Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo (1 Viewer)

Golly, jeepers, where'd ya get those peepers?

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I've become a bit obsessed with this song (& the iconic Siouxsie generally) in the past year.

Shame it couldn't quite give them a rare top 10 hit in the UK but it did become the inaugural number 1 on the US Modern Rock (now Alternative) chart.

 
I remember buying it on 7" from a peculiar little record shop here that used to be upstairs from a car parts shop. I'm quite sure I picked it up the same week as Good Tradition by Tanita Tikaram.

That was back in the days when I was in sixth form and had a part time job in a VHS video shop paying £2 an hour. I'd never felt so loaded.
 
I bought the album on cassette as I loved the single so much. I never enjoyed it much, but quite fancy a relisten now.
 
Siouxsie's peak period indeed. It's a gothic parade of perfection. It just pounces on you from the beginning with no escape.
 
I've just really enjoyed the singles from Peepshow. Then Kiss Them For Me came on...

Kiss them for me
I may find myself delayed... :disco:
 
Superstition is my favourite Banshees album, but Peepshow, Boomerang via The Creatures and then that is just an unmatched splatter of splendour. Kiss Them For Me, to quote them - a glittering prize.
 
I didn't know until just now that Kiss Them For Me is a Stephen Hague production. No wonder I love it, it all makes sense now :disco:
 
I don't know where my copy of their authorised biography is, but is Superstition the album they were in talks with Trevor Horn to work with them until his wife put a stop to it by saying "oh I hate them"? Similarly, I didn't know Hague worked with Dubstar, but I did know the Marc Almond album.

Edit: getting mixed up, Trevor Horn produced Almond's album Tenement Symphony (1991); Hague produced his single A Lover Spurned (1990).
 
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His discography is a who's who of sort of offbeat 80s/90s artists so Dubstar and Marc fit in completely with that.

Trevor would have worked wonders with Superstition, but it would have cost 10 million quid to make and they'd still be paying it off now. Jill was an absolute force to be reckoned with on the business front, but they probably dodged a bullet there, financially at least.
 

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