What is going on with Siouxsie's voice?

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The Seven Year Itch CD....It's painful for me to hear Siouxsie's voice on it - I'm missing the subtle textures of yesteryear..But - even worse - in places, the mix seems deliberately cruel to her. I was at the concert in London that was recorded, and I know that her voice didn't sound so bad at the time.

It can't have escaped the Banshee's notice. So what are they saying? That's the Banshees are over? The Seven Year Itch Tour was an elaborate joke?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't heard this, but she was never Ella Fitzgerald.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it' deliberately "warts'n'all". The show on that tour I attended was no different....

Siouxsie & the Banshees Reunion - a Review.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 24 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

As some snarky NME (or was it MM?) writer pointed out as far back as the late '80s, did you know that "Banshees" is an anagram of "has beens"?

They hit some great heights in their day, and I usually don't subscribe to the let's-be-cruel-and-take-potshots school of music journalism, but that was kind of wryly amusing even back then.

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 25 January 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

did you know that "Banshees" is an anagram of "has beens"?

Damn that's harsh. But you're right....damn funny.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you know that "Siouxsie" is an anagram for "xiso usei"? Which aren't actually real words, but look really neat?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Siouxsie is an anagram for "Sex? Si! Oui!"

Obviously she's got the transnational menage going. "Vacuum cleaner sucks up Budgie," indeed.

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 26 January 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, I thought xiso usei were post-rock pioneers?

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

voice or no voice cant knock a 28 year career

― bo bo, Monday, 19 April 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

true. the voice was always production/board effects, anyway. but that didn't mean the end product wasn't great.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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