POLL: Siouxsie & The Banshees albums

Kaleidoscope has some great great songs on it but I haven't really gotten into it as an album.

It needed "Israel" to anchor it, but that song was released as a stand-alone single instead.

How the hell did "Hyæna" end up with zero votes? Life makes no sense!

I guess part of the answer to that is "Abbott didn't vote."

Hyaena deserves something, even if it's just for Swimming Horses.
Parts of Kalaeidoscope can sound sparse and underwhelming, but its standouts are just so great. Desert Kisses is one of the best things they ever did - and they never had another song in the same style. They were just inventing whole styles of music around this perdiod and then moving on.
Juju is the epitome of this inventiveness, and deserves to win.

OTOH, Juju has "Spellbound" and "Night Shift" on it.

Actually, I take back my last comment. At no point is Kaleidoscope underwhelming.

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/3f8NhEZkbfmDYRZjuEKbNg

one day I went through all of the SatB material on Spotify and made a playlist of the songs I thought were absolutely 100% indispensible

today I am playing it and I was totally OTM

some friend of humanity has added the full DVD from the At The Beeb box. 30 songs herein. goth-out at your leisure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qlm234lbeM

How did Hyæna get 0 votes?

that performance of Happy House rules. i love that song.

although, lip synced. :(

I was thinking the same thing about Hyaena!

I'll go years without listening to Siouxsie and then it'll be time for the full immersion.

damn, the At the Beeb stuff is great, i've never seen any of it before. the live version of "tenant" is so good!

Hyaena has Swimming Horses, which is just gorgeous

until you watch the video where the guys stand around embarrassed in their longjohns while film is projected onto them and Sioux swans around in front.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/54/83/fa/5483fac4d4ecbcff7546d2940a89a317.jpg

In full Siouxsie mode atm. Finally listened to "The Rapture". What a mess until the last three tunes then WOMP!!

It's a glittering prize!

how is "spellbound" not in your top ten?

So many glittering prizes!

Peepshow was my first Siouxsie album and I probably would have voted for it had I seen this poll.

I wonder the identity of the one voter who chose it and their criteria? Was it you, Johnny fever?

How did Hyæna get 0 votes?

― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:35 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fantastic Hyaena-era show. Audio only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7qPO5sIYU

Hyæna is so weirdly underrated now; granted McGeoch's shadow was astoundingly long but still, it's Robert Goddamn Smith on that thing! That whole two year stretch of him doing that, the tours, the Glove AND UK pop breakthrough Cure is so insane.

Yes! And his playing on the tour and album as heard in that link was fire and brimstone in a way I never heard come from him in his band.

wait, there's a BBC box set?!

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

And I very happily own it

"5 for sale from $103.26"

oh well

Yeah a nice run but Hyaena is by far the weakest thing to come out of it. Not his fault by any means