Why? because to remaster and have everything level out, you lose some quality on some tracks and gain on others--you look for the happy medium, so expect the extras to sound a little different from what you are used to.

Blah blah blah, blah blah.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXBurntFur

hoow come they didnt release it? or re-issue it til 2005!!

the NME are all over this reissue.

Also it is way way way better than Three Imaginary Boys and if Siouxsie hadn't done that stupid swastika shit, I'd have been all on her jock from the get-go as opposed to avoiding her like the plague for fear of encountering some neo-Nazi bullshit.

I have played The Scream reissue more than anything else this year. The Peel and Pathway sessions are just SO fantastic. Her voice is great - quite girlish and playful on the likes of Mirage, HKG, Carcass espec, with none of the goth foghorn that she sometimes lapsed into later. We all talk about McGeoch and Budgie, but McKay and Morris sound terrific. McKay's metallic tone sounds better on the sessions than on the album, where Lilywhite takes the edge off a touch. I wonder if it's Pete Fenton playing guitar on 'Make-Up..'? Maybe I should read the sleeve notes! The Peel version of Overground is amazing too - (why did I never bother with the Peel sessions before this?) - love the little organ on it. I could talk about this all day.

I am disappointed that The Scream didn't include the whole of the Riverside session and the preceding Track studios session (Scraphead/20th C Boy/Captain Scarlet/Psychic).

She had to completely re-learn how to sing at one point (around '79-'80 iirc) because unfortunately she was developing nodules or something and was in imminent danger of destroying her voice completely.

Join Hands

1. Poppy Day
2. Regal Zone
3. Placebo Effect
4. Icon
5. Premature Burial
6. Playground Twist
7. Mother/Oh Mein Papa
8. The Lords Prayer

BONUS TRACKS
9. Infantry
10. Icon
11. Love In A Void

Kaleidoscope

1. Happy House - 3:53
2. Tenant - 3:41
3. Trophy - 3:16
4. Hybrid - 5:32
5. Clockface - 1:53
6. Lunar Camel - 3:01
7. Christine - 2:59
8. Desert Kisses - 4:15
9. Red Light - 3:22
10. Paradise Place - 4:34
11. Skin - 3:51

BONUS TRACKS
12. Christine
13. Eve White Eve Black
14. Arabia - Lunar Camel
15. Sitting Room
16. Paradise Place
17. Clockface
18. Desert Kisses
19. Hybrid
20. Happy House
21. Israel

Juju

1. Spellbound - 3:15
2. Into the Light - 4:13
3. Arabian Knights - 3:06
4. Halloween - 3:37
5. Monitor - 5:33
6. Nightshift - 6:03
7. Sin in My Heart - 3:36
8. Head Cut - 4:22
9. Voodoo Dolly - 7:02

BONUS TRACKS
10. Arabian Knights
11. Spellbound

I'm guessing the repeated tracks are alternates or demos or the like.

"You have got to check out the Siouxsie & The Banshees Nocturne DVD. Not only does it have the original live concert with Robert, but two TV
appearances with Mr. Smith as well. Plus one of the Bonus features is a BBC TV Special that i'd probably only read about, but had never seen.
It is basically filmed LSD. Robert, Sioux, Budgie, and Severin all dressed as Alice visit Wonderland (also the name of the Banshees record label). While in Wonderland, Robert gets interrogated by surreal clowns, then there's a segway into a Creatures' video, then a Glove performance (!!) of "A Blues In Drag", Sioux tells a story, and more bizarro mini-films. It just has to be seen - a must for any Cure fan."

http://the-op.com/images/113-gob-segway-race-sm.jpg

I occasionally see Mr Severin in my local curry house - if I get a chance I'll ask him.

29/11/77
1. Love In A Void
2. Mirage
3. Metal Postcard
4. Suburban Relapse

6/2/78
5. Hong Kong Garden
6. Overground
7. Carcass
8. Helter Skelter

9/4/79
9. Placebo Effect
10. Playground Twist
11. Regal Zone
12. Poppy Day

10/2/81
13. Halloween
14. Voodoo Dolly
15. But Not Them
16. Into The Light
17. Candyman
18. Cannons
19. Lands End

3rd feb 1986

I shan't get this, as the best stuff is on the Scream 2CD thing.

Oh alright, I probably will get it.

-- Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonix...), July 29th, 2006. (baaderonixx)

This reissue job is a joke

Sorry Dan, it sounds really good to me, but possibly a bit quieter than I remembered. Maybe it's just that there's more space around the guitar - you can hear REALLY clearly when he stomps on the tremolo at the start of the chorus (e.g at 2'15"). I like details like this!

