Siouxsie And The Banshees - Spellbound Reaction
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- In this video we're listening to Siouxsie And The Banshees. We'd heard maybe one song from this band, when we were young, yet we never went looking for more. Now is the time, and we're eager to learn about this band for real. Enjoy!
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Siouxsie And The Banshees had their first hit before Kate Bush.
They were associated with several other acts - Sid Vicious was briefly in the band and Siouxsie appeared with the Sex Pistols during their infamous Grundy interview; also Robert Smith of The Cure has featured for the Banshees at various times.
The pioneers of goth! Try ‘Arabian knights’ or ‘Christine’. This one had such a great driving drum beat with the acoustic guitar.. superb!
favorite high school band.
Like to see them do "Hong Kong Garden" and "Cities in dust" by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Hi again. Good choice of Siouxsie and the Banshees. I'm pretty sure Siouxsie wasn't really influenced by Kate Bush. I had several chances to hang out with Siouxsie and her ex-husband, their drummer Budgie, when they were doing what started as a side project called The Creatures. Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist, Steve Severin were members of what was called The Bromley Contingent, which were famous groupies of The Sex Pistols. Their 1st performance was with The Sex Pistols no real musical talent bassist, Sid Vicious, who played drums only once as a Banshee. That 1st show also had Adam Ants most famous guitarist, Marco. This line up of Siouxsie and the Banshees (Siouxsie, Steve, John McGeoch, and Budgie) are considered by almost all Banshees fans, and Siouxsie herself to be the best line up they ever had.
I hope Sioux and Kate don't hate each other 'cause I love them both lol
Iove the song "christine "as well. Thanks for doing this.
Glad you liked it, there's a lot more, they did a load of stuff.....i suspect the one you know is probably, Kiss Them For Me. Their biggest hit in the states.
Massively influential for a band that rarely bothered the charts or had much in the way of public consciousness, Shirley Manson of Garbage has said she would never have sang without Siouxsie, Viv Albertine formed The Slits after witnessing Siouxsie's first gig, Johnny Marr still talks about Banshees guitarist, John McGeogh with absolute reverence, Porno For Pyros, LCD Soundsystem, the list is endless.
And one of the few Post Punk bands ,in the UK at least, to be fronted and controlled by a woman. The Banshees was her band, she made the decisions.
They should listen to the Slits. By their second LP they had really gotten it together.
@@SPKdesign1 yeah, they did some cool stuff, I always liked the irony of the name
@@Sandy-dd4le I think the New Age Steppers might be a bit much for them though.
@@SPKdesign1 haha, maybe we can find a way to ease them into On-U Sound one day
@@Sandy-dd4le I hope so. I've been trying to think of what would be accessible for them withoot scaring them off.
Siouxsie was actually performing and recording a year or two before Kate Bush.
I do admire them both considering I couldn't carry a tune in a basket.
They also did a cover version of Iggy Pops The Passenger, with Halloween on the horizon I would like to suggest Bela Lugosi s Dead by Bauhaus.
Theres a whole album of covers that's well worth a look
Souxsie was around in 1976 with the sex pistols as part of their entourage. Played live in 1977 before Kate Bush was even recording so no influence whatsoever. I saw them live in 1982 and they had been going 5 years before then 😂
Then perhaps a young Kate was inspired by her.
@@hanierfamily maybe so the hair defo 😂 PS great show love your reactions so honest makes me giggle. Keep up the good work guys.
This is fi their fourth LP aboot 81 if I remember right. Their sound started to change a bit more after this.
Siouxsie just did/is doing a tour. I wasn't able to get to any of the gigs though.
I didnt manage to see her this time either, gutted doesn't cover it!
Plenty of footage of the tour on the you tubes though!
@@Sandy-dd4le Aye but I'd rather wait and see any official footage rather than some drunk person waving a phone camera about for half a song.
Love this song, remember Dazzle. So good
Thanks for reacting to Siouxsie
What a tune great vid as always
I love Siouxsie and I also like their side band The Creatures (just Siouxsie and Budgie, the drummer). Some Creatures songs I like are "Godzilla", "Second Floor", and "Pluto Drive". She also did a solo album called "Mantaray" which has my favorite song "Like a Swan".
Fabulous 🙂 My favourite Siouxsie and the Banshees track. Saw them on the tour when this was out and they were magnificent.
This was the best line-up of the band with Budgie and John McGeoch who brought this amazing guitar sound from Magazine with him. John was one of the most influential of the post punk guitarists and that playing plus Budgie's wonderful drumming brought a much fuller sound.
No Kate Bush influence - Wuthering Heights (1978), Hong Kong Garden (1978). She was a member of the Bromley Contingent, Sex Pistols fans, and was on the TV show where a drunk Bill Grundy made lewd remarks to her, Steve Jones swore on early evening TV and Bill Grundy got sacked.
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Siouxsie is 100% original and one of the most influential singers in British popular music.
