A Kiss In The Dreamhouse Singles

A KISS IN THE DREAMHOUSE ERA SINGLES

Includes scans of 7", 10", 12" singles, cassettes, CDs, promos, imports, limited editions and adverts. Also includes track listings, catalogue numbers, release dates, chart positions, credits, liner notes and reviews.

FIREWORKS

SINGLE

UK 7" Single

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Cat: POSP 450
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Fireworks (Single Edit)

Coal Mind

UK 12" Single

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Cat: POSPX 450
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Fireworks

Coal Mind

We Fall

Released:

21/05/82

UK Chart:

No .22

US Chart:

Didn't Chart

Sleeve Design:

Rocking Russian

Producer:

A Side: Banshees

Producer:

B Sides: Nigel Gray/Banshees

IMPORTS/PROMOS

UK 7" Single Gatefold Sleeve

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Cat: POSPG 450
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Fireworks (Single Edit)

Coal Mind

Notes:

Available in a limited edition (50,000) fold out sleeve

Swedish Import 7" Single

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Cat: 2059 426
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Fireworks (Single Edit)

Coal Mind

PRESS


	NME 17/04/82

	Unfortunately there's not a firework within earshot on this song, which is a pity because side two of the Banshees' 'Once Upon A Time - The Singles Collection' LP is a record gourmet's delight. Gary Crawley
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VIDEO




	Description:
	The band: Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Budgie, John McGeoch. Filmed on an island in the middle of a lake, a literal interpretation of the song. It's a straight performance piece, the band play their instruments while any amount of fireworks explode and shower down on upon them. Siouxsie even finds time to wave a couple of sparklers about. The video was cut short however, when "the guy in charge of the pyrotechnics blew his face off!". (Siouxsie) Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92. As a result some shots had to be duplicated. The superimposed fireworks were courtesy of Prince Charles & Lady Diana's wedding, secretly filmed by video director Clive Richardson.

	Director:
	Clive Richardson

	Availability:
	Twice Upon A Time Video

CREDITS


	Fireworks Lyrics

	The body is wrapped in shadow The face is built of cinders And panic tears thro' your silhouette As you're squeezed by burning fingers And he's crackling in colours With teeth of gelignite When he sighs his song of pirouettes Thro' a dance of dynamite We are fireworks, slowly, glowing Bold and bright We are fireworks, burning shapes Into the night His fuel is our frustration And dreams begin to ache And all the while we wear a party smile And happily we shiver Happily we shake Oh shake, shake, shake We are fireworks, slowly, glowing Bold and bright We are fireworks, burning shapes Into the night Twist and turn, burn, burn, burn Twist and turn, burn baby burn

	Fireworks Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: " 'Fireworks' indicated the direction we wanted for the album. We wanted strings on that. John wanted a machine but Steve and I said it had to be real strings. They give a real, earthy, rich sound. You could hear the strings spitting and breathing and wheezing." Source: Record Mirror 18/12/82 SIOUXSIE: "We'd heard that he (Martin Rushent) wanted to work with us. We wanted to have a go. We thought he might have a different approach to the Banshees, that he wouldn't treat us like a cult. We'd have changed him as much as he changed us. Rushent agreed to a date to start working with us and ten he kept putting us off at short notice so we've abandoned the idea." Source: Record Mirror 12/06/82 SIOUXSIE: "The song's very sexual, explosive, distraught." Source: Record Hunter 12/92



	Coal Mind Lyrics

	Two black holes staring From deep in the coal mind Murder in mind, murder deep in the coal mine Aphids and triffids bump mad into earwigs Eating their way-through the green brain vegetation Mutter mutter eyelids wonder Twitching in time to troubled slumber Oh Mutter mutter eyelids wonder Twitching in time to troubled slumber Come mine this coal mind Come mind this coal mine It's dark in here and it's been a long time In need of ignition In need of nutrition There's famine in mind There's murder in mind Blank sockets squinting from the hot coals scorching More holes in the coal mind The pit is imploding Headlines and hook lines bump blind into lifelines Murder in mind, someone throw him a line Murder in mind, someone throw him a line Oh Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy.....a loser Ignition nutrition and now ventilation A sigh of relief from deep in the coal mind Gun blew his roof off Gun blew his roof off Gun blew his roof off Stopped murder in mind Murder in mind Oh Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy a loser Madonna Medusa I spy.....