I think the guitar tone isn't nearly as bright as it is on virtually every other siouxsie recording I've heard, which may be influencing my perception here. I'm also comparing this sonically to the version on The Seven Year Itch which has atrocious vocals but balls-out FANTASTIC guitar and drums.

;_;

I know, I was thinking about this the other day. (Not to mention the 'oh yeah one of these days here' remainder of the Cure reissues...)

;_; ;_;

Well I'll be damned -- we complain and lo and behold, the latest batch is announced:

Kiss in the Dreamhouse:

1. Cascade ( 4.25 )
2. Green Fingers ( 3.33 )
3. Obsession ( 3.51 )
4. She's A Carnival ( 3.40 )
5. Circle ( 5.22 )
6. Melt! ( 3.47 )
7. Painted Bird ( 4.15 )
8. Cocoon ( 4.29 )
9. Slowdive ( 4.17 )

Bonus Tracks
10. Fireworks – 12" Version ( 4.31 )
11. Slowdive – 12" Version ( 5.46 )
12. Painted Bird – Workhouse Demo ( 3.45 )
13. Cascade – Workhouse Demo ( 4.32 )

Hyaena:

1. Dazzle ( 5.31 )
2. We Hunger ( 3.30 )
3. Take Me Back ( 3.04 )
4. Belladonna ( 4.30 )
5. Swimming Horses ( 4.05 )
6. Bring Me The Head of The Preacher Man ( 4.37 )
7. Running Town ( 4.05 )
8. Pointing Bone ( 3.49 )
9. Blow The House Down ( 7.00 )
10. Dear Prudence ( 3.49 )

Bonus Tracks
11. Dazzle - Glamour Mix ( 7.04 )
12. Baby Piano – Part One ( 1.47 )
13. Baby Piano – Part Two ( 5.43 )

Tinderbox:

1. Candyman ( 3.44 )
2. Sweetest Chill ( 4.07 )
3. This Unrest ( 6.21 )
4. Cities In Dust ( 3.52 )
5. Cannons ( 3.14 )
6. Party’s Fall ( 4.57 )
7. 92 Degrees ( 6.03 )
8. Lands End ( 6.06 )

Bonus Tracks
9. Cities In Dust – Extended Version ( 6.50 )
10. Sweetest Chill - Chris Kimsey 12" Version ( 5.54 )
11. Song From The Edge of The World – JVC Version ( 4.00 )
12. Starcrossed Lovers ( 4.07 )

Hooray!

not sure I'll pick up any of these.

Dreamhouse is maybe my favourite Banshees' lp.

wtf at the Tinderbox one, what happened to all of the weird b-sides that they used to stick on pressings of the CD

Now that I know their catalog a little better, I am REALLY looking forward to Dreamhouse!

wtf at the Tinderbox one, what happened to all of the weird b-sides that they used to stick on pressings of the CD

The box set! Downside Up

ha oh right, that thing

Nocturne is getting a rerelease as well -- no bonus tracks and the DVD's been out for a while, so less essential but a great album anyway.

You guys:

Siouxsie and the Banshees at the BBC is a stunning 84-track, all digitally-remastered, 4 disc hard-back book set of exclusive BBC sessions, live concert tracks and TV performances recorded between 1977–2001 split across 3CDs and a DVD. All tracks were hand picked by the band, including alternative versions of 18 classic hit singles, key session tracks from 1977-1987 and a concert recording from the Apollo Theatre in Oxford in 1985. The set also includes the complete John Peel sessions alongside sessions recorded for Kid Jensen, Richard Skinner and Janice Long. Disc 3 contains highlights from their BBC concert recordings at the Apollo Theatre in Oxford and the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1988, where the band performed a storming set 3 nights in a row to a sold out crowd. Highlights include a breathtaking "Last Beat of My Heart", "Christine" and a rip roaring crowd pleasing end of show version of "Hong Kong Garden". Disc 4, however, is the real gem; a 29 track DVD of the band’s BBC TV performances, features the complete Old Grey Whistle Test broadcasts from 1978, 1982 and 1985, the Something Else performances from 1979 and 1980, the Rock Goes to College broadcast from 1981 and the band’s complete Top of the Pops performances. A fantastic 30 page booklet contains extensive sleeve notes by Paul Morley, interviews with all the band members and a unique and insightful introduction written by Siouxsie.

Sounds like a terrific package, but why Morley?

Morley seems inescapable, when it comes to UK post-punk reissues.

