HÁI! - ALBUM

 
 
  UK CD (Re-issue) Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat:  SIOUX 16CD
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  Notes: This is the current version of 'Hái!'

 

 
  Released: 11/10/04  
  UK Chart: No.  
  US Chart: Not Released  
  Sleeve Design: DED Ass  
  Producer: The Creatures  
       

 

HÁI! - IMPORTS/PROMOS

 
 
  UK Promo CD (Re-issue) Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat:  SIOUX 1
6CDP
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Say Yes!
Around The World
Seven Tears
Godzilla!
Imagoro
Tourniquet
Further Nearer
City Island
Tantara!
The Temple Of Dawn
Attack Of The Super Vixens
Godzilla (Budgies Tokyo Fist Mix)
 
       

 

HÁI! - ORIGINAL ALBUM

 
 
  UK Double 12" LP Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat:  Sioux 15V
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Say Yes!
Around The World
Seven Tears
Godzilla!
Imagoro
Tourniquet
Further Nearer
City Island
Tantara!
 

 

 
  UK Double CD Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat:  SIOUX DCD15
CD1

Say Yes!
Around The World
Seven Tears
Godzilla! 
Imagoro
Tourniquet
Further Nearer
City Island
Tantara!

CD2

Say Yes! (Instrumental)
Around The World (Instrumental)
Seven Tears (Instrumental)
Imagoro (Instrumental)
Tourniquet (Instrumental)
Further Nearer (Instrumental)
City Island (Instrumental)
Tantara! (Instrumental)
 

 

 
  Notes: Available in limited edition of 6000

 

 
  UK CD/DVD Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat:  SIOUX SCD15
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CD1

Say Yes!
Around The World
Seven Tears
Godzilla!
Imagoro
Tourniquet
Further Nearer
City Island
Tantara!

DVD

Tokyo Drumming Session
 

 

 
  Notes: Available in limited edition of 6000 in die cut sleeve

 

 
  Released: 20/10/03  
  UK Chart: No. 153  
  US Chart: Didn't Chart  
  Sleeve Design: DED Ass  
  Producer: The Creatures  
       

 

HÁI! - IMPORTS/PROMOS

 
 
  US Import CD/DVD Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat: 
INS619-2

 

CD1

Say Yes!
Around The World
Seven Tears
Godzilla!
Imagoro
Tourniquet
Further Nearer
City Island
Tantara!

DVD

Tokyo Drumming Session
2nd Floor Promo Video
 

 

 
  UK Promo CD Track Listing  
 
 
  Hai! US Promo CD Front Cover - Click Here For Bigger Scan 
Cat:  INS619-P
Say Yes!
Around The World
Seven Tears
Godzilla!
Imagoro
Tourniquet
Further Nearer
City Island
Tantara!
 
       

 

HÁI! - PRESS

 
 
  Q Magazine 11/03  
 
 
 

Hai Advert Click Here For Bigger ScanFourth album from the more - than - - just - a Banshees - offshoot Banshees offshoot

Just 24 hours after the Banshees' re-formation tour ended in Japan, Siouxsie Sioux and drummer/husband Budgie returned to the studio for their primary day job of the last decade (though it's 20 years since The Creatures' debut album Feast).  Hái! - Japanese for Yes! - was kickstarted by Budgie meeting ex-Kodo drum master Leonard Eto: the pair's synchonised pulse alternately pounds and lulls, over which Siouxsie has free rein to do her prowling, sultry thing.  Given previous Banshees predilictions for rhythmic exotica, Hái! isn't far removed from their roots: an electronically - enhanced Godzilla! could be a Banshees single, and Tourniquet is a dreamier intro to the intense Creatures experience.  

