jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (06/25/85)
A friend and I are both interested in getting some albums by Siouxsie And
The Banshees, but we've heard very little of their music so we don't know
where to start. We'd be grateful if somebody who is familiar with them
would send me or post a list of their albums along with some comments on
each.
I've heard their "Hyaena" album once, and I was very impressed. My friend
got interested after hearing an album that he thinks is made up of songs from
older EP's, plus a bit of previously unreleased stuff. He can't remember the
name of it.
Thanks in advance.
--
Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073
{linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeffrance@cornell.UUCP (W. Rance Cleaveland) (07/05/85)
> A friend and I are both interested in getting some albums by Siouxsie And > The Banshees, but we've heard very little of their music so we don't know > where to start. We'd be grateful if somebody who is familiar with them For the life of me I can't remember the name of the album, but a friend of mine had their album which had "Hong Kong Garden" and "Christine" on it, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Alas I've been unable to find a copy for myself.... Rance Cleaveland
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (07/06/85)
> A friend and I are both interested in getting some albums by Siouxsie And > The Banshees, but we've heard very little of their music so we don't know > where to start. We'd be grateful if somebody who is familiar with them > would send me or post a list of their albums along with some comments on > each. > > I've heard their "Hyaena" album once, and I was very impressed. My friend > got interested after hearing an album that he thinks is made up of songs from > older EP's, plus a bit of previously unreleased stuff. He can't remember the > name of it. [JEFF RICHARDSON] "Hyaena" is their latest album. The album he is probably referring to consisting of singles is called "Once Upon A Time". The "Once Upon A Time" Banshees video collection contains most songs from the album plus "Red Light", a classic dirge-drone tune that uses a Polaroid camera as a rhythmic "percussion" instrument (and it's cheap---I picked it up for $20: 9 videos!) I'm not aware of any album that contains unreleased stuff, though there is a double 7" by Siouxsie and Budgie called "Wild Things by the Creatures" which is supposedly unfindable (if anyone knows where I can find a copy PLEASE let me know!). If you shop smart at record stores, a few of the older Banshees albums (most notably their best albums, "Kaleidoscope" and "Juju") are "cutouts" that should cost no more than $3.99 . Geffen Records, their new label, bought rights to the old albums and they are now pressing them, so many overpresses of the old albums on the old label exist and are available. (This includes the live album "Nocturne", which is of varying quality.) A brief and incomplete discography and recommendations: (*) = recommended highly (X) = track is on "Once Upon A Time" THE SCREAM: Hong Kong Garden (X) (**) Helter Skelter (*) Mirage (X,*) JOIN HANDS: Lord's Prayer (*) Playground Twist (X) KALEIDOSCOPE: Happy House (X,*) (****) Christine (X,*) Desert Kisses (*) Paradise Place (*) Red Light (*) JUJU: Spellbound (X,*) (***) Arabian Knights (X,*) Night Shift (*) Monitor Halloween KISS IN THE DREAMHOUSE: Slow Dive (*) (*) Painted Bird HYAENA: Running Town (*) (**1/2*) Dear Prudence (*) Dazzle (*) Swimming Horses Suffice to say "Kaleidoscope" would be on my desert island list if I had to make one up. They started out as a seminal punk band and literally defined the dirgy neo-psychedelic punk sound made famous by the Psychedelic Furs and such on albums like "Kaleidoscope" and "Juju". They really have been as good a band as "Hyaena" would indicate. (Note that their guitarist for those albums was John McGeoch, who had been the guitarist for Magazine prior to that and that's another band worth checking out: sort of jazz-punk with tinges of electronic noodling, with a heavy influence from Roxy Music. Also the guitarist on "Hyaena" is Robert Smith of the Cure. The Cure are sort of contemporaries of Joy Division and Siouxsie & the Banshees with a flair for aural texture ("Seventeen Seconds" album). -- Like a turban (HEY!), worn for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr
allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (07/08/85)
There is a Chinese restaurant in Boston called Hong Kong Garden (not too surprising). But, there is a Japanese restaurant in SF called Happi House (spelling's off, but still)... Please forward other instances of Oriental restaurants named after Siouxsie songs. allyn "there's this great Thai place called Metal Postcard..."
allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (07/10/85)
In article <6271@ucla-cs.ARPA> reeves@ucla-cs.UUCP (John Reeves) writes: >HK Garden comes from the Banshees first record _The Scream_ (their best) Don't know where you got your copy of The Scream, but mine (which I got in London) and the one currently relased on Geffen in the U.S. does not contain Hong Kong Garden. It was their first single, released before The Scream. Incidentally, quite strange that you should know so much about the group and not know of the existence of Once Upon A Time/The Singles.
megdcs@mb2c.UUCP (Don Sortor) (07/12/85)
> A friend and I are both interested in getting some albums by Siouxsie And > The Banshees, but we've heard very little of their music so we don't know > where to start. We'd be grateful if somebody who is familiar with them > would send me or post a list of their albums along with some comments on > each. > > I've heard their "Hyaena" album once, and I was very impressed. My friend > got interested after hearing an album that he thinks is made up of songs from > older EP's, plus a bit of previously unreleased stuff. He can't remember the > name of it. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 > {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff Siouxsie & The Banshees have three albums that I know of. I don't know the record label or their names off hand, but if it will help I do know that they were imported to the U.S. on the JEM record label. They also had a great single that came out in 80 or 81 called HONG KONG GARDEN - a must listen to if you're a Banshee fan.
reeves@ucla-cs.UUCP (07/14/85)
>> A friend and I are both interested in getting some albums by Siouxsie And >> The Banshees, but we've heard very little of their music so we don't know >> where to start. We'd be grateful if somebody who is familiar with them > >For the life of me I can't remember the name of the album, but a friend of >mine had their album which had "Hong Kong Garden" and "Christine" on it, and Sorry, but HK Garden and Christine aren't on the same record (unless Polydor (?) came out with a greatest hits LP). HK Garden comes from the Banshees first record _The Scream_ (their best), and Christine was at least two years later. As for recommendations, get _The_Scream_ and avoid Join_Hands. John Reeves Computer Science Department UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!reeves A.I. Lab, 3531 Boelter Hall ARPA: reeves @ ucla-locus (soon) reeves@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
rance@cornell.UUCP (W. Rance Cleaveland) (07/18/85)
> >> A friend and I are both interested in getting some albums by Siouxsie And > >> The Banshees, but we've heard very little of their music so we don't know > >> where to start. We'd be grateful if somebody who is familiar with them > > > >For the life of me I can't remember the name of the album, but a friend of > >mine had their album which had "Hong Kong Garden" and "Christine" on it, and > > Sorry, but HK Garden and Christine aren't on the same record (unless > Polydor (?) came out with a greatest hits LP). HK Garden comes from This album definitely had both songs on it (as well as "Arabian Nights" (sp?)), and come to think of it I believe it was a greatest hits album. My friend is British, and he bought the album in England, so maybe this has something to do with it.... Rance