Siouxsie and The Banshees

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Forget my fate.


In the sharp gust of love
My memory stirred
When time wreathed a rose
A garland of shame
Its thorn my only delight
War torn, afraid to speak
We dare to breathe
Majestic
Imperial
A bridge of sighs
Solitude sails
In a wave of forgiveness
On angels' wings

Reach out your hands
Don't turn your back
Don't walk away
How in the world
Can I wish for this?
Never to be torn apart
Close to you
'Til the last beat
Of my heart

At the close of day
The sunset cloaks
These words in shadowplay
Here and now, long and loud
My heart cries out
And the naked bone of an echo says
Don't walk away

Reach out your hands
I'm just a step away
How in the world
Can I wish for this?
Never to be torn apart
Close to you
'Til the last beat
Of my heart

How in the world
Can I wish for this?
Never to be torn apart
'Til the last beat
'Til the last fleeting beat
Of my heart


This is simply genius...
Posted here for the benefit of any younger members of our community who might not yet have discovered the beauty of Siouxsie.
Also posted here because I just love this song too much. :)

Enjoy!
 
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Thank you, I always loved this song, simply perfect!
 
Fortunately for my wife siouxsie doesn't know I excist, for if she ever called i'd have to go.
 
Another work of art...



The stars that shine and the stars that shrink
In the face of stagnation the water runs
Before your eyes

Swallowing diamonds
A cutting throat
Your teeth when you grin
Reflecting beams on tombstones
A jamboree of surprises
Playing russian roulette
Or the lucky clip
A clenched fist to your heart
Coal dust on your lungs

A silver tongue for the chosen one
Heavy magnum in your side or a bloody thorn

Skating bullets on angel dust
In a dead sea of fluid mercury
Baby piano cries
Under your heavy index and thumb
Pull some strings - let them sing

The stars that shine and the stars that shrink
In the face of stagnation the water runs
Before your eyes

Dazzle
It's a glittering prize
Dazzle
It's a glittering prize

Before your eyes
It's a glittering prize
 
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Melt, Nightshift and Desert Kisses are some of my favourites. I also love Israel. Oh, and Into the Light.
 
All great choices EP, all great choices. :)
Too many to mention really but Christine, Spellbound, Israel, Happy House, Cities In Dust, the covers of Helter Skelter, Dear Prudence and The Passenger and the two I posted above are among my favourites.
 
Oh yes, Spellbound and Cities in Dust!

I also love Wheels on Fire. Have you heard the original???? :-o Wow, Siouxsie's version is SOOOOOO much better.

All great choices EP, all great choices. :)
Too many to mention really but Christine, Spellbound, Israel, Happy House, Cities In Dust, the covers of Helter Skelter, Dear Prudence and The Passenger and the two I posted above are among my favourites.
 
Oh yes, Spellbound and Cities in Dust!

I also love Wheels on Fire. Have you heard the original???? :-o Wow, Siouxsie's version is SOOOOOO much better.

Hahaha!
Yep, not too keen on the original version of This Wheel's On Fire by Dylan or the many other covers of this song out there.
On the other hand, Siouxsie's version is superb. I might be slightly biased there, but hey... :)

Here is something a little more obscure, what do you reckon?



This catacomb compels me
Corroding and inert
It weights and tries to pull me
Must I resist or re-assert?

The unchanged and the unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me,
We're all sisters and brothers

Ejected to this state of being
Don't bury me with this
I'm in a state of catalepsy
Can I really exist?

Clawing from the inside
Drowning in your chant
Thoughts come flooding through me
Despairing unity

The unchanged and the unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me,
We're all sisters and brothers

Red and white carnations
Can't intoxicate my brain
This blissful suffocation
It is driving me to pain
Oh what a bloody shame

The unchanged and the unchangeable
Doing the zombierama
Singing Oh come and be like me,
We're all sisters and brothers

I'm not your sister
Or your brother
Don't bury me with this
Join hands-join hands
We're all sisters and brothers
Sisters and brothers
I can't relate to you
You're no relation of mine
 
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I saw this on old grey whistle test and was instantly captured. Needs to be put into the context of what was being played at the time on the good old beeb.
 
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I saw this on old grey whistle test and was instantly captured. Needs to be put into the context of what was being played at the time on the good old beeb.