3/5  

Martin Aston

 
 


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TOKYO DRUMMING SESSIONS - ALBUM

 
 
  UK CD Track Listing  
 
 
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Cat:  SIOUX 18CD
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UTSU 1 (Godzilla!)
UTSU 2 (Say Yes!)
UTSU 3 (Around The World)
UTSU 4 (Temple Of Dawn/Attack Of The Supervixens)
UTSU 5 (Tourniquet)
UTSU 6 (Seven Tears)
UTSU 7 (Further Nearer)
UTSU 8 (Imagoro)
UTSU 9 (Unknown)
UTSU 10 (City Island)
UTSU 11 (Tantara)
 

 

 
  Notes: Internet only release

 

 
  Released: 22/07/03  
  UK Chart: Not Eligible  
  US Chart: Not Eligible  
  Sleeve Design: DED Ass  
  Producer: The Creatures  
       

 

HÁI! - CREDITS

     
  Say Yes! Lyrics  
 
 
 

No more maybe
No more could be
Say Yes!

 
     
  Say Yes! Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     

 


     
  Around The World Lyrics  
 
 
 

Desert sand
Ocean deep
Forest land
Mountain peek

Boat
Train
Car
Plane

Got to get there
Running late
Are we there yet?
I can't wait

Boat
Train
Car
Plane

Around the world
Around the clock
Back through time
Future shock

 
     
  Around The World Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     

 


     
  Seven Tears Lyrics  
 
 
 

Seven seas in seven tears
Seven hours in seven years
Seven ships set seven sails
Seven armies in seven gales
Seven tears, seven slaves
Seven wonders, seven graves
seven whalers, seven sins
seven virtues, seven fins
Ho! Heave Ho!

Fathoms deep indigo
Knots & leagues of azure road
All the oceans - some stories told
It's in the heavens - seven fold
Tidal tsunami
Crashing white horses
Roller breaker
White capped sky scraper
Ho! Heave Ho!

Seven seas in seven tears
Seven hours in seven years
Clipper ship & galleon
Oil tanker, submarine
King Canute before the tide
King Canute was very wise
Nothing matters king or queen
Nothing stops the seven seas
Seven seas in seven tears
Seven hours in seven years
seven tears seven tears
Ho! Heave Ho!
Ho! Heave Ho!

 
     
  Seven Tears Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     

 


     
  Godzilla! Lyrics  
 
 
 

I never wanted a spinning top
I used to swing a riding crop
I never wanted a stupid doll
I used to swing a tomahawk
And then I saw him and I was won
Godzilla, King Kong

Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats big towns

I like the way he jumps up and down
I like the way he shakes the ground
He's even better when he's annoyed
He breaths out fire and makes this noise

I'd like to hold him in my palm
I'd never let him come to harm

Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
Godzilla
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats big towns


Godzilla
Ha
Godzilla
Ha

What is that?
What is this?
A giant Monster
But he's so sweet!

When I'm in Tokyo or Japan
I'm always think of him it's his land
The other toys are second best
Godzilla, I love him best

Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
Godzilla
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats the towns
Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
Godzilla
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats big towns

 
     
  Godzilla! Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  SIOUXSIE:  "Godzilla is rather funny. It's a bit about the way people see me: "Who are you? Are you glamour, scary, vicious or tender?" Well, I'm a bit of everything! Godzilla also reflects the innocence, the optimism and the modernism of Japan."  Source:  Premonition 10/03.  
     

 


     
  Imagoro  
 
 
 

It only hurts now and then
From sunrise to sunset
It's a long time since I saw you last
Thank you for your kindness

Sleepwalking barefoot
Dangerous thought
In a looking glass ghost story
I wonder if for the first time
At the looking glass welcome party

It only hurts now and then
From sunrise to sunset
It's a long time since I saw you last

 
     
  Imagoro Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  SIOUXSIE:  " 'Imagoro' means 'About this Time' and that was a way to use Japanese language. There's some anger in this song, but there's also a kind of resignation..."  Source:  Premonition 10/03.  
     

