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Showing posts with label siouxsie and the banshees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label siouxsie and the banshees. Show all posts
26 Aug 2025

On Three More Punk Graces: Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene, and Helen of Troy

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The Three Punk Graces II: Poly, Siouxsie & Helen of Troy (SA/2025)       I.    The Greeks famously have had their Charites , but punk my...
6 Nov 2022

Better Than the Original: On the Joy of Cover Versions

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Alien Ant Farm lead vocalist Dryden Mitchell and Bubbles lookalike in the video  for their 2001 version of Michael Jackson's 'Smooth...
10 Oct 2022

Loony Tunes

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Clockwise from top left:  Haywire Mac / Napoleon XIV / Jaz Coleman / Siouxsie Sioux     There are almost as many songs about being mad or go...
10 Mar 2021

The Bats Have Left the Bell Tower: Reflections on Graveyard Poetry and Post-Punk Goth

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Love Among the Gravestones (1981)  Photo by Kirk Field     La Rochefoucauld famously suggested that people never would have fallen in love ...
24 Dec 2019

Punk Xmas

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'Tis the season to be Johnny  ( Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la ) I. For all its professed anarcho-nihilism and counter-cultu...
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25 Sept 2018

Melt: On the Transubstantiation of Love

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Cover art for the single 'Melt!' by Siouxsie and the Banshees  (Polydor, 1982)  "Are you familiar with the fright...
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30 Apr 2016

Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace

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Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace  (front cover photo) The rapid evolution of popular music and youth culture in the wake of punk c...
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