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1988
saw the release of PEEPSHOW, and the critical praise for the album had
them moving in a startling new direction with an emphasis on a techno-pop
dance style. Which just shows that the critics hadn't been listening
to the band's earlier material. Although there were certainly songs
that were melodic and orchestrated (such as Cities In Dust or their
revamped version of the Beatles' Dear Prudence), and those songs
whose focus had psychedelic underpinnings, there had always been a good
number of tracks with a strong dance beat (probably Budgie's influence in
the songwriting) and Siouxsie's music has always been remarkably
danceable. It was more a case of the critics and record label representatives
wanting to pigeonhole the band so as to satisfy their own belief in what
was sellable, and in so doing demonstrated how little understanding of the
music they actually had. |
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