This band was formed, at the genesis of punk, in the 100 club in 1976 with Siouxsie, Steve Severin on bass, Marco Perroni (later Adam and the Ants) on guitar and Sid Vicious on drums! John McKay (after unsuccessful Peter Fenton) and John Morris took over on guitar and drums and they became successful with two fantastic albums. Those two disappeared in a taxi and Robert Smith, of The Cure, had to step in as did Budgie from The Slits. Smiffy went back to The Cure and Gothic megastardom at the end of the tour so they stole John McGeoch from Howard Devoto's Magazine. The line-up on Spellbound was just the best.
Siouxsie and Budgie became and item and had a successful side project called The Creatures - also worth a listen, especially 'Miss The Girl' and 'Mad Eyed Screamer'
Steve Severin and Robert Smith also had their own Banshees side project in, The Glove.....Punish Me With Kisses is one of my all time favourites
Considering the timeline, perhaps 18 year old Kate was listening to Siouxsie and had her music influenced by that.
@@hanierfamily I don't think so - Kate was a one off as well and equally influential. She was the first woman singer to write her own UK No.1 and that was before 'Hong Kong Garden' was released. She was pretty amazing and was recording demos with Dave Gilmour at 16. I think the similarity in styles is coincidental and I wouldn't want to claim either influenced the other. They are both a bit art-schooly (although neither went to art school) but Kate was writing songs at a young age and learned to dance, Siouxsie was more of a rebel. So one came at it from a Prog Rock angle and the other from Punk. They are only a year different in age.
I think they are two brilliant, ceative and individual artists that trod their own paths.
@@Sandy-dd4le There's also The Creatures.
@@SPKdesign1 indeed, they had already been mentioned
Great song, great band! Thanks for the reaction.
They have a song called Monitor from the Juju album. It has a fantastic guitar sound
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Their only great song with Halloween. Rest is meh
Great video & great song with the late John Mcgeoch on guitar 🎸. Great memories of Summer of 1981 & the album JuJu with Into The Light on it ( my favourite Banshees song ) Siouxsie..an early crush 😊 !
I was just about to mention the late, great John McGeoch myself!
I had practised this song on guitar as part of a band audition 12 years ago, finding it quite tricky to play - I found out only a year or so later that John had used an alternate tuning! 😅
I think Siouxsie said one of the best things about him,......"John McGeoch was my favourite guitarist of all time. He was into sound in an almost abstract way. I loved the fact that I could say, "I want this to sound like a horse falling off a cliff", and he would know exactly what I meant. He was easily, without a shadow of a doubt, the most creative guitarist the Banshees ever had"
@@Sandy-dd4le - Yeah, that is one of the classic quotes 😁 I'd first heard (of) John in '85 when he was in The Armoury Show, with ex-Skids Richard Jobson on vocals 😊
@@mightyV444 that's a slightly weird way to find him, I think every other band he was in was so much bigger!
It was Magazine for me.
@@Sandy-dd4le - Yeah, you're right, it _is_ a bit weird 😅 I did hear then that he'd been in Siouxsie's band and also Magazine, but it would actually be another 20 years(!) before I'd listen to Magazine for the first time, when I came across a couple of their albums at our Main Library. 'The Light Pours Out Of Me' is my Magazine favourite 😊
Thank you she used to leave me spellbound and HAPPY HOUSE is well worth a shot
Kate Bush and Siouxsie may share some common influences (more Nico, Sonja Kristina from Curved Air and Grace Slick for Siouxise) but the latter was not influenced by the former. This song is really a complete masterpiece. I won't be original in suggesting you react to "Happy House" and "Christine" or "Hong Kong Garden".
The guitar work on juju is amazing thanks to John McGeoch
An incredibly influential and innovative band. The songs I would suggest a listen to are Night Shift, Cities in Dust, Playground Twist or Happy House.
Don't forget "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)", which is one of my faves.
All weak tracks besides Halloween and Monitor
The Banshees big hits include Hong Kong Gardens , happy house , Dear prudence , a classic alternative band .
Bush and the Banshees started putting out albums pretty close to one another. Being two of my favorite artists I have looked to see what they think of each other but have found nothing!
Technically,this band started in 1977.
A defining post punk song!
If you want a song to rival Sinead's version of 'Nothing compares to you', try 'Last beat of my heart' from the Peepshow album. Emotionally wrenching.
C n C … NOW your talking , I’m an auld coffin dodger and I’d ask you to take that into account before playing my all time fav tracks like this , as I’m COMPELLED to bop around the living room and now I’m lying flat on the floor with bad knees and a pulled muscle in my back 😅… worth it tho for this atmospheric banger !
Good lord she was a great front person back then … and I STILL fancy her …🤷♂️… there , I’ve said it 😅
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Just gets better with age.
lol "she s very artistic" Siouxie started way earlier the Kate Bush. I think they both had the same bowie glam influences but I think that was environmental. If anything the elephant in the room is robert smith s influence on the guitar sound. He did play guitar for them during their tour with the cure. I mean say what you want he basically wrote all the rules when it comes to post punk
On the eve of that tour where The Cure were the support act, the guitarist and drummer left The Banshees jeopardising the whole thing.