I suppose he was around at the time, but I really can't imagine him having anything to tell me about the Banshees, and they're not a band I'd ever associate him with. Is he going to go on and on about Kylie?

wait a minute - Amazon is selling the remastered 'Dreamhouse' for 5 pounds?!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kiss-Dreamhouse-Siouxsie-Banshees/dp/B001OY5X3K/ref=pd_bxgy_m_h__img_b

Did anyone else buy the reissue of Hyaena featuring a skip on the "let them siiiing" part of the Dazzle glamour mix. Or was I the only one so blessed?

I almost picked up the Tinderbox one yesterday. Can anyone tell me why it's impossible to find the original mix of "Song from the Edge of the World" on compact disc? I understand that Sioux hates it and all, but still -- get over it.

oh hey, I got the last round of these last week

surprise surprise, they are all awesome

Did anyone else buy the reissue of Hyaena featuring a skip on the "let them siiiing" part of the Dazzle glamour mix. Or was I the only one so blessed?

You know that's on the original vinyl version, don't you? It's an intentional part of the mix, not a skip.

The boys at the college radio station just played the "Glamour Mix" of "Dazzle." Haha -- I almost called to alert them that the track was skipping.

Still no DVD of the Play At Home fiasco.

ORLY:

Its video version was released on DVD in 2006. Bonus features included the "Play At Home" TV special from 1983, "Dear Prudence" music video, and performances from The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Oh dear God. That should only exist as a 10th-generation VHS dub.

That's me bought everything from the reissue series up to 'Tinderbox' I'm guessing 'Peepshow' isn't being reissued?

What do folks make of the sound problems that are said to plague the reissues? It's my first time getting acquainted with the Banshees back catalogue but there's a few bits that sound a bit dodgy to my ears. On a few of the sets the bonus demos sound better quality wise than the album versions (i.e 'Happy House' on 'Kaleidoscope') and there's some apparent drop outs in some of the mixing. How do the resissues stack up to the original viny versions?

Great stuff though. Been a real pleasure discovering them recently.

Sound problems? I know there was an issue with the single-disc "The Scream" but otherwise I hadn't heard anything. And I did some A/B comparisons with the original CDs, too.

I think they sound really, really great! Was just playing Dreamhouse yesterday and it's so deep and detailed. That BBC box is a cracker too.

So are Peepshow, Superstition and The Rapture being re-done? Anyone know?

BBC box is top of the list next for me. I got into them through the 'Nocturne' disc so I'm looking forward to more live stuff. There's doesn't seem to be many decent Banshees bootlegs on the web. I did download a Rockpalast WDR show from Koln in 81 on the Juju tour which was excellent thought. How great is John McGeogh?

As for the sound problems. This is from an amazon review of Juju;
"When I first read his review about the dropouts, I was skeptical because his was the only review of the three albums that talked about problems with audio quality; but as soon as I received my copies of the three new albums, I threw in Juju and listed for the supposed right-channel dropouts. There's no question about it - they're there. So the next logical step in trying to debunk his review was to rush straight back to my original (Geffen, not Polydor) CD that I bought 12 years ago to see if the same problems were present. Thanks to the not-so-subtle magic of having two CD drives on my computer, I was able to compare the same snippets of audio in rapid succession. The result: the original discs didn't contain the dropouts that are on the remaster. In fact, on "Into The Light," there's a crystal clear peak in volume on the original CD where the remaster's right channel gurgles.

When it comes to volume and clarity, this disc is all over the map (though not as extreme as the last two tracks on "Kaleidoscope" - How a demo version of "Happy House" can sound infinitely better than the remastered version of "Israel" is mind-boggling). To use just two examples on "Juju," the remastered "Into The Light" makes the original CD sound as though it's being played under two feet of water, and I'm not talking about the removal of producer Nigel Gray's "walking on the moon" sound that permeates the entire album. In contrast, there appears to be no upgrade in sound quality on "Sin In My Heart."

I must have cloth ears - all of this has passed me by. Will have a listen to some of this tonight. I'm not really that fussed about the odd glitch though.

I thought they all sounded great loud on my stereo. It's only since I put them on my mp3 and listened through headphones that I began to notice some of the drop outs etc. Like I said though, I don't have any originals to compare with so I can't speak with any authority at all really. The music is superb though. Can't believe I overlooked them for so long.

I must have cloth ears - all of this has passed me by. Will have a listen to some of this tonight. I'm not really that fussed about the odd glitch though.

Same here, actually. I didn't get the fuss about either the Siouxsie or the New Order reissues -- both sound just fine to my ears, but maybe I'm just "not listening critically enough" or what have you.

I R DUMB, I only just got the reissue of Join Hands today. HFS

I will, when I see one in Fopp for FoppPrice.