	Coal Mind Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Chorus & Vibrato Basses McGeoch - Carbon Guitar Budgie - Seamless Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	The book The Green Brain by Frank Herbert. Source: Downside Up liner notes.



	We Fall Lyrics

	Screaming blue and tangerine Come and join this crazy dream Of Vampire kites Painted white Trails of Vampire kites Torsos painted white They're all around So don't make a sound See sparks of sparkling green See waves of tangerine Please don't scream In this dream See a tiny box of silver See a flaming glove of amber We start to fall At the beginning of a fall... They say when you hit the bottom You don't wake up at all Not at all We start to fall..

	We Fall Credits

	Severin/Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Drone Basses & Fender Rhodes McGeoch - Vampire Guitar Budgie - Live Soundcheck Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	Falling/dying in your sleep. Source: Downside Up liner notes.

SLOWDIVE

SINGLE

UK 7" Single

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Cat: POSP 510
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Slowdive

Cannibal Roses

UK 12" Single

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Cat: POSPX 510
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Slowdive

Obsession II

Cannibal Roses

Released:

01/10/82

UK Chart:

No. 41

US Chart:

Didn't Chart

Sleeve Design:

Rocking Russian

Producer:

A Side: Banshees

Producer:

B Sides: Banshees

PRESS


	Record Mirror 1982

	Siouxsie & The Banshees ought to be the eight wonder of the world. Whatever they do is excellent. This starts off with an intro that sounds as if it's going to lead into the theme of "Psycho" and progresses into a steadily descending careering Banshee journey. This is not quite as immediate as some of their other stuff, or as varied, but it's as gripping as ever. The Banshees have patented their own sound, but they never reproduce it in the same mould without imaginative twists.
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VIDEO




	Description:
	The band: Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Budgie, John McGeoch. Filmed in a hanger, at the Isle Of Dogs, London. Siouxsie swings from a trapeze while the rest of the band sport false eyelashes for some close-up winking to camera and perform a dance routine choreographed by Ginette Landray, later to guest as singer with The Glove. The video also features a wolfhound type dog, the relevance of which is a mystery. Last video appearance of John McGeoch.

	Director:
	Clive Richardson

	Availability:
	Twice Upon A Time Video

CREDITS


	Slowdive Lyrics

	Get your head down to the ground Shake it all around A dirty sound Put your knees into your face And see if you can race Real slow It's a slowdive When you die slow Oh it's a low jive Do the slowdive Now you jump back like a hound Emit a howling sound Dig those limbs into the floor And holler out for more And you revel in the dips When your backbone slips Taking honeysuckle sips From your rolling hips It shifts and it shifts It's a slowdive when you die slow When you come alive it's a low jive Do the slowdive

	Slowdive Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & 6 String Bass Budgie - Drums, Percussion & Harmonica McGeoch - Guitar Anne Stephenson - Violin Virginia Hewes - Violin

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SEVERIN: "It was just a drunken evening..." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92 SIOUXSIE: "Another sexual song, but more playful. It's very open, very relaxed, loose. I wrote it on the spot after a jam in the studio." Source: Record Hunter 12/92 SIOUXSIE: "I remember I wanted the string players to slow down and get tired, so the ’Oh my God!’ in the middle of the song is one of the string players’ wrists falling off! And the video was this boy’s first dance routine! It took months of rehearsal, and getting him to wear false eyelashes." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92 SIOUXSIE: " 'Slowdive' was an improvised lyric...It's like, umm, if you're making music, what it amounts to is, because you're expressing something you can't say in words. So for me to explain what that is, is taking away something that you lose when you're just using speech. With music it should speak for itself. Source: Elektron Interview 20/12/82



	Cannibal Roses Lyrics

	Listening to their murmurings Trespassing through the topiary Lulled by siren perfumes Of their seductive petal openings Cannibal roses Enticing out noses With exotic aromas Then they bite off our noses Whilst stood on our toeses Red snappers and finger pops Fighting off psycho pomps Ring a ring a roses Cannibal roses It’s been one of those mornings They came with no warning It’s been one of those mornings They came

	Cannibal Roses Credits

	Sioux - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass & Carnivorous Piano McGeoch - Fly Guitar Budgie - Acid-drop Drums

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	"About this time strange things were happening around me. I swear that a giant sunflower started to grow outside my first floor flat in Queens Park. It's head used to peer in the window at me when it thought I wasn't looking. Life imitating art" (Siouxsie) Source: Downside Up Booklet.