 


     
  Tourniquet  
 
 
 

Pushing too hard - trying to hard
Force against force - negates itself
You grind and you grind
Time after time

So tightly wound so tightly bound
A strangling sound - ground to the ground
Unwind and unfurl
Unwind and uncurl

Land locked - turned to rock
Land locked - your power blocked
You grind and you grind
Running blind - running blind

Constrictor of thought - constrictor of breath
Toiling a square with a circular peg
You grind and you grind
Running blind - running blind

Land locked - turned to rock
Land locked - your power blocked
Stem the flow - tourniquet
Wind and you bind
Time after time

Pushing too hard - trying too hard
Force against force - negates itself
You grind and you grind
Time after time

Stem the flow - dam the tide
Turn the screw - turn the screw

 
     
  Tourniquet Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  SIOUXSIE: I approached this album like a LP with an A-side and a B-side. So we could have an extraverted side and an introverted and calmer one. Tourniquet represents this difference between an extraverted and very physical side and something at the opposite."  Source:  Premonition 10/03.
BUDGIE:  "I think the sound of the word 'torniquet' itself influenced the song's outcome. The whole thing sounds like a rope slowly being twisted and tightened."  Source:  Whispering & Hollering 11/03.
 
     

 


     
  Further Nearer Lyrics  
 
 
 

Nowhere nearer we have travelled
Nearer further from the start
Somewhere distant waiting close at hand
Further nearer to the stop

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else
It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

Out of sight and right in front of us
Sooner longer still to go
Reaching out to touch horizon
Sooner longer than you know

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else
It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

If the skies should snow in summer
Back beyond and on the brink
Falling up a moving mountain
Now is later than you think

Nowhere nearer we have travelled
Nearer further from the start
Somewhere distant waiting close at hand
Further nearer to the stop

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else
It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

It's not all we ever wanted
We could want for nothing else

 
     
  Further Nearer Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  SIOUXSIE:  "A track like Further Nearer shows the reserved, philosophic, poetic and almost religious aspects of the Japanese traditions."  Source:  Premonition 10/03.  
     

 


     
  City Island Lyrics  
 
 
 

Drowning in a crowd
Drowning in the sound
An island from within
Silence flooding in

I am silent
I am still
I am silent
Island within

Silent as a shrine
Whirling mists of time
Silent as the snow
Falling snow on snow

I am silent
I am still
I am silent
Island within

Ticker-tape parade
Cities held at bay
Echoes of the snow
Fade in afterglow

 
     
  City Island Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     

 


     
  Tantara! Lyrics  
 
 
 

Through the streets and thoroughfares
Fanfare is everywhere
Now is here and then is gone
Time to dazzle and move on

Tantara to begin - tantara start again
Tantara in a throng - tantara everyone

Don't be lame don't be limp
Don't be dowdy don't be meek
I'm in no mood to sit and weep
Coloured lights and high jinks

Tantara with a flair - tantara if you dare
Tantara anywhere - tantara everywhere

It's a toast and not a boast
With a swagger to the host
It's a party a pageantry
To celebrate our clarity

Hour zero by jingo
A new day fandango
Now is here and then is gone
Time to dazzle and move on

Tantara euphoric - tantara mesmeric
Tantara to begin - tantara start again

 
     
  Tantara! Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Noun:  1. A trumpet or horn fanfare.  2. A sound resembling such a fanfare.  3. A hunting cry.  
     

 


     
  The Temple Of Dawn  
 
 
 

Instrumental

 
     
  The Temple Of Dawn Credits  
     
  Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     

 


     
  Attack Of The Super Vixens Lyrics  
 
 
 

I'm Super vixen of 50ft woman
I see you with my X-ray vision

Think I don't know your warped condition
You hid it well my failed assassin
So many years you worked your poison
So many tears - crocodillian

Your nemesis will never leave you
Your nemesis is here to haunt you
Like a banshee howling at the moon
Or the creature from the black lagoon

Your bark is loud and your heart is mean
But emotionally your cowardly
You have no bite, you have no soul
You stand exposed you're 5 inches small
5 inches small yeah!!!


We're Super vixen of 50ft woman 
We see you with our X-ray vision

 
     
  Attack Of The Super Vixens Credits  
     
  Sioux - Lyrics
Sioux - Voice
Budgie - Drums, Marimba, Piano, Yuech Ch'in, Percussion & Synthétiques
Leonard Eto - Taiko Drums
 
     
  Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment  
     
  Russ Meyer's film 'Super Vixens'.