Siouxsie & The Banshees

How good is "that good"?

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>>73865648
yes, Juju is one of the best albums of the 80s.

>>73865662
idk man 7.23545308005348109843259/10 would be 'that good' for me

T-shirt band.

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Kaleidoscope is legit great.
Everything else up until Hyaena is good, Tinderbox has that one song everyone knows, rest is garbage.

Their only shortcoming was not knowing when to quit like Bauhaus, at least they didn't rape the dead horse as much as the Cure.

>>73865690
Then I guess they're "that good" but 7.2/10 is not a very high bar.

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The Scream [Polydor, 1978]

Hippies were rainbow extremists; punks are romantics of black-and-white. Hippies forced warmth; punks cultivate cool. Hippies kidded themselves about free love; punks pretend that s&m is our condition. As symbols of protest, swastikas are no less fatuous than flowers. So it's not surprising that Siouxsie Sioux, punks' exemplary fan-turned-artist, should prove every bit as pretentious as model-turned-rocker Grace Slick or film-student manqué Jim Morrison. Nor is it surprising that while the spirit is still upon her she should come up with a tunefully atonal, modestly sensationalistic album. B+

Once Upon a Time/The Singles [PVC, 1981]

Like Jim Morrison, greatest of the pop posers, Siouxsie Pseud disguises the banality of her exoticism with psychedelic gimmicks most profitably consumed at their hookiest, and voila. Although two of the four unavailable-on-album 45s on this compilation go nowhere, most of these nightmare vignettes are diverting placebos, of a piece even though they span three years of putative artistic development. B+

Twice Upon a Time--The Singles [Geffen, 1992] *bomb*

Subjects for Further Research [1980s]: She has her cult--an army of black-clad college students eagerly waiting for the world to end. But though many Johnny Rotten fans proved smarter than Johnny Rotten, Siouxsie Pseud wasn't one of them. Since like Jim Morrison she disguises the banality of her exoticism with psychedelic gimmicks best consumed at their hookiest, the nightmare vignettes on her 1981 best-of were of a piece even though they spanned three years of putative artistic development. After that I kept waiting for Siouxsie to end. But she left a lot of product in her wake, and for all I know it conceals another best-of.

>>73865648
Yes, they are pretty good. First album is their weakest one imo.

>>73865773
>>73865789
thx

Tinderbox is a great record overall. I didn't give it much of a listen at first but after I did I couldn't stop. Kaleidoscope is still my fav album of theirs.

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>>73865648
Here's a picture of my mom in the 80's when she used to be really inspired by Siouxsie Sue. Taken at some goth club in Seattle, I forgot what it was called. Also, their first album is their best album.

>>73865648
Far and away the best pop band of the 80s. Maybe the best band of the 80s in general.

>>73865746
>Tinderbox has that one song everyone knows, rest is garbage.

Obviously never listened to the album. Cities in Dust, Sweetest Chill, Party's Fall - great album.

>>73866672
Anon's mom a cute. Cute!

>>73866672
Aww

>>73865688
this

good