	Obsession II

	Instrumental

	Obsession II Credits

	Sioux - Voice, Breath, Tubular Bells & Claps McGeoch - Phantom Guitar Budgie - Foot stomp, Claps, Rain & Chains Anne Stephenson & Ginny Ball - Strings

MELT!/IL EST NE LE DIVIN ENFANT

SINGLE

UK 7" Single Double AA Side

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Cat: POSP 539
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Melt!

Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant

Notes:

No promo video made for this release

UK 12" Single

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Cat: POSPX 539
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Melt!

A Sleeping Rain

Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant

Released:

26/11/82

UK Chart:

No. 49

US Chart:

Didn't Chart

Sleeve Design:

Rocking Russian

Producer:

A Side: Banshees

Producer:

B Sides: Banshees

PRESS


	Record Mirror 11/82

	If at first there seems something faintly ludicrous about a Banshees' Xmas carol, think again. Siouxsie has always loved ceremony and has recently begun to sing. Amidst drums and symbols, she makes a stately march towards Christ and arrives charmingly, dignity intact. 'Melt!' is the cornerstone of 'Dreamhouse's' vision of sex tangling with death, a sensuous, melodic moan backed by fake bouzoukis, one for the converts. The Xmas carol will have Steeleye Span fans flocking to the Banshees in droves.
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CREDITS


	Melt! Lyrics

	You are the melting man You are your situation There is no time to breathe And yet one single breath Leads to an insatiable desire Of suicide in sex So many blazing orchids Burning in your throat Making you choke Making you sigh Sigh in tiny deaths So Melt! My lover, melt! She said melt! My lover, melt! You are the melting man And as you melt You are beheaded Handcuffed in lace, blood & sperm Swimming in poison Gasping in the fragrance Sweat carves a screenplay Of discipline and devotion So Melt! My lover, melt! She said melt! My lover, melt! Can you see? See into the black of a long, black car Pulling away from a funeral of flowers With my hand between your legs Melting

	Melt! Credits

	Severin - Lyrics Sioux - Voice Severin - Bass Budgie - Drums & Percussion McGeoch - Guitar

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	SIOUXSIE: "We’d just come back from our first tour of Japan, and it made a real impression on us all." Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92 SEVERIN: "There wasn't (a promotional video made for 'Melt!) but (if there had been) it would have involved a giant ice phallus!" Source: Banshees & Other Creatures Interview 2000 SEVERIN: "Both 'Melt!' and 'Slowdive' were risky choices as singles and we knew that, but it didn't really bother us, because we knew that 'Dreamhouse' was successful, not in sales terms but we were pleased with how it had gone." Source: NME 24/12/83



	Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant Lyrics

	Il est ne le divin enfant Jouez hautbois resonnez mussettes Il est ne le divin enfant Chantons tous son avenement Depuis plus quarte mille ans Que nous le promettent Les prophetes Il est ne le divin enfant Chantons tout haut cet heureux temps

	Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant Credits

	Sioux - Voice McGeoch - Trumpet, Guitar & Keyboards Budgie - Orchestral Snare, Drums & Cymbals

	Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:

	MCGEOCH: "Siouxsie and I began to have one or two musical differences. One in particular was over a French hymn she wanted to record ('Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant'), possibly because she had some French connection in the family. I said, "I really can't see this working, so if you don't mind I'm not gonna take part.' I didn't. That sowed the seeds a little." Source: The Authorised Biography 2002



	A Sleeping Rain

	Instrumental

	A Sleeping Rain Credits

	Sioux - Xylophone & Tubular Bells Severin - Bass & AMS McGeoch - Liquid Guitars Budgie - Drums, Kalimba & Percussion