Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream

"Mirage" (but "The Staircase (Mystery)" would win if it were included).

Haven't heard this album in a looooooooooooooooooong time! Used to love it.

Oh wow - haven't thoight about this one in a long while. Killer album, probably punk rock's pinnacle.
For now, my shortlist would be Jigsaw, Overground, Suburban Relapse and Switch.
It will be hard to reduce it further but I'll give it some thought.

ooh this happens to be in sitting my listening queue, it's been years for me as well

I listen to songs on this album at least once a month

Like others above, it's been years since I've played it. One of those things, like watching Blue Velvet, that leaves me oddly angsty and depressed afterwards. (It's also totally awesome, obviously.) Hard to pick a favorite, I think of it as one experience.

I think I'm on record with the opinion that "Suburban Relapse" is their most underrated song

Just remembered that part after the false ending in Switch with the saxophone dragging the song back to life. Great use of the instrument throughout the album.

This one is like the Lodger poll, where I'd be comfortable with voting for half the album, depending on my mood. "Jigsaw Feeling" this time.

Switch!

Love this from beginning to end, with the Beatles cover being the weakest link. My vote goes to "Mirage".

Everything on here is so good

This may have been polled before; I'm not bothering to check.

lol

haaaaa I am not surprised

I just realized I need to buy this.

same here.

only one I know is “jigsaw feeling” and it rules

Pretty much every song rules.

How come neither Love In A Void nor Mae Up To Break-Up aren't on this?

MaKe

the 1st was a B-side and the 2nd was on the Polydor demos but not the LP, iirc

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Still get a rush when I hear "Carcass." As a kid when first heard it (from the Peel Sessions) I didn't have a lyric sheet and thought she sang "be endlessly in love, endlessly in love!" And I thought "that's right, love is dumb!" (Because other people seemed to be getting some.) Then I learned she was singing limblessly in love — the titular carcasses were literal. I liked that too, but lacked the means to hack apart any despised lovers in the locker-lined junior high hallways. At least I could go home and blast this album.

Early Banshees ruled so fucking hard.

I still think of "Join Hands" as the second disc of the double album.

Huh. I find Join Hands flat and dull compared to The Scream.

Large parts of Join Hands don't work as well as they should but the parts that do ("Icon" and PARTICULARLY "Playground Twist") are all-time

xp - yeah agreed that JH feels very dour and lifeless, apart from a couple of goth bangers (hello Icon). I guess internal dynamics must have been pretty bad for them to lose so quickly the debut's incredible energy.

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The two zero-vote placers also got zero last time; otherwise a light shuffling overall.

Where have all the Suburban Relapse boosters gone?

Not feeling these results. Mirage and Metal Postcard are probably the two tracks I skip when I play this. Not bad songs per se but the most conventional ones on the album.

I'm not sure how "Metal Postcard" is a more conventional song than "Jigsaw Feeling" or "Carcass"

I've always wondered how it was the only single out of the first dozen that was left off Once Upon A Time