Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands (1979)

Forget the cute goth songs of "Christine"

or "Spellbound" - this is ice cold Art

Rock ...... and on that bombshell, come back

in time with me to the mid seventies when

I had never heard of the Velvet Underground.

"What the fuck!!! ..... I do not wanna read

this shit ...... you dumb prick .... just gimmie

the album"

Hold on dear download monkey .... my tale

continues. When I was a teenager, '73-'75

was a golden time for me and music. Heavily

into hard rock and prog, every month brought

a classic album being released by Bowie, Sabbath,

Zepp, Genesis, Cooper, Hawkwind, Yes, Purple etc.

I would buy them on the day of release and play

them over and over in my bedroom, listening

to the songs that the band had written just

for me.

Drift into '76 and I had discovered Lou Reed and

his live album "Rock and Roll Animal" Hey, these

songs were first done by his previous band called

the Velvet Underground.

'77 came and went - I was a punk crazy fool and

fuck yeah, I loved the Velvets ..... and still do ....

but you know what? They were not MY band -

they split up when I was a kid, I had not

discovered them myself ..... but the Banshees

and all the other punk stuff was mine, all mine

I tell you!

When "Join Hands", the 2nd Banshees record

came out, it was my "White Heat, White Light".

It spoke to me in strange tongues, no guitar solos,

no shouting, atonal sax breaks, cold remote lyrics,

14 minute songs, THIS was my V. Underground -

this was the album that lead me to listen to PIL,

Television, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Devo etc.

Anyway, what do you care - Listen

Buy