Cat: POSP 117
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| KALEIDOSCOPE
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. |
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| HAPPY HOUSE |
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| UK 7" Single | Track Listing | ||
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| Cat: POSP 117 Click on cover for full scan
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| Released: | 07/03/80 | ||
| UK Chart: | No. 17 | ||
| US Chart: | Didn't Chart | ||
| Sleeve Design: | O'Connor/Eckersley | ||
| Producer: | A Side: Nigel Gray/Banshees | ||
| Producer: | B Sides: Banshees | ||
| IMPORTS/PROMOS | |||
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| Belgian 7" Import Single | Track Listing | ||
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| Japanese 7" Import Single | Track Listing | ||
 Cat: DPQ 61872 Click on cover for full scan |
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| NME 08/03/80 | ||
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hell hath no fury like a Siouxsie scorned. For all the contrived
cynicism, it's Budgie's remarkable drop-beat drumnastics that dominate
the exotic, danceable top-side. But it's the unbridled viciousness
of the flip - supported by the cryptic message 'Bye Bye Blackheads'
etched next to the run-off groove - that overshadows the whole
affair. Obviously aimed at former Banshees Morris and McKay, it's
probably one of the most venomous put-downs ever recorded. It's as
if Siouxsie is gleefully sticking pins in wax effigies as she shouts out
her abuse. When it comes to carrying grudges, Sweet Sioux makes
Madams Thatcher and Ghandi look like Sisters of Mercy.
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| Description: | ||
| The band: Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Budgie. Budgie's first video with the band. Shot the 15-16/03/80. Although John McGeoch plays on this track, contractually he was not permitted to appear in the video. The band perform in the confines of a crooked house especially constructed for the video. It's pretty much a straight forward band performance. Siouxsie appears in her famous 'harlequin' outfit, there are shots of Siouxsie looking in through the window, Siouxsie reflected in a distorted mirror and cut away shots of both Siouxsie and Budgie playing miniature instruments. Towards the end of the video the three band members link arms, Siouxsie swinging an umbrella, whilst streamers 'rain' down on them. | ||
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| Clive Richardson | ||
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| CHRISTINE |
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 Cat: 2059 249 Click on cover for full scan
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| Released: | 30/05/80 | ||
| UK Chart: | No. 24 | ||
| US Chart: | Not Released | ||
| Sleeve Design: | O'Connor | ||
| Producer: | A Side: Nigel Gray/Banshees | ||
| Producer: | B Sides: Banshees | ||
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| Swedish Import 7" Single | Track Listing | ||
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| PRESS | ||
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| Smash Hits 06/80 | ||
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 Barely
recognisable as the Banshees. They've left behind their pervious
stark, plodding death warmed up arrangements and have produced a much
lighter, freer flowing affair this time, though their taste for the
bizarre and melodramatic remains. Listening
carefully however, the style is familiar in part, Severin's deep booming
base, Budgie's insistent supportive drumming, but Siouxsie is completely
transformed. Her voice is still enough to chill the bone, but
containing more feeling and conviction, as if she is really relating to
the song this time.