Captivating indeed!
Ahead of her time, ahead of their time, ahead of everybody's time. Then and even now...
A true original, very much like our Moz.
 
Last one (for today)!



And as someone once said - I think I am in lerv.
Would anyone be kind enough to take me back to 1983?
Please...
 
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Hahaha!
Yep, not too keen on the original version of This Wheel's On Fire by Dylan or the many other covers of this song out there.
On the other hand, Siouxsie's version is superb. I might be slightly biased there, but hey... :)

Here is something a little more obscure, what do you reckon?



Oh, it brings back old memories - when I had the album on tape, I had to look up all song titles in a dictionary. :) - Playground Twist was my fav from the album (Join Hands).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fJAx5BOWPM8

(sorry, I forgot how to embed youtube vids...)
 
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Oh, it brings back old memories - when I had the album on tape, I had to look up all song titles in a dictionary. :) - Playground Twist was my fav from the album (Join Hands).

Yes, great memories actually.
Back in those days when all I had was tapes, and not even pre-recorded ones. I used to 'tape' a lot of LPs from friends, libraries, etc onto TDK C60s or TDK C90s (for longer albums).
Music is what mattered the most, it always has been really. It has kept me sane (well, relatively) all these years.
God, I feel so old right now...

Here is another good one, an early demo of Mirage.

 
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Oh, I almost forgot: Lullaby!!! Hauntingly beautiful song, lyrics and music-wise too.

"As the moon spits out
In jagged beams another night"

"The dream swan spins
And so conceal the heart that aches and yearns
Oh hush away
Sleepless child"

:love:

And 92 degrees. Another favourite.

(I think I know how you feel. A few months ago I started listening to the Sisters of Mercy again, after more than 10 years. It was very upsetting - I felt as if I was looking into a mirror, a mirror that showed me my teenage self...)
 
Oh, I almost forgot: Lullaby!!! Hauntingly beautiful song, lyrics and music-wise too.

"As the moon spits out
In jagged beams another night"

"The dream swan spins
And so conceal the heart that aches and yearns
Oh hush away
Sleepless child"

:love:

This song is far too good to just be buried on the 'what song are you listening to right now?' thread, so I hope you don't mind me posting it here too... :)



The lunacy will leave the day
Luminous in flight
As the moon spits out in jagged
Beams another night

Wrap around this brilliant veil
Tranquil and unbroken
As you spiral down, a world of clay
And taut convulsion

The dream swan spins
And cartwheel turns

Down deep within your violet side
The sun begins to rise
Shaking down its morning swords
To thaw your frozen eyes

The dream swan spins
And so conceal the heart
That aches and yearns
Oh, hush awhile, sleepless child

I'll be watching over you
I'll be watching over you
I'll be watching over you
I'll be watching over you


(I'd love to think that someone new to Siouxsie and The Banshees is keeping up with this thread and discovering some real gems, but who knows?)
 
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Let's hope! I'm listening to Tinderbox, this song is on just now:



Always been a favourite....
 
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Let's hope! I'm listening to Tinderbox, this song is on just now:

Always been a favourite....

Thank you EP, I forgot how good 92 Degrees is (I don't always remember all the song titles).
I had not listened to Siouxsie for a fair while now, but it has been playing almost non-stop for the last week or so.
It all started again when I watched the Nocturne dvd the other night, loving it! :)

And thanks to Have-A-Go Merchant...

 
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Got to give up life in this netherworld
Got to go up to where the air is stale
And live a life of pleasantries
and mingle in the modern families
Overground-from abnormality
Overboard-for identity
Overground-for normality
Overboard-on identity

This limbo is no place
To be a digit in another space
In another crowd
I'm nameless bound

Overground-from abnormality
Overboard-for identity
Overground-for normality
Overboard-on identity

Overground-I'll be worse than me
Overground-it's clear to me
(repeat)
I'll be worse than me
 
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I've always secretly wished she and Moz and Robert Smith could be friends together...

That said, I never understood why The Cure are mentioned in the same breath as The Smiths... As much as I used to love (and still do, to a less obsessive degree) The Cure, they aren't anything like The Smiths...

Point is, They'd sure make a hot group of sagging, doughy white English people if they were ever all three in photos together...
 
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