Really? Aside from the singles "Join Hands" never really grabbed me. What are you hearing that makes you react that way?

steve severin's fb page states they are doing a 20 disc mega box including a dvd and all the albums and singles.

20?? Let's see... 11 proper albums, "Nocturne", 4 discs from "Downside Up", 3 from "At The BBC", one for that 1981 gig he mentions on his page. That's 20!

first album was a double in the remasters, rest just had bonus tracks. doubt the BBC seshs 'd be in this. that's 18!

Funny, when I managed to get JoinHands for Foppcheap, I thought it a reasonably consistent album up to the Lords Prayer. Like sides 3 and 3.5 of "The Scream"...

This version of TLP seemed quite different to the muffled Roxy live version I had in song 'bits'. I nearly fell off my chair (I was driving) when her bit of "Knocking on Heavens Door" went into the Legendary Stardust Cowboy track.

It's totally mad, daftest thing they ever did. I'm assuming the original was meant to have more (um..) menace behind it.

who exactly would buy such a "megabox"?

Not me for a kickoff.

middle-aged goth bank managers.

If they hadn't been doing the reissues, I would have

FINALLY

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/07/07/siouxsie-banshees-final-four-reissue/

Due September 15th. No further track details yet.

Updated, release on Oct. 13, no tracklists yet:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/08/22/siouxsie-and-the-banshees-final-4-expanded-reissues-confirmed-for-oct-13-release/

Further:

It appears the Banshees’ archival releases indeed won’t be limited to the final four reissues. Dropping further hints on the Banshees’ Facebook group, Severin this week wrote, “Something else drops on Oct. 20th. Another thing in November. Something in the New Year and something BIG in March.”

Well, these came out! But I have yet to get them, and it turns out maybe that was a good thing in one case:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/11/01/siouxsie-banshees-peepshow-mastering-error-reissue/

Yeah that's annoying

I am really, really starting to sink into the oppressively smothering hollow shell that is Join Hands

Yeah, that was the last Siouxsie album I went back and got - 20 years after first getting into them!

Something about enduring MN-esque winter temperatures for the past 6 weeks for the first time in over 20 years combined with more concentrated snow than I've ever seen in my life has pushed me into the exact right headspace to appreciate every nook and cranny of this album, which has not kept me from looping "Icon" and "Playground Twist" for hours at a time.

that's a great album. it was unfairly maligned for a long time.

JH always seemed a bit short despite the superfluois padding (Lord's Prayer - yawn) but the highs (ICON! Premature Burial!) definitely kicked my ass as a wee goth

Join Hands was always the one that seemed the most remarkable to me. Like, Kaleidoscope has better jams, but Join Hands is just this dark vision

Yeah it shows the band that they could have been but I guess the departure of the rhytm section acted as a reset button for them

Not quite rhythm! (Guitarist/drummer.)

The Join Hands remaster is great.

And jeez, I forgot how punishing of an album it is. Squally squally distortion everywhere.

the vinyl remaster with the original artwork?

so, the new boxset.

having not heard the previous set of remasters with extra tracks, i have to say this new cheap-n-cheerful boxset of the first 6 albums (coverart by one of our own !), sounds fantastic.

or, am i not an enough of a fanboy to notice the subtle f*ck ups ?

wait who did the cover art don't make me buy this thing I have literally everything on it

in multiple formats

if they did an all-encompassing box covering the first two albums and attendant singles, and all previous....

"Oh, Ted, that would be amazin, woah yeah! Just that Ted..."

ahh : checked the post, not 'DID', but 'DIG'.
sorry to have raised excitement levels.
still, no left/right dropouts as mentioned on various s&b threads/discussion groups.
tis a very slimline boxset, no credits, nothing.
but, exactly what i wanted.
though having heard the 14 minute 'lords prayer' track, i aint so sure now !

haha

This box arrived at my house on Sunday. Ten minutes after I left for a week :(

this is exactly the kind of box set I want to replace my grocery bags full of cassettes.

thanks to thread bump for alerting me to this:

http://www.discogs.com/Siouxsie-And-The-Banshees-At-The-BBC/release/1800195

and wow, Downside Up sure needs a repress!

wow this box is cheap. i will probably buy it; I just sold almost all my cds but still.

xp yeah a Downside Up reissue for a reasonable price would be awesome. But please god not in a clamshell box.

https://louderthanwar.com/kenny-morris-rip/

RIP drummer (for Siouxsie from 77 to Sept 79) and later painter and art gallery director Kenny Morris

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/budgie-mourns-siouxsie-and-the-banshees-drummer-kenny-morris/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Morris_(musician)