Mystery Siouxsie Song...

delay or something? i love this song

sorry, i am actually thinking of kiss them for me aren't i. with the line 'i may be delayed'. i'll shut up. apologies for my confusion!

Sounds vaguely like "Gecko" by the Creatures, which is one of Siouxsie's more "upbeat" songs, with a weird faux-ethnic percussion thing - an almost Caribbean melody played on what sounds like a steel drum. It was never a single, but was easily the most popular tune from the "Feast" album, aside from maybe "Miss The Girl."

The chorus went:
"Panoramic banana / a passionfruit samba / pale skin is itching / a tropical fever"
with "Gecko" chanted on another vocal track.

Might it be "Song from the Edge of the World" (which discusses diving for pearls). Criminally unavailable on compact disc in its single form.

Gecko is great but I doubt KROQ would play it. How about 'Stargazer'?

i think...

"festival of colours" by the creatures...

"clutching handfuls of the powder, throw it everywhere, chanting out their many names, kick it to the wind... (hawaiian verse)
across the seas from india... festival of colours..."

it is from the hawaii inspired feast record... some great shit on that record... miss the girl, gecko, ice house, flesh, etc...

hope this is right samantha. it is on the bestiary of the creatures comp as well.

Could it be "Dazzle"?

"The stars that shine and the stars that shrink
in the face of stagnation
the water runs before your eyes"

It's very upbeat and has a violin intro that's more classical than oriental, but maybe...

So? Any progress?

oh, i thought it was going to email me when there were answers, sorry for not checking back until now guys--
thanks so much for all the suggestions, but these don't seem to be it so far... Definitely not "Dazzle", "Stargazer" or "Song from the Edge of the World" (though these are great), still trying to download "Gecko" and "Festival of Colours", though the lyrics posted for these don't seem to ring a bell.
another lyric has been retrieved from my murky memory, something almost exactly like:
"a bison cuts through the water..." and then something like "snuffing out his magic, he ra-e-a-HEE-ooo" (in typical last-word siouxsie incomprehensibility)... does the bison help? i'm starting to think maybe it's not siouxsie at all, but the song was played right after another siouxsie track and it sounds EXACTLY LIKE HER (and that voice is pretty unfakeable)
this is kind of ridiculous i know, but thanks for the help again...

Just wanted to add, that Gecko is AMAZING and Festival of Colours cool too, but they're not my mystery song.

The rest doesn't match but "a bison cuts through the water" could be "glass hand cuts through the water"?

The Killing Jar

Down where this ugly man
Seeks his sustenance
Down in the blue, midnight flare
A glass hand cuts through the water
Scything into his twisted roots
Then from his eyes
Spring fireflies
Breathing life
Into a roaring disguise

Needles and sins, sins and needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes to gashes
Hand around the killing jar

A soft hoodwink of shadow
The size of make-believe
Punches through his spike of rage
A glass hand cuts through the water
Snuffing out the magic fury

Then from inside
Bolt lightning cries
Swiftly crushed
The final, muffled sighs

Needles and sins, sins and needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes to gashes
Hand around the killing jar

I think you've got it, B.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's it. You guys are awesome. I am dancing in my bedroom in Hong Kong. I cannot thank you enough.
-shc

SHIT! i didn't even think of "killing jar"... that makes more sense then "festival of colours" as it was a single. (i lurv that video as well)

did you all hear that the siouxsie back catalogue is being re-mastered and re-released!? exciting! i am most thrilled for the kaleidoscope and kiss in the dreamhouse records being re-mastered... especially KITD. they are my two favorites especially for "green fingers". an old friend of mine and i saw them on the tinderbox tour and they did that and they began it she let go with her patented little yelp that she used to do at shows and we fucking lost it. very special indeed!

That's seriously the best news ever. For some unfathomable reason I slept on most of the Siouxsie albums the first time around and now I HUNGER for the re-releases.

Rejoice!

(I did have Hyaena, Tinderbox, Peepshow and Superstition and loved them all so I don't really know what I was thinking at the time.)

'Green Fingers' is one of my favorite SATB song altho I wasn't too fond of Dreamhouse, which I never picked. So I guess these reissues will be a good opportunity to pick it up (as well as 'juju' which I never got around buying). I'll probably get 'Tinderbox' for it is such an amazing album, any scraps from these sessions will probably be worth gold.

I purchased Juju last year (or maybe the year before?) after realizing that was the album that "Night Shift" came from and it's OMGWTFAWESOME-O.

Also: Please save me from posting on some Middle-Aged Goths messageboard.

Er, I hate to break it to you Sam...

GOTHICK 4 LIFE!

dreamhouse is an incredible record but it is slightly mired by poor production... muddied production on hyaena also drives me a bit mad. dreamhouse, however, houses obsession, cocoon, slowdive, melt, circle (possibly one of the most amazing tracks they ever commited to record) etc... it is just a bit tinny. it will do wonders with a remaster.

i am just hoping that when they get to the time of dreamhouse that they use some of the radio shows that they did at the time for the second disc, old grey whistle test and so on... could make an already amazing project that much more important! some of their radio shows which i have somewhat decent quality bootlegs of are just stellar.

it really is too bad that they did not record more live shows back in the days for the masses... a proper tinderbox era live record would fucking cause me to go insane, as well as peepshow era, though that one desperately needed a documentation on film. one of the best shows i still have ever seen in my life.

* http://www.nme.com/news/113146.htm *

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES?s entire album back catalogue has been digitally re-mastered and will be reissued over the next year.

The series will kick off with the re-release of debut ?The Scream? on October 3.

The album will also come backed with a second CD of period rarities.

Originally released in November 1978, ?The Scream? featured the tracks ?Switch?, ?Jigsaw Feeling? and a cover of The Beatles? ?Helter Skelter?.

The second bonus CD will include the first ever release of the early Banshees live favourite ?Make Up To Break Up?, the two 1978 John Peel sessions, the band?s first two single ?Hong Kong Garden? and ?Staircase (Mystery)? as well as five prototype tracks from ?The Scream?, recorded at Pathway Studios.

The full tracklisting for the reissued ?The Scream? is:

Disc One

?Pure?
?Jigsaw Feeling?
?Overground?
?Carcass?
?Helter Skelter?
?Mirage?
?Metal Postcard?
?Nicotine Stain?
?Suburban Relapse?
?Switch?

Disc Two

?Make Up To Break Up? (Riverside Session)
?Love In A Void? (Peel Session)
?Mirage? (Peel Session)
?Metal Postcard? (Peel Session)
?Suburban Relapse? (Peel Session)
?Hong Kong Garden? (Peel Session)
?Overground? (Peel Session)
?Carcass? (Peel Session)
?Helter Skelter? (Peel Session)
?Metal Postcard? (Pathway Session)
?Suburban Relapse? (Pathway Session)
?Staircase (Mystery)? (Pathway Session)
?Mirage? (Pathway Session)
?Nicotine Stain? (Pathway Session)
?Hong Kong Garden? (7? Single Version)
?Staircase (Mystery)? (7? Single Version)

For an interview with Siouxsie Sioux, pick up

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