Robert Smith stepped up and learned the Banshees set in a trice, he then performed twice each night as The Cure remained as support.
Siouxsie was that impressed Smith was persuaded to carry on playing with The Banshees after the tour ended, it was rumoured that Robert may join full time.
Smith dispelled this by writing and releasing the Cure single Jumping someone else's train.
Robert Smith stepped in during tour when John McCabe and Kenny Morris left as they fell out with Siouxsie. She recruited the brilliant John McGeoch who played on Happy House then Juju an d Kiss in Dreamhouse albums. McGeogh struggled with constant touring and studio work and left so Robert Smith stepped in again to help out.
cities in dust is one of my favorite songs by them
Didn't aged well
Loads of great tracks , loved souxie, so fierce, take more tracks from the comments
Great track from a great band. From the same album, try "Into the Light" and "Arabian Knights". the latter has a video too !
I love "Into the Light"! "Paradise Place" is one of my favs too but naturally A.K. is always spectacular!
Great live band music sounds great live there music there’s lots of songs to listen to lots of movies there song have been in listening to liquid liquid
Luv Siouxsie (try HappyHouse for more great tune!)... Thanx for the memories brought on by your fun reaction.
From Spellbound's lyrics:
"And don't forget when your elders forget to say their prayers,
Take them by the legs and throw down the stairs!"
Ouch!!!
I love the way budgie's drums sound like someone tumbling down the stairs at that point.
Israel and Christine are good options. Siouxie one of the original Bromley crew of Punks
One of my favourite bands. From post punk in late 70s they moved through to a more mainstream sound by the early 90s when they finally got noticed in the US.
For me Juju and the Kiss in the Dreamhouse were the pinnacle of thier work. John McGeoch was a genius guitarist on these albums and complemented Siouxsie, Severin and Budgie. Juju has to be listened all the way through as a concept album of wonderful dark music . Siouxsie hated the Goth tag but was the reason why all Goth girls wear the full makeup and black dresses etc . Her dancing was copied in all goth clubs through the 80s. Love her.
Good one!!!
Hong kong garden , or the staircase mystery are brilliant, need to explore those .
Brilliant
Music from my youth. Their Juju album is an exellent. Have been a metal man long time but still sometimes listening it.
great track
They were around in 77 78
' Israel' 'Christine' 'Hong Kong Gardens' Arabian Knights' 'Happy House' 'Cities In Dust' 'Kiss Them For Me '.......choices choices 😉😉
Absolute Class! A wee project she was involved with Budgie,the drummer, her partnerI believe. The Creatures, the song 'Right Now' it's fantastic, ooooft!
I think you'd enjoy 'Kiss them for me'
Yep , Great band , had their own sound , set them apart from a lot of Punk bands at the time ! Proper Unique , Cheers !
Hi Graham. Wasn't Dear Prudence a Beatles cover? That would be a good one for Who did it better. 😊
@@colrhodes377 Hi , Col ,yes that would be a great one for " I did not know " that the Beatles did it in the first place better ! lol
have a great week end , cheers G
@@colrhodes377 As was "Helter Skelter"
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That vocal is unmistakably Souxie Soux .
Banshees were older than kate bush , started as punk
Bass and Drums are fantastic but John McGeoch guitar has me spellbound!
Siouxsie was originally a punk and appeared in a sex pistol video 😊
Siouxsie charted with Hong Kong Gardens in 78 and had been performing in the punk scene since 76....... Kate Bush charted in 78 with wuthering heights. they seem to be on parallel tracks.....don't see that much crossover
So, artists don't listen to each other's work?
Really suprised you didn't know where the dark music begins.
siouxsie was 1977 guys
Dude, same generation as me Daughter gets Siouxsie more.
You are incorrect in your appraisal. The debut albums from both SATB and Kate Bush were released in 1978. They were contemporary, boundary-pushing artists that drew inspiration from a common well of influences (at times). Certainly they would have been aware of each other, but both were too much into their own vision to have been directly influenced by the other. For those that get the reference, Kate Bush plays Hammer to SATB's Amicus. (I guess I could have said AIP in regard to SATB, but then that ain't very British, now is it?)
Siouxsie was 76' not 81'
Kiss them for me is worth a review.
Try their version of Hey Prudence originally by The Beatles. You mention you’ve heard it… now react ❤❤❤
Dear Prudence...
The 12" version is better and features a great drum solo give it a listen.
Listen to this track by Duran Duran av done it on there lastest album danse macabre 🎉🎉🎉
Please reaction to Brainwashed by George Harrison
think siouxsie came before Kate Bush guys
Swimming horses, dazzle
Sin In My Heart is my favourite of theirs, or Israel is another good one.
enjoy your videos, brilliant song by the banshees, epic band. siouxsie came out before kate bush, it was the other way around, she influenced kate, especially her make up, hair and fashion..... just saying..
Both brilliant, but 78 Siouxsie was post punk and Kate Bush just a bit out there. Neither influenced the other as totally different.