#117

I think they broke up because Siouxsie was married to Budgie the drummer but they split which could possibly make a reunion unlikely.

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#118

they’re a weird one, I was always aware of them as a name bandied about as icons from a certain era, but honestly had never heard a note of their music until last year

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#119

think they’re regarded as a goth adjacent semi novelty act by people who haven’t heard them cos of the name and the hair, probably some sexism thrown in there too

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#120

Oh, I think there was a lot of that all right.

#121

They’ll massively benefit from a low turnout.

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#122

Score is in and it’s…

3.83

Can I have the following for the playlist @anon19035908

Spellbound

Cities in dust

Face to Face

Happy House

Kiss them for me

Thanks for letting me take the reigns @anon19035908!

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#123

Better than The Clash!

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#124

They fucking are not.

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#125

The league doesn’t lie! :wink:

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#126

Thanks for doing it! Will update the playlist shortly.

#127

Thought they might have broken the 4s like YLT did…

Still been listening to a lot of A Kiss in the Dreamhouse off the back of this thread so that can only be a good thing :slightly_smiling_face:

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#128

Good score for a lady who wore nazi gear and hasn’t condemned fascism.
Wonder how her oul mucker Morrissey will do if literally wearing fascism on your sleeve is getting a pass.

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#129

You do know there’s antifascist material on their very first album, right?

" Mittageisen " is a song by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It originally appeared on the band’s 1978 debut album The Scream as “Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)”…The title was inspired by antinazi German artist John Heartfield’s photocollage Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! [1] (“Hurray, the Butter is Finished!”), which was also used as the single’s cover art…The single was dedicated to John Heartfield

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#130

You do realise people explicitly gave her a pass in this thread despite acknowledging the Fascist imagery and how they’d marked other down on it but not Siouxsie right?

I mean I don’t even care about the music in terms of this one. It’s the mental gymnastics I find fascinating.

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#131

But that’s got nothing to do with you saying they haven’t condemned fascism when they have.

#132

Well if she has fair enough.
Seems like when confronted with it in that interview someone posted she skirts around it and plays it off rather than going “aye you know what Graham, I’m a prick for glorifying Fascist iconography. The nazis were despicable, and fascism is abhorrent and I’m sorry f my advertising of it led anyone to go down a bad path. Fuck fascism forever”

But surely it’s mixed messages at best.
And maybe she should have practiced what she preached.

#133

the swastika thing is gross but someone being an edgelord when they were 19 isn’t the same as someone in their 60s who’s still a vocal white supremacist is it

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#134

No

Which is more dangerous though?
A key figure in a wildly popular youth movement influencing kids looking for role models and who is riding the crest of a wave.
Or a bitter and jaded old fucker no one is listening to anyway and who everyone knows is a misery guts.
Both are bad but one has more reach and influence at the height of their popularity and a younger, more impressionable audience.

#135

Yes they are

#136

think morrissey being an actual fascist makes him much worse. do wonder how much responsibility the original punks flirting with that imagery have on actual nazi punks emergence, don’t know much about the subject though