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| Description: | ||
| The band: Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Budgie. Shot 06/80 at Battersea Studios. Although John McGeoch plays on this track, contractually he was not permitted to appear in the video. The same set that was used for the 'Kaleidoscope' album cover, designed by Joe Lyons. Against a backdrop of horizontal Venetian blinds it's another straight band performance. Siouxsie is resplendent in red and yellow, from clothes to make-up and mimes playing acoustic guitar. There is some superimposed camera work and at stages throughout the video Siouxsie (in close-up) appears to be looking in through the Venetian blinds. | ||
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| Clive Richardson/Nils Stevenson | ||
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| CREDITS | ||
| Christine Lyrics | ||
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She tries not to
shatter, kaleidoscope style Christine Singing sweet
savages, lost in her world Christine |
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| Christine Credits | ||
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Severin -
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| Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment | ||
| SIOUXSIE:
"It’s about Christine Seisnal (adopts country accent): She’s
got twenty two personalities! She don’t know who to play with!" Source:
Zigzag 05/80. STEVE: "All twenty two personalities had different names, which was a really good source for the lyrics - the Strawberry Girl, Banana-split Lady . . .they were either names by her or the family. There’s a book called The Three Faces Of Eve about her, which is more like a biography she wrote with a friend of hers from her childhood, a cousin. She turned out to go to college and become some sort of knob on psychiatry." Source: Zigzag 05/80. SIOUXSIE: "Part of that oppression comes over in our number ‘Christine’. She became a textbook case ‘cause of the traumas she’d been through as a child. She witnessed many violent acts." Source: Sounds 28/02/80. |
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| Eve White/Eve Black Lyrics | ||
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It hurts I can feel
it coming Let me out
of here Let me out
of here Let me out
of here Let me out
of here Never say
die Let me out
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| Eve White/Eve Black Credits | ||
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Sioux -
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| Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment | ||
| Based
on a real woman Christine Sizemore who suffers from Multiple Personality
Disorder. The inspiration for this song was the book I'm
Eve by Christine Costner - Sizemore & Elen Sain - Pittillo.
Written after reading The Three Faces Of Eve by Thigpen & Cleckley Source: Zigzag 05/80 & The File, Phase One. |
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| ISRAEL |
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 Cat: POSP 205 Click on cover for full scan
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| UK 12" Single | Track Listing | ||
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 Cat: POSPX 205
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Notes:
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No picture sleeve Although the 12" Single states that both Israel and Red Over White have a running time of 12 minutes, this is in fact a printing error and the tracks are the same as found on the 7" single First Banshees single available in 12" format
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| Released: | 28/11/80 | ||
| UK Chart: | No. 41 | ||
| US Chart: | Not Released | ||
| Sleeve Design: | O'Connor | ||
| Producer: | A Side: Nigel Gray/Banshees | ||
| Producer: | B Side: Nigel Gray | ||
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| German Import 7" Single | Track Listing | ||
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| Italian Import 7" Single | Track Listing | ||
 Cat: 2059 302 Click on cover for full scan |
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| Sounds 22/11/80 | ||
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 Definitely
not approved by PLO representatives Sheik Yagoolies and Mustapha Bunkupf,
"Israel" fits comfortably in the Banshees' seemingly endless
series of classic singles. Embellished with a simple teasing keyboard
figure this is an insistent, hypnotic pop song, a pulsing pearl of a
paean to the pain and persistence of a proud persecuted people that
grows into a gothic beauty soaked in the atmosphere of the struggle for
survival. I hate Zionism but I admire the tenacity and courage of the
Jewish people which this seems to encapsulate. With its B-side sibling
the percussive mood-piece "Red Over White", "Israel"
demonstrates that the new McGeoch-improved Banshees are getting stronger
by the minute.
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| Description: | ||
| The band: Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Budgie, John McGeoch. Filmed during the first half of November 1980. McGeoch's first video appearance with the band. Straight band performance filmed to look like it is 'live on stage', actually filmed at the Brixton Academy, London whilst rehearsing for the forthcoming tour. First appearance of Siouxsie's famous thigh length leather boots. Unusually, Siouxsie's hair is in a flat, straight bob. Siouxsie shakes sleigh bells throughout and the video ends on a close of up her 'Star Of David' T-shirt a symbol that appears on the label of the single and that the band were promoting throughout it's release. | ||
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| Clive Richardson | ||
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| Description: | ||
| The Band: Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Budgie, John McGeoch. This performance is the same as the domestic release, however, colourisation and some scratchy, line animation has been added. The band were dissatisfied with this version and it did not see the light of day until it was unintentionally included on 'The Best Of (Sound & Vision)' DVD collection in error. As the video was included by mistake it can not be viewed using any conventional means. This alternative version can only be viewed by ripping the DVD VOB files to a computer. | ||
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| Clive Richardson | ||
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| Hidden video on The Best Of (Sound & Vision) DVD in error | ||
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| Red Over White Lyrics | ||
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The woods
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| Red Over White Credits | ||
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| Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment | ||
| Partly inspired by The Benefactor, a short horror story by Walter Winward. | ||
